gunda
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1 hour ago, GarryP said:
If all you want to do is draw a circle to highlight something in an image then I would suggest using either the Circle Tool – with a Stroke – or the Donut Tool, instead of making a selection and then modifying it. Probably a lot easier. (You can also create a Style to make sure that your circles all look the same.)
That's probably right and that's what I would probably do in that instance. My use for "stroke" is putting a thin border around an image, or perhaps around a layer, and IMO that's easiest using stroke rather than one of the shape tools.
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Does the technique I described in this post work for you?
I'm not sure it's the easiest or best way, as I'm also a newbie.
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15 hours ago, Johannes said:
You want to know what a certain printer produces if it gets your work without a color profile or threw it away, right? I would bet that no printer prints without its own internal profile. And incoming data has to be converted to this color profile. 😬
If you print through the standard Epson / Canon / HP printer driver then I suspect that preserve numbers won't be of much use / will only rarely be of use. You'll have to trust us that there are workflows where it is of use. For my part, I'm printing through a B&W RIP.
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On 12/3/2020 at 11:02 PM, anon2 said:
That's correct. There has been significant improvement to the editability of Mask objects and Spare Channels in the AP 1.9 betas, though.
I've read through the new features in AP 1.9 and had a bit of a play. I can see some of the enhancements, but I still can't see how to easily apply a curve to a mask. Is there an easy way to do this? Should I keep looking? Failing that, is there a hard way?
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11 hours ago, Johannes said:
I am sorry. I don't understand halve of what you are saying. Especially why you wouldn't just generate an .icc profile by calibrating your printer (with the desired paper) and use this profile for softproofing.
What you're suggesting is a fairly standard way of working for most photographers who then print using the ICC. But there are other workflows which many photographers may view as fringe, but which are fairly standard in the publishing industry. In my case, I want to soft-proof using the ICC, but in a way that shows me what the output will look like if I don't print using the ICC. In PS you o this by enabling the preserve numbers soft-proofing option. There are valid uses for this approach, which is why PS includes it. Can't be done in AP at present.
I also find soft-proofing via a layer to be a risky approach, rather than using a view mode. I've done something like this in PS in the past, since some ICCs can be simulated via a curve, and there's a risk of leaving the layer enabled when you don't want it. Operator error, sure, but it's always going to be a risk with this approach.
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22 hours ago, anon2 said:
You will find loads of discussions with the forum search tool.
So I searched and found limitations in how you can edit layer masks. One can paint on the mask, but one is not able to edit the mask with the full suite of tools that you'd normally be able to use on a pixel layer, at least not without temporarily turning the mask into a pixel layer. Have I got that right? Did I miss anything? If so please suggest search terms to use.
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16 hours ago, MM@Photosence said:
I just (yesterday) bought Affinity Photo, and wanted to try setting Black- White- and Grey points in an image to discover this embarrasing incompleteness. Yes- I wanted to get rid of my Adobe subscription too , what a shame I wasted my money here. I am very surprised that a company 'for professionals' fails to deliver the features for the core functionality that color management is. I now have a fully working car that can't take me to my destination.
Yes, it's puzzling. If this was just a budget, no-frills alternative to PS then I could understand it. But it's part of a suite of three products seemingly aimed at the publishing industry, and so you think that industry standard features for publishing and printing would find their way into the product sooner or later.
I realise that there are competing priorities, and you can't work on everything simultaneously, especially at the current price, but even so, see previous para.
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8 hours ago, anon2 said:
The developers have chosen to go down a strange and inconvenient road when it comes to mask and channel editing. I'm not sure they really understand what users need.
However, painting white into a mask normally works if the white has 100% opacity in the Colour panel.
Black and white are both working for this new user.
@anon2 - can you please explain "strange and inconvenient road"? I'm new here. I just noticed that painting on a mask with middle grey produced an odd result. Is that what you meant?
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12 hours ago, bhurd said:
I would like to see the fill and stroke feature like photoshop in Affinity Photo. I have spent a couple of hours trying to find "stroke" and looked for convert selection to path.
I see there are mentions of work arounds that would be nice to have as video tutorials. A little hard to follow for a new user. I'm not the only one who would be delighted to see a step by step procedure.
Speaking as another new user who went looking for this, the other posters who suggested outline are correct for a basic stroke:
1. make your selection.
2. from the select menu, choose the second to bottom option, outline.
3. select a non-zero radius to set the stroke thickness, and select inside, outside or centre, as you would in Photoshop edit | stroke
4. choose the flood fill tool and choose your colour from the swatches tab
5. Click inside the selection. You may need to create a pixel layer if you don't have one already selected or if you want the stroke on a separate layer. If the stroke is very narrow, you may need to zoom-in in order to use the flood fill tool.
Certainly do-able, but an edit | stroke command would be more efficient and also useful to ease the transition from PS.
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21 minutes ago, carl123 said:
Bear in mind
You also have the New Document from Snapshot option which lets you duplicate a document without actually saving it to disk.
Useful for temporary comparison purposes or experimentation on a copy of your document
Thank you, that''s helpful.
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I'm a new member here - this is just my fourth post - so I wanted to reassure other forum members that I do read previous replies before I post to support a FR. I did read the previous reply suggesting save and reopen as a workaround, and the fact that I still posted should be taken as indicating that while that workaround works, it's not an efficient workflow for some people, and so my support for the FR stands.
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I support this feature request. It's useful to be able to make duplicates of an image as alternative working copies for comparison and experimentation without needing to save and reopen them.
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Another vote for this feature request.
Complete softproofing and color management functions (like in Adobe and other prof. software packages)
in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
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Can only agree.