RichardMH

The printer labs around here want jpegs rather than PDF. There appears to be no standard and different labs have different options. The lab nearest me offers 2 or 3 photo papers and I think 2 art papers. You really need to communicate with your printing lab. (Especially for big prints on art paper.) And some images print better on some papers. Home printers can be professional quality (but usually smaller size). Department stores tend to be the lower quality.

Another crash with screens going black. Was running a macro with a few steps so not sure what set it off. 3767d02b-d6dc-4963-9569-432fc65e275d.dmp

A fan of 3D LUT Creator hoping this will be fixed soon.

When I copy an image flattened and then use new from clipboard to paste in a new window, the dpi drops to 96, typically from 350. I'd expect it to stay the same. Is there something in Preferences I've missed?

Edit->Preferences->Performance. There's a check box at the bottom. Just uncheck it.

Is it a matter of customising your workspace? There are Youtube videos around on this. You have quite a bit of control over the workspace (although not as much as I'd like) . And macros are useful. I do a fair bit of my standard editing with my macros. (There's a studio reset button if you mess it up)

Something like this? Very quickly from 3D LUT creator using the Sat/Luma curve.

A little confused. The darker parts of the image are the black sky.

It is now behaving again. Updated graphics driver and rebooted the PC.

I think Capture 1 Express 22 for Sony does and its easy to export to Affinity from there.

Another crash report, exporting a tiff c78d065f-a897-4e8c-a486-beaa3eb48a2f.dmp

Might be worth seeing what happens if its off. Edit->Preferences->Performance and untick Hardware Acceleration. It causes odd problems with some GPU.

Hardware acceleration on ?

Both my screens go black for a few seconds when exporting jpegs so I figure AP is fighting with the GPU(s). Hardware acceleration off. Happens with retail and beta versions. Done it a few times today. Previously screen has washed out when exporting but that's all. Also happened when running some macros but not sure what causes that. Found 1 crash report when AP fell over completely. Windows 11. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER. Driver 472.84 (about to update and try again) Log.txt 6ea93229-0a01-4f67-b650-bd74cc929394.dmp

For monitors, Eizo are very good/the best, but expensive. I use a BenQ SW240 which is at the lower end of the BenQ range and less expensive but still good. Its hardware calibrated. You'll need a calibrator for the BenQ. FWIW I work in ROMM RGB and only switch to sRGB or Adobe RGB when I export.

I use Mirage for printing, using the small studio edition, which is affordable. (Cost depends on printer size). Recommended by our local printing guru. Just export a tiff from AP or ON1 and its all straightforward. Life is too short for the idiosyncrasies of printing from some programs.

You say AP moves the histogram to the left. Are you sure its not the other way round, the jpeg moves the histogram to the right? The in camera jpeg has processing applied. I suspect your Silkypix is also applying adjustments and quite possibly duplicating what you've done in camera.

I run AP OK on Windows 11. Have problems with hardware acceleration but with that off its fine. What GPU are you using? Maybe try the beta?

As one who suffers from the OpenCL problem, it has steadily been getting better with each update of the NVIDIA drivers and AP. So they are working on it. But I don't have the problem with other software (e.g. Topaz)

I think to do what you want to do, duplicate the layer twice, blur the bottom layer. Turn off the top layer. On the middle layer mask the shadows and invert (so the bottom layer comes through just in the shadows). That will blur just the shadows but leave their edges sharp which I figure is what you want. Can then cut out the car and shadow, blur the top layer and put the car on top.

It seems OK at 100% though? And export seems OK as well. Seems its just the "normal" size view in AP. Are you sure the test image is the problem one? Its not as snowy as what you posted.

OK. With your image I can duplicate the problem.

Are you on a mac or pc?

Might be a hardware acceleration problem. If you have it on try turning it off. Edit->Preferences->Performance and untick Hardware acceleration.