RichardMH

This often caused by having Hardware Acceleration enabled and/or an incompatible or out of date version of the graphic driver for you GPU installed. So as a first test, try turning of Hardware Acceleration, restarting the app, & seeing if that helps.
EDIT: @RichardMH beat me to it!

Are you sure Affinity photo is sRGB? On a PC its set in Edit->Preferences->Colour and you can see the colour space in  the context toolbar.
I can switch my monitor from Adobe RGB to sRGB and it makes a big difference to what AP shows.
FWIW I use ROMM RGB in Affinity Photo and change to sRGB on jpg export.

Your comment is totally relevant, on closer examination of the image, there is indeed a halo on the original, which I hadn't noticed.
So the problem is solved.
Thanks for your help.

The issue "App hangs when making a large selection using Object Selection tool or Select Subject on a large image size" (REF: AF-5182) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2984). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.

The Machine Learning "Object Selection Tool" (or AI masking) in Affinity Photo is a great start, but there is still significant room for improvement. The accuracy of the selections needs to be enhanced considerably; otherwise, users will spend excessive time fixing masks, ultimately losing the benefits they were aiming for.
However, this tool is a promising beginning. I recommend looking at how Capture One approaches AI masking as a benchmark. Capture One’s “people” AI masking feature is particularly impressive, allowing users to simply select what they want to mask from a dropdown list:
- Body skin (excludes rings, jewelry, fingernails, etc.)
- Face skin
- Eyes
- Eyebrows
- Lips
- Hair
These options can be combined or used individually, and the software handles the masking automatically, without the user needing to manually “paint” unless they specifically choose to. The accuracy of Capture One’s masks is exceptionally high, and there is rarely any need for adjustments.
Affinity Photo’s AI masking tool could greatly benefit from incorporating similar functionality and precision.

Crash again. Was applying a blur to a layer after masking the subject in a new layer. Was trying to produce the image below, which I got second time. Masks still a bit rough.
c07b0b36-16f7-4053-82cd-baad68033854.dmp

These new modules work perfectly under Windows 11.
So much time saved!
Many thanks to the developers!

We are using pre-trained libraries. The library authors may go on to improve their model with more training yes, and we would choose whether to make that available to you if it gives significantly better results.
We can do that but it's more likely to be done optionally in an update.
That's not relevant, seeing as we are not doing the training (see my first answer).

The Content Credentials mark is now being included in the Adobe apps. I think this would be a very good thing to have in the Affinity programs. Otherwise, the only way to get a minimum of protection as a professional is staying with the Adobe programs.
https://contentcredentials.org
Not happy of where things are heading, but at least I hope this will not bloat the Affinity programs or documents.
Paolo
 

Alpaca is an AI generation plugin for Photoshop that looks interesting but won't run as a  Photo plugin. Would be very useful if it were supported. (Their support say Affinity haven't replied to them!)
 
https://www.alpacaml.com/

If you are using other applications that have not evolved to be able to support Microsoft Store or MSIX applications, you should speak to their developers. 
But in the meantime, you can uninstall your MSIX-based Affinity applications and install the EXE/MSI-based versions instead. 
 
 

We have released a beta build to try and address a number of critical issues found in 2.5.0/2.5.1
We think this is a Release Candidate build and would like to release the build to customers very soon.
If you are suffering from any of the 10 issues mentioned in this 2.5.2.2486 beta post
or if you are experiencing any of the 4 issues fixed in this earlier 2.5.2.2478 beta, then please (sign up for and) install the latest beta build 
 

This is a big shock to many. They need to process it and guess what the consequences will be, and some need to express those opinions, which is all they are. There's so many many posts in here speculating and guessing what might happen, which I would love to say are just plain wrong, but until something actually happens we would just be back and forthing about unprovable opinions.
I feel sad that so many are suspicious and I think Affinity will be upholding Ash's 4 pledges in ways most are happy to see. 
Deleting the more negative posts from this thread would simply make those same users be able to also say we silence criticism, and we don't. Many of those same users also participate very positively in other areas of the forums and I appreciate that and don't want that to stop. If negativity here keeps the rest of the forums functioning I would take that.

Please create Plugin to use AI installed on local machine such as Stable Diffusion using ComfyUI as backend!!!!
Make it similar to plugins that are done for Krita & Photoshop.
I'm sure not just me but a lot of other designers would prefer using local installed AI for file security, privacy, creative freedom - no restrictions on content creation, plus no stupid credits for image generation and revisions!
(it takes a lot of credits for prompt tries and image variations to generate image that is close enough for my concept vision before having to edit it to finish design) (HATE stupid credit/subscription based systems) Just say NO to them!!!
PS would you PLEASE finally add "Auto-Trace" feature for Designer we been asking for it forever!!!!!

Hello,
Is there any AI features planned for Affinity products?
I would like to see AI masking features like we can see in Capture ONE. This would save a ton of time when doing edits.
When doing for example portrait edits it would be really beneficial to be able to quickly select for example skin of the model for editing.
Detailed masking using brushes is a lot of time wasted. Hoping to get AI tools to help.

Regards,
Mika

This sort of thing has been requested before.
See, for example: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/181567-publisher-feature-request-adding-your-own-name-to-pages-in-the-pages-panel/

With a TIFF Export, you can save all the Affinity layers, too. This basically gives you a TIFF file with a .afphoto file embedded in it, which Affinity Photo can use later if you reopen the TIFF file in Photo. Other applications will simply ignore the data they don't recognize.

The ideas for a mirror wrap are in this video. 
 

First thing to try is turning off hardware acceleration (Edit->Preferences->Performance) if it is on. Assuming you're on Windows.

+1 

Not sure if we can make a macro for posting a "+1" to reply field and give that one a shortcut  

I think a good answer would depend on which six levels of grey and which colours/tints relate to which of those levels.
In the meantime, you could add a Posterise Adjustment (with 6 levels) and a Black & White Adjustment to the image/layer – see attached image.

After installation of Beta version AND reinstallation v 2.4.2 I have proper Renderer and everything is ok. Thanks all of You 🙂

I think the concern at the moment is more for documentary photography that claims to be a true representation of the world. e.g. in news media.  If a print is sold as a piece of art does it matter if some or all of it is AI generated? I believe there is already a lucrative market for AI art that is expected to grow.

There's several ways AI is used in images. The focus here seems to be on generative AI. But there is also the image quality AI for noise and sharpness that Topaz and DxO use (and Adobe) and AI masking. Personally, I can't see any image editing software surviving long without AI masks. I suspect those of us that want the image quality AI are happy to use plug ins. Topaz are also developing AI lighting and white balance so there's a lot happening in the non-generative AI space.

If Photo goes the generative AI route, then we need them to join the content authenticity initiative and editing adjustments be in the meta data. I've been led to believe Photoshop has it already.