iconoclast
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I would be interested if it's the same with other 8bf-plug-ins like, for example, the NIK Collection.
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2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Possibly: https://www.maketecheasier.com/access-windowsapps-folder-windows-10/
Or one of the other similar pages you can find by a web search.
Hi Walt!
Thanks for that hint, but I don't really want to goof around in the registry of my computer just to make such - normally - simple things work, like installing plug-ins. Too dangerous for me. That's annoying and a verry fundamental experience I already made with Microsoft several times: they are so much worried about preventing their stuff from missuse, that this stuff sometimes becomes nearly useless. The same, by the way, with movies. You can buy them there, but you can only watch them than on Microsoft's rudimental player. You owe the copy of the movie, but you are strictly regulated in using it. It was a verry bad idea to buy Affinity Photo and Publisher or anything in the Microsoft Store. Will not make that mistake again.
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50 minutes ago, Gnobelix said:
I bought all Affinity programs in the Serif store.
The programs from the Microsoft Store are installed in the WindowsApps folder, moreover is the installation folder is hidden and locked.Cheers
I suspected something like that. But that could be the reason for the problem. Possibly Windows prevents the installation from accesses from outside, so that G'MIC can't connect with Affinity Photo. I will check if I can change that in my admin-account. I can't open the WindowsApps-folder in my user account. Think I will never buy anything in the Microsoft Store again, because it always caused trouble if I did it.
Edit: Havn't even found the Affinity-Photo-installation in my admin-account. Think I will have to contact the Microsoft-Support. That's exactly the bullshit they are famous for: while they are spying in every corner of our computers and our privacy, we don't find anything at all and have to spend our sundays for searching even the most simplest things.
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6 minutes ago, Gnobelix said:
After further testing, GMIC also works in the buy version.
Cheers
OK, but did you test it with the Microsoft-Store-Version? It seems to be somehow different from that one you can buy in the Serif Store. For example, I can't find the installation of Affinity Photo on my computer. In opposite to that, the installation of Affinity Designer (that I bought in the Serif Store) is in the Programs folder. Easy to find. Not so Affinity Photo, that I bought in the Microsoft Store.
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7 minutes ago, Winu said:
Hi Iconoclast
I have my original Affinity Photo from the Microsoft Store and parallel the last Beta version.
Then i used the same setting in both versions.
OK, so this seems to be the reason for the problem, and it only exists in the Microsoft-Store-Version. But who do we have to contact now because of this: the Affinity Support or Microsoft?
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17 minutes ago, Winu said:
I installed GMIC.
With the PC version from Microsoft Store it has an error message. See below.
With the Beta version it works.
Hi Winu!
That's interesting. So it is possibly a bug in the Microsoft-Store-Version? How did you find this out?
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15 minutes ago, Andy05 said:
Just a random shot, but did you also copy the gmic subfolder, not only the *.bf8 plugin?
I made it as the guy in the Youtube-video told: I downloaded the latest ZIP for Photoshop, Affinity etc and for 64 bits, unpacked it to a save place on my hard disc, attached it to the Photoshop-Plugins-dialogue in the Preferences of Affinity Photo (screenshot) and restarted Affinity Photo.
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I downloaded it again some minutes ago, deleted the old one and installed the new one, in a different direction, and it is still the same. It doesn't work. Still, every time I try to start G'MIC, the error message appears and nothing more happens.
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1 minute ago, Gnobelix said:
Yes, I downloaded and installed it yesterday. And it is v2.9.6.1.
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1 minute ago, Gnobelix said:
Hello @iconoclast,
welcome to this forum.Many Photoshop plugins can only be used on 8 bit files, I think the G'MIC plugins are one of them.
Stock files from Unsplash, Pixabay etc. are loaded as an image, they have to be rasterized so that plugins can be used.I hope it helps.
Cheers
Hi Gnobelix, thanks for your reply!
It seems that you are right, that the greying out of the G'MIC-entry in the "Filter"-menu is caused by 32-bit colour depth. 16 bits are normally supported by G'MIC. But unfortunately the error message appears on 8-bit- and 16-bit-images and G'MIC doesn't start. Even on rasterized images from Pixabay, Unsplash and Pexels.
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Hi!
Yesterday I found a video on Youtube, that shows how to use the verry cool G'MIC-Plugin in Affinity Photo. I have worked with it in GIMP for many years, and it works verry nice there. But in Affinity Photo it causes an error message or is greyed out and inactive in some other cases (for example on images from Pixabay and Unsplash), and it does nothing at all. Has anyone here experiences with it and possibly an idea how I could fix this problem? I already startet a thread on the G'MIC- forum for this also.
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Habe mich selbst noch nicht direkt an den Support wenden müssen, hoffe aber, dass Dir dieser Link weiter helfen wird. Ich fürchte, das geht nur auf Englisch. Aber sieh selbst. Ich bin leider auch nur Nutzer und kann da leider nicht weiter helfen.
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Hi !
I bought the verry nice Vintage Fonts from Tobias Saul, offered on the Affinity site, some weeks ago and they are of course licensed for commercial use. If you like this vintage stuff, also visit his website, because there is much more of such stuff, even some free downloads.
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Soweit ich das Wiki verstanden habe handelt es sich möglicherweise um einen systeminternen Fehler. Dabei sollte der Microsoft Support schon helfen können, denke ich. Ansonsten vielleicht auch mal an den Affinity Support wenden. Ob das hier im Forum was bringen wird, noch dazu auf Deutsch, bin ich nicht sicher. Mehr kann ich zu dem Thema leider nicht beisteuern.
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Hi jelast!
Schon seit Tagen. Das ist ja sehr ärgerlich. Habe mein Affinity Photo auch aus dem Store, bisher aber gottlob keine Probleme. Zum Fehlercode habe ich folgendes gefunden: https://wikifixes.com/de/errors/0x/0x00000001/
Aufgrund dessen würde ich empfehlen eine Neuinstallation zu versuchen, falls möglich. Ansonsten würde ich mich damit vielleicht auch mal an den Microsft-Support wenden.
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I'm not sure what you mena. You mean the curve you drawed before you expanded it? Only the single line? I don't think that it will be kept after expanding. After expanding it's no longer a line, but a shape. If want to keep it, you should copy it before expanding.
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6 minutes ago, Mephphi73 said:
Well it works in Acrobat DC and InDesign but once I open the pdf with Publisher and export again it's broken.
Could have to do with that the PDF-file-format is an invention of Adobe and they possibly still have some copyrights on some features of it.
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I don't know what the point is why your daughter prefers Fire Alpaca. But possibly it is its simple, overseeable Interface. I tried out different painting programs for my needs, and I determined that for painting it's disturbing if the interface is overloaded with panels and a lot of functionality you don't really need for it. For example in Krita, wich is really a cool software, there are too many panels in the standard-configuration and the layer management is too complicated for intuitive use. But Krita has so called "Workspaces" (like Photoshop), wich means that you can configure different interface-layouts for different needs, save them and load them if you need it. Something similar you can do in Affinity Software too. If even that is too complicated for your daughter, you could test MyPaint. This is a verry overseeable software that is completely concentrated on painting and drawing. It's free software (Open Source) like Krita, but has absolutely no functionality for image editing. It supports layers, you can create own brushes with nice behaviour. It works pretty fine. And you don't loose money testing it.
Another alternative could be ArtRage - my favourite painting software - wich is commercial, also verry overseeable and with amazing functionality. For example the colours react to the textures of the different canvases. And the brush strokes can have a plastical look with realistic lighting. You can work with stencils. There are perspective guidelines and many more. And you can create all that stuff (brushes, canvases, stencils...) yourself. Another alternative is Rebelle, that I haven't tested yet.
It seems that your daughter is interested in Mangas. As far as I know there exist some programs that are created especially for this. But that is not really my cup of tea.
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My suspicion? You're conspirators for a clever marketing campaign. 😉
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On 2/22/2021 at 2:38 PM, paidbuy said:
again its perfect 🙂 but i still prefer PS solution.
every yr i want to purchase but i go back for some reasons this is one of the reasons. 😕😔
That's your individual choice and it' absolutely okay. But other users may see it different. I think it is almost a matter of routine - what you became familiar with. I tested a lot of software and found that every program has its own solutions for some things. Some are better in this program, some are better in that. Not all are the best in Photoshop. Maybe it would be the best if we could sample our program of trust from the different softwares to get the perfect one. But unfortunately this will not be possible.
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8 minutes ago, IsabelAracama said:
Thanks iconoclast. Not sure if you mean you tried with an actual Donut shape from the pre-made shapes or you did this with the method I mentioned, which is using a subtract boolean to create the donut - not that I didn't know there was the pre-made donut shape, but more of a technical thing I wanted to understand cause it seemed strange AD was not behaving as Illustrator and other program were. So I imagine this is just a behaviour that is the same for both mac and win. Thanks a lot for the contribution though.
Hi Isabel!
I created a donut outoff two circles made with the ellipse tool. One big circle and a smaller one. And I subtracted the small one from the big one. Then I exported the shape as an svg and opened it in Inkscape. That worked without problems. Sorry, didn't think about that there is a Donut Tool in the Shapes Menu.
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@BARBAKANE
I think your problem is that you expected a painting program like f.e. ArtRage, Rebelle, Krita or MyPaint. A program in wich you draw and paint with tools directly using the mouse or a stylus. You can even do that with vector graphics programs like Affinity Designer - just use the pencil tool or the vector brush tool to paint. The first one only creates curvelines at first, but if you click on a brushhead in the Brushes-Panel when the curveline is selected, it will assume the look of the brush. With the vector brush tool you can create brush strokes directly. But the most brush strokes are not really vectors. Just their core. Their shapes are pixels.
The basic function principle of vector graphics is what I described above. As I learned it about fifteen years ago with Macromedia Freehand, I found it verry abstract and uninituitive too and didn't like it. But after some practice I now really love it, because you can work verry precisely and clean with it. And the softwares became much better and more intuitive since that time. For creating f.e. logos, it's much better than freehand painting. And it is not as complicated as it may look at the first moment. You just have to understand the principle of the beziér curves and forming them with their nodes (key points) first, get an overview of the functions of Designer and then get some practice.
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Hi Mixterio!
I'm not sure if this will work as you imagine. There are two sorts of pressure curves. The first one is the solid brush curve. Those brush strokes are completely based on vectors. But their looks are simple. The other pressure curves only use vectors to align pixel textured brushes to a curve (path). In this case, the curve is only a stroke in the middle of the stroke.
Solid brush strokes can be expanded, so that it's outline becomes the curve. You can do that in the layer-menu by clicking on "Expand Stroke" The stroke must be selected for that). This makes the brush strokes become a shape that you can cut or combine with boolian operations or by breaking or closing the curve at nodes with the Action-Buttons. But this will not work with the pixelbased ones. This ones you can only cut wiith the eraser or selection tools in the Pixel Persona, if you want them to keep their texture as it is.
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I can't test it with Illustrator, but I made a donut-shape with Designer, exported it as svg and opened it in Inkscape without any problems. I'm a Windows-User. So could it be a Mac-Problem?
PHOTO: G'MIC-Plugin doesn't work
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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OK, thanx for that reply. That's interesting. I will report this to the G'MIC developers.