Bedwyr

Hi. I'm beginning to see avif files accumulate across multiple projects and this is really starting to impact worflows. This is rapidly becoming necessary-to-have and not nice-to-have. Please consider making avif support a higher priority. Appreciate your work very much.

Ok, I'm getting some working knowledge of Photo after being out of Photoshop practice for a couple years. I'm starting to detect some of the difference in philosophy looking through help threads and the UI. Which tutorials would be best for me to turn to at this point to get a better understanding of what the developers view as the software package's guiding philosophy (non-destructive editing uber alles)? I guess I'd be above beginner now and below, but approaching, intermediate.

Ok, thanks. I'm just trying to get a sense for what my workflow or best practice should be going forward. I found myself having a complex but clear selection of pixelized text and realized afterward I wanted to subtract another non-text part of that layer so I could deal with them separately. While I could use lassos and magnetic lassos, I just found for these shapes that I like dealing with bezier curves more.

Ok, so if I have your suggested workflow right, you make two separate selections and save them as spare channels. Then you can do boolean operations on those two channels and get the result I'm looking for. Do I have that right?

I'd like to subtract a complex shape from a selection. I can create a shape using the pen tool and convert it to a selection, but that just replaces my current selection. Is there any way I can make that shape subtract? Thanks!

That's a good point. I lose layer grouping and naming, but keep text. That might not be too bad of an archival alternative.

Hi again. Is the following FAQ from 2019 still current regarding the psd file format? I assume because of this that the recommended workflow is to use afphoto and export only when necessary (at least to preserve text), correct? I'm a little bit skittish because in the past I've used and had family use Corel image formats as well as Wordperfect document formats. That came back to bite me trying to deal with estate management and so forth when family passed away. Are there any alternative workflows that can preserve text without having to rely on the affinity native format? I realize that might be a tricky/sensitive question, but <shrugs in a "what can you do" gesture>.

Hi again. I tried XnView and, while it does do things nicely, I'd prefer not to supplant Windows Explorer. I tried SageThumbs and that appears to have done exactly what I wanted without arbitrarily filling my context menu with entries. Because it's related to XnView, it put me on the right track. Thank you for the help. edit: oh dear. Sagethumb gave up on particularly large files and simply displayed a blank file. I think previews simply might be more trouble than they're worth. At a later time I might revisit this and look for a file manager like XnView that does things akin to Bridge, I suppose. Thanks for your help in any case.

No problem. I just wanted to see if I remembered something from the language without looking it up.

On the assumption from the link: Vielen Dank. Ich werde es versuchen. (did I get it right?)

Hi. New user recently migrated over from an aging copy of CS6. I've run across at least one topic regarding file type thumbnails, but I wanted to get a recommendation specifically for what I'm looking for. I understand that there's no direct functionality for providing preview thumbnails in Explorer. I'd still like to have thumbnails, but basically want the fewest other features. If possible, no context menu additions, no other functionality, just preview thumbnails. Which app/package is the least skeezy way of doing that?