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  1. Sure, just select the bird, choose Insert Inside Selection from the context menu, then insert Layer->New Live Filter->Sharpen->whichever one you want to use. It only applies to the selection, and if you want to add another adjustment to another selection you can do that the same way, i.e. each adjustment will affect only the selection.
  2. Why did no one mention this when I asked about the optimal performance settings on my Mac Studio the other day? This really should be in the instructions. There's nothing in the human genetic makeup to make it instinctual, and I didn't find it when I searched the forums here. ...not that I'm going to turn off Metal and slow things down, because with Ventura it doesn't crash - although it does hang on quit sometimes.
  3. Ah, got it. Not a great loss anyway, to be honest, especially for my applications. If I were taking pictures of the family holidays or birds, maybe.
  4. I started a thread about this the other day, but I still haven't heard a definitive answer. M1 Mac Studio Max, 32 graphics cores Subtext: I'm working on a picture with about 150 layers at this point, and it's very slow. Yes, I work with most of them turned off in Groups and replaced with temporary merged visibles, but I have to turn things back on when I want to tweak them. The file is 11.89GB and counting, so this is somewhat expected, but I want to make sure I have the optimal settings. TIA
  5. And if I were really intelligent I'd just set up a Layer State. Hello...
  6. By the way, nice logos! (I'd started my last post by saying that, then must have edited it and removed it.)
  7. Ah, you hadn't done it. Got it, thanks. Thanks! I actually do stuff like that "on steroids" all day long, I just hadn't done it this way. No doubt this will be a useful addition. For example:
  8. Okay, so I feel a tiny bit less stupid - because that's not what it's doing here when I open it, in fact I've been unable to come up with a combination of showing/hiding layers to make it do that (which is what I guessed is what it was supposed to be doing - I do understand masks, just not rasterizing to them). All I see is the Union Jack on top of the pink background, no masking. But I do think I get the point now, I'll just have to think about how I would use it - and how I'd control its behavior. Thanks.
  9. I sincerely appreciate the replies, but I'm afraid I don't follow. First, what is the object of the exercise? Why is this feature there? My understanding of alpha is that it's the transparency layer, right? Alfred, again - sincerely, thanks, but I don't know what's going on in the file! By the way, I only work with raster images and I use Affinity Photo - although I do have the other two programs as well.
  10. I know what the words mean, but I can't figure out what it's doing when you issue the command. TIA
  11. Logic actually doesn't have that issue, for the obvious reason (they're owned by Apple), because each plug-in runs in its own thread, but also because those guys were serious about improving and updating it all the time even when they were Emagic. They're amazing developers and very impressive people. But really, we civilians shouldn't have to be in the business of creating new volumes to be beta testers for operating systems. As I wrote, I don't have any idea where if anywhere to point fingers, I just know that it's an ongoing proctological issue that never heals.
  12. This is a raging clustershag. I wrote this about music software, but it applies here as well: https://synthandsoftware.com/2024/02/macos-updates-and-music-software-an-angry-rant/
  13. As RC-R and iconoclast say, it's about $800 now. I bought it about a year ago, and thinking about it, it may have been a refurbished one. But it was from Wacom and came with a guarantee. And yes, I'm very happy with it. *** I just remembered another ridiculous issue with the display-less tablet I returned: the cursor would jump to a different position when I lowered the pen to the surface! The short time I spent with that execrable piece of crap was actually a little depressing, mainly because the Internet told me I needed to get used to it. Well, I had no interest in doing that, and returning it felt just a little bit too good. But the Wacom is as good as that thing was horrible.
  14. Nice! What I do is totally different from that (I work with transformed fragments of images I take with an iPhone), but the things we're saying about colors apply equally.
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