augustya
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I am facing a weird problem in my Older version of Affinity Photo APP for the iPad the moment I click on the + button to import a new photo from my iPad Gallery. I no longer see my Library of Photos instead I only see 4 options Recent, Favorite, Recently Added and Screenshot to import photos from only from them. How can I see and import photos from Affinity Photo for the rest of the Photos in my iPad Photos Library ?
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How can I delete this thread ?? People are coming here and posting their question as free for all here. My thread is getting hijacked. I want to close it best is delete it !!
Hijackers stay away from here. Start your own thread. This is is not free fund.
I have taken effort to type my description here. Do not take undue advantage of it.
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Hi Guys,
I wanted to ask you guys a question, now that the background removal functionality is also embedded in iOS 16 and in the photos APP where you just have to long press on the image and the Photo APP automatically removes the Background for you.
However it is not perfect, the end result often has some areas where you have to tidy up things either Paint out unwanted areas or paint in areas that have been missed.
Now to do this what I do is for areas that have not been removed, on the background removed image I add a Mask and paint in with Black to remove the unwanted areas, and areas where I have to bring in the missed areas I add a Black Mask to it and then Paint in white to bring in the missed areas, and here is where the problem arises.
So what happens is, after you remove the background using Apple’s Software the image is automatically resized to a new ratio and size, and for my task of bringing in missed areas I have to place the original image (Without the background removed ) on top of the background removed image but they do not fit/overlap on each other properly, because the original ratio of the original photo is different and the size and ratio of the background image after the removal becomes different. So my question is, what can I do ? How do I make sure both the image become of the same ratio so that perfectly overlap on each other ?
I hope you guys understood the question clearly ?
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1 hour ago, Chills said:
I said ignore the hype, marketing and brands. You have a requirement, look at how you can meet that requirement technically and at what costs and with options.
As you may have noticed I am an Electronics/software engineer with no brand loyalty. I have macs, PCs and linux boxes puls a whole load of sutff that is different.
If you can't get a "referbished" 16GB/512SSD M1 then lookat a PC and add RAM and SSD's and M.2s as you can afford them. The only thing is don't skimp on the CPU. Everything else is an easy upgrade.People buying Merc S, BMW 7s and Audis have money to spare. You don't. Do not get sucked in by the hype and marketing.
Windows ins't ugly*, the x86 architecture is though. That said untill recently both PC's and Macs were x86. I have used PCC and Intel macs.
*Windows is not what it was. It has compleltey changed architecures over the years. It was based on the VAX OS principals at one point
Interestingly Macs (Lisa?) were origionally Motorola 68K based at the beginning before going to Motorola PPC then Intel x86. Spiritually the ARM parts are connected to the 68K (you have to know the background history of the industry for this) So one could argue the Apple M1s have come spiritually full circle.OK I will give you a serious answer. The Entire MAC OS the way it looks, the Look and Feel the UI the ease of Use, File Management System, Magical APPS, Trackpad Gestures. It makes MAC OS Look Slick ! It is a class apart. The same way why people prefer iPhone over Android. Only a user of Apple devices know what it means to them Apple should have a new Selling/Marketing Slogan..."Life Made Easy !!"
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6 minutes ago, Chills said:
Quite. My appolgies for riasing to the bait.
On the original point:- the minimum, for anything other than email, web surfing and simple documents, is an M1 with 16GB Ram / 512SSD. If the OP can't afford that then look at the "refurbished" part of the Apple Web site for one. With the Launch of the M2 etc. at the bare minimum the stock will have a new motherboard (with new RAM and SSD). More likely it will be a completely new machine. The refurbished area is where Apple gets rid of excess [new] stock.
Otherwise look at why “it has to be” a MAC. You can probably get a better spec Windows PC and then add more RAM and SSD’s or M.2 drives later. Also you can up the graphics card. Important if you are doing photo work. My Mac Pro does not have the original Graphics card in it. Though even for upgradeable macs the choices are limited and more expensive than a PC. The problem with the new Macs is you can’t upgrade them or replace parts.
So ignore the hype, marketing and brands. Work out what you actually need.
Do people and customers buying a Mercedes S Class or a BMW 7 series or an Audi have an answer on why they prefer one over another.
It is their belief their liking for a particular product which they think they like it and would love to use it.
How can one possibly give this answer of why Mac Over Windows.
Mac is beautiful Windows is Ugly ! lol !!
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7 minutes ago, v_kyr said:
But people here have already answered that additional Q. And I already adviced you to better overall go and save some money for a 512 GB SSD here, due to the better I/O transfer.
Independently of the 512 GB SSD here, APh should also work smoothly with a 16 GB Mac Mini and a slower throughput 256 GB SSD. - But since 256 GB of SSD space isn't that much nowaday you better opt at least for a 512 GB SSD, which beside having more disk space will also operate faster here.
I've added above a M2 Mac Mini SSDs throughput diagramm where you can see what impact the different sized SSDs offer. - So I still repeat here again, even if you are on lower budget you better go with a 16 GB RAM & 512 GB SSD M2 Mac Mini.
I mean we are takling here just about a $200 price difference and that on the longer time usage view ...
- M2 Mac Mini 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD = $799.-
- M2 Mac Mini 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD = $999.-
... further if you can still wait a little bit and buy then from other Apple resellers and not from Apple directly, then you might get a Mac Mini slightly cheaper.
And if all that until now said doesn't convince you, the go to the next Apple Store near your location and tell them to fire up APh for you, so you can yourself perform some own test runs on/with a M2 based Mac Mini!
So when did I say that question here was not answered ? You at the end of all again made that comment in your last to last post that you should be now aware on your buying decision on what is right for you ? Yes so I am reading it and making up my mind accordingly. Why did you have to leave that comment again ? I didn't quite get it ?
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9 minutes ago, v_kyr said:
Those guys do also a bunch of tests about the M2 Mac Mini and they do also give advices for Mac Mini buyers (... aka like: M2 Mac Mini Buyers Guide - Don’t Make These 9 Mistakes). - So if you are a follower of their Youtube channel there, then you should already know most of what has been already said in this thread!
Their Video did not answer my one question. And which is
Even if I upgrade to 16GB RAM does it it also have to be complimented with the 512 GB SSD because of the 2 Nand Chip versus only 1 in 256GB SSD will Affinity Photo only then work on it smoothly ?
And if you read my question completely. I had asked that 16GB RAM along with 256 GB will that make Affinity Photo run smoothly or do I really need to also upgrade to 512GB SSD which I cannot afford.
So that question was not answered there on Maxtech Youtube Channel.
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4 minutes ago, loukash said:
@augustya, is your purchase a "pressing affair"?
If not, it might be a good idea just to let it sit for at least a few weeks until more real life experience from Mini M2 "early adopters" begins to pour in on the usual online sources.Absolutely not ! There is no such urgency, or Life Threatening Emergencies. Yes I can wait. But if someone says 3 Months that would be too far away. 1 Month Yes that is not too far.
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3 minutes ago, Chills said:
Read the thread again . I am an embedded systems Engineer. That is deep computer hardware and software design. I understand at a very deep level how the hardware and software works on both platforms. I own multiple Macs and PCs. (and a couple of Linux boxes) plus a hell of a lot of other stuff that is neither. I am not a fan-boy for any platform.
What I said to you was analyse what you actually need and stop reacting emotivly.
With what you have said you will be running* you wil lprobalby want more than 16GB RAM if you want to keep the computer for a long time. Otherise expect to replace it every 4 or so years. It is your money
Just don't shoot the messenger when you don't like the real world engineering advice.
I wil be getting an M1 mac as a travel laptop where I wil only be using it for light use. Emails, sirfing and ligh tphoto/video work. But it wil have 32Gb RAM.*NOTE the way paging works with these computers is the both the OS and the apps have some controll. Paging may occur long before the RAM is full. On Windows you can sett the Caches and virtual memory to any of the [internal] drives. So people used to set it to scratchpad disk. Thus the reads and writes didn't get inthe way of the C Drive [OS]or the D drive [apps] The machine was faster. though that did depend on the technology used for the hard drive interfaces.
Man ! what you are describing here is all going above my head
is extremely geeky and difficult to understand. 
I am going Bonkers reading all your excess information !! 
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14 minutes ago, Chills said:
Now you are starting to see the problem.
Back up a bit wny do you NEED a Mac rather than a PC?
What are the killer features that mean you must have a Mac?
BTW the same problem with swap pages and virtual memory will occure with any Windows PC. The difference is it is possible, and cheap, to increase RAM yourself, it is possible and cheap to replace (and for a larger size) any hard drive. Indeed you can have multiple internal hard drives. (my Windows Laptop has THREE internal M.2 drives and more RAM all added after I bought it)Ignore the marketing and hype. Ignore "cool" and style. You don't have the cash for that luxuary.
What do you actually need to do? What do you actually need in terms of hardware? Why does it need a mac?
I have gone through this process several times and have 3 Macbok Pros (that are still working one PPC and 2 intel ) and I am on my 2rd Mac Pro (the first one was a PPC Mac not an Intel) BTW I have been defeloping on ARM cores and MCUs for over 20 years so I am familiar with them. The last time we looked at the question we went to PCs over Macs. This is for Video editing. photography and designing/editing a magazine.
Went from RCPX to Resolve
Adobe CS6 to Affinity1
Lightroom works on both. NOTE Adobe Lightroom V6.14, the last stand alone version runs on Win 10 (and Win 11 I am told) but not the latest Macs.
MS Office works on both.
So analise your real need carefully without the marketing and hype.
Please do not deviate this thread to your personal firm opinion or affiliation or penchant for Windows Computer.
I know as a customer what I want. Which in this case is a MAC now dont altogether divert this topic, Oh You know what ? You dont need a MAC in the first place Please get a PC.
That was not my question.
And nobody other than you have told me you need a lot of cash to buy and you have to buy only High End Mac otherwise it wont work for you.
Please stop it !!
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18 hours ago, user_0815 said:
16GB is fine. That’s what I’ve been using for the past 6 years on my 15“ Intel MBP. In my personal Tests I came to the conclusion that swaps began when the file size approached 1GB. But the limiting factor for speed was cpu (on live filters) but not RAM.
V2 seems to be a bit more smooth and M1/2 even more so.IMHO 16GB on a M2 will be no issue.
I think it is a great comment, anecdote and observation and would be certainly of great help. So let me ask you this If I have lets say 6 Safari Tabs Open, Affinity Photo running (Working on a RAW File which is like 200-300MB), Spotify APP playing music, Youtube Video playing, Some Reddit APP open, in a scenario like this you are saying that the MAC will not even trigger Swap Memory because 16GB RAM itself will keep fueling and pumping it forever as it does not need more fuel to keep itself going ?
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9 minutes ago, loukash said:
I don't think this is what @augustya was interested in when they started this thread.
So let's focus on that again.Absolutely not ! This is not what I was looking forward to read from you guys here...
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3 minutes ago, loukash said:
How is "style over function" a "technical" argument?
Given that I can still do all my work on a 2012 MacBook Pro, at least my "cost of ownership" appears pretty good to me.
It still has to be seen if it also applies to current models. We don't know yet. It's all just guesses, "half-" or even "less-"educated.I agree people who say that only if you spec out the MX configuration in Mac and which would cost you a bomb would you then be able to get the best best use of Mac which is fas from reality. This is something which the Windows Lobby and Windows Fanatics always say this in hate for the Mac however real life usage has shown that in a lot of case a base level or a slightly spec out Mac model completely demolishes a windows current PC.
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3 minutes ago, loukash said:
Can we please keep this old and tiresome "argument" out of this discussion? thanks
Tiresome as in "Windows" vs "Mac" Argument ?
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4 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:
You should factor in 2 external HDD or ssd for Time Machine backups. Which are cheap.
Having an external SSD or HDD is definitely worth buying but it still does not compensates for the fact that having an internal bigger SSD in a Mac itself also results in working as an indirect RAM.
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7 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:
This was reported for M1 chips, but may no longer apply. The difference is actually academic, only measurable in synthetic tests.
Don‘t make you decision too complicated. Can use any current Apple device, even in the entry level configuration. M1 or M2 only maters if you know with absolute certainty that you need e.g 24 or 32 GB RAM. Most uses can’t say.
Go with at least 16 GB RAM and 512 GB ssd, Affinity will be good enough. It you are not happy after a month and want more, sell the Mac (which normally has excellent value even used) and buy a bigger one.
Have the Budget only for 256GB SSD and 16GB RAM
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But the info that I have been given is that correct ? Having a Larger SDD in this case 512 vs 256 can that also result in Faster and smoother running of the Computer with the M1 or M2 Chip because of the Unified Memory set up ?
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16 minutes ago, loukash said:
The Mini not being necessarily a mobile device, it still has the benefit that you could actually get a good external SSD and use that as your boot volume(s) rather than the paltry 256 GB soldered inside.
Or you can use the internal drive as the boot volume but move your Documents folder to an external SSD. Even the old USB3 connector is fast enough for such tasks.
(Hey, been there done that, like booting my old MBP from a USB stick: e.g. with a high quality SanDisk it's almost as speedy as the internal bus.)No not just about having external storage, I have been made to understand that even higher SSD Storage results in smooth Multi-Tasking and Operations. That is worrying me because I am kind of sure I cannot buy more than 256 GB SSD but people are telling me, we are recommending you the 512 SSD not just for the storage but it can also act as a RAM to speed up certain Tasks. And going from 256GB SSD to 512 GB SSD will cost me an extra $300 that shoots up the entire purchase way...way...above and beyond the budget I have allocated to purchased the M2 Mac Mini.
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1 hour ago, v_kyr said:
Personally developing RAWs is not my focus at all, these are just side jobs that you can do either way on the side if necessary. Further I never in life bought a computer just in order to run a specific software at all, instead I buy computers to run all kind of software and thus not just for one specific purpose here.
That is exactly is also my intention, when I say I want to go for 16GB RAM that is considering my all purpose use. And so I thought of asking here if 16GB RAM would be good enough to run Affinity Photo Version 2 smoothly. But you started telling if I throw RAW files in the Mix then it would have tough time. But I have to take care of my other computing tasks also that I wanna do with the computer and not just use Affinity Photo !
And in that sense I have had a lot of people tell me yes 16GB RAM is a sweet spot for a budget conscious buyer.
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16 minutes ago, Andreas Scherer said:
I'm using the base model (8GB RAM, 256GB SSD) of the Mac Mini M1 (both at home and at work) and it is definitively comfortable to use with the Affinity suite, so I'd be confident that the Mac Mini M2 would be a great tool as well (and allegedly, it's even cheaper than the M1 machine).
That too considering I am thinking to get the 16GB RAM that would be an added bonus isnt it ?
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2 hours ago, loukash said:
Developing RAW images is not my main focus with APh, but every now and then I do.
And I do it on my 10 years old MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM…
Never noticed any memory issues in that context.So I think the new Mini will do just fine with 16 GB because the whole system is highly optimized elsewhere. From what I remember reading, 16 GB then with Intel and 16 GB now with Apple Silicon aren't even comparable 1:1.
So I am looking to Purchase the M2 Mini with the 256GB SSD and 16GB of RAM so you are saying with occasional working of RAW file in Affinity Photo it should work smoothly based on your experience of all these years so far ? Right ?
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2 hours ago, MikeTO said:
The answer is it depends. As v_kyr stated, if you work with a lot of very large raw photos then you may find 16GB to be limiting. Or if you like to have very large files open in other apps while working in Affinity then that will reduce what is available to Affinity.
The old adage that you can never go wrong in buying too much memory is good. The problem is do you spend more on going for the Pro chip or not, or do you invest that money in more cores, or more storage. Choices, choices.
I am a follower of the Maxtech YouTube channel and those Brother Duo tested 2022 Macbook Pro in Real Life the difference between the 16GB and 323GB RAM and there was hardly any difference, or any extra speed that they noticed. For the M2 Mac Mini they are saying the sweet spot would be if someone is thinking of buying the new M2 Mac Mini is buy the extra space also which 512 GB SSD along with 16GB RAM because with the Unified Memory even the extra SSD Space along with the 16GB RAM would make things and tasks snappier and faster.
But in my case that shoots up my budget by leaps and bounds and I cannot afford it.
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4 hours ago, v_kyr said:
Well the M2 chip/SoC Mac Mini is also available with a max of 24 GB RAM with a memory bandwidth to 100GB/s (...same here as the MBA M2). - The M2 Pro Chip/SoC would be needed here only in case you would opt for 16/32 GB RAM with a higher memory bandwidth of 200GB/s.
- Mac Mini M2 plain max 24 GB memory bandwidth to 100 GB/s
- Man Mini M2 Pro max 32 GB memory bandwidth to 200 GB/s
Overall if Affinity Photo Version 2 works smoothly on a Mac Mini M2 with MacOS Ventura depends much more on it's APh2 bug fixing state. - And in terms of the 16 GB RAM memory it would also highly depend on how much high res RAW images etc. you would throw and work on it at once here and if you always also use a bunch of other memory hungy apps in parallel.
I thought with the. 16GB RAm on the M2 Mac Mini would be plenty to work on Affinity Photo that's what people told me when I was thinking about getting the M1 Mac Mini.
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Hi Guys,
Ànd @James Ritson when I was just about to pull the trigger on an M1 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM when Apple and thankfully so has dropped another M2 Mac Mini in the Mix now I am planning to order this against the M2 Mac Mini Pro. Do you guys think M2 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM should be good enough choice to make sure that Affinity Photo Version 2 works smoothly on it and at the same time, it is not too heavy on my budget which would be the case if I go with the Pro ?
in short will a M2 Mac Mini with 16GB RAM ensure that Affinity Photo Version 2 the newer version work smoothly on it ?
Do I need a Pro Mac Mini ?
No Longer See Library of Photos when trying to import it in to Affinity Photo APP on the iPad ?
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