[How to get circular ripples on pond effect in Photo]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I'm aware of the ripples filter and have tried it. But even just to get one ripple in a circular fashion doesn't seem to work.

Cheers,

Paul

[How to get circular ripples on pond effect in Photo]

Hi,

I’ve seen a couple of threads here about getting the ripples on water effect but I can’t find any pertaining to circular ripples.

I've attached a screenshot of the type of ripple effect I'm looking for. 

Anybody know how to achieve this?

Cheers,
Paul Zab

[Automatically activate info palette upon selecting eye dropper tool]

Hi,

Another small request – I'm sure the soft engineers are VERY busy!

When you select the eye dropper tool, you are wanting to see the ink values in the info palette. It would be good if, upon selecting the eye dropper tool, the info palette is automatically selected.

Cheers,

Paul Zab

www.paulzabphoto.com

[Set up a multi-page document as single pages – NOT spreads]

Hi,

Many thanks.

Cheers,

Paul

[Set up a multi-page document as single pages – NOT spreads]

Hi,

I'm creating a calendar with bleed and cannot work out how to set up a 13 page document (cover page plus 12 pages) as single pages.

When I add extra pages, the app insists as setting them up as spreads.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Paul Zab

[Affinity Publisher Beta Keeps Crashing Doing Whatever]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion and next I use Affinity Publisher, I'll try changing that preference in the Resource Manager. Having said that, I don't have any images in the document for now.

I've had to recreate it in InDesign.

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Affinity Publisher Beta Keeps Crashing Doing Whatever]

Hi,

It keeps crashing for me as well. I have a 14 page document with master pages, text styles and linked text boxes. No images at this stage – just text and a few boxes.

When I go to paste copied text or sometimes just hit the space bar – it crashes. It's crashed 5 times in less than 10 minutes.

I have Affinity Publisher Beta 1.7.0.206 (just downloaded this latest beta update today) on a Mac Pro mid-2010 with mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6. Processor 2.8GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon with 10GB RAM.

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Select Sampled Colour with HSL interface? (please)]

Hi,

I back this suggestion but I'm also glad the HSL filter/tool has changed to this colour picker wheel interface in this latest update.

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Vignette filter – add rotation function]

Hi,

I find this tool handy for fashion and portraiture work where I want to highlight the model. It saves me having to create a shape (no big deal anyway).

In addition to the exposure, hardness, scale and shape functions within this filter, a rotation (in degrees) function would be handy also.

Perhaps combined with the ability to rotate it 'by hand' with our mouse would also be good. And then to drag it's centre point around so we can position the vignette where we desire i.e. so it doesn't have to be anchored to the centre of the image.

Cheers,

Paul Zab | paulzabphoto

[Affinity Photo – ’New Batch Job’ command results in unusably dark files]

Ok, appreciate your response & work-around suggestion.

I guess the developers have a ton of work and giving a timeframe on this issue's resolution is too hard to say right now, understandably enough.

[Affinity Photo – ’New Batch Job’ command results in unusably dark files]

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/36155-dark-exports-with-new-batch-job-using-new-hdr-merge/#comment-258231

 

I’ve posted this here because it has been in the ‘Bugs on Mac’ forum since February. People have replied but no official response to what is a serious bug.

 

Batch processing is a fundamental part of a high volume workflow and the ‘New Batch Job’ command doesn’t work properly. When using it, whether on multiple files or just one file, the batch processed files are coming out way too dark whereas when I export individual files to jpg using the Export command, they're fine. When using the ‘New Batch Job’ command, it looks like I've duplicated the layer and used the Multiply blend mode.

 

Some feedback (with a timeframe) from Serif would be reassuring as singularly exporting hundreds of files is not ideal.

 

Do any of the moderators have updated information from Serif on this bug? Can this issue get escalated and quickly sorted?

 

Cheers,

[Create Mask Layer (not to be confused with create layer mask)]

Hi Callum, thanks for your reply. I've seen that video – I was hoping there might be something extra.

 

Cheers

[Create Mask Layer (not to be confused with create layer mask)]

When you right-click on the Background Red Channel, for example, you are presented with three options.

 

The second option, ‘Create Mask Layer’, what are the applications for this?

[Expand number of colours that can be targeted – Affinity Photo]

Hi,

 

Ability to target more colours with the various colour selection tools (e.g. HSL and Selective Colour) in the Raw and Photo personas.

 

Orange

Aqua

Purple

 

Additionally ‘Select > Select Colour Range’ –  add cyan, magenta, yellow, orange, aqua and purple.

 

Would there be any benefit of adding these extra colours to the ‘Curves’ and ‘Levels’ commands as well?

[Expand number of colours that can be targeted – Affinity Photo]

Hi,

 

Ability to target more colours with the various colour selection tools (e.g. HSL and Selective Colour) in the Raw and Photo personas.

 

Orange

Aqua

Purple

 

Additionally ‘Select > Select Colour Range’ –  add cyan, magenta, yellow, orange, aqua and purple.

 

Would there be any benefit of adding these extra colours to the ‘Curves’ and ‘Levels’ commands as well?

[Pre-press – GCR, UCR & Dot Gain feature]

And it will be interesting to see what they have in the soon-to-arrive update . . .

 

[Pre-press – GCR, UCR & Dot Gain feature]

Hi Fixx,

 

Yes, you are right and we need to remember that Affinity Photo is still version 1. It's a very mature program for version 1 and I'm very happy with it.

 

Cheers,

Paul

[Affinity photo: Divide blending mode]

Plus One.

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab | https://www.paulzabphoto.com

[Greyscale blending & equations – advantages over other methods?]

Hi jhoy,

 

Thanks for your reply.

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Setting white, mid (grey) and black points]

Hi MEB,

 

Thanks for your reply. 

Related to this, I'll paste here a feature request that I posted in that part of the forum . . .

 

________ ________ ______ ________ ________ ______

Hi Hard-Working Affinity Team :),

 

Any chance of getting the ability to record (as Macros) adding new sampler points?

 

When I start colour correcting an image, I frequently add a Threshold and Curves adjustment layer (which I have recorded as a Macro).

On the end of this macro, I would like the ability to record adding three sampler points to the Info box down the bottom right-hand side of the screen. This would speed up my colour correction workflow, as all I would have to do from then, is place the sampler points on the highlight, neutral and shadow areas of my image.

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab | https://www.paulzabphoto.com

[Add new sampler points does not record when creating Macros]

Hi Hard-Working Affinity Team :),

 

Any chance of getting the ability to record (as Macros) adding new sampler points?

 

When I start colour correcting an image, I frequently add a Threshold and Curves adjustment layer (which I have recorded as a Macro).

On the end of this macro, I would like the ability to record adding three sampler points to the Info box down the bottom right-hand side of the screen. This would speed up my colour correction workflow, as all I would have to do from then, is place the sampler points on the highlight, neutral and shadow areas of my image.

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab | https://www.paulzabphoto.com

[Pre-press – GCR, UCR & Dot Gain feature]

Hi,

 

I would like to see Grey Component Replacement, Under-Colour Removal and Dot Gain be added to Affinity Photo. Important for controlling the K (black) plate in CMYK printing.

 

Apologies in advance if this is already covered – I posted in the forums but got no reply (as below).

 

In Affinity Photo, how do I manipulate Gray Component Replacement (GCR), Under Colour Removal (UCR) and dot gain settings? In Photoshop, it is accessed via the ‘Color Settings’ dialog box, go to the ‘Working Spaces’  part of the dialog box, click the drop-down menu for CMYK and select Custom CMYK.

 

Vital for controlling the important black plate (channel) on press.

 

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/43357-pre-press-–-gcr-ucr-dot-gain/

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Pre-press – GCR, UCR & Dot Gain]

Hi,

 

In Affinity Photo, how do I manipulate Gray Component Replacement (GCR), Under Colour Removal (UCR) and dot gain settings? In Photoshop, it is accessed via the ‘Color Settings’ dialog box, go to the ‘Working Spaces’  part of the dialog box, click the drop-down menu for CMYK and select Custom CMYK.

 

Vital for controlling the important black plate (channel) on press.

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Greyscale blending & equations – advantages over other methods?]

Hi,

 

Re. the Affinity-produced video on Vimeo – 'Channels: Greyscale Blending' where one colour channel from one colour space is duplicated and equations are applied to it . . . 

 

What advantage can you see in using this method compared to say, curves, using blending modes, duplicating channels and altering blending ranges etc.

 

I'm not saying this is not a good method – just that it is new to me and I'm curious as to what situations you may have found it useful compared to other methods.

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab

[Affinity Photo RAW DEVELOP persona: selective colour & target colours]

Hi,

 

I would like to see 'Selective Colour' added to the RAW Develop persona. I know it's in the Photo persona but it would be handy in the Develop persona, too.

 

Also, in the Develop persona, it would be handy to be able to target orange, aqua, cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, blue individually for saturation purposes. (And add orange and aqua to the Photo persona).

 

Cheers,

Paul Zab 

 

P.S.: keep up the great work Affinity team :)