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I would think RAW developing develops to current working profile and uses it in export unless you define it differently in export>more.

Option would be nice to crop/inpaint/leave as is.

It somewhat limits what I can do to an [image] when it is stacked in a layer composition, which means I have to prepare the source files more carefully. For example I cannot do noise removal afterwards as effect as it needs rasterized layer. On the other hand many effects work nondestructively and can be used as they are realized only at export rasterization which is high quality. Or so I suppose and wish best :D

Traditionally "flatten" in PDF production has meant removal of transparency effects and rendering necessary parts to bitmap objects. I do not think AD layers even appear as "layers" in PDF file (?) but just as separate vector objects which is how it should be. PDF layers is mostly meant for CAD files and is is a newcomer feature in PDF files.

OK that was confirmation to old question. No rasterizing rotated or scaled images before resampling method is better.

Vector cropping tool crops pixel images just fine. You just have to use in normal draw persona.

Probably you could use a readymade image which masks the screen hot, and you can add shadow effect too. Possibly next version of AP can have a macro which automates this?

Looking for this? :

JPEG 2000 is not lossless. Also JPEG is mainly used for delivery format and customers need to be able to open files reliably.

Maybe you can use some other app for this like https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22028/contactsheetmaker

What is your intended end use, or where you will publish this? There are certain conventions how you should prepare file, which vary in different media.

Are you sure the different colour stroke you have in text outline is not causing apparent blurriness? I think one colour text is looking sharper.

AP really does not care much about disk space. It keeps all kinds of history and layer data in file so that editing is as smooth as possible. If you are desperate for space save as may remove some excess data. And if you just want minimum file size just save to JPEG.

It is standard mac practice to use option key for center out drawing.

No scratch disk can be designated to be used. — My biggest files have been 16 GB range and AP certainly uses scratch disks. How it does this is another question, and we have not means targeting a certain disk for scratch use, but generally I feel AP is handling this well. Panoramatool, compared to some high end apps, not bad at all, but not to be able to render the single source images into separate layers — I would love to have panorama source images as layers in panorama. The Blend Modes, while choosing — flashes like a X-Mas tree. Only starters and people who have no idea what each mode does need this — c'mon, some of us are using blend modes creatively and need to test settings! It is fine, better than PS! (Though some modes seem to be missing.) The “Transparent Background" can’t be set to default — Please make this sticky! Most other things in the list are as said but not critical in my workflow (or I have not had yet time for critical need for them, next project may prove otherwise.. :-D)

It should be in context tool bar, along with other ratio selections.

You are using old sovyet film.

ah there it is. Seem to be very limited. I am used alpha protection to be layer feature.

I was about to say that preview in open dialog is as big as you care to drag the window but possibly that is a feature of Default Folder X.

Usually I have had no real problems with online printing companies (though I use them not much), most usual grieve is trimming, cut may be sometimes real shoddy. I may write new topic about PDF output as this has wandered a bit...

I do not think there is a handy button "protect alpha" (which often would be useful), but people use selection (cmd-click layer) or some masking function to save transparency. Please advice me if there is quick and easy way.

Windows should nowadays be as good in colour management as OSX so: Select Adobe RGB 1998 as working RGB space Select Fogra 39 as working CMYK space (change this if your printer has better ideas or you will be printing other than standard coated paper, or you are american who have their own CMYK ideas) Profile selection stays active until you change them (or you reset whole app). Device specific profiles work only with devices and user should not touch those in working applications. I am not sure how scanners use profiles to day (quite automatically I suppose).

...about rasterizing image layer before you can copy a part of it – really. Same thing in AP. When you select and copy a part of image layer, sw should automatically switch it to rastered, do its copy thing and revert layer back to image object, all this while user thinks s/he is just copying a bit. I am sure though there are some problems with this..

I guess it depends on printer driver.

This is how JView handles it: