-
Posts
3,329 -
Joined
Everything posted by Fixx
-
Activity Monitor does not display much useful information as OS is designed to assign ALL free memory to applications, and free it not until it is needed elsewhere. Thus part of the memory is assigned but contains only unnecessary data. Basically you would be just fine with Mac Mini 16GB RAM, or similar iMac. Apps you use are not too demanding. If you want be safe you could buy M1 Pro 32GB instead but I am not sure you would see much difference. I kinda wish next Mac Mini version would be M1/M2 Pro which might be my next upgrade.
-
Idea for a new filter
Fixx replied to othereyes111's topic in Feedback for Affinity Designer V1 on Desktop
Once upon a time when computer generated images did not always produce antialiased images there was an application called JAG (Jaggies Are Gone). It did have a really good algorithm for smoothing jagged edges to smooth but sharp antialiased edges. I have not seen as good antialiasing solutions since. Have to say that demand for separate antialiasing solution is not so urgent nowadays. -
Improve "Book" Printing
Fixx replied to efc's topic in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
No you don't. Printing works just fine (RGB print mode can present some tonal problems though). If your printer machine supports booklet mode in-printer you can do that also. If it does not, Create Booklet 2 helps. -
Affinity Photo is ALSO a great PDF editor!
Fixx replied to Cyranose's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I prefer Designer – repurposing and digi-mining old PDF files has become so trivial a task. -
widespread adoption file formats
Fixx replied to cyberlizard's topic in Feedback for the V1 Affinity Suite of Products
AI files usually have PDF "stream" embedded (it is possible to disable this in AI) and Designer reads the embedded PDF instead on true AI format. That said, many graphics apps can read older/simpler AI files as format was originally not very complicated though it was proprietary/not published. Affinity cannot do that. -
font
Fixx replied to NatalieDDDD's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Did you get styles with the import? Right way would be to adjust styles. -
When I open in Apple Preview and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste without linebreaks, as long normal text, real paragraphs though are as they should. Text format as in original. That is like it should be, like original text. When I open in Adobe Reader and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste with linebreaks, real paragraphs as they are. No text formatting. When I open in PDF Expert and copy paste to Mail window – lines paste without linebreaks, real paragraphs as they are. No text formatting. No P line-ends anywhere. Try another PDF reader?
-
When you paste an image to an existing document it appears as *image layer. It is essentially a self-contained object, which can be manipulated many ways without losing its image quality – final image is rendered only in export or print. If you need to manipulate pixels directly you have to *rasterize* the layer to a pixel layer. Cutting can be done after that.
-
When you export to PNG you should get just what is visible in the file when you have it open. Layers and objects do not matter, they all convert to single pixel image. That 3840px x 3840px file is without any compression 44,3 MB. If you need to get smaller file and can accept lossy compression you can export to JPEG. It can compress noisy images but can introduce some artifacts to image. Of course you have to decide what the file is for and select file type, resolution and compression accordingly.
-
You should get full mask when you enter quick mask – that is, you see rubylith red. When you drag across this with gradient tool it should give you gradient from "white" to "black" – that is "white" is no rubylith and "black" is full red rubylith. Gradient ends (nodes) show white and black. I guess it is possible that grad tool has some other values than 0K and 100K but for me it works reliably. It has not always been that way with grad tool..
-
Set White Point, Photoshop-style
Fixx replied to JDW's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
Some photographers prefer to have neutral grey card or guaranteed grey object in their shoot so they can instantly set colour balance by eyedropper. I have used this time to time. Eyes tend to adapt to any lighting or colour cast so eye calibration can drift a lot...- 35 replies
-
- photoshop
- white point
-
(and 4 more)
Tagged with:
-
A Photo - how to see the file size of a photo?
Fixx replied to a topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
@porkunitdid not ask it. -
A Photo - how to see the file size of a photo?
Fixx replied to a topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
when I press cmd-option-i the resulting window magically tells me size and dpi! -
Windows only..
-
I have Topaz Sharpen AI and I think that that is meant for special cases and for premium quality work flows. Affinity can do basic sharpening just fine. Noise removal in AP is nothing special but again, most shots do no need extreme quality noise removal. If you shoot very high ISO then Topaz, DXO or ON1 may be the way to go.