[Exposure adjustment + luminosity range mask]

Welcome to the forums @tsekg,

Could you possibly share a copy of your .afphoto file with the adjustment and mask applied so we can take a look at your adjustment layer and mask?

Many thanks

[Select by sampled colours jump]

Welcome to the forums @Giorgio37,

This is a known bug in the Photo persona, having a bleed set on the document will cause selection functions (Select Sampled Colour, Tonal Range, Colour Range etc.) to become offset when applied. Back in the Publisher persona if you remove the bleed via the Document Setup menu and then use the same selection function again this should work. I'll bump the existing issue with your report.

[Affinity-Photo 2.4.1 - Performance problems under Sonoma 14.4.1 - possible malfunction of the metal interface]

13 minutes ago, Udo B. said:

I noticed in the benchmark that no values were determined for the "grid (multi-GPU)“ and "combined (multiple GPUs)" points.

Is that normal?

Yeah that's completely normal for Silicon Macs, as this only applies to Multi-GPU hardware, for example my Windows device has both a dedicated Graphics card and Integrated Graphics, so it gives me a combination score in this field.

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Thanks for giving safe mode a try, unfortunately I don't have any direct access to an M3 device, however I'll raise it internally and see if I can get this MacOS version checked on M3. To rule out there being any local user environment issues on your device, could you try creating a new temporary Mac user and running the app from this new user account for comparison?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl3e281fc9/mac

Thanks

[Viewport always snaps back to text even if i dont want it to (AD 2, ipad, v. 2.4.1.2344) (Video attached)]

Hi @_Amageton_,

I've now logged this with the developers, thanks for your report.  

[The menus on the top right corner are not clickable with a cursor. Only via touchscreen. (AD 2, ipad, v. 2.4.1.2344) (Video attached)]

Hi @_Amageton_,

Looks like this is caused by having 'Pointer Animations' enabled in iPad Settings -> Accessibility -> Pointer Control, turn this off and the buttons should work again with the cursor. I'll get this logged with the developers.

[Cannot communicate with other Affinity apps]

 

17 hours ago, Juc1 said:

I am having this problem today in Windows 11, cannot open either Photo or Designer, have rebooted numerous times. 🙁

I'd also suggest following the guidance in the FAQ linked below, as we are more commonly finding that the 'Affinity' Application data folder is hidden on some systems.

 

[PDF linked multiple times error/BUG Designer]

Hi @eduardotanco,

Thanks for your report, I've replicated and logged this with the developers.

@Hangman the only similar one I could find logged internally was AF-28, which was a bug relating to linked document's artboard view reverting back to the first artboard, so I've logged this as a new separate bug for Photo/Designer only under AF-2662.

[Affinity-Photo 2.4.1 - Performance problems under Sonoma 14.4.1 - possible malfunction of the metal interface]

On 4/4/2024 at 10:55 AM, Udo B. said:

I have already restarted the Mac several times - without success.

Thanks for confirming, just needed to rule that one out early.

It may be something environmental or possibly specific to M3's as on my M1 I'm not experiencing any of the same performance issues running the same version. The document shown in your recording does have a quite complex layer structure with multiple live filters active, any chance you could send a copy of that .afphoto document over for a fair comparison as well as a screenshot of your performance settings in the app? I've added a private upload link below for the file.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/QHDcJKjoPbMtbL0AnKzt

Could you also try a Mac Safe mode boot and running the app, and then trying to run it again out of safe mode? This also clears some of the caches that could be problematic.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/116946

Thanks

[Is there a way to create a continuous rotating brush?]

Hi @CM0,

Not that I'm aware of unfortunately, the closest would be the cyclic controller which as you've identified rotates and reverses in a cycle, I think this would be a feature request.

https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Painting/pixel_modify.html

[Publisher Toggle UI (tab button) not working Sonoma]

Hi @Super Alpine,

I'm running the same version of Publisher and Sonoma and this has always worked as expected for me. Have you got Full keyboard access turned on under MacOS Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard? If so, I'd suggest turning this off and trying again.

If that doesn't work, what happens if you re-bind Toggle UI it to a different key and then try again?

 

[Old images with Epson sRGB causing Photo 2 to crash]

Welcome to the forums @a47579,

Thanks for your report, this does look like a regression over V1 and earlier versions of V2, i've now logged this with the developers.

[Transparency in tiff files (Photo 2.4.1)]

Hi @Víctor Prieto,

The bug does appear to be caused by the .TIF file having no ICC profile embedded, I've replicated and logged this with the developers.

[Feather dialog shows twice when using keyboard instead of mouse]

Hi @Kepa Online,

Thanks for your report, I've replicated and logged this with the developers.

[Potential Bug in Liquify Filter]

Welcome to the forums @lagmoellertim,

While there is some differences between how the two apps generate and move the mesh, there does appear to be a bug with the liquify filter as eventually an unwarp-able image renders in the background, However using the destructive liquify persona rather than the filter does not trigger this bug, i'll get this logged.

 As thomaso suggested, try using a combination of liquify tools, particularly the twirl tool rather than just trying to push forward tool over and over again in the same location, as this will eventually just form blade-like swirls.

 

[Strange error with the spellchecker in Affinity Publisher 2.4.0]

Hi @LEB,

This has now been logged, thanks for your report. 👍

[Strange Behavior of APho2]

1 minute ago, Alfred said:

5 minutes ago, NathanC said:

Thanks, wow that file is huge.

Interesting! How do you square that with

On 3/28/2024 at 5:23 PM, Affinity Rat said:

Actually the file is only 81.1mb

??

Dimensions, rather than file size.

[Strange Behavior of APho2]

Thanks, wow that file is huge. Exporting from desktop works, but reached RAM usage of 13GB during the export process, which far exceeds the general iPad RAM capacity so that's probably related to why it's crashing. I can't get the ghost files to appear but I can get it to crash when it really shouldn't be so I'll log this with the developers.

[Show Affinity Icons on desktop]

Hi @LiquidThinking,

Are those files that don't have thumbnail previews, are they .afdesign files or something else, such as .SVG? For those .afdesign files that don't have thumbnails present, have you tried opening them, checking 'Save thumbnails with documents' is enabled under Preferences, and then triggering a modification of the file by showing/hiding a layer and then saving again?

If it doesn't work, you could also try clearing your windows thumbnail cache: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-reset-thumbnail-cache-windows-10

[Same problem rendering dotlines on pdf]

Thanks for providing your file Paul, looks like we do have this one logged with the devs so I'll bump the existing issue with your report.

[Affinit Designer Datei lässt sich nicht mehr öffnen]

Willkommen im Forum und Entschuldigung für die späte Antwort,

Wenn Sie immer noch Probleme mit dem Zugriff auf die Datei haben, können Sie sie über den angegebenen Dropbox-Link hochladen und wir werden sehen, ob das Dokument mit den üblichen Methoden wiederhergestellt werden kann.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/5EMwFQUrejXz816GHPqH

[Documentation only: picker in curves adjustment]

Hi @NotMyFault,

Thanks for reporting and providing your recommended amendments, I've now reported this over to the docs team for review, and also requested clarification on how the luminosity value is calculated as a part of the picker.

[2.4.1, all Apps, Windows: export dialog WebP preview, color/profile mismatch]

Hi @4dimage,

I'm also seeing this profile mismatch, I've now logged it with the developers. Thanks for your report.

[Strange Behavior of APho2]

Hi @Affinity Rat,

While I agree from your description this is definitely unexpected behaviour as a result of a crash, I'm quite limited by what I can log and report to the developers on how to trigger this. Is this something you can replicate by performing the same steps in the app? If you are able to, could you provide the document which causes the crash?

[Photoshop Import to Affinity causes drawing delay + pen hover bugs]

Hi @DannyHouston,

Thanks for reporting this and providing detail, I'm also seeing this on Desktop using an exported .PSD file with grouped pixel layers, the initial brush strokes fail to initially draw correctly on the canvas outside of the top parent group's boundaries.

I've now logged this with the developers for further investigation.

[AutoFlow with text frames and white background]

Hey all,

Nice find, and many thanks for the additional info and explanations. I've now replicated and logged this with the developers.