MichaelJC

As a new Affinity Photo user I am astonished that there's no crop to selection. That's ridiculous, it's such a basic and useful feature. For the most part I love this software but when simple things require ridiculous work arounds it's just infuriating. As to whether it's destructive: There are many times that I want a destructive process, my choice, my problem. One of the problems with AP is its reluctance to destroy. It's brilliant to be able to do things non-destructively when that's appropriate but it quite often isn't and in those cases AP either requires convoluted work flows or just results in bloated files.

It's irritating that the interface for selection tools is not the same from tool to tool. Specifically I mean the buttons to select 'new', 'add', 'subtract' etc. Using flood select these buttons are icons (which are ideal in my view) whereas with other selection tools they are buttons with text in them. It just feels like an oversight, using the icons from the flood select across all of these tools would presumably be a simple thing that would make for a better interface.

I haven't read through this thread so please forgive me for duplicating but I just wanted to add my voice to those asking for this. I'd like to use this software to add presentation to drawings from CAD but the lack of DXF support is a barrier. Although I can work around this to a degree using PDF exports it would be much better to have DXF. I'd also like to use DXF export for some purposes, again there are work arounds using other software but it remains a barrier. This is a significant snag in my plan to ditch the cursed Adobe.

Thanks for getting back to me, I appreciate your responsiveness. I've installed the relevant studio driver and I'll see how that plays out. Disabling GPU acceleration by default would have been better for me, and some sort of warning dialog when enabling it would be helpful too. The software seems to run fine without GPU acceleration for my use and I certainly value stability over small improvements in speed.

Thanks for your reply and for telling me about the studio drivers, I didn't know that and I'll give it a go. It would be helpful if there was a list of 'known good' systems, or at least some notification that this can be a problem. Finding out the hard way and having to discover the problem was rather painful and spoiled my first impressions of the software, which otherwise I think is fantastic. Is there any documentation of which features use GPU acceleration? Is it all or just some? Some more than others?

I am new to Affinity photo, and I'm extremely impressed except that if I have hardware acceleration enabled every session results in the application freezing with 'application not responding'. I'm not able to reproduce this with some particular 'recipe' and there doesn't seem to be a relationship between the problem and a particular operation, but I never make it through a session without it freezing at some point, at which point I have to force quit the application and hope the recovery file is recent. Sometimes this happens after 10 minutes, sometimes an hour. I can't find any pattern, but it always happens immediately after I click some operation, which can be anything - even 'save' or whatever. I have checked the list of known software conflicts and I don't think any of these describes my problem. I discovered that if I turn off hardware acceleration the software becomes stable, but obviously this means that I then don't benefit from the acceleration. I am using the latest release of Affinity and windows version 11 on a ryzen 5950X pc with a NVIDIA RTX 3070Ti graphics card. All my software is fully up to date and I tried re-installing affinity. I'm not sure if this is technically a bug or something else so please forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong place.