CharlesG

Hi Everyone, Quick question about exporting or resizing for web and social media. Is there any reason not to resize and already edited and exported JPEG when you want to upload it to social media or for publication on a web page? Asked another way, is there any benefit in quality gained from exporting from the .afphoto file specifically for this purpose? I suppose I have it in my mind that anytime you are manipulating the already small JPEG export, that this will degrade quality further. Thanks for the advice!

Amazing, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you everyone!

Donuts.afdesign

Hello Crew, Kind of a beginner questions here. I have created 2 donuts in Designer but I want them to appear as brush strokes. Is there a way to apply a brush to the donut after the fact? I am hoping to cycle through the brushes to choose the one that suits the design best. Thank you!

Ah yes, that was an easy fix. Thanks so much Walt, saved the day again!

Hello Folks; I am having an issue with a document document in Designer that has multiple artboards. I have placed a separate Designer document in each artboard. When I double click the embedded document it opens a separate window which allows me to edit that document, which then populates back in the artboard. The problem I am having is that it doesn't update the original document when you open in separately, and alternatively, when you open the original Designer document and edit it, it doesn't update the one embedded in the artboard. This sounds very confusing when I type it, but what I am trying to say is that these aren't linked in the way that is seems they should be. Does anyone know how I can get these properly linked up? I hope this question made some sort of sense. Thanks!

Thanks Walt, I have delved into this. So it brings another question, I have not done much with TIFF, should I export as TIFF RGB 8-bit or 16-bit? I presume 16-bit will give a wider colour space, but the massive file size is taxing to the computer of course. How important is this? Thanks again, always appreciate the help.

G'day Crew, Another round of questions for you.... I have tried my first stack, I did a still life of some flowers and took several images with different lightings with the aim of doing a composite and painting in the more nicely lit areas from each photo. I created the stack and the app brought me straight into the photo persona, I would have preferred to do a raw develop on them beforehand. I understand how I could do this manually, but I want the computer to automatically align for me. I clicked on the develop persona to try to go into it and do an edit on one of the photos and it took me there, but was unable to make any changes, I'm not sure why this is. My basic question is what is the proper sequence to do this in, I imagined that I would do a raw develop that applies to all of the images and then develop and go into the photo persona and do the composite work. Should I be worried about the raw development? Thanks, as always, for the help!

Hello Folks, Would someone be able to describe for the the difference between clarity and detail refinement in the develop persona. The effects are quite distinctive from each other but I can't determine what each is doing differently and when to use one versus the other, or in tandem. Thanks!

Hello Folks, Does anyone know if it's possible to set the background grey level to a keyboard shortcut? I find myself adjusting this regularly and would like to do it without having to open the preferences menu. Thanks!

Hello Folks, I have a question about adjusting colours in the develop persona. I have a fairly good grasp of what I am trying to do with exposure, white balance, contrast, shadow/highlights when developing a raw image. One thing I haven't quite come to grips with is the best way to handle colour when editing a raw file. Is it best to have a fairly neutral/true to life representation before developing and moving on to the photo persona? Or should vibrance and saturation be adjusted earlier rather than later? I intuitively don't like to raise saturation or adjust the separate colour channels on the tone curve before developing, for some reason I think that there is more nuanced control of colour in the photo persona. But I also fear that if I am not adjusting saturation or vibrance in the develop persona then perhaps information is being baked into the image that won't be available in the photo persona. I am ready to be wrong on any or all of these points, and I'm sure there is differing opinions on this, but would love to hear some thoughts. Thanks in advance for your help!

Amazing, many of these worked. Thanks everyone!

Hello Folks, Quick question, I am working on some high key sketches and wondering how to turn all of the white in the photo to transparent? Thank!

Yes but how do you tell when the black is true black? In lightroom you can click on the black background and it sets that as the black point to ensure that your background is set to black. I'm sorry as you can tell I don't really know how to phrase the question, I just don't know exactly how far to bring the black slider to the right to set the black point.

Gday Friends, Was watching a lightroom video tutorial and noticed that there is a way within the levels adjustment to set the black or white points to pure black or pure white respectively. I am interested to do this because I am experimenting with still life photography that is sometimes set against a black or white background and want to ensure that those are not shades of gray. Thank you as always!