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18 minutes ago, smadell said:
if you have a BenQ monitor, why are you limiting your editing to sRGB?
A quick search for the specs of the OP's monitor suggests it is a basic model, with only a TN not and IPS panel. Given that it seems unlikely that it could handle the Adobe RGB colour space.
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When you click 'Export', at the bottom of Affinity's Export Settings dialog the next thing that happens is that Affinity displays a regular File | Save dialog. Make sure you take note of what folder it is pointing at. Having done that, open Explorer and browse to that folder to find your file.
Looking at your screen shot, both _MG_2623 and _MG_2623 (small) have been saved to:
D:\Affinity Photo
If your files are not in that folder, I've no idea where they are.
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Look in the layers panel and ensure you have selected a pixel layer and not an adjustment layer or a mask before you try to switch to the Develop Persona.
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14 hours ago, Freixas said:
lack of color shifts depends a lot on the image you start with
Yes!
14 hours ago, Freixas said:a very red fall leaf... ...very green leaves
Indeed, deep saturated colours are tricky.
14 hours ago, Freixas said:it's great if you're having so few problems
But I'm only a casual amateur, printing for my own pleasure. I don't claim that my prints are 'gallery ready'.
14 hours ago, Freixas said:in the end, if you put it in a room with variable lighting, the image can go from bright to muddy over the course of a day. But that's the way it is with prints...
Yup, been there, done that, got the t-shirt 😁 Only yesterday I printed a shot of some golden autumn leaves that does just that.
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Forgot to add...
If I have converted my .afphoto file to sRGB and then exported a sRGB JPEG, I don't resave the .afphoto file, because the .afphoto file is the master version of the finalised image.
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My workflow is similar to yours except I'm still on DxO PL5 (still thinking about upgrading to PL7). Thus my RAW files are converted in PL5 / Adobe RGB and exported to TIFF with Adobe RGB and opened in Affinity Photo 2 working in Adobe RGB. Meanwhile my Dell monitor is hardware calibrate to its 'native' gamut, which if the X-Rite software is to be believed is a little bigger than Adobe RGB thus (I think) I can see all the colours that I've got in my TIFF.
Once I've finalised an image I'll save it as a .afphoto file. If I'm going to print I'll usually do that direct from Photo 2 and what I get out of the printer is a good (enough for me) match to what I see on screen. Sometimes though I want greater control over the placing of an image on the paper so I export another TIFF with Adobe RGB and then open that new TIFF in an ancient version of PhotoShop with Adobe RGB as its working space and print from there. Again, what comes out the printer is acceptable.
If I want to share an image then, starting from the finalised .afphoto file in Photo 2, I convert it to sRGB using Relative Colourimetric intent with black point compression. I rarely see any colour shifts as a result of that conversion. After the conversion, I'll export a JPEG with an embedded sRGB profile.
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16 hours ago, Freixas said:
DxO PhotoLab 7 with ProPhoto color profile
I'm not sure what you mean by this because DxO PhotoLab does not use ProPhoto as it's working colour space. It only offers the choice of either:
'legacy', which means Adobe RGB
or:
'DxO Wide Gamut', which is a propriety colour space invented by DxO and which is close to, but not identical to, Rec. 2020 (see the last paragraph on the third link below)
Once you have finalised your edits and are ready to export your file then PL does offer a variety of profiles, including ProPhoto thus I do understand your next step:
16 hours ago, Freixas said:export to TIFF with ProPhoto color profile
There is more on DxO's Wide Gamut colour space here:
https://support.dxo.com/hc/en-us/articles/6754299074077-What-color-space-does-DxO-PhotoLab-use-
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40 minutes ago, DannyBCreative said:
I can't test this
Can you not install the free trial?
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@Digbydo 2 to get Walt's attention you need to precede his username with an @ sign, like this, @walt.farrell
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19 hours ago, exocore said:
I'm still looking for some alternative in the long run...
Did you look at Hugin? It's free and has a Mac version:
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3 hours ago, exocore said:
...trying to create a HDR panoramic image...
If Photo can't do it, then Hugin might be able to do it:
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I use Adobe RGB as my working colour space, it works well in conjunction with my Adobe RGB capable monitor. If I want to share an image then I use Document | Convert... and pick sRGB IEC61966-2.1. I don't often see much of a change in the image. So far so simple.
Today though converting the profile of a panorama in this way makes the image much more contrasty. However, if I simulate the conversion from Adobe RGB to sRGB by adding a soft proof adjustment layer with a proof profile of sRGB IEC61966-2.1 then the image does not become more contrasty.
Am I wrong to expect a soft proof layer set to sRGB to have the same effect on screen as using Document | Convert... to sRGB?
Any wisdom much appreciated.
EDITED TO ADD: It doesn't matter what rendering intent I set for the conversion and the soft proof layer.
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12 minutes ago, Guzzi said:
How do I get an EXE version now?
1) Uninstall the MSIX version
2) Download the .exe / MSI version from this page:
https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/windows/photo/2/
NB ignore the big blue download button, use the less obvious 'Also available:...' link underneath that button
3) Run the .exe / MSI installer
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Ah, yes, of course.
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On 5/24/2023 at 3:08 PM, Dangerous said:
we need another update to test it
Shouldn't do, not if this is true:
On 5/24/2023 at 3:08 PM, Dangerous said:as been fixed by the developers in build "2.1.0.1799".
and you have the installer for that build. On Windows you can find the build number of the installer if you RIGHT click on the .exe file and choose 'properties' and look in the 'details' tab.
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9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
from Help > Check for Updates
Hmm, perhaps I'm misremembering... Perhaps I didn't click on the notification after all. Perhaps I went via Help. I can't remember! I know I did use the check for updates option a couple of times in the last few days as I'd read here that v2.1 was about to be released. However, when an update is available the 'update available' notification usually appears as soon as Photo has loaded so why would I not use that feature and go the long way round via Help??
Anybody here telepathic and able to read my memory better than I can recall it?
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Don't know but probably not because I too used FF, it is my default browser.
I've never had the MSIX version on my PC and I've never installed a beta version.
This behaviour of clicking to get the download and landing on the update page and then having to click again to start the download is exact;y how I received all Photo 1 updates.
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I'm on Win 10 Pro 22H2 and I'm running the MSI version of Photo2. When I opened Photo 2.0.4 I got a notification of the 2.1 update being available. When I clicked to get the update I landed on this page:
https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/windows/photo/2/
I nearly automatically clicked on the main download button but held back long enough to realise that I wanted the less obvious 'Also available' link below the big blue button. Clicking on that option downloaded the installer. Double clicking the installer updated Photo to v2.1.
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1 hour ago, Dangerous said:
No, I got the download box, clicked download
That was your mistake because directly underneath that oh so tempting download button is a link to get the MSI / exe version.
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3 hours ago, Kelly Bellis said:
Is there an alternate to Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) in Affinity Photo?
If you mean, "Can Photo 2 develop RAW files?", then yes. Download the fully functional free trail and try it for yourself. Scroll to bottom of this page to find a download link:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/
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11 hours ago, Pšenda said:
You mean this?
Hmm, I didn't know that was possible. 'Custom' as a paper size was not listed as an option but has now appeared as one after I typed in 'Custom'. That's hardly intuitive.
It's still way short of the clarity and ease of Photoshop CS2's print with preview dialog:
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2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
That is the only print preview...
The other thing about the print dialog that disappoints me is the lack of sizing options. Even Photoshop CS2 (i.e. from the dawn of time practically) is superior by allowing you to specify the absolute dimensions of the print, that than just a scale percentage.
Mandelbrot set with Procedural texture filter
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Anybody remember FRACTINT? An amazing fractal generator for MS-DOS. I used to run it on a PC with a 10MHz Intel 80286 CPU, no maths co-processor, 1 MB RAM and two 1.44 MB floppy disc drives (i.e. no HDD). Even on that lowly device it would generate a Mandelbrot set in less than a minute. It last received any TLC in 2000 but you can still get it, from here:
https://www.fractint.org/