[Legacy file refuses to open]

@Zoli1989

The document opens fine in the V2 Beta so it looks like something they have fixed already

You can download the Beta and use that to continue to work, or, if you still have V1 loaded, use that to work on the document

[Legacy file refuses to open]

Can you upload it to the forum?

[How to show red overlay when masking]

This is what I get if I right-click a mask layer

 

[How to sync setting?]

11 hours ago, Peterman said:

hello , i would like to ask if I edit one photo how can I sync setting to other hundred photo ?
 

i want edit raw file than change to jpg to make startrails

If you are using V2 you can ...

1. Create a macro that contains all the Develop persona edits done to the first Raw file

2. Use File > New batch job (to process the other RAW files) and include the macro in that, set the output of the batch file to JPG files.

 

 

[How to show red overlay when masking]

14 minutes ago, Ralph Johann said:

In APV2, if you right-click on the mask, you only have the option to refine the mask, but I want to edit the mask by myself

In the right-click menu you also have "Edit mask" or do you mean something else?

[How to show red overlay when masking]

2 hours ago, jimh12345 said:

Someone,  please explain this.   To me, "context menu" means right-click, but when I right-click a mask there's no "Refine" in the menu.

It works here

What do you see when you right-click a mask in the Layers panel? (screenshot)

[What's up with my simple warp and Windows?]

I see the same as you, and it seems to be a known problem

Convert the warp group to curves seems to be the best suggestion at the moment

You can always undo that step after you print it

[GoPro hero 10 black Gpr raw files]

File seems valid, so not sure why it does not open.

Hopefully a member of support will be able to advise you further

[Difficulties placing images on pages and captions in Publisher 2]

You (may) need to do two things

1. Select the text frame that contains the caption then in the Text Frame Studio (not the Text Wrap Dialog) tick the check box that says "Ignore Text Wraps" then move the text frame on top of the image.

2. If you can't see the text after you move it on top of the image do Layer > Arrange > Move to Front

[GoPro hero 10 black Gpr raw files]

Can you upload one of your .gpr files to the forum?

[Objects are not layering properly]

14 hours ago, Matchbox Tortie said:

In the screenshot the object selected is the one I want on top. The vine crossing over it is definitely included in the group that is below that object

Select the Vine (curve) that is crossing over the leaf and delete it

[Can you copy a raw conversion to apply to other similar images?]

1 hour ago, Marceppy said:

I just finished a raw conversion (windows) and would like to save the converstion adjustments (converstion settings) to apply to other similar raw images.  Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

There are multiple ways to do this now in V2

 

1. Replace a processed Raw file with another Raw file using the RAW edits done to the original file

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/171266-using-aphoto-v2-a-photographers-pov/&do=findComment&comment=989622

2. File > Place, multiple Raw files then process them all at once in the Develop Persona

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/171266-using-aphoto-v2-a-photographers-pov/&do=findComment&comment=990183

3. Batch Process Multiple Raw files (using File > New Batch Job)

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/173012-raw-files-something-big-is-coming/

 

 

[Did recent update and program is now unusable]

I think Hardware acceleration was reenabled in V2

Goto....

Edit > Preferences > Performance

and untick it (if enabled) to eliminate it as a possible cause

[Objects are not layering properly]

Probably best if you upload the Affinity Designer document to the forum

[Objects outside the selection window are added to the selection]

Due to your curves being rotated it looks like your selection is intersecting objects based on their "regular bounds" rather than their "base box" which is what you want.

Not sure of an easy way to "cure" that but someone else might

 

[Save JPEG at original quality]

The quality loss argument when saving a JPG file with compression is severely overhyped and best left in the pro-photography world

Overwriting a 100% JPG file once, twice or even three times is unlikely to display any noticeable difference to the average human

I frequently download JPGs from the internet, work on them and export them with compression (85% quality) then later on I may have to tweak that exported JPG and export it again and I see no visible degradation in the image when doing this.

Don't believe the hype for general JPG usage - unless you are a professional photographer and need/want to squeeze every ounce of quality from an image that you can

 

7 hours ago, bpedit said:

Interesting. Would this be the same, quality wise, as saving from the original opened file at the new resolution?

Technically no.

If you open the JPG and export at 85% quality that is what you get

If you open and save the JPG it uses "100%" quality. Which in reality, due to the lossy nature of JPG files, is probably 99% or 98%

So, if you now export that file at 85% (via the batch job) you're probably looking at an overall quality of 84-83% of the original JPG file

But it's so small a drop versus just exporting the file (at 85%) it's hardly worth worrying about for the benefits of being able to batch process your files rather than doing an export for each one.

 

 

[Affinity Photo 2 won't open the print dialogue box on Ventura]

46 minutes ago, tdull1988 said:

no print dialog pops up

Sometimes if you have a second screen connected to your device the print dialogue may be opening on that switched off screen or on a Laptop screen if the laptop is closed.

 

[Presets don't work (Rectangle tool)]

On 3/7/2023 at 4:02 PM, walt.farrell said:

The stroke/fill values are saved with the Preset

I don't think they are. It's only the actual shape of the preset that is saved

If the OP wants to routinely apply set strokes and fills to objects, they should be creating and using styles in the Styles panel (The styles are in fact the presets the OP is looking for)

E.g.

No fill, Red Stroke 2px
No fill, Blue Stroke, 2px
Green fill, Orange Stroke, 5px

The benefit of Styles is that they can be used on any shape not just rectangles

 

 

 

 

 

 

[How to apply a partial gradient to an image]

Is this like to fade out the bottom of an image or to add a colour gradient (from one colour to another) to the bottom of the image?

 

[Problem with selecting objects near texts]

You are going to need to upload an example Designer document, so we can see what could be causing the issue

[Import photos in Affinity Photo - chronological order]

11 hours ago, Affinity-userr said:

Import photos in Affinity Photo - chronological order

If you really mean chronological order as opposed to alphabetical order you may want to add a feature request for this. As I don't think one exists at the moment

 

[Save JPEG at original quality]

9 hours ago, bpedit said:

I guess my original question should have been a simple "can you adjust the JPEG quality as applied to the save button when a flattened JPEG is active". The answer appears to be no.

The answer is no but what you could do is process all the JPGs using the Save button, then, when done, run a batch job (File > New Batch Job) to reprocess those JPGs with the compression (quality) value you want, overwriting the original JPGs

[how to create table in affinity Desinger2]

 

[Expressions not dealt with correctly in batch processing]

The Equations filter not the batch job

Filter > Distort > Equations

[Expressions not dealt with correctly in batch processing]

The Equations filter highlights errors in red

But even good equations were sometime labeled as bad (red)