[Reslecting the last tool used]

5 hours ago, sdm1177 said:

That's just it - it does NOT work that way on mine.  Do you know if there was a setting you set to allow that?  My V2 ALWAYS pops up the selection.  Always.  Every time.  (Not just near the white arrow or a long click.)

A long click for me is under a second and I get the drop-down

There may be an OS setting that specifies when your mouse/pen registers a long click, which may be set very, very low

 

Alternatively, try the CTRL run-up option to reset your app to its default settings

 

[Photo: Tab (Toggle UI) hides / shows only once unless mouse is clicked]

12 hours ago, lphilpot said:

Slight update - I've also now seen more than once shortcut key non-response even when I've not touched Tab. For example, after editing an image, I press Ctrl+S to save and nothing happens. After a few tries, I press Tab twice, click the UI and then it works. But prior to that I had not touched Tab. So something is causing intermittent 'disconnects' to shortcut keys. However, it's been far too random to see any pattern so far.

This week's beta has a couple of shortcut fixes, you may want to give that a go, if not tried already

[Thumbnails not saved in Affinity until I close the file]

On 2/27/2023 at 5:49 PM, stefanjan said:

No thumbnail is created until I close the Affinity image.

Me too (Windows 11)

Has always done this

Was never a significant "bug" for me to worry about

[Publisher 2 on Mac 15.6.2]

9 hours ago, dirtyepic said:

I have created numerous two page docs in Publisher 2

Can you upload one to the forum, for testing, or else we will only be guessing as to where the problem may be

[Protect Alpha ...]

7 hours ago, johndmoulton said:

Right now, if I'm using the Clone Tool and want to add/remove the Protect Alpha facility,

You can use the channel panel to switch off the editability of the alpha channel (Protect Alpha)

[Lines in post processing images]

6 hours ago, Dazman said:

What does the openCL option d please?

regards

Darren

The Help file gives a good overview of what OpenCL does

[Layers pannel mask button behavior change in Beta 2.1.0.1706]

Latest Windows beta 2.1.0.1714

Still gives the drop-down options

 

[Can we install it on other computers? (Donna)]

2 hours ago, PeterBreis said:

Does my licence permit me to install the Affinity 2 Apps on multiple Macs or PCs so long as they are in one place, used by one person?

In your case, yes

[export settings]

1 hour ago, ,,, said:

I expect your path will be ignored because it is invalid for a Windows absolute path

The path will not be ignored but will not do what the user wants to do

The path you specify in the export persona is tacked onto the folder you export the images to. So, if the user wants to export to "C:\Users\lando\OneDrive\FB"

They would specify Users\lando\OneDrive\FB for the path component and on the export screen just navigate to the root of the "C:" drive and select that for the output folder

 

[Adjustment sliders within macros not working as expected]

9 hours ago, MT_AZ said:

When I release  the mouse button, then the change in image appears.

It's always worked this way. It's not a bug more a feature/improvement request

[Canon RAW files displayed too dark in develop persona]

8 minutes ago, DW52 said:

But what is this "Tone Curve", is it something stored inside the RAW file, so comparable with the "manufacturer-specific adjustments"

I think it may just be some automatic tone curve adjustment algorithm that works similar to Auto Levels and Auto Contrast (etc) that you find in Filter > Colours...

I don't think it is manufacturer specific but only a Dev or Support staff will be able to give you a definitive answer as to what it does and how it works

[Canon RAW files displayed too dark in develop persona]

16 minutes ago, DW52 said:

so no tone curve is enabled

I see the same as you with no tone curve but once enabled the results are comparable to the comparison you displayed above. I think having the Tone Curve enabled is the best way to initially process RAW files

 

Time to load image is 4 seconds on my i7, 16GB

[Affinity Publisher: Status bar]

Does it reappear if you hit the Tab key

[Canon RAW files displayed too dark in develop persona]

35 minutes ago, DW52 said:

You can see from the attached picture that Affinity shows less contrast, less luminosity etc

It does look a little dull in comparison.

Do you have Apply Tone Curve enabled in Assistant Preferences (Manager)?

Also, could you upload that RAW file, here, for testing?

[Help on cropping]

46 minutes ago, Korvessa said:

The problem is that red square around the eagle

In your snapping settings, switch off (untick) Show Snapping Candidates

[Canon RAW files displayed too dark in develop persona]

8 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

However, Affinity Photo does not apply manufacturer-specific adjustments.

I guess at some point you have to ask the question, why not?

You would think the manufacturer would be the best person to know the best initial default settings to apply to their RAW images

I would think that are lot of non-professional photographers would be quite happy with what the manufacturer's default gives them, saving them the hassle of having to adjust each RAW file on opening it

Maybe Serif could add an option to the Assistant Manager to do this in a future update/upgrade

 

[macro missing in photo 1]

8 hours ago, stuck said:

now I know I must have my bit of wood ready before I buy a new saw

.afmacros files can be imported without a document being opened as they are application-wide macros

.afmacro files are document specific so you need to have a document open to import one

[Image borders preference]

If you are placing an image in a Publisher document you can set a stroke (border) on the image

To apply to all images in the current document...

Edit > Copy one image that has the stroke (border)
Select > Select Object > Images
Edit > Paste Style

I am not aware of any way to make the border a default option

[Affinity Designer 2 NOT EXPORTING FILES]

4 hours ago, MrMarkW said:

Export not working at all, it keeps freezing, if I hit the escape key it lets it loose but when I try to export again it freezes again. I can move the mouse but I get the bad click error sound when I try to click on something.

Classic description of the Export dialogue screen opening on a 2nd monitor somewhere

Switch on any other monitors you have or if using a Laptop with large screen attached, open the Laptop and check its screen

[Large MB Publisher file even though all resources are linked]

Try this...

In Resource Manager change all linked files to Embedded
Save & Close document
Reopen document and change Embedded documents back to Linked
Save as... to a new file name

[Missing Pages panel in Designer Persona in Publisher 2 and Publisher Beta 2]

5 minutes ago, GRAFKOM said:

Here you go, here's a video from Publisher 1

Thanks, very odd, I've never had that!

 

[Missing Pages panel in Designer Persona in Publisher 2 and Publisher Beta 2]

Can we see a screenshot of that plus the View > Studio... menu expanded in the Designer persona

[Missing Pages panel in Designer Persona in Publisher 2 and Publisher Beta 2]

As far as I can recall, the pages in the Designer and Photo personas (in Publisher) have only ever been accessible via the controls at the bottom left of the screen (next to the hint line) 

[No file preview in Windows File Explorer preview pane]

30 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Interesting. Something about that seems familiar.

Create a new affinity document and save it and you will get no icon thumbnail or preview in File Explorer

You have to close that affinity document (or the app) and only then does the icon thumbnail and preview show up in File Explorer

It's always been like that for me

[Cropped images when copied into another image are shown in their original size instead of the cropped one]

Edit > Copied Flattened

also works