[Unable to reset Brush settings in Affinity Photo back to default]

Sorry I should have read your post better

Are you on Windows or Mac and if Windows did you install the MSIX or exe version?

[Unable to reset Brush settings in Affinity Photo back to default]

In the same screen where you saw "Clear User Data" there is a "Reset Brushes" option, did you try that?

Bear in mind this resets brushes across all your Affinity apps and you may have to reinstall any additional brush packs you have purchased

[RGB value]

2 hours ago, srg said:

But when I change the sliders the value of RGB do not change

Your RGB values are changing in the video

 

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

The info panel only updates after you lift the mouse button from the slider.

You dont need to lift the mouse on Windows

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

it will not update while you move the slider.

It does on Windows

[RGB value]

To elaborate...

You can drag a sampler from the Info Panel to anywhere on the photo and that will show you the RGB value at that point

Changing the sliders in the "selective color adjustment or the HSL adjustment" will update those RGB values in the Info Panel

Other than that, I'm not entirely sure what you are wanting to do exactly

[Affinity Publisher V2 saved filed cannot be opened]

Where (what sort of drive) are you saving them to?

And are you synching those saved files to any sort of cloud service?

 

Can you upload, to the forum, one of the files that cannot be opened?

[Publisher: How to paste text with formatting (code blocks)?]

I'm don't think you can copy the formatted text from Google Docs to Publisher but I think it works from Word (Windows) to Publisher

So, try pasting first to Word then copy/paste that to Publisher

[c: drive filling up when using Affinity v2 with Topaz plug-ins on Windows 10]

12 minutes ago, A2 GGX said:

Now my c drive goes from 56GB down to 1GB while editing and then crashes.  When I restart PC I get my 56GB back. 

There a large file called personabackstore.dat which is a temp file created by the Affinity software (presumably when it runs out of memory) which can become very large - reports of over 100GB

Since it is a temp file that explains why your disk space returns after a reboot

Search the forum for "personabackstore" to read up on this issue and where to find and monitor that file, to see if it is the culprit in your case

 

[Affinity Publisher project reverted back to a previous version]

12 hours ago, MoretaAlberto said:

Is there a way I can verify what happened to the file and how to recover it?

In File Explorer what is the "Last Date Modified" of Project A (not the Date Created") and does it correspond to the time yesterday, when you saved it

This assumes you have not resaved Project A since then

[inconsistent image border/stroke]

Select > Select Object > Picture Frame

Should allow you to do as you want

but check out the Help file first to fully understand what is does

[Direct control rotating a brush]

From the help file...

• Press the Ctrl and Alt keys together and:
  • Click to cycle between width and hardness, shape and spacing, and rotation attributes.
  • Drag left/right or up/down to adjust the corresponding attribute. For example, with width and hardness attributes selected, drag left/right to adjust the first attribute and up/down to adjust the second attribute.

[Is this file corrupt?]

6 minutes ago, Charlie Bucket said:

Now when I open it everything, text and photos, are blurry and distorted

Blurry (low res) images are indicative of the document not being able to load linked images

In resource manager I see that your images are specified as "Linked (Remote)" which I think is some kind of cloud service

You may want to move those images to your local drive to eliminate this as the cause of the blurry images (it's easy to relink them, in one step, once moved)

Alternatively, you could embed your images rather than link them but I notice you have one mega image of 446MB so you might want to take a look at that bad boy before embedding the images

Personally, I would do the above first then see if the document is now stable or not

PS Make a copy/backup of your current document before proceeding

 

[Affinity Photo users around Plymouth UK]

You are never alone in this forum

[AP tools]

At a guess did you add your polygon selection after you added the Levels Adjustment Layer?

You need to add the selection first

[Batch Shadows / Highlights]

8 hours ago, Kolobamanacas said:

The second challenge is that I can't find a way to write a macro in Develop Persona mode.

So my question is: what is the best way, to open 300 photos, adjust shadows/highlights in Develop Persona mode and save them in JPG?

The link below shows how you can batch process Raw files in the Develop persona using a macro and the File > New Batch Job command in APhoto 

 

 

[empty .afpub file size]

Thanks, hopefully support or the Devs will be able to analyse the "empty" file and find out why the file size is large

On windows an empty publisher file is about 12KB for me

Just one more thing...

Are you creating and saving the file on a networked drive or NAS drive etc and if so, what is the file size when creating and saving to your local drive?

[empty .afpub file size]

When you say the file is "empty" do you mean you just created a new file and did nothing else but save it or did you do some work then deleted everything until it was "empty" and then saved it?

Also, can you upload the "empty" file to the forum?

 

[Publisher file (cookbook with images) will not open]

9 hours ago, Steve KJ said:

I have tried the file on another (more modern Mac) and it opens perfectly. So file not corrupted.

If iCloud is involved disable it.

Copy the document to a local (non-synched drive) and try to open it there

 

[Affinity Publisher automatically replacing (A) with @]

Doh!

Just remembered that auto corrects are language specific

Your text has to be set to the same language as the auto-correct language setting you are changing

So, for example, if your text is set to no language or English (United States) changing the auto-correct setting for English (United Kingdom) will have no effect

Please check the language your text is set to by highlighting the text and then checking the language setting in the character panel

 

[Batch processing in raw editor]

I think, maybe the Devs/Support will need to look into your issue further and testing with "MacOs:  Sonoma 14.0"

 

[Batch processing in raw editor]

Thanks

OK I have uploaded the macro to this post

I tested it by removing your applied vignette and linking your Raw file to export it

I then did a batch job using that file with the macro and it worked OK

Hopefully, it should work for you on a few test RAW files you have not processed as yet

Just save the attached macro to your Library panel and follow the instructions in Step 2 of this post

 

 

Vingette.afmacros

[Batch processing in raw editor]

Like I said you need to Embed the RAW file or else I cannot see it

You have linked it

Alternatively, just upload the Raw file on your next post to the forum

  

[Publisher file (cookbook with images) will not open]

Best you can do is upload it to the forum and see if someone can sell you a backup program recover it for you

Sometimes you get lucky

 

[Affiity Photo - Bug fill layer with Edit-Menu Fill and fill with primary color and fill with secondary color]

27 minutes ago, erdi12 said:

This is particularly annoying since a color can only be changed in a Marco using these commands.

I'm not sure I fully understand your requirement, but if you just want a Fill layer to be a particular colour

Whilst still recording the macro, just choose the colour first then add the Fill layer

 

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Just now, jackamus said:

Correct?

Yes, but if it all goes horribly wrong, my Lawyer has advised me to deny ever being part of this conversation

[Batch processing in raw editor]

3 minutes ago, ken_wiberg said:

Yes that is working, no problem

OK, I can now see you are working on a Mac, I am on Windows so someone with a Mac will need to confirm they are seeing the same issue as you, as I cannot test that.

Please state what Mac OS version you are using so someone can test that and get back to this thread later for you

In the meantime, if you develop an image with the "lens vignetting removal" options you want already applied to it and attach that .AFPhoto file to the forum I may be able to complete the macro for you so you can test it in a batch file. Please use the Embedded option as I won't have the original Raw file