PedroOfOz

Stunning imagery from someone who's at the top of their game! I could say I'm surprised there's only 10 likes (and no comments to acknowledge!) ... However, as the saying goes; The higher one climbs, the less likely they're seen by those below them ...

@Starbase1 You're no doubt aware colour prints contain layers of cyan, magenta, yellow and the key (black). Over time one or more of those layers can fade (due to various reasons). Usually the cyan layer fades first and takes some of the black with it followed by the yellow layer. So therein is the key to your solution ... In AP open a curves adjusment. Change RGB to CMYK then open 'Master' and start with cyan - pull down to decrease, push up to increase (you'll of course want to decrease). Follow with black then yellow if required. With a bit (or a lot!) of playing around you'll get what you're after as per your examples. Cheers.

I'm on a medium spec PC (Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX2060, 32G Ram) and have no issues opening a 1.05G PSD file (launched from Bridge 2023 into AP2). Personally I'm not having any issues with AP2 at all so far ... unlike AP1 which I stopped using 2.5 years ago (mainly due to (a) Destructive RAW developing and (b) the outstanding Tony Kuyper PS Plugin (TK8). AP2's new masking features now give me (us!) all the core masking of TK8 plus we now have non destructive Raw editing (not possible to open a smart object from PS back into Camera Raw with Adjustments as per AP2's new feature).

Thanks Walt. I've not tried Mark's solution as your .bat file worked. With Raw Therapee (and that includes the just released v5.9) the official Appdata location needs to be used as RT requires an .exe* C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe *for others as you, of course, are aware of this

What does work is @walt.farrell.bat file C&P the following In a text editor start /b affinityphoto2.exe %1 exit and save it as LaunchAffinityPhoto2.bat Set a path in XnViewMP to where you've stored the .bat file. (ie Tools > Open With > Configure Programs) Walt was the first in the forum to offer a workabout to AP2 MSIX issues and it just so happens it's perfect for XnViewMP! Note: Colour and italics for highlighting purposes only

To quote Westgate creator (Republish Foundry_Behalf Studio) ... "The typefaces in Republish are open-source, which means they are free to be used for commercials and personal projects. Feel free to use them on your next designs. Please remember to credit us whenever & wherever possible and don’t hesitate to share your designs with us via social media" It's available from Adobe Fonts (via CC sub). A quick Google search lists BEfonts (amongst others) https://befonts.com/westgate-sans-serif-font.html

Oh! you've been doing this stuff for a while 😉 Stunning! Centre - Looks like a wize sage - Bodhidharma ... ? I'm photography - maybe same church? different pew though peterdinnan.com

There's an easier way - @walt.farrell .bat script. In Bridge - Prefs > File Type Assoc - set the path of the file types you want changed to AP v2 ie to where you've stored the .bat file. Bridge, unlike some other 3rd party SW accepts the .bat file ... it works! In notepad or similar ... start /b affinityphoto2.exe %1 exit Save as (for example) ... LaunchAffinityPhoto2.bat