lord darkul

It all developes too fast somehow ... changes come in ever smaller time periods.

I doubt it. Which stock of images does Serif want to use? The Adobe Stock is so huge and .. Adobe's. Does Serif even have such a great library to create an AI that's even close? But yeah .. that new technique is for sure a gamechanger. I fear for us photographers who go out, do their thing, mostly out of fun or for love of nature/wildlife, optimizing the images in camera and the field, processing those RAW files and then? Then there come all those AI optimized or even generated images you cannot discern "good and evil". I personally still want to do my thing as I did. But there will always be this stupid feeling that others do this and have no real challenge anymore.

Very often I use established ratios to frame my photos. So for example if I have a main photo and crop in via slices why should not every slice have such a ratio. Maybe the main photo was 3:2, staight out of camera. Now I want to have one cropped to fit on my screen 16:9 and maybe I wann try out a 1:1, 5:4, 2:1 and so on ... why is that not useful? Yeah, I know, that was not what slices are for. Really? Sorry, but I like the idea of having the convenience to do so if I like. If you do not want to work like this, go ahead and do not use that possibility. Yeah, I want to create slices by adding new slices with fixed aspect ratio. Maybe a new "create slice with ratio", then you choose the ratio and as soon as you drag the new slice it has a fixed ratio. The exported files usually refer to the standard "1x" so I do not have to think about a ratio anymore in this case.

Ok, just tried a few settings with a gradient and - very important - other tools which generate gradients (for example a vignette). Dithering, if turned on in settings of Affinity Photo is working for at least linear gradients. The "dithering" which I call noise addition - nothing more - is applied and you see no banding but grain. This noise addition works on all banding types I saw in my creations. But ... f.e. on a vignette which has to create some kind of gradient or a radial (or any) mask on a relatively dark background there is no dithering added. You can see the banding in RGB/16. It has nothing to do with the export at first. If I see banding in my layers I have to get rid of them beforehand, before I try to export. The only way is with adding noise to those areas.

Missing this feature. In Lightroom you can even add haze with it which is a very effective way to create dreamy looks, calm down distracting backgrounds. Filters - Haze Removal is not the way to add haze and for the worse it is destructive. Would be nice to have this feature in a future release.

Drag and Drop to change the order despite of how slices are created should be working.

Und an den Westerwälder: es geht mir nicht um AI-generierte Bilder, sondern nur das Nutzen von intelligenten Algorithmen, um den Workflow zu vereinfachen. Wenn etwas gut funktioniert und die Arbeit vereinfacht/verbessert, dann sollte es nutzbar sein. Es gibt unter Hunderten z.B. ein Video von Brent Hall, um sich klarzumachen, wie gut das funktioniert mit wenigen Klicks: Grüße aus dem Schwarzwald

This is exactly what should not be the case. Export, New stack, Copy/Paste ... "Align selected layers" (without destroying any layers by creating one new resulting layer) instead of using a stack at the beginning of the workflow. Also a feature I expected in the update from 1.x to 2.0 ot from 2.0 to 2.1. Still nothing but oh so tremendously useful.

Interestingly I had the same feeling: shock and disappointment that 2.0 had no AI-integration. I expected AI, honestly. Still I purchased 2.0 and hoped that those AI-tools would eventually and very fast find their way into the Affinity suite. There are many tools based on AI integrated in other competing products. As I am almost only using Affinity Photo I can just speak for that product and miss at least the following AI-based features: - Noise reduction (sorry, but Lightrooms new AI-based noise reduction is just amazing in keeping details) - Subject Selection (as the creator of this thread mentioned) - Sky selection (without having to manually use those really great masks Affinity Photo 2.x has) - Sharpening (why do we have to rely on expensive 3rd party tools? I know there are many ways to sharpen in Affinity Photo, tons of different ways to find on Youtube, but those are often invented by some really creative users and are based on knowing Affinity inside out) Although there are great things in Affinity such as astrophotography stack (where there exist plenty of free open source tools) and on top of all that the complete workflow experience of all the Affinity suite products together. And I like those minor changes, bugfixes, additions. But those are all not revolutionary ... just minor. To me 2.0 to 2.1 was still a minor and not major update. Even 1.x to 2.0 felt not that big even if I aprreciate new masking possibilites and the change of layer organizing, grouping and so on. There was no real wow effect like "finally you can do this". I think many Affinity users would not hesitate to use AI-tools if they would make their workflow easier. And this could be the step for Serif to not fall behind. Rarely I see any of those Youtube-Pro-Photographers using Affinity but instead praising the new possibilies and powers of AI. Optimism is still great that Serif will change that soon.

Hm, a bit sad that there was never a change to that since the 2015 request. Would really be nice to have both features.

Thank you fde101, I'll check them out

Yesterday I used the export persona for the first time and somehow I have the feeling that it exports the images as I created them. The standard export with the same settings seems to change colors to a slightly flatter look or am I doing something wrong? But my main feedback: Why is it not possible to resize slices to a given format, say 1:1 or 16:9?

Is there a way to circumvent banding when creating fine gradients? I know there is the "solution" with adding a touch of grain or noise to those areas but that is really just a dirty workaround. For example using the vignetting tool. If I want to create a dark vignette on a relatively dark image I always see heavy banding. Also with the curves tool and every other tool which can create soft transitions. I'm in 16bit RGB-mode, sRGB 2.1, and my monitor is not the issue. Maybe there could be a live filter to discover and eradicate those areas automatically.