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Greg, i'm not sure i understand what you need to do. my guess is that you start from a shot where even the lightest areas have some details, but when you apply the effect and filters you need to make the image appear as you want to, all the detail in those areas get blown. if my guess is right, you could try selecting by tonal range/highlights (look at the menu). Then invert the selection, feather it and then apply the effects you want: this will keep the highlights intact. you may want to take a look at the tutorials about selections, look for section 4 here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10119-in-house-affinity-photo-video-tutorials/

take a look at this tutorial: if you know how to import a lut into your video editing software it should work.

not sure of what you mean by "hide command"... anyway, selections marching ants cannot be hidden in ap (yet). cmd+h selects the move tool.

@conrad2k, yes, exporting a 3dlut produces a file that can be copied, moved, shared over the net just like any regular file. the limit with luts is that they are not tweakable (as far as i know), so they are mostly useful when you want to export a set of adjustments to a program that cannot read .afphoto files. however, if the goal is to share such adjustments among affinity photo users, imho it could be better to save only the adjustment layers as .afphoto files (after deleting any image and -probably- mask) and share these ones: anyone who uses them can tweak each single adjustment.

subzero_mb, maybe you just have to press cmd-1 to display the resized pic at 100% zoom. if i don't fail, ap sets the zoom level to the size of the workspace after resizing: if your resized image is 500px wide, it's likely that your ap windows is larger than that, and this will produce pixelation, but it's only a display effect.

a very simple method to add a border around the image (that is, outside the image) is to enlarge the canvas keeping the image layer centered, then add a fill layer, fill it with the color of choice, and move it below the image layer.

true. i was sure i used them in the develop persona, but i was in the photo persona instead. thank you for pointing it out.

ehm... what are the pink blobs? be sure to click (in the layer stack on the right of the image) on the layer you want to edit with the inpainting brush before using the brush. this is a destructive approach, anyway. if you want to inpaint non-destructively, add a new pixel layer just above the layer you want to edit, and change the source option of the inpainting brush to "current layer and below". then click on the new pixel layer and start inpainting. you might be intersted in these tutorials:

if you did not change the default setup of the toolbar (above the image), there's a group of buttons (on the right of the persona select buttons) that allow to auto-adjust level, contrast, white balance and colours.

maybe i don't understand what your problem really is. when you select the text tools and type, the text field has the move controls around. if you click on another object, say, a layer, it automatically inherits the move controls, as if you selected the move tool. if you select the text layer again, you have the move handles again.

i don't know about a book, but you might find useful a versione of affinity photo's help file in epub format: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15552-downloadable-affinity-photo-help-file-14-for-ibooks-epub/

it's hard to guess without some more details. from what i can try here, it just works. be sure that you include only adjustment layers, not filters (or live filters).

before using the tool, be sure you select the layer you want to apply the effect to by clicking on it in the layer stack.

AP compresses file with ztiff algorithm when saving. it's a non-lossy method, so it retains quality and give advantages in size.

if you mean "one picture above/aside the other", once you have loaded the first image, you can enlarge the document's canvas, then open the second image, copy it and paste in the first one, then move according to your needs the two layers you've gotten.

the dpi setting can be changed in the document resize dialog. the crop tool dos not offer this option. to crop at specified dimensions: - select the crop tool - from the context options that are shown above the image, select "absolute dimensions" and optionally the units - enter the dimensions in the two fields the rectangular marquee is set to the desired size; if the size is not in pixels, it should take in account the dpi setting of the image. move the marquee as desired. if you drag the handles, you change its size.

from what i read here https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/14359-perspective-crop/?hl=perspective+crop a true perspective crop tool was not implemented as of october 2015, and not even in the roadmap. so, chances are that it was introduced with th 1.4.1 release (i did not check the new features list, however), or the behavior we are experimenting is not intended as a real crop tool. i could not find a different meaningful definition, however.

when you set the crop tool to crop at a given size, it sets the marquee to match the specified size, given the dpi setting for the image. you can move the rectangle around to select the area you want to crop. the crop tool, however, allows you to drag the handles to change its size: it's obvious that if you change the rectangle size, you are changing the print size accordingly.

yes i used the paint brush, after applying the frequency separation filter, and only on the low frequency layer. the goal of applying the filter was to separate the color (which stays in the background layer) from the texture (which goest to the hf layer), so that the paint brush can apply the desired color without affecting the details of the jacket. as i said, i made just a 30-seconds try. i guess that by setting the filter more carefully, and painting more accurately, the result can improve significantly. burning the color (on the low frequency layer again) along the bump lines of the jacket can improve the final effect even more. using the recolour brush could give good results also, like you already experimented. maybe a problem can be represented by the orange areas: you can try to get rid of them by raising the tolerance of the recolour tool. you could also mix the two methods (frequency separation to paint out the orange areas, and recolour brush for the remaining). the forearm in your image shows also some noise, so applying a denoise (live) filter could be interesting. if you use a live filter, you can easily position it on top ot the layer stack (thus affecting the image after all the previously dome adjustments) or just over the high frequency layer, thus applying it on the original image, and see what options is the best.

:) my english is not any better than yours... misunderstandings are always a bilateral matter. ok, apparently, i can't reproduce the problem, since my exported image, if viewed from the desktop at 100% zoom, shows the same amount of noise i can see in ap, at 100% zoom, before exporting. i have no clues left at this point, sorry.

files in ap's native format (.afphoto) can be understood only by ap (and affinity designer). in order to print your work with other software you have to file=>export them to a portable format, like tiff, png or jpeg. you can set a colour profile for the image in document=>convert icc profile, or globally as a default in the preferences.

ap compresses tiff files with ztiff, a non-lossy compression algorithm. this should explain the difference in size.

i got it now. same here, i tried on some shot of mine and i confirm that the perspective correction in source mode introduces a distortion in the proportions of the cropped detail. i have no clues, but using the tool in destination mode and then crop in a subsequent step. i don't know if this is by design.

if you click on the "more reply options" button on the right of the "post" one, a "choose files" is displayed.

@ola, i think i don't understand. you say that exported image has lost all of the noise. but at the same time, you say that you exported and reloaded the image and it was identical to the image before exporting (at least, this is what i guess you mean with "I have followed your instructions step by step and the events match your description.").