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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from Helmar in Tutorial on how to make a shape with inside lens effect (magnifier)   
    Hi guys, 
     
    This is a workaround tutorial. I have summarized the findings of this discussion thread in a short video tutorial. It shows a way how to make a shape, how to assign a distortion filter, how to adjust the effect within the shape and how to make the effect movable around the picture.
     
    However, it also shows the limitations. It is currently not possible to directly associate a shape with a lens effect. Better would be: 
     
    that we could assign a live filter directly to a shape, that the life filter is moving its position relative to the shape Possibly, the Affinity Photo team can comment it? 
     
    Best regards
    Blauer Claus
    Tutorial Distortion Effect.mov
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from TimothyEvesk in Affinity Photo RC3 - Media Browser with unreadable Scrollbar   
    The mediabrowsers picture scrollbar is still invisible in RC3. Look at the video. I use MacOS Sierra  10.12.1 on a MacBook Pro 2012 Retina. By the way: the same scrollbar is invisible in the public release of Affinity Photo 1.4.3.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
    APRC3 ScrollbarBug 1.4MB.mov
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from VIPStephan in Update on the update   
    Please relax and enjoy the politics of the team to share their betas step by step, which is quite unique in the market. I frequently read messages about "when does the update come?". I kindly ask you to be patient and not to put any pressure to the team. Remember kids asking the parents in the car "when do we arrive?" every five minutes: would you like this? No. Would you arrive earlier? No. Would you love to mute those kids? Yes. 
     
    Stay tuned, enjoy the upcoming betas, stay patient, but please do not insist. 
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from ronniemcbride in Update on the update   
    Please relax and enjoy the politics of the team to share their betas step by step, which is quite unique in the market. I frequently read messages about "when does the update come?". I kindly ask you to be patient and not to put any pressure to the team. Remember kids asking the parents in the car "when do we arrive?" every five minutes: would you like this? No. Would you arrive earlier? No. Would you love to mute those kids? Yes. 
     
    Stay tuned, enjoy the upcoming betas, stay patient, but please do not insist. 
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from MacGueurle in Update on the update   
    Please relax and enjoy the politics of the team to share their betas step by step, which is quite unique in the market. I frequently read messages about "when does the update come?". I kindly ask you to be patient and not to put any pressure to the team. Remember kids asking the parents in the car "when do we arrive?" every five minutes: would you like this? No. Would you arrive earlier? No. Would you love to mute those kids? Yes. 
     
    Stay tuned, enjoy the upcoming betas, stay patient, but please do not insist. 
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from Tatyana in Tutorial on how to make a shape with inside lens effect (magnifier)   
    Hi guys, 
     
    This is a workaround tutorial. I have summarized the findings of this discussion thread in a short video tutorial. It shows a way how to make a shape, how to assign a distortion filter, how to adjust the effect within the shape and how to make the effect movable around the picture.
     
    However, it also shows the limitations. It is currently not possible to directly associate a shape with a lens effect. Better would be: 
     
    that we could assign a live filter directly to a shape, that the life filter is moving its position relative to the shape Possibly, the Affinity Photo team can comment it? 
     
    Best regards
    Blauer Claus
    Tutorial Distortion Effect.mov
  7. Like
    BlauerClaus got a reaction from Depa in Tutorial on how to make a shape with inside lens effect (magnifier)   
    Hi guys, 
     
    This is a workaround tutorial. I have summarized the findings of this discussion thread in a short video tutorial. It shows a way how to make a shape, how to assign a distortion filter, how to adjust the effect within the shape and how to make the effect movable around the picture.
     
    However, it also shows the limitations. It is currently not possible to directly associate a shape with a lens effect. Better would be: 
     
    that we could assign a live filter directly to a shape, that the life filter is moving its position relative to the shape Possibly, the Affinity Photo team can comment it? 
     
    Best regards
    Blauer Claus
    Tutorial Distortion Effect.mov
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from DragonManila in Stacking: Noise Reduction, Optimum number of images   
    Conrad2k, your question caused me to experiment a while. A very general answer is: there is no optimum. An optimum assumes that there is a number of photos from which on the result gets worse. This is not the case. Every additional photo improves the noise reduction. But the contribution per photo gets smaller and smaller, and the calculation time gets higher and higher.
     
    While adding pictures to the stack, my observations are (observed with 100%zoom):
    - the first 4 pictures significantly contribute to the noise reduction improvement, wow!
    - the 5.-8. picture can be considered as polishment, they raise the noise reduction of the picture to 90% of the overall  result. 
    - the 9. and 10. picture only slightly contribute to improvements, i guess it is now about 98% of what you can reach.
    - the 11. and 12. picture brings quite invisible improvements, its more the light than the noise that changes slightly
    - the 13. and 14. picture are the last pictures where I remark any visible changes at all at 100% zoom
     
    For more pictures, I have to zoom in:
    - the 15.-18. picture bring, visible with 170% zoom, still slight improvements on pixel level 
     
    Finally it is a trade of between quality, computational power, hard disk space and time. If you want maximum quality and you have a zoom of 150%, you see still noticeable noise reduction improvements between 14  and 18 pictures. 
     
    Another perspective: 
    - at the zoom level "overall picture" (cmd 0): the 11.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
    - at the zoom level "100%": the 14.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
     
    As you see,
    - 10 pictures provide super results for the overall picture zoom,
    - 14 pictures provides super results even for 100% zoom, and
    - 18 pictures are for purists. 
     
    Here the examples for 1, 4, 10, 14 and 18 pictures. Click on them to see them full size (each ca. 220kb)
        
     
    In any case, thanks to the Affinity Photo development team for this powerful feature. The noise reduction is impressive.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
  9. Like
    BlauerClaus reacted to MEB in Where is Affinity Photo 1.5 Beta?   
    Hi MBd,
    Affinity Photo 1.4.2 beta 1 is available for download here (disregard the thread's name).
    The 1.5 Beta is not ready to be released yet.
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from barninga in Stacking: Noise Reduction, Optimum number of images   
    Conrad2k, your question caused me to experiment a while. A very general answer is: there is no optimum. An optimum assumes that there is a number of photos from which on the result gets worse. This is not the case. Every additional photo improves the noise reduction. But the contribution per photo gets smaller and smaller, and the calculation time gets higher and higher.
     
    While adding pictures to the stack, my observations are (observed with 100%zoom):
    - the first 4 pictures significantly contribute to the noise reduction improvement, wow!
    - the 5.-8. picture can be considered as polishment, they raise the noise reduction of the picture to 90% of the overall  result. 
    - the 9. and 10. picture only slightly contribute to improvements, i guess it is now about 98% of what you can reach.
    - the 11. and 12. picture brings quite invisible improvements, its more the light than the noise that changes slightly
    - the 13. and 14. picture are the last pictures where I remark any visible changes at all at 100% zoom
     
    For more pictures, I have to zoom in:
    - the 15.-18. picture bring, visible with 170% zoom, still slight improvements on pixel level 
     
    Finally it is a trade of between quality, computational power, hard disk space and time. If you want maximum quality and you have a zoom of 150%, you see still noticeable noise reduction improvements between 14  and 18 pictures. 
     
    Another perspective: 
    - at the zoom level "overall picture" (cmd 0): the 11.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
    - at the zoom level "100%": the 14.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
     
    As you see,
    - 10 pictures provide super results for the overall picture zoom,
    - 14 pictures provides super results even for 100% zoom, and
    - 18 pictures are for purists. 
     
    Here the examples for 1, 4, 10, 14 and 18 pictures. Click on them to see them full size (each ca. 220kb)
        
     
    In any case, thanks to the Affinity Photo development team for this powerful feature. The noise reduction is impressive.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from zeichner42 in Topaz Plugins   
    My Topaz Denoise 5 runs as expected. Here is what you could do:
    - Add a second path to the plugin search folders: "/".
    - To do this, press "Add" and then select the "Macintosh HD" hard disk root. Then press ok. 
    - This adds a second path "/". 
    - Then restart Affinity Photos and try it out. 
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from MelG in Difference between Export and Sharing   
    Exporting a project ends up in a dialog which allows me to configure the file format and compression and finally the folder.
    But "File"/"Sharing" (in German "Teilen") allows to send the picture to e.g. "Fotos". 
     
    Question: what file format and what compression AP uses then? Is there any setting to configure this? I still do not understand the sense of this compared to Export.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
  13. Like
    BlauerClaus reacted to eejits in A few illustrations from me.....   
    Hey guys,
     
    Been a while since I shared anything other than my eejits so I thought I'd show you some illustrations I've completed purely in Designer. Enjoy!
     
    George
     
     




  14. Like
    BlauerClaus reacted to Andy Somerfield in Stacking for Apple Photo as Extension   
    Hi,
     
    We'd love to do this but at present the Apple Photos app can only send a single image to a plugin. If in the future they allow multi-select images to be sent to a plugin, we will absolutely implement this (and panorama).
     
    Thanks,
     
    Andy.
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from conrad2k in Stacking: Noise Reduction, Optimum number of images   
    Conrad2k, your question caused me to experiment a while. A very general answer is: there is no optimum. An optimum assumes that there is a number of photos from which on the result gets worse. This is not the case. Every additional photo improves the noise reduction. But the contribution per photo gets smaller and smaller, and the calculation time gets higher and higher.
     
    While adding pictures to the stack, my observations are (observed with 100%zoom):
    - the first 4 pictures significantly contribute to the noise reduction improvement, wow!
    - the 5.-8. picture can be considered as polishment, they raise the noise reduction of the picture to 90% of the overall  result. 
    - the 9. and 10. picture only slightly contribute to improvements, i guess it is now about 98% of what you can reach.
    - the 11. and 12. picture brings quite invisible improvements, its more the light than the noise that changes slightly
    - the 13. and 14. picture are the last pictures where I remark any visible changes at all at 100% zoom
     
    For more pictures, I have to zoom in:
    - the 15.-18. picture bring, visible with 170% zoom, still slight improvements on pixel level 
     
    Finally it is a trade of between quality, computational power, hard disk space and time. If you want maximum quality and you have a zoom of 150%, you see still noticeable noise reduction improvements between 14  and 18 pictures. 
     
    Another perspective: 
    - at the zoom level "overall picture" (cmd 0): the 11.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
    - at the zoom level "100%": the 14.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
     
    As you see,
    - 10 pictures provide super results for the overall picture zoom,
    - 14 pictures provides super results even for 100% zoom, and
    - 18 pictures are for purists. 
     
    Here the examples for 1, 4, 10, 14 and 18 pictures. Click on them to see them full size (each ca. 220kb)
        
     
    In any case, thanks to the Affinity Photo development team for this powerful feature. The noise reduction is impressive.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from MEB in Stacking: Noise Reduction, Optimum number of images   
    Conrad2k, your question caused me to experiment a while. A very general answer is: there is no optimum. An optimum assumes that there is a number of photos from which on the result gets worse. This is not the case. Every additional photo improves the noise reduction. But the contribution per photo gets smaller and smaller, and the calculation time gets higher and higher.
     
    While adding pictures to the stack, my observations are (observed with 100%zoom):
    - the first 4 pictures significantly contribute to the noise reduction improvement, wow!
    - the 5.-8. picture can be considered as polishment, they raise the noise reduction of the picture to 90% of the overall  result. 
    - the 9. and 10. picture only slightly contribute to improvements, i guess it is now about 98% of what you can reach.
    - the 11. and 12. picture brings quite invisible improvements, its more the light than the noise that changes slightly
    - the 13. and 14. picture are the last pictures where I remark any visible changes at all at 100% zoom
     
    For more pictures, I have to zoom in:
    - the 15.-18. picture bring, visible with 170% zoom, still slight improvements on pixel level 
     
    Finally it is a trade of between quality, computational power, hard disk space and time. If you want maximum quality and you have a zoom of 150%, you see still noticeable noise reduction improvements between 14  and 18 pictures. 
     
    Another perspective: 
    - at the zoom level "overall picture" (cmd 0): the 11.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
    - at the zoom level "100%": the 14.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
     
    As you see,
    - 10 pictures provide super results for the overall picture zoom,
    - 14 pictures provides super results even for 100% zoom, and
    - 18 pictures are for purists. 
     
    Here the examples for 1, 4, 10, 14 and 18 pictures. Click on them to see them full size (each ca. 220kb)
        
     
    In any case, thanks to the Affinity Photo development team for this powerful feature. The noise reduction is impressive.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
  17. Like
    BlauerClaus got a reaction from superhaschi in Stacking: Noise Reduction, Optimum number of images   
    Conrad2k, your question caused me to experiment a while. A very general answer is: there is no optimum. An optimum assumes that there is a number of photos from which on the result gets worse. This is not the case. Every additional photo improves the noise reduction. But the contribution per photo gets smaller and smaller, and the calculation time gets higher and higher.
     
    While adding pictures to the stack, my observations are (observed with 100%zoom):
    - the first 4 pictures significantly contribute to the noise reduction improvement, wow!
    - the 5.-8. picture can be considered as polishment, they raise the noise reduction of the picture to 90% of the overall  result. 
    - the 9. and 10. picture only slightly contribute to improvements, i guess it is now about 98% of what you can reach.
    - the 11. and 12. picture brings quite invisible improvements, its more the light than the noise that changes slightly
    - the 13. and 14. picture are the last pictures where I remark any visible changes at all at 100% zoom
     
    For more pictures, I have to zoom in:
    - the 15.-18. picture bring, visible with 170% zoom, still slight improvements on pixel level 
     
    Finally it is a trade of between quality, computational power, hard disk space and time. If you want maximum quality and you have a zoom of 150%, you see still noticeable noise reduction improvements between 14  and 18 pictures. 
     
    Another perspective: 
    - at the zoom level "overall picture" (cmd 0): the 11.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
    - at the zoom level "100%": the 14.-18. pictures do not bring remarkable improvements
     
    As you see,
    - 10 pictures provide super results for the overall picture zoom,
    - 14 pictures provides super results even for 100% zoom, and
    - 18 pictures are for purists. 
     
    Here the examples for 1, 4, 10, 14 and 18 pictures. Click on them to see them full size (each ca. 220kb)
        
     
    In any case, thanks to the Affinity Photo development team for this powerful feature. The noise reduction is impressive.
     
    Best regards
    BlauerClaus
  18. Like
    BlauerClaus reacted to mikehaui in [Photo] EXIF data with image stack import   
    That describes it the best! Thank you for your support, Claus! :)
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from mikehaui in [Photo] EXIF data with image stack import   
    Yes please. +1

    The stacking noise reduction is really great, a killer feature for low light situation, way better than any noise reduction plugin. All tutorials for the stacking feature are dealing with photos made in burst mode, same time, same geolocation, same camera etc. But a picture without EXIF is like a house without address. Homeless.
     
    The discussion about this feature requisition is discussed here: (translate "Staple" with "stack", it is just german) https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/15887-no-exif-data-with-staple/

    BlauerClaus
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    BlauerClaus got a reaction from ronnyb in Distracting Views in Applications.   
    To be honest, I tend to agree.
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    BlauerClaus reacted to Dale in 1.4.1 updates out now   
    ---------------------------------------------
     
    [edit]
     
    This thread was originally about 1.4 updates in December 2015. The team have now also released 1.4.1 updates on Jan 20th 2016, incremental patches to squash some bugs—visit your App Store to update now!
     
    Read a little more about 1.4.1 updates.
     
    [/edit]
     
    ---------------------------------------------
     
    Hi all
     
    As many of you will know after seeing numerous beta versions over the last few months, our dev team have been working very hard and we're delighted to share the fruit of their labour with everyone! Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo both have new 1.4 updates available now in the Mac App Store, free to existing customers!
     
    And to celebrate these updates, both apps are now on a 20% discount offer to entice new customers, bringing the normal price of US$49.99/€49.99/£39.99 down to US$39.99/€39.99/£29.99 for one week, ending December 15th. Here's a little taste of what's new in both apps...
    Full support for DCI-P3 extended gamut iMac displays Pro printing including PDF/X and Pantone support Custom keyboard shortcuts More languages And a look at what's in Affinity Photo:
    Six extensions for Apple Photos on El Capitan Pro image stitching in new Panorama persona Live image stacks And Affinity Designer:
    Artboards! Custom rotation centre We've packed in plenty more too, more than some devs would add in paid upgrades :) There is also improved PSD compatibility, updated RAW support, improved typography, Split Screen on El Cap, workflow and performance improvements—all across both apps.  
    Visit your Mac App Store update page to get your hands on the good stuff and see what else has been added in the 1.4.1 incremental updates.
     
    As always there is useful info on the Mac App Store pages for Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo and you can check out the overview videos on our blog. Thanks guys, you've knocked it out the park yet again!
     
    Thanks for reading, Dale.
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