Big_Stan

Thank you!! Unfortunately, I am not particularly effective with layers and to add to my problem, I have been in the house too long. I need a "cook book". While I was able to get the moon into the image, I was unable to get it in the desired location nor was I able to shrink the moon to correct for the different focal lengths.

I have been reworking some of my old images to improve my skills and keep my spirits up and I think that this isolation in place has finally fried my brain. I have an old image of a night skyline of Washington, DC and I want to insert a full moon into the image above and to the left of the foreground building (Lincoln Memorial). Back in my CS-6 days this was not rocket science, but doing it in AP is driving me crazy. Can somebody out there point me to an AP tutorial on inserting a moon into an image. I would like to accomplish this before our Governor rescinds his "stay home order". The skyline was shot at 75mm and the moon was shot at 135mm, so I will have to shrink the moon about 50% in order to keep the scale correct. I have attached the skyline and the moon images

In order to avoid exacerbating my confusion, I sent old brush to the machine that Thomas Crapper invented in 1880.

I gave up!! Rather than banging my head against the wall trying to figure out what happened, I said the heck with it and created a new brush. I am happy to say that there is goodness in the world again; the watermark brush is working.

Thank you Dan, I was beginning to think that my brain slipped a cog. Do you mean Intensity Brush vs Image Brush? Since it previously work for 3 years with no problem, I cannot image how it changed to an Image Brush. Where do I find the brush category information?

Thank you.

Several years ago I created a watermark brush and I was very pleased with the result. I was able to change size, opacity and color. Since 1.8.1, I can still change size and opacity, but I can no longer change color (black to white) regardless of what I do the watermark is black. If I go to the color tab and select the white circle and then paint the watermark on the image, the resulting watermark is still black. Blend mode is set to normal. There is a little circle just to the lower left of the color selection and it has a red diagonal line through it and no matter what I push, the red diagonal does not go away. Bottom line, after several years of satisfactory performance, I am now unable to change the color of the brush.

firstdefence, Thank you for the suggestion. I used to use the original NIK plugins with AP, but when I changed to a new Mac (Catalina compatible) a couple of months ago, I was unable to get the NIK plugins to reinstall. I guess it is time to drag it out again figure out why they wouldn't install.

Does anybody have experience with Neat Image Version 8.5? Back in my PS days, Noiseware was my "go to" noise reduction plugin. Using Noiseware I could denoise by preset, tonal range & color range, as well as by noise frequency. I have Noiseware, sort of working with AP, but the preview window looks weird. Since Imagenomic explicitly states the they do not support AP, I am in the market for a good Noise Reduction plugin. I shoot at fairly low ISOs and my shots are not too noisy. Up til now I have not been particularly impressed with the Topaz AI products ( I like to do my own thing and not let the machine do the heavy lifting)

thank you

I just switched from a 5,1 Mac Pro to a 2019 iMac with Catalina. I am using C1, AP and other common S/W and I am not experiencing any problems. In fact, I have found that my post processing seems to be running smoother and faster. I did have an issue getting Noiseware installed as an AP plugin, but that is a known problem (Imagenomic told me that they do not support AP and while it may seem to be "working", it may not be fully functional.)

Spoke too soon, I was finally able to install it using the method you described. And wonder of wonders, IT WORKED!!!

Interesting. How did you get it to point "to the folder the plugin is installed"? Every time I try it, it goes directly to the actual plugin.

I have been unsuccessfully chasing this topic for several weeks. Is it possible to use Noiseware with Affinity Photo on a Mac (10.15.1)? Prior to going to Catalina, I successfully used Noiseware and Affinity Photo with Mojave , the preview colors were a little squirrelly but Noiseware worked. However, now that I have gone to Catalina, I am unable to get AP to recognize Noiseware. I downloaded the Noiseware installer and Noiseware was successfully loaded into my Applications folder (see screen shot 1). I then went to AP Preferences and, as you can see, Noiseware is in the “Plugin Search Folders” just below the Topaz plugins. I then restarted AP, expecting to see Noiseware under AP Filters. As can be seen in Screen Shot 3, the Topaz Lab plugins are there but Noiseware is not listed as a Detected Plugin. When I open "About this Mac" > "System Report" > "Software", I don't see Imagenomic listed nor is Noiseware listed. So, while Noiseware appears in my Application folder is not being shown in my System Report. As far as I can determine, Noiseware is a 64-bit app.

Thank you for your suggestion, however, I did look there first.

Thank you, that worked.

Thank you. Unfortunately, I tried that before I posted, same result.

This morning I opened an AP photo and selected Filter > Plugins > Topaz Labs > Topaz DeNoise AI. At that point I received a "pop-up" that said "Updates Available", I clicked "Yes". At that point I expected to see the update downloading on my Mac., but I did not, see screen shot 2, followed by screen shot 3. This is likely a Topaz Issue, but because they are so slow to reply to requests for help (my last request took 14 days before I received an answer), I am hoping that somebody on AP forum has a suggestion.

Thank you, I'll give it a try.

Thank you. Based on your experience and my failure to make it happen, I have reached the conclusion that AP and Noiseware won't play nicely together.

Thanks to all the help I received from David at All Media Lab, v_kyr, and DWright I was finally able to get the Topaz Lab plugins working. I must be a sadist because now I'd like to get Noiseware operating too. Noiseware was one of the first self learning noise reduction plugins, before AI became the "catchword", and has been my go to package for nearly 15 years and I really miss not having it.

David, I truly appreciate your patience and all the work you put into helping me. Stan

Yes, finally. I was so busy focussing on the Authorise and the /contents/ that I neglected to try it. Thank you VERY much. I really appreciate your help.

You are great!! Thank you very much. I did not realize that "Authorise Global" was supposed to be grayed out. I have tried everything that I can think of, but I cannot get "/contents/" to attach at the end.

This is driving me crazy. I was able to get the sash in. After Restarting, this is my screen However I am still unable to get "authorize global" to work