emmrecs01
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This software is painfully slow...
It takes up to 3 minutes for it to change personas on a single image. How do you expect me to get through 500 images? It will take me an extra 3 days of just waiting on your software to wake up, before i can get a shoot's images edited
This is definitely the photoshop killer i was hoping for.
Your whole selling point was that PS is old and slow code, yet your new code is much worse.
Editing in ACR is also much faster in terms of the bulk i can achieve with it – select all images, bulk edit sliders (IN REALTIME - NO WAITING). In yours i change a setting on one image, wait, wait, wait then change change again - one at a time... Have you guys even seen how slow turning something like CA is to activate, wow thats almost a 2min wait on its own.
And no its not my i7 and 32gig pc that the problem. PS works fine on it.
My computer is also an i7 with 32Gb RAM; for me, switching between Personas, using a jpg file to test, takes anything between instant and approximately 3 to 4 seconds!
Could you post here or somewhere else one of the images that exhibits this problem for you, along with a detailed description of the steps/changes you made within each Persona? Then others can test whether this is a problem also for them, or whether there is something specific about your system that is creating this extreme delay.
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@John Rostron,
I have to admit I've never before come across a scanner that does not include the specialist software to allow scanning to file. Having looked quickly at the support pages for your model, I see there is not one! My apologies!
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@arfo62,
You might care to look at https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30398-raw-conversion-soft-darker-colors/ a thread where I, along with the OP, found some not inconsiderable differences between the RAW conversion of AP and that of Canon's own DPP4. Admittedly this was in the Windows version but it sounds very much as if the MAC version has the same problem.
I'm sure the AP RAW convertor will "get better" but, for now, DPP4 produces a better result (also, for me, using a Canon EOS 600D).
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I now have bought a Affinity Photo, and I hope that will be the end of Adobe CC for me. Unfortunately we are told that there are no plans for Twain support (for import via scanner). I shall have to resort to my legacy PS5 for this.
Isn't the "best" way for importing via scanner to use the scanning software provided with the scanner? I understand why you would want to retain the ability to invoke your scanner directly from AP but it is surely not a great amount of additional work to scan to folder from your scanner's software and then simply open the image in AP?
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Hi emmrecs01,
Currently yes. It was just to fix a critical issue with the Mac version. Soon there will be minor updates to both versions to fix issues reported/detected after Photo's release.
Thanks MEB. Perhaps that needs to be "announced" somewhere (in order to prevent others posting a similar question?
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1.5.1 just addressed a couple of small niggles that we found - we thought it was better to not let users experience the problems, at the expense of bugging them to update 2 days in a row - sorry :(
Is this update MAC only?
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We will have a trial version available in a few weeks so you can try any improvements we make.
And I'm certain that Serif still offer their money-back guarantee if you decide within 14 days of purchase that this software is not suitable for you.
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So after I uninstalled the beta and discovered plugin support is now completely broken in the final, is there a way for me to download and install a previous beta that did work?
Not the case here. All plugins that worked in the betas also work in this new version. Did you choose to point Photo (Edit>Preferences>Photoshop Plugins) to the folder where the plugin .dlls are stored?
(A shame that portrait format images still open in all plugs as landscape!!!!) :(
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I think https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/photo/new-features/ may well be the reason for the disappearance of the latest beta/RC.
(Thanks to jorismak for the heads-up from Engadget, which sent me searching in the News and Announcements area.)
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So where is the download link?
We need a moderator to see this thread and respond, I think.
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Hi,
Sorry but I don't see any download link for Affinity Photo Public Beta - 1.5.0.45 (RC2). I started AP for Windows 1.5.0.43 this morning, it notified me of an update, I clicked on Download and this led me to this thread. But no download link in the first post. Is this RC2 actually public ?
Yes, I can confirm it is public. But I also see that the usual link in the first post has been removed.
I wonder if we are about to see another new version release?!!
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I don't think I agree that plugin support is "bad", but I can reproduce this problem.
Original image, with area selected:
When opened in the same plugin as the OP shows:
When using a different Nik plug, notice the area selected for modifying.
Because I have hardly ever needed to apply a filter to only a small portion of an image I have no idea whether this was present in any of the earlier betas.
Jeff
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on this new beta (1.5.0.44) Nik Collection Analog efex and Color efex do not open . Error 1114 loadlibrary fail. I remove the plugin from the preferences and wait for a fixed release
Not seeing that here, using the latest (RC) version, both open and work fully, although the plug-ins display of portrait images is still rotated through 90 degrees! :huh:
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Just bumping this again since the first RC still has this problem!!
Sorry devs! :(
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I'm afraid this will be of no help but I'd like to say I agree, I'm just starting out in design and have the Affinity Designer workbook and find 2 things frustrating 1) No Glossary 2) No indication of where to find the resource file referred to at the top of the pages.
I'd like to also support this request, perhaps an additional pdf that could be downloaded from this forum?
@Grayman60, those resource files are all downloadable, the "titles" are hyperlinks. Simply copy the link address of the one, or more, that you want to your browser and open the page. In my case, I designated a folder to store the ones I wanted to work through and then opened them in AD.
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I have created a post about this in the Feature Requests section of this forum; the thread is https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30443-photo-cropping-of-rotatedstraightened-image-crop-marks-to-not-be-outside-image-boundaries/
Perhaps posters here and others who think this would be a great improvement, might like to add their voices to this request by posting their agreement to that thread?
Jeff
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That's no option, I get the warning the file is to big ( 194 mb)
Try zipping it or, more likely to be needed, upload it to a file-sharing site (Dropbox or similar) and provide here a link to it.
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https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30168-cropping-staying-within-the-boundaries-of-the-image/ is the post that first refers to this.
As explained there, the necessity to make at least four additional move-and-click actions, one for each "edge", could be avoided if the crop marks always "automatically" stayed within the boundaries of the image.
- buddingphotographer, bures, NikollOr and 1 other
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My understanding, possibly completely wrong, is that Affinity Designer cannot host plugins of any kind.
OTOH, Affinity Photo can happily host Google Nik, and numerous others too.
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Daniele, your screenshot of the Affinity>Common Files folder does not appear to include one of the four files which Jon W listed, specifically ucrtbase.dll. I don't know if that is what is causing the problem for you?
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Hi emmrecs01,
The Media Browser uses third party code that's only available for macOS. It also provides access to application libraries that are only available on macOS - Aperture, Apple Photos and iPhotos libraries -. Although it allows users to add regular folders to it, its functionality is limited to browsing/previewing which you can also do from File Explorer (see my post above).
In any case i believe we will provide a better solution later and the Media Browser will be eventually removed from the Mac version.
Hi MEB.
Many thanks for this. I did wonder whether Media Browser was a Mac-only app. I look forward to the promised "better solution"!
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I would fully support this question. If this change is not intended to be implemented I will post it as a feature request.
Admittedly, it is not exactly very much additional work to manually move the boundaries to sit within the image, but it is at least four extra mouse click-and-drags, one for each "side", to achieve what could be "automatic", I think.
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In my experience, there is no need to uninstall the old beta; the new one simply replaces it, and retains any settings you have customised in the older version.
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Colour Profiles In Affinity Designer And Photo
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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This is the sort of question to which I feel I ought to know the answer but...
My monitor is an LG E2551, which is colour-profiled using an X-rite ColorMunki Display, permanently connected via USB, obviously, which monitors ambient light as well as requiring/requesting me to re-profile the colour output of said monitor once per month, which I do. So, I think the colours seen on screen should be "correct"?
Using both AD and AP on Windows 10 I'm very uncertain about which colour profile I should choose in Edit>Preferences>Colour. Should I select for the 16-bit and 32-bit Colour Profiles the latest one created for the monitor, or should I simply use the defaults, or even, one of the several available created for my Epson Stylus Photo P50 printer? I'm simply attempting to be able to produce print-outs from both AD and AP that are as "close as possible" in colour to what I see on screen.
Yes, I do understand the screen is RGB and any print-out is CMYK and hence "exact" colour matching is impossible, but I would like to get the two to be as close as possible!
Many thanks for any advice offered.
Jeff