[Plugins in Affinity Designer]

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.

[RAW Conversion - Soft & Darker Colors]

Yes, I see something similar.

 

Attached is an image opened in Canon's own Digital Photo Professional:

 

This is the same image when opened in latest beta of Photo:

 

There is a noticeable difference, even to my old eyes!

 

 

[File Icons on Windows 7]

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?

[Is there a media browser anywhere?]

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"!

[Cropping & staying within the boundaries of the Image]

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.

[How to update ?]

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.

[Fonction Scipts]

Pourquoi vous envoyez la message trois fois?!!

 

Lisez les renseignements au sujet des "Macros".

[Is there a media browser anywhere?]

The Media Browser is macOS only.

So, is this one area, at least, where the Windows and Mac versions are NOT to have comparable features?

[Brushes in full version not showing in beta]

@Mark.

 

Should the copying also include the "raster_brushes.propcol"?

[Brushes in full version not showing in beta]

Thanks Alfred.  Good to know it's not just my system!

[Opening CR2 Raw Images]

Hello, A new clean image made no difference. Cannot attach the file as it is too large (26+mb)

Here is a link to the file on Onedrive https://1drv.ms/u/s!AuIe4r7JiMzmgrt5JwPOf9yKY4kFnw

Hope this helps.

I downloaded your image and opened it in AP Beta and I see everything as expected, including the tabs you see as "missing".  Screenshot attached.

 

 

Jeff

[Brushes in full version not showing in beta]

I suspect this is a rather naive question to ask, but...

 

Following purchase and installation of the full release version a number of brushes were offered, and installed, as "extras".

 

Now the first Customer Beta has been released and installed alongside the "full" version, I can no longer see/use in the Beta many of the brushes that I see installed in the .36 release.  (I also installed a few of the brushes available in the Resources section of this forum; again, they do not seem to be present in the current Beta.)

 

Any advice?

 

Thanks,

Jeff

[How do I delete one symbol "btn" in symbol "head" and reserve the other "btn"?]

Simply select/highlight the whole object, right click, choose Ungroup.  Select one of the buttons and delete it.

 

I attach my changed version.

test file altered.afdesign

[TIF Variant (another) - Treated as RAW file]

Hi,

 

Here is the link to another TIF image that is being treated as RAW. Affinity Photo opens in Develop Persona.

 

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/69eo1qunuxqyhkw/Treated%20as%20RAW%20-%20ProPhotoRGB.tif?dl=0 

Confirmed here.

 

Also, when it does open in Develop Persona, I see the first screenshot attached; clicking on Develop produces the second!

 

 

[Image when viewed in plugins is rotated]

Just resurrecting this thread to keep it on the boil, as it were!

 

When I saw the list of fixes in 1.5.0.39, the first item on the list (though I didn't understand what on earth the words meant!) gave me some hope that this had been fixed, but, no joy.

 

:(

 

I'm sure it will arrive soon??

 

Jeff

[File Icons on Windows 7]

Hi Jeff, 

This sounds like there might be some blank thumbnails in your thumbnail cache. If you use the Windows "Disk Clean-up" utility to delete your cached thumbnails or the relevant drive, they should all appear. 

Assuming this fixes the problem, please let us know if it ever happens again. 

Thanks,

Jon

Hi Jon,

 

Many thanks for this.  I have run the utility, opened a .jpg image in AP, made some very quick adjustments and resaved it as an AP file.  Checking the folder where it is stored I see a thumbnail for the image.

 

So, for me at least, this seems to be resolved.

 

Slightly OT for this forum, any files I have created using AD (all betas and the final release) do show a thumbnail so the problem seems to have been limited to AP.

 

Thanks again,

Jeff

[Image when viewed in plugins is rotated]

@anonymoustache and MEB.

 

I can confirm it also runs very well in AP for Windows, with the exception of the rotated view that was the reason for this thread.

[File Icons on Windows 7]

@Jon W, 

 

First, this problem seems to be intermittent on my system.  I've attached below a screenshot showing an APhoto file with a thumbnail and an edited version of that same file, showing an AP icon!

 

I then followed the instructions in your post and the icon-only file and the copy of the same file now show the thumbnail, 2nd attachment below.

 

I've also attached the requested logging file.

 

Hope these will be helpful!

 

Jeff

 

Edit:  The .log extension to the logging file excludes it from being attached here, apparently!  Hence, I'm pasting here its contents (thankfully it's very short):

 

CClassFactory::CreateInstance

DllAddRef

CClassFactory::QueryInterface

DllRelease

Found stream, looking for thumbnail...

Found thumbnail

Loaded thumbnail, size is 276 x 512

Created bitmap: 0000000069053308

 

[RAW Development problem]

Using the image Gregorius posted, this is what I see in the RAW screen.

 

Certainly quite different to the sample .jpg also supplied.

 

 

[Image when viewed in plugins is rotated]

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/28190-google-viveza-2-doesnt-work-with-affinity-photo/ , the third post in that thread makes reference to something I am seeing with several plugins:

Specifically, that the image displayed in the plugin screen, if the original was taken in Portrait mode, will display landscape, i.e the image is rotated 90 degrees clockwise.

 

This happens with the PhotoWiz plugins I have and also with Topaz (all I have), NeatImage, all constituents of the free NIK collection, MV's Wire Worm and AKVIS Nature Art.

 

I think this was not a problem in the initial beta release, though I may not have had opportunity to test all my available plugins with a Portrait format image.

 

Jeff

 

Running latest available version of beta, 1.5.0.38

[Plugins That Work With Affinity Photo]

Can someone please tell me how to use Topaz Labs with Affinity Photo?

You should be able to access them by: Edit>Preferences>Photoshop Plugins and pointing to the folder where your plugins are currently installed, assuming they're not in the default location.

 

As previously stated, you also need to ensure the box "Allow "Unknown" plugins to be used" is also ticked.  (For me, all my Topaz plugs show as "Unknown" but can be used.)

[No option to print 6" x 4" ?]

Thank you, pauls.

[Windows Install FAQ]

While attempting to insall the beta, the installer hangs on "Computing Space Requirements" and never moves past that dialog.

 

OS:  Windows 10 Enterprise

System Type: 64bit

Installed Memory: 16GB

How much hard drive space do you have (that is the one important detail you haven't given!)?

[Top main menu fonctionnality]

Have not tested this with all drop-down menus but, as shown in the attached screenshot, the Filters panel does open to the right on my system, also set to 1920 x 1080.

[No option to print 6" x 4" ?]

 both in the print preview and when printed there is an uneven border on left/right sides of the paper.

 

 

Yes, I see the same, but for me, selecting "borderless" on A4 paper makes the left and right margins equal (so not truly "borderless") but with no borders now top and bottom!!  Printing to an Epson P50 Stylus Photo.