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There was once ~three years ago the Bloom Image Editor which not only was marketed as a Photoshop contender but also had offered a (back then) remarkably amazing nondestructive workflow. http://www.thebloomapp.com/features/ It was (and still is) available for Windows,Linux and Mac. Sadly thou since 2016 there are no more updates for it available and to my knowledge, it never really catched on. I suspect that`s not only the UIs fault but mainly due to the many bugs which Bloom had and the severe lack of Tutorials.

No idea, just trying to correct some seemingly wrong statements about different industries in this thread here.

It is a bit bewildering to read such statements because Farmers are in fact modifying their tractors and Harvesters and other items software/hardware. - once you realize how much a new tractor costs, you start gladly paying the support team of the opensource projects money to keep your business afloat. Even the US-Military which has plenty of resources is using more and more opensource software and printing out hardware for fixing items in their fifth generation F-35 aircraft to be able to be efficient and to have the things on hand. In this particular case: The costs form $70.000 where lowered to roughly 9 cents. https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1498121/

Hello Lonely Tears, a file with activated history is attached, hopefully it helps. light live filter with transparency2.afphoto another idea to tinker with, when you group the layers, and paste it ontop of the tree image, it will work as an additive feature, you might then want to change the blendmode of the curves Adjustment to Soft Light.

@Lonely Tears I used a Fill layer with white color. added a Live Filter-Lighting filter, used white colors first for the lights, selected one of the RGB composite channels to get the transparency, created a spare channel and have thrown that into the composite alpha. Add colors to your lights and export as png if you want to get further rid of the hard black outline, create a mask Layer form the "Fill Alpha" alpha and lights2.afphoto

Hello DeadDragon, since you mentioned me, Affinity Photo is to a certain grade with what it provides with a bit of trickery of layers, styles and blendings able to mimic the result of Normalmaps. Serif did imo a great job so far in providing the tools and its up to us users to bend the tools to get results which developers haven´t implemented. For turning images easily into normalmaps without a lot of manual editing, there would be quite a need for far stronger macro abilities, so far I wasn´t able to get further in the image conversion than what you can see in the below image. you could also give, if you have an Nvidia card in your device, the NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop a chance, it can break and is quite old but it somehow seems to work a bit with Affinity Photo. https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

dürfte wohl dieser Bug hier sein?

Since the developers are based in Nottingham, I personally would recommend to write such direct contact wishes and bug reports in english. ;) Die letzten Uppates für Affinity Designer und Affinity Photo für Windows = 14 Juli 2018 - Customer Beta Eventuell haben die Entwickler den alten Featurewunsch übersehen, nochmal schreiben und zeigen wie man es sich wünscht. Gerade in Hinblick auf das klassische Desktop Puplizieren braucht man ein Farb-Proof, da würde sich die anstehende Beta perfekt eignen, um mit einem neuen Feature wunsch und Bug report Programm übergreifend darauf die Aufmerksamkeit zu lenken.

Affinity Photo has missing features; in my case that would be channelpacking of RGB-A images and exporting them as TGA,DDS where you could make usage of four intact images in one file. For Affinity Designer; a Tracing feature... We could wade thru hundreds of feature-wishes and would find numerous valid missing features. Never the less, my new PC too is an Adobe free zone and with Affinity Publisher, it hopefully stays like that.

@SrPx apparently my sentences where confusing, hopefully now its clearer; Some features like the tracing feature are not available in Affinity Designer while other programs on Linux have them. For a potential Affinity Publisher on Linux, programs like Scribus and Viva Designer are to be considered as competition. For all the programs, Serif would have to add features which are not provided by the competition to be interesting enough for customers.

Sure, Affinity Designer could be having a hard time in sales since imo it lacks in some regards like the fact that there is no tracing feature included while the competition has such a feature and is already available on Linux. Who knows if Affinity Publisher also falls in the the same category as Affinity Designer? DTP solutions like Viva Designer and Scribus already are available on Linux. Serif would have to add features to give a reason to customers to jump from those two solutions to Affinity Publisher. Contrary to Apples Market-store, on Linux Serif wouldn´t have to give away 30% of each sale which means profit can be quicker archived on Linux even with "fewer" customers.

No idea about Ipads but if you where on a Mac or on Windows, you could also give a look at for example easy-cinemagraph. It is also available on Steam - But i haven't had the need yet to use such a program nor did I tested it. http://easycinemagraph.com/

I wonder what method you used, here are a couple other methods single step ones; results with the Tone Mapping Persona; neural networks can also help a lot when you want to regain information from blurred or lost/pixelated images; https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00783.pdf

hm this is the best I can do with the lowquality photo, it seemed like the face was faintly hidden in the blue channel and a tiny bit in the red one. Channel Mixer Adjustment (cmyk): changed the cyan sliders (mistakenly also edited the yellow one which results in a darker color for the circle) Levels Adjustment (cmyk ): clipping the white level - need to cut uout a lot to reveal the face, copied the image to overlay it and used 'color' as a blendmode for the layer Denoise to get rid of the noise, Clarity to bring in some more contrast.

Windows 10 is truly "professional" - if you don´t dare to use professional equipment like a Wacom tablet and want to draw within Photoshop... https://www.reddit.com/r/Windowsink/comments/8508fi/controlling_pen_behavior_in_windows_10 Guess those which use wacom tablets in conjunction with Photoshop on Windows systems are not considered professionals anymore??

according to this posting, It won´t be supported, PDF(s) should be used to transition PP9 projects to Affinity Publisher,

Turn your image Colour Format into LAB( Document->Colour format->Lab) , select your image with the figure, click on the Blendranges button/cog symbol, change from Master to Lightness and edit the Blend ranges to decide on how the Source and underneath layers are going to affect each other on showing the marble. Adding a Highpass can make the Colours stronger. forgot to write; create a mask for the body.

So far I use a couple programs from Coffeecup, https://www.coffeecup.com/ Responsive Site Designer for example has support for; Bootstrap 3 (and 4 alpha) Foundation 6 (once RSD-V3 is released?) CSS Grid Additional image compression tools for your Affinity Photo/Designer output are recommended.

has anyone tried an emulation yet with the Vulkan-based DX11 layer for wine? https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/wiki

A native implementation would be indeed really nice. Affinity Photo in its current state allows to a certain grade the creation of normalmaps also to change the interpretation a bit via profiles but more complex stuff like images to normalmaps conversion is rather difficult, since complex macros aren´t possible yet. For a start (if you want to create it yourself and from scratch); diving into Styles, Macros and Layer Blendings can help you a lot further.

Hello bitinn sadly there is no direct way, but you can trick it to show each channel within the Channels there are two RGBA stacks available, the composite one (composition of all layers) and your channels per layer, you have to separate the Alpha from your Layer for it to work. 1. Create a spare channel and then a Mask channel from your Alpha - the Layer Channel (not the composite one) 2. Fill your Layer Channel Alpha now you can at ease edit the RGB channels while you can toggle the alpha mask(the one above your Layers) on and off. 3.To finalize the Layer, right click on your Spare channel and load it into the Layer channel alpha. To be able to edit your alpha; you would have to either strg click on your mask layer to put it into your Pixel selection or to right click on the spare channel to load it into the pixel selection. For Packing Textures including the alpha channel, something else like channel shuffle is a necessity. an example file with enabled history is attached. temporary solution_v3c.afphoto

a new file is uploaded on Gumroad for image to normal-map conversions.

I use screentogif on windows, its opensource, easy to use and lets you save animations in gif,avi,mp4,webm,wmv,apng bulk loading of images (and videos) is possible in various file formats but there is no *psd import thou... http://www.screentogif.com/

Hi all, here is a new Macro which allows an quick and easy dilation method for opaque areas. https://gumroad.com/l/dilation

Because its a testament to the quality of Affinity Designer/Photo and even if some might be surprised, people actually want to compensate others for quality products. Here is some information why Gravit Designer is (still) "free" quote from the page below: https://discuss.gravit.io/t/how-does-gravit-make-money/3002/3