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I've no idea what's going on, but I get different outputs by clicking on @PaulEC's image and @Hens'.

The images need to be of suitable subjects, selected to highlight the lens' distortions / CA. The requirements don't seem to be very demanding, but the images would almost certainly need to be taken specificaly for calibration. For CA and vignetting you also need suitable light. Again, nothing too demanding, but it all makes the process longer and more time consuming.

Can you give us some more details of what you're trying to do and what happens when you try it? Info about your OS and system specs would be useful, too.

Alternatively, you could upgrade to full Windows. This is a one way street though - you can't go back to S mode if you change your mind.

"without any problems" is a bit disingenuous - it was 10 (ish) years before there was a decent Windows version. Producing something that would run wasn't too much of a problem but supporting it was - sound familiar?

Me too! Is this deliberate or a bug in the forum software - the message style and the mention of Error code: 2F173/K would suggest the latter.

This video should give you some ideas.

Adobe's DNG converter doesn't support it yet, and that usually leads the field.

Nothing's gone wrong or nothing you couldn't fix? PCs have been ubiquitous for decades now, but the number of computer literate users seems to have declined (as a percentage, at least).

Dave Stryker's "InAffinity" videos have an excellent index - here. <edit> My apologies to Dave (and thanks to Alfred); Dave's surname is "Straker", not "Stryker".

Agreed! Makeup diagrams like this one can give you some ideas.

I don't think it's a Win 11 issue - have a look at this post.

No, they don't - too many companies have folded because they equated success with growth. Serif took a risk by switching from their legacy products to Affinity and it appears to have payed off. Changing their plans because it might give them a strategic advantage in an untapped but also unproven market strikes me as a bridge too far.

Have you tried starburst brushes? There are loads online, but I don't remember where I got mine.

True, but logging in to your account will also give you access to any free content you may have picked up over the years.

You can login to your account here - this has links to all your purchased products.

Lens profiles are provided by Lensfun, and that lens isn't in their database. I've no idea whether it's been requested already but you can do that yourself or follow these instructions and supply the lens data.

It seems <Shift> works on all the adjustments (that I've tried) but <Ctrl> only works on exposure. Is this a bug or a feature?

I'll try again when I'm back on my PC, but I'm pretty sure I tried that last night and it didn't do anything.

The shift key works but <Alt> has no effect - is this a Mac only thing?

Adjustments can be applied by moving a slider, entering a specific value or using the up / down arrow keys to increment / decrement the current value. The arrow keys change the value by 1, but this can be too coarse an adjustment - is there any way to change the increments?

That's a shame - it's working OK for me, though the keyboard control's a bit flaky.

I haven't tried it myself (I'm going to) but this might be worth a look.

While other replies have suggested that Serif must be monumentaly incompetent not to have jumped at the business opportunity that's so obvious to the reply's author. This strikes me as a variation on the same theme of 'it can't be true that porting to Linux isn't good business, so ... '. Any loss of revenue by MS or Apple would be well below their corporate radars!

That's my point too 😀 - I've got (at least!) 4 years before I have to consider replacing H/W, and even then I've got the option of living with the increased security risk if I opt to stick with Win 10. My working assumption is that, by then, the OS will be just one of a number of factors influencing my thoughts. Bottom line - I see Win 11 as an inconvenience, not as something that'll render my system useless.