IanSG

In AP, is it possible to view thumbnails with "File / Open Recent" rather than just seeing a list of filenames?

From time to time on this forum people have expressed a concern that Serif have stopped supporting their legacy products, and that this might be indicative of a lack of customer focus - not for the first time I've just dealt with Serif's staff to help with a recent PC upgrade and found the support to be excellent! If 'unsupported' products receive this level of attention it bodes well for the Affinity range!

Hi jhoy Thanks for that! Btw, it's Ian, not Inan :)

Hi Vinther The short answer to your question is you can't. Macros aren't available in the Develop persona (yet?) but you can use presets to record the values of whatever you've changed and then apply them to the other images. Personaly I think Lightroom has it right - you edit one image and then duplicate the settings in the others.

I don't think doing that as a public beta would work - people would completely ignore all the caveats and just generate bad publicity. I've seen a *company run a beta test system where the testers pay for a test license! This seems to work well - the product is later purchased at a discounted rate so there's no financial penalty, the testers are serious about their desire to see a marketable product, the testers, in effect, have a hot line to the developers, and the rest of the world can see that there's a product on its way. *I wasn't thinking of Microsoft, even though some people say they've been doing that for years ;)

Hi jhoy Thanks for looking into this - the macro's been uploaded as Levels Test. If it makes any difference, I've seen a video where the levels adjustment is added to the macro simply by clicking on the slider button - I have to move the button before the macro is updated.

I'd shoot in RAW and worry about the processing later - you can't go from JPEG to RAW. You can use presets to help process large numbers of RAW files but, in this case, I don't think AP's the right tool for the job. If the software supplied with your camera can't do it you could try RawTherapee - it's free, though I find it's at the fierce end of the user friendliness spectrum.

I open an image and apply a levels (for example) adjustment - changes are shown in real time as I move the sliders. If I add the levels adjustment to a macro and make the changes when the macro runs I only see the effect after I release the slider! Is this the expected behaviour or (I hope) a bug? I'm running Windows 10.

I had a play with the free AutoFX plugins - no problem when they were first used but subsequent attempts to use them, with any image, didn't work. Restarting AP meant I could use the plugins again, but still only once.

Agreed, but it's not described as "the 1.x Roadmap" - just "the Roadmap".

I've just had a look at faq thread in this forum. Under the Roadmap question we have the comment "Note all the features listed here will be made available in free 1.X updates" - it's reasonable to assume that "note" is a typo for "not", but maybe someone should correct it.

Top right of the colour control you're looking at there's a small options icon - click on that and select "Wheel".

I don't know the answer to this, but I've installed Affinity Photo on drives other than the system disk without any problems. At risk of asking the bleedin' obvious, do you have enough disk space on D? Which Affinity product are you trying to install and are there any affinity products already installed (and if so, where)? Have you tried downloading a fresh copy of the software? Which version of the operating system are you using? Have you tried looking for error messages in the system log?

There is a video, but it's a small part of a Udemy course called "Affinity Photo - Solid Foundations" by Simon Foster aka drippycat. Right now it's only £10 for the entire course, so it's money very well spent (normal disclaimers - I have no connection etc).

If Jeff's suggestion doesn't work have look at the Fast Picture Viewer codec - it handles my.raf files ok.

I've just had a play with some images where I get a "startling" effect - once I've applied the filter, using it again has no effect. I don't know how the haze removal filter works, but maybe it's being rendered ineffective by something you did earlier in your workflow? Is the haze removal ineffective if it's the first thing you use?

I've just tried 1.5.2 (Beta) on Windows and can't see any difference between that and the previous release - do you have an old download you can revert to! revert to? fwiw I've found that the haze removal filter's effects can range from non-existent to startling - have you tried editing any of the previous images where it's been effective?

I'm not sure if I've understood the question, but when you're using green screen it's important to make sure the screen itself is evenly lit and your subjects aren't casting shadows on it.

There's already a feature request in for this. I'd expect it to be a relatively low priority though - most point releases are concerned with stability / bug fix issues.

Speaking as one of the "older people", I strongly agree!! As a related issue, it's nice being able to move the tabs around, but it's much too easy to get hopelessly lost.

Is this being actively progressed as a feature request? Trying to work with a number of similar images is proving to be a pain!

The inpainting option under "Edit" only affects areas that have already been selected.

Look on the bright side - you don't need to learn a new program for a while :) It's possible that the new Affinity offering won't be a better choice for you anyway! PagePlus is a very competent hobbyist's tool while still being easy to use - if AP is intending to compete with Quark Express etc it's likely to have an intimidatingly steep learning curve.

It looks like that embedded .afphoto file doesn't include the history - is that a bug or just a limitation?

It's not the image itself which contains the links - it's the associated HTML or XHTML which contains an image map. If you can't upload anything other than an image there's no way you can make it clickable.