Josephmt

The Levels Adjustment filter does not work as it should. Let's say I'm working on an RGB image and insert a Levels Adjustment filter. It woks on the "Master" Channel. But if you select a specific color channel, the top widows display only the selected channel waveform, but as soon as you move any slider it reverts back immediately to "Master" and works only on that Master channel. It's the same for any color.
 
The same problem exists also in other color formats, CMYK, LAB. It works fine in version 1.5.1.43.
 
I reported the same problem in Photo1.5.2.54.

I cannot get the export feature to work in either Designer or Photo for Windows. I believe that I'm following the directions in both apps but all it will save as is the Affinity format. Some system setting?

I am used to, and would love to see this in both:
click and drag the corner of the ruler to re-locate the 0-0 point to the desired position.
then click twice in the corner to re-set to corner.
 
unless there is something in preferences that I missed, 
 
thanks,
karl
 

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England. Two enormous carved lions, one sleeping, and one that looks as if you've just woken him up. I used Mesh Warp in AF to make all the different mouth shapes for speech and blinking eyes. The speech was poked and prodded in Audacity and GoldWave (it's a little creaky and a little sibilant -- but hey, who know what lion speech really sounds like?) I used Anime Studio (horrible software, but all I've got) to sync the mouth to the speech. 
 
Here's a small copy of the original:
 
And here's the finished product: https://youtu.be/8N4AjXh_GHY

Hey guys!
 
I'll be posting some of my photo-manipulation works in this thread. To get started I'll share this poster I made for a local electronic band. Hope you dig! I'll be uploading all my AP works to my FX Monkey project Twitter account too: @fxmonkey2
 
As always any comment is welcome!
 

Hey guys!
 
I just wanted to let you know that I've been working on a secret project the past couple of months. It's a website dedicated to offer post-production tools for Affinity Photo, mainly for photo retouchers: color presets, retouch brushes, texture overlays, etc. Also, I've been working on a photo retouch eBook with complementary videos for AP, which probably will be released there when finished...
 
The site it's finally in pre-release, that means that I'm still working to finish the first assets, but today you can have a (small, small) taste (almost a little bite) of what of what you can expect out of it.
 
It's a FREE Pack called: FAUX 77
A collection of 8 Macros for AP that emulates the vintage looks of the pictures from the late seventies. You can look at some examples and more details in the link below :)
 

 
As with Frankentoon, you just have to give your email, and the download link will be sent to your inbox. You can unsubscribe later if you wish. But if you are interested in the project and want to know more about future releases and free sample packs you can stay :)
 
This website will be growing as I'm adding content through the next weeks. I would like to know what you think and which kind of tools for AP you'd like to find there.
 
Cheers!
Enrique

Yes, that's exactly what I think. I thought the US$20 was fair, but I was expecting priority posting, not snail mail.

Is it possible to change the color of the guides?

Dear Affinity-Team,
 
I've been working on a logo font where i use mostly bezier curves to define the look and after that expand to strokes... 
while I'm used to clean expanded strokes/curves... within Illustrator for instance, in Affinity Designer the created points are quite a lot if not messy?! 
 
This is even more problematic (also slows down the app considerably) with SVG/EPS Exports. (see attached files)
Optimising / simplify curves/strokes could be helpful.. in that case. As well just a better conversation or maybe better conversation control.
 
Other than that is the Affinity Designer pretty nice!
 

This video is very helpful....  thank you.
 
However, I am stuck at the step where we add a "go to" folder for the plug in support folder.   The  Shift + Command + G combination  produces the forward slash, but when I click "GO", my computer beeps angrily at me and nothing happens.
 
Is there another option for adding the support folder?

Hi,
there is no beta since December 3. Are we waiting for something special, or...?  :)

Hi. I'm Cornelius freelancer and I'm new to yours software (Designer and Photo) also waiting for Publisher. I just purchased both Designer and Photo for Windows. 
What would be great to get in near future are dictionaries to hyphenation for other languages.

Just a question.
The Macros Pack only for new users or are they for existing users  available too.   :)

Hey there peeps!
 
:D  :D  :D
 
I am so, so excited to share with you, my latest endeavour known as BAHOOCHIE! an eejits Card Game.
 
It's a great wee game for 2-4 players based on the Top Trumps format but with a twist! Beware the BAHOOCHIE! It can change the game.
 
Of course, everything I created for the game was done in Affinity Designer, from the eejits, the card designs, the lettering, everything. Symbols was a great addition to AD that helped loads, so were artboards. You should see the single file I created for all the cards. Artboards everywhere!!
 
Anyhoo....
 
I have launched the game on KickStarter to try and raise the funds to cover the printing and custom tuck boxes. I would love your support and help in achieving the goal. Here's the link to BAHOOCHIE - an eejits card game on Kickstarter. All will be explained when you head on over there.
 
Cheers guys and gals,
 
George
 
(I'm just a wee bit excited!)

For some weird reason I have better Affinity Photo performance with big hi-res files  on my  toy Mac i5 8gb ram  than on my i7 32gb ram 6gb Nvidia980  windows 8.1 monster.      Have constant weird small freezes on pc.  Is it normall?    I expected pretty opposite actually since every other modern programm works better on pc.

In the current AD Beta for Mac the known problems:
 
- an a german mac with a AD set to english won't access the english help file
- The keys: [ and ] cannot be used as keyboard shortcut as the german keyboard is not recognized / bound to the App
 
still persists
 

What do I have to do to get pen pressure working?  When I draw a line on my Surface Pro 3 the line stays the same even with changing how hard I press.
 
Thanks
 

Hi guys,
 
Question... is there any shorcut, or shortcut combo to fill a marquee selection or we always have to use the "Flood Fill Tool"?
 
Thanks,
 
Reminous

For more information about the launch and how to buy go here. 
 
Here's a recap of the new features in Photo 1.5, along with tutorial videos which will accompany the features...
  Focus Merge Support   Focus merging allows you to generate a detailed composite image from a number of images focused at differing lengths. Use File -> New Focus Merge to get started.   Video tutorials: Focus Merging Focus Merge Retouching Focus Merging Bracketed Images   HDR Merge Support   HDR merging lets you create a deep, unbounded 32-bit image from a number of exposure bracketed source images. Use File -> New HDR Merge to get started.   Video tutorials: HDR: Merging and Tone Mapping HDR: Tone Map Presets HDR: Panoramas HDR: Preprocessing HDR: Advanced Editing HDR: Ghosts Removal   New 32bit RGB Editing Mode   Photo now offers a full compositing / editing environment for 32bit unbounded images.   Video tutorials: HDR: 32-bit Editing   32bit Develop   Photo can now Develop RAW files directly into a 32bit document - so all highlights / shadows are preserved and recoverable at any time.   Video tutorials: 32-bit Raw Development   OCIO (OpenColorIO) Support   Photo now support end-to-end OCIO colour workflows.   Video tutorials: OpenColorIO Setup OpenColorIO Adjustment   Tone Mapping Persona   Full tone mapping Persona for both HDR and LDR images. This is obviously best used with an image merged by HDR merge - although you can use it on any image.   Video tutorials: Regular Tone Mapping   OpenEXR / HDR (Radiance) / 32bit TIFF Import / Export   Photo can now import and export .hdr (Radiance, RGBE) and .exr (OpenEXR) images. It correctly deals with 0-alpha cases (as per the OpenEXR spec) and generally operates in linear space. It support multi-layer EXR files and offers control (through Preferences) over alpha association and premultiplication.   Video tutorials: OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export OpenEXR Import Options   Macros   Using the View -> Studio -> Macro and View -> Studio -> Library menu items, you can access new panels which will allow you to record actions, save them, then play them back later. You can also store them in a handy gallery.   Video tutorials: Macros Macros: Equations   Batch Processing   Using File -> New Batch job, you can queue up processing on a large number of files. You can resize, convert format and apply any number of macros to each file. The batch processing happens in the background - so you can continue working whilst the jobs are processed.   Video tutorials: Batch Processing   Live Projections   Photo 1.5 contains a new mechanism which allows you to edit an image in different spatial domains - we currently support the “Equirectangular” domain (360 pano - Ricoh Theta, etc.). You can use all tools when editing - and you can convert back once you have edited. This is especially useful for cleaning up stitching artefacts, or artefacts at the zenith / nadir of the image. Use the options in Layer -> Live Projection to get started.   Video tutorials: 360 Live Editing 360 Advanced Editing 360 Retouching 360 Multiple Views Live Perspective Projection    Improved Pixel Tool   The pixel tool is improved in 1.5 - you can hold shift when dragging to constrain the direction of painting (sorry we did not get this working sooner!). You can also select what happens when you hold Alt and drag - erase to transparent, erase to background colour, or erase to whatever the nominated snapshot / history location is (like in the Clone tool).   New “Pixel Art” Document Resizing   Photo now contains an alternative way to resize a document - using well known pixel-art resampling algorithms. If you work with pixel art and want to use this feature, it’s located under the Document menu.   Video tutorials: Pixel Art Resize    New “Accumulation” Brush Dynamics   Many users have asked for “Opacity Jitter”. For us, opacity is a constant thing and will remain constant. However, we have added a new property to brushes - “Accumulation” - which should allow you to get what you need         Text Styles   Affinity Photo now has the same Text Styles support as Designer - it’s all shared code so it should work right out of the box         New Marquee Modes (Polygonal, Magnetic)   Photo now has 3 modes for the freehand selection tool - Freehand, Polygonal and Magnetic.   Video tutorials: Freehand Selection Tool   Even more RAW cameras supported   Over 70 new RAW cameras are supported.   Improved Metadata Mining   Our detection of RAW / JPEG / etc. metadata has been upgraded and some serious bugs have been fixed.   Massive Improvements to Export Persona   Our Export Persona has seen huge upgrades in this cycle - you now have total control of exactly what resolution sets get exported. You can also use our handy batch export builders to quickly generate content for external consumption - ie. Xcode .assets - even Spline compatible metadata can be generated!   Layered TIFF Interop   Users have constantly asked us to support “Layered TIFF”. Layered TIFF is not a thing. TIFF with embedded data is a thing - and I’m happy to report that we now import embedded PSD / Affinity data and can write TIFF with embedded Affinity data.   Halftone Filter   We have a marvellous new halftone pattern filter in 1.5 - it can approximate monochrome, colour, circular and line halftones.   Video tutorials: Halftone Scanlines Effect   Improved Apply Image Filter   Users can how use the current layer as the source for Apply Image - or drag any layer from the layers tab into the dialog to use that as thr source. We also offer handy equations in the filter to control how channels are transferred - in an arbitrary colour source.   Video tutorials: Apply Image Apply Image: Equations   Improved Select Sampled Colour Filter   You can now select by intensity in the select sampled colour tool.   Equations Filter   A new Equations Distortion filter allows users to create custom spatial filters.   Video tutorials: Equations filter Macros: Equations   Dust & Scratches Filter   Many user have asked us for a “Dust & Scratches” filter - so we have made one. It’s extremely useful for removing sporadic small defects in images. Please let us know if it works for you.   Video tutorials: Dust & Scratches Filter    “Edit in Affinity Photo” Photos extension   This is something which we didn’t think we could do - a Photos extension for Mac OS 10.9 and above which simply allows you to use the full Photo app to edit your images - and stores the changes you have made as a layered document.   New Colour Picker Tool   After literally thousands of requests, we have implemented a dedicated picker tool for colours.   New Clone Sources Panel   We now have a new studio panel which allows you to store up an unlimited number of global sources for the Clone / Healing brush - it even works across multiple documents.   Video tutorials: Clone Sources Clone Sources: Texture Creation   Direct PSD Write-Back   One of the most requested features - direct write-back to PSD. A number of 3rd party DAM applications will happily deal in PSD - but until now, Photo required you to File -> Export for PSD. No longer! You can now just hit File -> Save! You will need to turn this on - in File -> Preferences - please read the warning there carefully!   Video tutorials: Direct PSD write-back (round tripping)   No Thumbnails Option   This is more a Designer feature, but I promised it some time ago so here it is - you can choose (in Preferences) not to write out a thumbnail with your documents. This has the advantage of making your documents use less space - but obviously you won’t get Finder thumbnails, etc.   Improved Vectorscope   Our old HSL vectorscope is no more - replaced by a vastly more appropriate Rec.709 YUV scope with an improved graticule         Improved Photoshop Plugin Support   We have found a significant bug with our plugin code - it has been fixed       :) We are now finding the majority of plugins work properly.   Multi-monitor Colour Profile Support   Sorry it took so long to get this fixed - we now can profile different on different monitors.   Adjustment Performance Improvements   Found and fixed a simple issue which made changing adjustment parameters appear to be slow. Fixed.   Automatic Lens Corrections   Automatic lens corrections (distortion and vignetting) are now supported for a wide array of lens profiles. This option is available in the Develop Assistant (enabled by default).   Video tutorials: Automatic Lens Corrections  
Improved RAW Colour Handling
 
The way colour operations are handled in the Develop persona has been improved - the difference is most noticeable in images with intense, saturated colours (think low light photography with lots of artificial lighting).
 
Video tutorials:
Raw Colour Quality     This update also includes literally hundreds of fixes and small improvements, some of which are listed below:   - User control over two pass rendering on Retina devices. - PSD import / export improvements. - PDF import / export improvements. - Snapping improvements - candidate-free snapping, gaps-and-spans (Alt key in Move Tool), so much more! - Performance and stability improvements for macOS Sierra.

I just bought your product, but i did not go far with it.
 
Unfortunately the Wacom brush delay still occurs, it is impossible to use your product right now for me. Every time i start new stroke it has 1 second or less delay and during that time it creates straight line. I attached a file so you can see it.
 
I don't know if this is any help but my log file says this:
 
Attempting to create Direct3D device on default adapter
Setting screen DPI to 117.797101449275 (scale = 1.0)
WinTab: Failed to get tangent pressure info
Attempting to create Direct3D device on default adapter
Setting screen DPI to 117.797101449275 (scale = 1.0)
 
I also check the Customer beta 1.5.1.47, same thing happens in that version too.

I am unable to get to the Affinity Store.  I am in Canada.  For some reason my browser (OS X Safari 6.2.8) says it cannot connect.  
 
When pressing the BUY NOW button here: https://affinity.ser...igner/workbook/

 it took me to this address, but nothing:  https://affinity.sto...3675.1458891282

Hi, there seems to be some weird issue with thick dashed strokes in certain situations. Following video shows this at rounded rectangle. When changing rectangle's roundness, the stroke creates some unwanted residues.
 
https://youtu.be/xoeXyahNqBs
 
Would it be possible to address this in some future updates?
 
Thanks!

Sketch feature thingy? I don't see anything anywhere similar to a "Sketch Feature" in AP. Which feature are you referring to?

Good question, I don't know. The full path is ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinityphoto/Data/Library/Application Support/NikLicenseFiles. The folder contains a single empty .txt file (like a timestamp). It will be recreated after deletion and since it is in an AP-specific folder, I assume that it is written from AP. However, as I said it does not influence the behavior. So maybe, the answer is: for nothing. It was just another try to figure out why my system behaves different than the ones of most other systens. I do not doubt that the plugins work with AP. But I still want them to do so on my system. This was one try...
My current goal is to figure out where that timestamp about the start of the trial period is stored. Currently I only know that it is not system-wide, but user-specific, and it is not in the above mentioned files or directories. Also I'm pretty sure that is controlled in some way by AP since the standalone apps work properly. But here my poor wisdom ends at the moment.
 
Edit:
Since I don't want to hijack this thread any more for my technical problem (it's news, I think), I opened a new thread in the Questions section: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/31680-nik-collection-runs-in-demo-mode/

Status: Customer Beta
Purpose: Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo (1.5.1)
Mac App Store: Not Submitted
 
Download: 1.5.2 - Beta 2
 
Hello everyone,
 
This is the second in a series of customer beta builds intended to improve the stability of the new 1.5.1 App Store version of Affinity Photo. We'll be doing these for a few weeks, then we will update the App Store version. This beta will sit alongside the App Store version and not interfere with it - although your settings will not be shared between the two versions.
 
As this is a stability beta, it is suitable for production work and should be used in preference to the App Store version if you need any of the fixes it contains.
 
 
Fixes
 
- Fixed RAW / HDR on macOS 10.7, 10.8.
- Improved reliability of automatic lens corrections. - Fixed some cosmetic stepper issues in Tone Mapping. - Fixed a frequency separation crash in 32bit mode. - Allow PSD import to skip over ‘psdM’ blocks. - Fixed Undo Brush crashes. - Suppress message about beta files being incompatible with MAS (they are not). - Fixed issues which could make the Library fail to load. - Fixed a potential crash-on-close bug.   - Fixed a TIFF issue which was preventing people from working on existing documents, or loading some TIFF files properly.
- Fixed spelling issue that inserted the correctly spelt world without deleting the incorrect word.
 
 
Thanks,
 
Affinity Photo Team   :ph34r: