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Amazing! it worked. Thank you so much Carl.

We use Designer for the excellent export persona which allows us to export 30 files in different formats with naming conventions.

Hi Carl I am in Designer and my resource manager only lets me select one at a time. Was the example above for Publisher?

The ability to replace all of the same image with another image please.

Am I right in saying that this is still not a feature? We have to make 20-30 artboards for TV programs so we can supply the slates in all the different sizes that the streaming services require. Being able to replace the images in one click would save hours of work for us.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AI-future-for-Affinity-software-on-the-cards-Canva-CEO-all-in-on-AI-tools-despite-potential-backlash-from-designers.859399.0.html

Great article. Made me hopeful for the future of Affinity.

@nickbatz That is a very good point. LLMs should deffinately only be trained on art that has given express permission or where the artist is paid to provide.

I understand why artists have a dislike for AI. It's new and threatening. But it's really not a one horse race. There are many tools we use everyday that can be better with a little help from AI. When you have a job and the client supplies images that are too tightly cropped. It's a breeze to expand them to your needs in seconds. When images are too LoRes and you can enlarge them easily. Making comps from multiple sources and being able to us AI to colour grade and relight the whole comp so it looks cohesive. These are just a few of the features that have helped our studios develop high quality design work for the film and entertainment industry. A great example is, the popular infill brush. Try the Photoshop one on a complicated or geometric background. The results are very impressive. That little bit of AI make us say wow every time we use it. AI is not just text to image. It's a way to improve the tools and workflows we love. We all love Affinity. It would be great to have some of these amazing tools onboard.

Yeah that would be good. Are there any AI plugins that work with Affinity yet? The only one I use at the moment is Topaz. That integrates well for enlarging.

So Canva just acquired the brilliant Leonardo.ai Fingers crossed, they will port some of this amazing tool over to Affinity apps. That would give us the boost we need to keep us working in the Affinity workflow and not have to keep jumping across to Photoshop and the other apps with AI.

Has there been any development on this issue. I notice that it is more than 4 years old now.

Perfect idea!

Could you please consider adding this feature please. Setting your default tool option.

Well. As of today, Affinity has been purchased by Canva. I think this will mean much quicker developments and updates. Canva are already strong players in the generative AI field. So, we should see the features we are missing be added soon.

Ignoring AI won't make it go away. We have to use it within our workflow. Used correctly it will improve your productivity and creativity. Having embraced it, our studios have benefited greatly.

@Pauls You have cracked it my friend! When I tried to make the zip for you I was getting an error on one file WebCoatedSWAP2006Grade5.icc So I removed it from the folder and now EUREKA it works! Thank you so much for all your help. I hope this thread helps other users with this issue.

@Pauls No luck I'm affraid.

OK @Pauls I'll give it a try.

I ran a hardware test on my GPU to make sure it is OK.

Hi @Pauls I have done this a few times. Tried it with Intel diabled and with Nvidia disabled. Each time I get the same results. Did you see my message that Affinity V1 apps run fine? This issue only seems to be affecting Affinity V2 apps and nothing else on my laptop. Even my GPU heavy programs like Resolve and Blender are fine. Very strange.

Log.txt

Application: Photo.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException at <Module>.Serif.Interop.Persona.ColourProfileManager.LoadProfiles(Serif.Interop.Persona.ColourProfileManager*) at Serif.Interop.Persona.Services.InteropService.Initialise() at Serif.Interop.Persona.Application.OnServicesInitialised(Serif.Interop.Persona.Services.IServiceProvider) at Serif.Affinity.Application+<OnServicesInitialised>d__100.MoveNext() at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw() at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate) at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.InvokeImpl() at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.CallbackWrapper(System.Object) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object, Boolean) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(System.Threading.ExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object) at MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext.Run(MS.Internal.CulturePreservingExecutionContext, System.Threading.ContextCallback, System.Object) at System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherOperation.Invoke() at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.ProcessQueue() at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.WndProcHook(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef) at MS.Win32.HwndWrapper.WndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr, Boolean ByRef) at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.DispatcherCallbackOperation(System.Object) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.InternalRealCall(System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32) at System.Windows.Threading.ExceptionWrapper.TryCatchWhen(System.Object, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32, System.Delegate) at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.LegacyInvokeImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority, System.TimeSpan, System.Delegate, System.Object, Int32) at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr) at MS.Win32.UnsafeNativeMethods.DispatchMessage(System.Windows.Interop.MSG ByRef) at System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.PushFrameImpl(System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherFrame) at System.Windows.Application.RunDispatcher(System.Object) at System.Windows.Application.RunInternal(System.Windows.Window) at Photo.Application.Main(System.String[])

Here you go @Pauls Thank you Murph 36342109-ad06-4faa-bcf4-82c843161e18.dmp