lilbuddha

Adding my desire for an offset path tool. It is a powerful design tool, especially for designs when close enough isn't good enough. Adding to clarify: Although there are workarounds for offsetting the path of a shape, there is no good method for doing this with an open path. I recommend Photo with no hesitation to photographers, this tool is one of a few missing ones that make me a little more cautious about recommending Designer to designers. And one of the reasons I still use Illustrator alongside Designer.

I did not touch the registry. The the solution, for me, was to delete the folders labelled Affinity and Serif that were left after the uninstall. ISTM, the corrupted file lived in one of them. I my first reinstall attempts, all the settings remained the same and even the product key was remembered.

Thank you for the reply. I just tried that, but it did not work. ETA: OK, I fixed the problem. I deleted EVERY Affinity app and every folder labelled Affinity or Serif and rebooted. Evidently I got the right file in the purge as I even had to re-enter my product key. But Designer now closes without the error, so result. Now I get to reinstall all the brushes I have bought and made. Joy.

I was exporting brushes from Designer on Win 7 and the program crashed. Now I can only close the program with the Task Manager. If I try to close from within the program, I receive the following message. "At least one file is currently being opened. Please wait for files to load before quitting the application" This persists even after uninstalling and reinstalling.

Thank you again for the quick reply. I am happy to support Affinity, but will take any opportunity not spending more money that I can. Cheers

Thank you for the reply and the welcome! Apologies for being such a pain, but does this mean I can keep the version on my win 7 machine and install it on my win 10 machine? This is what I think you are saying, but I wish to be clear.

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, it doesn’t answer my question. The language in the agreement is slightly less than clear. On this thread, representatives of Affinity* mention a 5 computer limit. The verbiage in the agreement might be clear in legalese, but in English as she is spoke, it isn’t. So I need to know does it mean 1 copy per computer or one copy on each and every computer?** If more than 1 computer is allowed, are Win 7 and Win 10 considered the same platform? Typically, they are, but I wish to be certain. *Moderators **Under the personal use clause

Hello, I have Photo and Designer on my Win 7 machine. I am getting a Win10 machine tomorrow. Are differentversions of the same platform part of the 5 machine install?

I have the Nik Collection and the Topaz Collection, except Glow and Impression, and ran them all, one after another in the same image without closing closing between and they ran fine, with none of the problems mentioned in the link except for Topaz ReMask which failed to run for the same reason stated. Restyle was slow to open some of the previews, but this has always been the case for me. I will note that I only ran the latest version of each filter, so the older ones might have issues.

I think it better to open the RAW in DXO first and then export the resultant image. I did notice a difference between the DNG and the TIFF. A quick check in PS and I think this is how DXO exports, not how Affinity or PS import.

My default RAW processor is DXO, because it does the best I've used so far. I do like the RAW processor in Affinity and have used it for final images. However, it could use a few tweaks in my opinion. One is removing fringing. I do like that we can choose the colour, but it would be immensely helpful if we could use the eyedropper tool to grab the exact colour and if it could be additive that would be wonderful. Not fair to compare to DXO, I realise as lens comparison and compensation is what they do.

I do care about the file size. The Affinity native files made after just RAW processing are HUGE! My PS CS5 files can be large, but that is with many layers, blending, etc. I opened a RAW file in PS CS5 and did some minor adjustments in ACR. The resultant PSD was under 60 MB. I opened the same RAW file in Affinity, did some minor adjustments. and the resultant file was over 400 MB. I like affinity so far and it appears to be a valid PS replacement for me. The file size is a consideration. Hopefully, adding layers doe not scale the file size proportionately.