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Thomaso, thank you; your solution looks the best. It is similar to something I tried but I failed to get such a good result, so will try again. Cloning didn't work very well because of the variability of the immediate surroundings, particularly when the image was finally processed. The image is worth taking trouble over. The sample I put up is a segment of an untreated RAW file. The processed final result is something quite different.

Can anybody suggest the best way in Photo to reduce or eliminate this spotlight glare ray, please? If I use burn it discolours and inpainting messes the detail, which really looks a mess. It is only a small part of the image but prominent and cropping is inappropriate. Is there a video covering this?

Adding to earlier comment about the object and subject selection tools, the refine dialogue still doesn't produce fully usable results without extensive intervention to the masked new layer. There is shading left on the fringes and around details that is difficult to remove. In addition the subject selection appears to offer no editing possibilities. It is good at picking out animal and human figures but not other objects, for which it tends to pick out parts of a perceived subject. Don't treat this as a complaint; it is a comment on what I find in using it and I have no specific expectations from such an experimental feature. It might also have much to do with my use of it. But with the standard selection in refine tool before the AI selection, the results were rather better for me, even though the actual selection wasn't better. The AI selection is excellent, it is the refine brush process that proves awkward. There isn't time for me to explore all the new aspects in the Beta so I concentrate on what I perceive as the most important, the addition of AI assistance.

Replying to Walt, my initial enquiry got into a horrific mess because the examples I tried to include were refused and after that it proved impossible to make any further adjustments to the email, including deleting what had been uploaded so the query now sits there like a dummy . No reason was available for the refusal of the images I tried to upload.

The object selection tool seems much more flexible than the subject selection tool because we can add or subtract objects or parts of objects within it. It seems unclear how the subject selection tool works because frequently it selects things that seem remote from what we might consider the main subject and there seem to be no ways of modifying the selection. This might of course just be my ignorance. But I have also made some very successfully post processed images using a combination of the two. They are really a most welcome addition to Photo and what they select is so well done that when the selections have been separately processed and are returned to their backgrounds the procedure , though not the results, is invisible. This was very difficult to achieve with the selection brush tool.

Here is one result from object selection. The first image shows the marching ants closely tied to the outline of the trunks, which is what was required. The second image shows that on the selection saved as layer with mask a wide area has been included beyond that initial selection and it had not been possible to eliminate this with Refine. However, following my post above I did discover the icons for include, exclude and new in the selection bar! There is a problem with uploading images: you don't permit them to be deleted from a post!

This is an update on the object selection procedure. The refine process seems much more clunky than it is in AP2 and seems to have a strong bias in favour of inclusivity against exclusivity (ignoring the current political use of those words!), so I was unable to tidy up edges because it exaggerated fringe detail. This needed a lot of work on the new layer mask which then crashed the program. Also, despite a quite advanced pc system working with 3 layers caused the whole system to hang, needing a hard restart with apparently no crash report. I seem to recall this was once also a problem with AP1 In most other respects the beta works smoothly, but I am not using it nor really testing it exhaustively, just those aspects which I see as new, like AI object selection.

This time the process was more successful in selecting non contiguous patches after some coaxing. But I couldn't find a way of excluding selected patches like the alt-click in the main software. Is there one? As soon as I can find time between my other commitments I will look at other new aspects of the beta There are no system problems on my pc which is specifically made for graphics.

I tried that from past experience. The hanging occurs particularly with actions like defringe

As one might expect, the first thing I tried was the object selection tool. I liked the way it pursued the selection, but it needs some refinement because it is unable to fully distinguish between background and object where parts of the background are enclosed within the general outline. In other words it seems to select only homogenous objects.

Hello I recently upgraded to a much more powerful pc capable of handling ai photo processing. Since then Photo has started repeatedly hanging towards the end of processing, holding the whole pc as hostage so that it has to be switched off and restarted. Task manager can't be accessed via ctrl/alt/delete.. Both the gpu and cpu are most recent versions. Can anyone enlighten me please about what I might be doing wrong? I never had this problem with my laptop. Michael

How very right you were. Thank you very much. Michael

Hello I have a new more powerful pc specifically for updating to Win 11, pro version. The latest Affinity suite updates eventually reinstalled but not where they were and cannot now be found. One search suggested they were in Windows old, but they can't be found there either. No searches can find their .exe files. If I request reinstall it offers no specific address, eg. Program files. I need to access them as I did before the update, via explorer and fasstone. Have you any idea where they might have been put please?

Thank you Carl, I had learned that in the interim and found some ways of modulating that single brush to do what was needed.

Hello, Is there still anybody on this forum? If so can someone please help with a detail. Using overlays in developmode there seem to be no choices for brushes, no brushes panel is available. Is this correct or have I set something up incorrectly (always possible!)