ms.fuentecilla
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Thank you for your interest and for your comments. He was doing his best and perhaps steering me to what they had available! The error was to believe the Serif data. His boss was even worse! It is a pity though that Serif are not a bit clearer because it is better to go into a real store than to shop in the abstract. If there comes a time when there are none, only the Amazons, - I didn't go there - that would be dire. However, I had done my own research in this instance and what I bought might have been over the top but easily obtainable, an Asus Vivo-book, not a gaming pc.
Perhaps Silent-knight hasn't tried to tone map a large panorama made from RAW files yet or ARM are just that much better. I'm not sure what the balance is in such a process, whether processor heavy or memory heavy but I suspect both are well used. It tends to induce profanities when one has to use the off switch to get out of Photo and lose the work!
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You might be amused and interested by this experience. Having serious problems with APhoto hanging on a pc laptop with 4Gb memory and 2.4GHz processor I decided to buy a new laptop. In the local shop I told them exactly what performance I wanted, i7 and minimum 8Gb. So I was asked what software I used to which I replied Serif Affinity Photo amongst others. The smart assistant then looked up your stated requirements of 2GB memory and a fairly basic processor and proceeded to argue for nearly half an hour that I needed only a basic laptop based on that information. We abandoned that, needless to say and I then bought via the internet. Perhaps your promotional information might be a little more precise? Because it is impossible to apply some processes to a large panorama with those basic requirements!
It runs perfectly on an i7 with 12 Gb!
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An apology: after making a small test production and reading through 'Help' I see that indexing is included.
Michael
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Hello. This really is a first impression. But your startup logo seems to me to lack the classy impact quality of those for Photo and Design. It feels aggressive in the wrong way and amorphous. Off-putting!
A welcome additional module would be indexing not just contents.
Michael
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I also use the inpainting brush a lot. This peculiarity lasted until I changed all the settings for the brush and hasn't occurred since then. If it does I shall attempt a video.
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In your very interesting tutorial on adjusting wide angle lens perspective distortion the results don't correct the building distortion. I used photogrammetry for some years and in order to retain more accurate representation of the subject matter after making the adjustments shown it is also necessary to adjust the image's vertical dimension. Possibly this isn't considered important because the tutorial is not about photogrammetry but is perhaps of interest anyway.
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Does anyone know why the inpainting brush in AP and AP Beta goes cosmic and paints black holes?
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Thank you MEB: so simple!
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How do I find how to insert a unique image into the profile identification circle. I can find only for a header image.
Michael
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Problems remain with the panorama module. It is unable to handle high contrast RAW images and the output RBA has insufficient flexibility to control the resulting image resulting in bleached out highlights. Overcoming this entails exporting adjusted component images to TIFF files before processing as a panorama. This is a tedious workflow. It does seem to me that either the internal adjustments of the process need further consideration or the final output needs to be an HDR of some sort rather than something the equivalent of JPEG in which most of the detail in highlights is submerged if a professional status is intended.
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This is fine with horizontal panoramas but with vertical panoramas severe bleaching of skies happens when they are processed the normal way up. When the procedure inverts the image it is much more successful. This suggests preconceptions about processing skies perhaps? Also the green patches are very apparent most in the over exposed areas.
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Perhaps this is covered in 'non destructive develop' but it would be good to have a more flexible output from RAW panoramas such as HDR from single RAW frames, especially for highlight and shadow control. As things stand there is rather too little.
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I revisited this panorama with the new release version of AP and the result is as near perfect in the processing as could possibly be expected. There is no bleaching, excellent balance.
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That looks about right Julius. Ingenious. The TIFF route seems to rescue several difficulties in the panorama tool. I do wonder if the Sony ARW code is problematical.
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This was an experiment on my part so the originals have little pictorial merit but hopefully they will now upload with a proper internet speed. Enjoy testing!
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I have now successfully uploaded the 2 files requested by MEB on Feb 16th to Dropbox. Makes a difference having proper internet!
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At one stage in this you asked me to send the originals of the Feb 23rd post via Dropbox but it proved not possible at that time. It should now be possible if you would still want them as I now have a fast connection from Holland. They would be ARW files and therefore large. Please let me know.
Sorry this is an incorrect response. The correct one has been sent to a request from Feb 16th.
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Sharing becomes possible perhaps when I am out of Spain. In rural Spain bandwidth is not brilliant. Wider end used probably around 20. This is not shown in the AP data. I have many other successful panoramas even fro 16mm, so this was a surprise.
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Well ... er ... not quite. The clouds were almost vertically oriented! Do you think inpainting might help?!!!
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I thought you might be interested to see this fantastic cyclonic result from a 3 frame vertical panorama
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I find this rather weird. Zooming just zooms the empty space. But if I apply the panorama and then crop as normal it works as normal. I put this example forward as a simple 2 frame for brevity rather than one of my 300 degree ones! It is just weird but not catastrophic! However, the result is due to using crop to opaque with the inpaint tool selected. Thank you for testing Sean. It made me double check the interface. Sorry to have taken up your time.
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Lens correction I played with did make adjustments to the final developed result straightening the sea horizon but there was distortion in that the upper part was compressed, so altering the perspective diminishing the mountain. No lens correction was needed for the original frames in both of which the sea was horizontal.
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Sorry, it isn't possible to make a video and send it from here Sean but here are 3 steps in the process. Hope it is helpful. The interface shows the controls used. No other processes have been used in this example.
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Further experiment suggests this is most likely to occur when AP decides to process the frames upside down.
Serif promotion
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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That seems to have drifted away into nostalgia!