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Thanks Walt - I agree! And Carl 123 - you hit the nail on the head. Thanks

Funny old world... but now trying the beta and it is handling the raw files from Olympus micr-4/3 better than 1.6. But how odd it seems that I cropped to the preset 8in square in raw developer - of course moving the box to suit. But when in the photo persona I checked image size and found it was 9.25in square. As ever, I guess I have done something wrong?

Ah, got it.... Thanks Later: thanks R C-R for taking the time to advise, I will give it a go... I am trying to colour/luminance/size balance a panel of twelve images and ... well I'm sure you understand ...

Ah, got it.... But now I can see the cluttered desktop behind all the panes. That's rather distracting. Thanks

Try as I may it does not work for me. I click on the image's title and drag but nothing happens. Latest 1.6 version in use.

Hi It seems odd to me that when I set up a custom new photo document, my beta version automatically makes the border symmetrical. eg it will not allow me to make the height .5in and the length 1 in; which I want to do. Presumably there's no need to explain why I want to do it!

Hi Whapweasel If you are printing sRGB have you read the canon advice on using their studio through DPP4? It's interesting and informative overall....

I got the excellent Photo workbook but the www.affin.co/xyz does not consistently work for me. I have so far managed to get only one file downloaded. affin.co/discovery just leads me to a forum in which resource-links to Designer - not Photo - cannot be found. Either BT or Serif are making my life hard... Surely a single page with all the downloads would have been a better way?

I have been wrestling with a selection issue. Funnily it is something I used creatively in PS but in SAPhoto I can't get round it. I recently took a photo of Lincoln cathedral. Its pinnacles are covered in light grey lead. I selected the sky (uniform light grey) and then refine edge to sort out the trees, small pinnacled and balustrades. The pinnacle tones are similar to sky so I was not surprised to find the programme struggling to select these easily. I painstakingly painted in the shapes within refine edge. Marching ants were in the correct place. However when I used the mask I found that even though I had noticed the red matte of refine edge was somewhat pale and painted in to be deep red, the mask was 50% or so transparent. The sky replacement obliterated much of the selected pinnacled. I tried using the pen tool to make selections (my preferred option in PS) and tested - no luck, still partially transparent and indeed when I used refine edge to add to the density of the mask by painting in the selection, it even began to bleed outside the pen selection areas. Anyone got a solution, please?

I have been wrestling with a selection issue. Funnily it is something I used creatively in PS but in SAPhoto I can't get round it. I recently took a photo of Lincoln cathedral. Its pinnacles are covered in light grey lead. I selected the sky (uniform light grey) and then refine edge to sort out the trees, small pinnacled and balustrades. The pinnacle tones are similar to sky so I was not surprised to find the programme struggling to select these easily. I painstakingly painted in the shapes within refine edge. Marching ants were in the correct place. However when I used the mask I found that even though I had noticed the red matte of refine edge was somewhat pale and painted in to be deep red, the mask was 50% or so transparent. The sky replacement obliterated much of the selected pinnacled. I tried using the pen tool to make selections (my preferred option in PS) and tested - no luck, still partially transparent and indeed when I used refine edge to add to the density of the mask by painting in the selection, it even began to bleed outside the pen selection areas. Anyone got a solution, please?

I don't know if this helps the discussion but if I download full size jpeg from my 5d3, modify then export, they are always 72 dpi. On mac. It is daft not to have a dialogue box that explains this and enables a quick correction.... don't you agree?

Just thought I should report a curious problem I have encountered in A.Photo when using the perspective tool to partially correct verticals when using a very wide lens. I use the perspective tool set to source and all seems well.... until on a couple of occasions I have switched back to the Develop persona to make small changes with the overlay feature. I use Edge Aware. The Bug is that on two occasions I have tried to paint a person only to find the edge aware red mask showing a vertical line - as if when correcting the verticals, the picture has not been fully rendered. I have attached a file in which I have shown the problem by cranking up the exposure on the affected part to highlight it... Regards to all

Just thought I should report a curious problem I have encountered in A.Photo when using the perspective tool to partially correct verticals when using a very wide lens. I use the perspective tool set to source and all seems well.... until on a couple of occasions I have switched back to the Develop persona to make small changes with the overlay feature. I use Edge Aware. The Bug is that on two occasions I have tried to paint a person only to find the edge aware red mask showing a vertical line - as if when correcting the verticals, the picture has not been fully rendered. I have attached a file in which I have shown the problem by cranking up the exposure on the affected part to highlight it... Regards to all

I know this is an old post but I too am frustrated by the crop tool. And the perspective tool too! The former because with PS I could quickly set the dimensions and crop to it as a quick way to resize my document's overall absolute dimensions e.g. to reduce to a pixel dimension that is not quite the same as the open image. Still can't do it. And perspective tool - great for setting to source and correcting verticals but twice I have noticed (often when back in develop mode and using Overlay and edge aware to refine part of the image) that there is a vertical line as if two images were being blended but not quite. Te red overlay stop at a barely perceptible line!