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Sharkey

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  1. On 5/9/2023 at 5:58 AM, polite said:

    Wow, I came to the forum to see if anyone else was having this issue, I didn't expect such a torrent of victim blaming behaviour. 

    I think it comes down to this: 

    1. Yes, you can probably avoid this by not working on external drives/network drives. Though this will often mean copying files locally, working on them and remembering to sync back to their original location. 
    2. The software could and should handle these issues by allowing you to save the file in a new location rather than closing and losing everything since last auto-save. Working off network shares is pretty common in most places I've worked for the last 30 years, in IT and design when you need to collaborate with people.
     

    Hopefully it's not a difficult patch to the save function in the v2 suite.


    In the longer term, I hope there are some features for collaborative work coming. Would be nice to see some check in/check out and versioning options. Does anyone have any nice workflows for this with the Affinity suite?

    Not victim blaming. Just seeing something going wrong for which there seems no obvious fix.

    Then an OP continuing (accidentally or not) to try the same operation more than is necessary to confirm the problem under some misapprehension that doing the same thing will eventually get a different outcome!

    Until there is an answer do the job a different way. Blaming - no. Logic -yes.

     

  2. With every request/demand for new, better, faster for more pixels etc. the further behind the hobbyist will slip. Sad but true.

    Despite the learning curve I did learn to enjoy some of what Affinity offered. The advances made the less intelligible the language seemed and now I might as well be on another planet as far as photography is concerned.

    Many people have helped me over the years and to them I offer my true thanks. If I am still taking the odd photograph in years to come I think just the basics will suffice and Photo will fill that need (always in step with the OS it belongs in).

    I covered a wedding recently for a very old friend caught between jobs. It was small and personal with 30 guests. One Fuji X-t4 plus10/24, 18/55 and 55/200 and no flash produced 478 images. Culled, edited and uploaded before I arrived home. My friend gave them the once over (his name after-all) and released in to the wild that evening.

    I don't know the sales figures but a bottle of Gin arrived this morning so a win win for this simple old soul.

    Get it right first time and the rest is a lot simpler (a bit slower in my case) but a good result that made me smile.

    Good shooting,

  3. On 5/4/2023 at 11:03 AM, Alex_M said:

    I forgot that I opened a file on the network drive so when I saved I got the error message and lost all my work. This is an extremely serious issue with this software and should be fixed ASAP. I hope the Affinity team works on the fix.

    May I suggest you fix the problem yourself. 

    If it is that important 'stop doing' it and find something that works.

    Continually doing the same thing WILL result in the same outcome.

    I am sure your employer/ customer will also benefit knowing you are providing a reliable service and in time, you never know, the problem might not matter anymore.

     

  4. If any of my external drives are not reachable (for whatever reason) and with the exception of all cloud stuff, then I do not save to them.

    How do I know there are not reachable?  They do not appear on my display-so I check.

    Glitches have been part of my workflow for 30+ years. It does not matter whose software you are using. It is your business/money. Do what is necessary to safeguard your work to the maximum of your ability because it is you that has to field the complaints, redo the work and explain to the bank manager why all the earnings just went 'poof'.

    My office system was not expensive because it saved me a lot over the years. Now retired I don't see any real reason to recommend anything newton those still at it.

    Use 'raids', at least two set ups. One on site permanently and the other removable (to take with you). Ensure they are big enough, fast enough and have historically reliable reports.

    Permanently on, backed up to simultaneously.

    When you have a problem STOP! Find the problem and fix it. If you cannot do that and your tech just whistles. Change your kit and count yourself lucky that it is only money and nothing terminal.🦈

     

  5. Brilliant. Thank you especially for the preferences way.

    Just as with all ‘apps’ I find the obvious things the hardest to find and keep in my memory.

    I don’t suppose you know how to create a montage of a bunch of wedding photos. Big sister expects from her retired and tired young brother some sort of gift. I thought just a beautiful dual port rate but getting everyone snapped on one picture might save me a lot of dosh.

    No probs if its to much to ask. In my working days I had a montage creator plugin for PS but that is long gone😂

  6. I had this question answered by the ‘YouTube’ videos. Unfortunately and erroneously just “following” did not allow me just to go back when needed to check the answer.

    So. 
    How do I “do & undo “?? I am using an m2 iPad Pro & V2 Photo. The simplest things are those that should be the easiest to find.

    Thank you (grovel grovel)

  7. On 9/27/2022 at 9:57 PM, NotMyFault said:
    • It is complex, similar to USB or HDMI with multiple versions and misleading naming.

     

    HEIF is a container format, similar to TIFF. As its relatively new, support from app vendors, OS, and imaging devices like photo cameras varies.

    On Windows, HEIF is support, but no fun to use. Windows Explorer has severe performance issues when accessing metadata like image size from HEIF files. 

    On Mac & iPad, its supported in general, with some caveats.

    As it is a container format, there are countless vendor specific standards. You need to check if the HEIF files of your Camera are fully supported in your OS and app, for both reading and writing.

    Nice features from user perspective:

    • better compression / smaller files (than jpeg)
    • supports more than 8 bit color depth (HDR, less banding)
    • supports alpha channel (e.g. Apple depth map)

    Disadvantages:

    • every vendor has its own subset of features (e.g. Apple uses only 8 bit color depth despite the HEIF formst supports more, Sony or Canon using different features)
    • compatibility issues (e.g. older PC / OS unable to read / write HEIF files)
    • performance issues (at least on Windows 10)
    • Some OS configured to automatically convert to JPEG if sending files via email, removing its advantages 
       

     

    Thank you for that.

    It may take me a while to understand it all but I really do appreciate the effort made to answer the question.

  8. On 9/27/2022 at 6:14 PM, thomaso said:

    HEIF = what is it

    isn't that a typical question for an internet search? Just curios: where did you read "HEIF" without getting a rough idea at least?

    Perhaps, unlike yourself; a well read, highly intelligent master of both internet and photographic nomenclature, I am simply asking a question of a group of people who might know the answer.

    The words and language of todays techno-crap photography are a shield behind which un-talented, egocentric, self important humans may hide.

    By all means accept this as an apology for just sayin'.

  9. On 12/12/2020 at 11:04 PM, Carajp said:

    I've just spent all day (!) creating a set of Affinity LUTs for all the Fujifilm film simulations. I have a shiny new X-S10 but I shoot in RAW so Affinity doesn't give me them. The free version of Capture One reads my camera and has all of them, but I just can't get away well with the interface (when I wanted to use a film simulation, I was doing a basic develop in C1, applying the LUT and exporting to Affinity as a TIFF, which was a bit of a faff). So I used 'Infer LUT', and a lot of patience etc to create LUTs for Affinity. I then checked them out by independently developing RAW files on both C1 and Affinity to end up with a base result where I couldn't tell the difference on my monitor (which is very colur accurate), as sometimes exporting a file from C1 gave me a completely different-looking picture on Affinity. (If you're thinking that this has been a headache, you're dead right!) This was to check the accuracy of my LUTs. First of all, I wanted LUTs so they'd be easier to use on Affinity and secondly, I have hundreds and hundreds of RAW files from my Fuji X-A7 - and C1 does NOT offer me the film simulations on that, so I had no other way of using them if I wanted to.

    So here's the thing. I obviously can't tell you how it comparies to in camera, but I can say the film simulation end result on Affinity is very nearly identical to the end result on C1 without the need to use C1. The only difference I can see is a slight variation in green which is visible but not great (and generally I preferred the Affinity LUT version). I also have literally no idea if they work equally well on ALL Fuji sensors/cameras because I've only just this second realised I haven't even tested them on the X-A7 raw files.

    I did have a set of LUTs previously that I know I downloaded from this forum posted by some kind soul. But I found they didn't work well for me (this was my X-A7 days, but I found the same with the X-S10 files); very intense and, even with opacity turned well down, they didn't seem to match JPG film sim shots very well.

    I'm actually very nervous writing this post. I'm relatively new to Affinity and this is the first post I've made on the forum and I don't know how people are going to respond to a random stranger offering gifts!

    Oh, and if you're a n00b like me, the film simulations have to be applied with a LUT layer from the Photo Persona. I try and do a fairly neutral develop just to make a reasonably toned and exposed picture and send it over to Photo Persona, add the film sim LUT and then make any further changes I might want. No idea if that's the best way, it's just the one I figured out.

    Fuji_LUTs_X-S10_-_X-Trans.zip 208.72 MB · 1,195 downloads

    It now being 2022, have any new or updated versions come to light. Running Monterey on M1 Mac mini might make some changes needed - I do not know anywhere near enough to guess. The web is awash with 'recipes' built ,'I believe', in camera and I have no inclination to use them. The use of simulations must be a simple thing by now?

  10. Does anyone print from AP with their own inkjet printer (mine is Canon 100 Pro).

    At the moment resorting to Apple Photo just to get a print the size I want but this is not good enough control for my purposes.

    ICC profile, ppi, exact size, paper type. None seem to be available from AP..

    There is a large selection of ICC profiles in ColorSync (Mac mini) but nothing seems to work from the AP print menu.??

  11. On 4/1/2016 at 12:55 AM, JohnPsalm said:

    Does anyone have a quick guide about printing using Affinity Photo? I have tried to print using it, but I have not achieved my desired results. 

     

    I am using a Canon ip8720, and an iMac v. 10.11.3.

     

    Thank you!
    J/P

    My Pixma 100 Pro (just acquired) does not play well at all with AF.. What is the AF work flow to achieve a quality print (correct size, psi, ICC profile etc.)

    So far I have been unable to print anything from AF other than 3"x2" that appear on the A3 paper no matter what settings I try to use. The canon driver is the latest and ICC profiles are in the ColorSync folder but setup just does not make any sense at all.

     

  12. On 6/15/2019 at 2:48 PM, Patrick Connor said:

    Not so it's been discussed in depth before.

    Yup. I know.

    Still good idea.  Think the lack of support may be a matter of number. eg. Not enough users to justify three streams on the site.

    Certainly, I would visit a bit more but I don't suppose there are enough Affinity users on the site committed to posting their work.

  13. On 6/13/2019 at 5:59 PM, Smee Again said:

    Are you talking about a "preview" when opening an AD or AP file? I've noticed that I no longer have that preview available in AD as well. I just figured it had to do with the Micro$loth update that I had to fight with (they always overwrite my sound drivers with garbage that turns my creative X-Fi card into a tone generator which can only be shut off by unplugging the speakers) all because it could allow someone to violate DRM by using "what you hear".

    Microsoft Bill the DRM shill, gotta love him!

    No idea what this is about.

    16 hours ago, retrograde said:

    Say what Sharkey?

    Are you talking about separating the designer/photo/publisher work shown here in the forums?

    If so I tend to agree.

    Yes - thank you - we are the only ones though.

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