Daniele Salvatore
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Thanks for the reply. I have attached a screenshot of the png as it appears on the webpage and the afp file it was exported and converted from.
This is an image that I removed the "not so white" background from. In Affinity the subject edges look fine but when it is posted to a page they are not clean at all. I cannot find a tutorial that shows the best process to clean up the boundaries or which tool to refine with.
I do not understand where is the actual problem; I enclose my updated file with just a pixel layer.
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Hi Daniele Salvatore,
Go to menu Document ▸ Colour Format and change it to RGB.
Thank you for the very fast answer; I have changed the setting and now it works.
The strange matter is that prevuiosly I have uploaded several B&W photos and never I got this change from Colour to Grayscale.
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I have upoaded a B/W photo in AP and I got the message that it was assigned a Grayscale D50.
Therefore it is not possible to apply any colour as I wanted.
I enclose a screen-shot to show as it is.
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In my other life I’m a musician and I’m sometimes composing and arranging music. Interestingly, 2016 seems to have been the year of new applications because at the same time Serif published Affinity, Steinberg hired the old staff of the music notation software studio Sibelius to have them create a completely new notation software from scratch (called Dorico). And despite their very different subject I see many parallels in the approaches of Affinity and Dorico (or rather, the developers of these software).
But long story short: Dorico has a beautiful dark UI with monochrome icons and states that are easy to recognize. Even though they also have a light UI, I don’t even feel like switching because the dark UI is actually pleasing to the eye for my taste. Perhaps Serif could take some inspiration from this?
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL; it appears as a dream!
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So you don't have to dig through the thread, here is a screenshot of the new UI in 1.6 version in development, which MBd posted.
Thank you for the screen-shot; the basic issue is not concerned about the icon colours (dark or milk), but an evident difference to show when is ON or OFF; now they have almost the same colour and it is rather difficult to understand.
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I did not anticipate that you were a serif official but just pointed to you a resource some posts earlier I linked to which clearly says that a light UI will come in the near future and already shows the working light UI as a preview for what's coming
Cheers
I strongly hope so.
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I have the Nik plugins loaded in AP, but I haven't seen this problem mentioned in this thread.
I don't see the Nik brushes in AP. I have an old copy of PS, CS2 on my computer, the brushes are visible in PS, just not usable there.
I confirm that this is the same issue with me; while the brushes are visible in PS, they are not in AP.
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Hi Kathryn, this is the forum for the Windows beta, you may have more luck with your thumbnail issue in the General forums :)
I do not understand; the title of this topic is File Icons on Windows 7.
I also was supponing that Affinity Icons and Affinity Thumbnails have the same meaning. Therefore this should be the right forum.
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I am not from Serif; I am just a user that suffers to understand which icons are ON or OFF on both AP & AD.
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@Daniele Salvatore: I don't know if it the same for Windows but on Macs, for both AD & AP there is a "Save Thumbnails with documents" option in Preferences > General that must be enabled (checked) to see document previews instead of the Affinity logos.
If you have that option in the Windows versions, make sure it is enabled.
It has always been like that since the very beginning; I enclose the screen-shot to show as it is. I do not know anymore what to do.
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We apologise if you feel this way but it is not intentional. We get dozens of new post every day so we won't be able to reply to each one while working on Designer. We do read each post, and they will get put under consideration. We just can't reply to everything. :)
Over 2 years have elapsed since this post and the problem is still unsolved; the icons are rather small due to tha lack of space and this can be reasonable, butthere is no reason at all why we must make efforts with the eyes to perceive whether the icons are active or not (take the "Snapping" icon as an example); it appears that mostly of the Affinity users are complaining by this obviuos fact.
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Yep - 1.50.45 here too.
Me too; 1.5.0.45 with Windows 7
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I have successfully installed the 8 plugins of the Nik Collection and after playing a bit with them I have the following very serious question:
as I already have Affinity Photo, that makes already everything, why I should use the additional Plugins of Nik Collection?
I do hope to get some explanation to get clear my mind.
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Hi Septimus,
Some of those issues were already fixed in the latest Photo 1.5 which should be out soon. Please check this page for more details (click on the plugin's names for details).
I have installed today on AP 1.5.0.45 on Window 7 the plug-in Nik Collection and I can confirm that all 8 of them work perfectly well and without having any problem.
It has been the first time for me.
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The first 2 additional files are all that's needed on Windows 10, but on 8.1 & 7 you also need lots of other files as John explained when he said you need
- api-ms-win-*.dll
- ucrtbase.dll
That first line means ALL the files that start api-ms-win-??????.dll from the same folder as Affinity Designer EXE.
Then one more file called ucrtbase.dll.
Or instead the Visual Studio Runtime library install would put all those in your system folder and the thumbnail provider will have all it needs for your OS.
Have you tried installing the latest Affinity Photo for Windows beta? It does all this for you.... (see the 2nd last point on the release notes)
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30345-affinity-photo-public-beta-15043-windows/
As does the latest Affinity Designer Customer beta
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30346-affinity-designer-customer-beta-15143/
So really this should not be a problem anymore for anyone.
I already installed since over a month all the files you mentioned (i.e. the same as in AD are in the Common Folder), but still I cannot see the file image (only the file name and the affinity logos appear).
I have both AD & AP with the official release (no more Beta).
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Of course ...
I have tried your afphoto file and exported as JPG file with 85% size and I did not get the result you claim.
I attach the JPG file:
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Keep cool ;) Works in RC2 press cmd and drag from the corner
I know pwerfectly well to use both CTRL or Shift and Drag; the problem is that in the meanwile the circle moves from the corner; it works perfectly for rectangular shape.
In any case I have overcome the problem by Tips and Ticks.
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The first 2 additional files are all that's needed on Windows 10, but on 8.1 & 7 you also need lots of other files as John explained when he said you need
- api-ms-win-*.dll
- ucrtbase.dll
That first line means ALL the files that start api-ms-win-??????.dll from the same folder as Affinity Designer EXE.
Then one more file called ucrtbase.dll.
Or instead the Visual Studio Runtime library install would put all those in your system folder and the thumbnail provider will have all it needs for your OS.
Have you tried installing the latest Affinity Photo for Windows beta? It does all this for you.... (see the 2nd last point on the release notes)
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30345-affinity-photo-public-beta-15043-windows/
As does the latest Affinity Designer Customer beta
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/30346-affinity-designer-customer-beta-15143/
So really this should not be a problem anymore for anyone.
I attach a screen-shot with the list of files I have now, after the last AP 43 release. As you can see they are all there.
To be sure, I have also restarted the PC, but nothing has changed at all.
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What Operating system are you using please? we will check the dependencies
Windows 7
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It's OK, I've found the problem - on Windows 7 (and
maybealso Windows 8), you'll need to copy some more files:api-ms-win-*.dll
ucrtbase.dll
Alternatively you could just install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=48145
Thanks,
Jon
I work with Windows 7 and I already have in affinity > Common all the files you mentioned, but still I see only the Affinity Logo and the file name.
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It would have been better to keep this in the other thread, rather than start a new one so I will merge them back later.
This oversight in the first release of Affinity Designer has been resolved internally and will be part of future releases. It may be that yesterday's Windows Photo beta 1.5.0.43 installer includes this fix, but I'm not sure and cannot check.
Did you try the suggestion to install the redistributable merge module here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=48145
The link you have attached seems to be for Visual Studio 2015 (I do not know what it is for); what I can do with it?
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I enclose 2 screen shots to show that having already installed the required file in Affinity/Common the file are still shown with the name.afphoto and name.design under the Affinity Logos.
Is there any way to get the image related to such files?
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And once again, you are welcome! :) Feel free to ask around in the forums whenever you get stuck in other task/functionality. I do have that very long PS experience (and none with Solid Edge ;) ) that may help in telling you a workaround in minutes. :) And if not me, someone else will do. There are times that noone see the post, or everybody is busy, but life is so ! :) . Anyway, if you make a question, and finds no response, my advice is keep trying with the application, and in some cases, what I do is even mix applications, use one for one thing other for another (like using Irfan only as a fast viewer and batch converter/renamer). Now that you mention 3D, which has been part of my job duties for a long time, I used to model in Wings 3D, uv map in Ultimate Unwrap, 3D Paint in Deep Paint 3D, 2D texture in Photoshop and Gimp, import and integrate the textured model in 3ds Max or maya, animate in them, and render in Max or other external renderer. And it all worked almost flawlessly ! . (lately am more of just a Wings + Blender + Krita + Gimp user. As they have it all (well, not all.). :) . But I use other tools, commercial too, frequently. ) I mean, I believe mixed tool workflows are a good idea. Specially if you really like how is implemented a feature in one application, opposed on how it is in another. And so you use each one for the part of the project that really suits your needs better. But as always, IMHO. ;)
You are right.
The only point is that I am not so young anymore (73 years old), therefore I want to focus now in AD & AP, have a good knowledge of them to be used for what I intend to do.
Everything I will create will not be for professional use, but only for my own pleasure.
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A pleasure that it helped. :) . Actually, Daniele, I believe that for specially shapes like circles the approach of vectorial that become later selections or masks, is indeed also preferred as a professional solution. I'll put my case as an example: When working in PS (aka Photoshop), for many type of activities, when the shape is not just a rectangular form, but a circle, or an even more complex shape, if I do it with just selections, is very complex task to do, and often the marching ants are not so accurate, as it is using vector tools.
So much that, indeed, when I would need in PS to do a mask or selection of, let say, a human face, or even just the silhouette of a car, I do actually prefer the vectorial pen that PS has, because not only I can zoom infinitely to get the borders absolutely perfect in that selection, but also for the editability of a shape formed by vectors and tweakable nodes and its curves, at any time even after finished the contours (which at whichever moment I am free to convert to selection). I often even save these vectorial paths in the paths tab, that so get as paths saved within that image file, instead of saved selections or masks ! . I am telling you a kind of "next step" in what is advanced selections, which probably is not needed for basic editing, though, and can be "too much" for simple tasks, but it is indeed a very good "path" (sorry for playing with words, here ;) ). I saw this as a first time being done in a mask by a colleague was doing for an advertisement, back in the elder days, in '95, Photoshop 2.x already had the pen vector tool... ! :D
if you notice, is a bit of what we are doing here with my "third method". I for one in AP would probably just start away often with pre-made vectorial shapes and then hit "ctrl shift o" , to directly convert those to selections, and that'd be it, as then I can probably reuse the vectors made for a new different mask. And would probably use a lot the vector pen to build my vectors (soon-to-be masks / selections). Of course, this combined with add + subtract and intersect, makes a combo as powerful as PS's for making complex selection workflows.
The world of selections, masks, etc, is the world of been able to select in a very complex way parts of an image, and IMHO is the heart and key of a lot of professional activities related to image editing. AP has this depth and power, luckily. Among the many reasons why I'm choosing this combo (AP+AD) as my do-it-all package, in a not long future. But adaptation to the new UI is the very key here, to even enjoy better the ride, actually. ;) (my tutorial is an adaptation from someone like myself, also more used to the direct handles in the selection borders! )
I can tell you : The transition from PS to AP is one of the smoothest, cleverer and friendliest I've seen to date. The world of suffering that I passed through when jumping from my loved 3DS Max to XSI (which having an UI absolutely, radically different, but also workflows, despite that it is and was an absolute jewel ) or from also Max to Blender 3D, was way, way harder than anything here (Blender is now very friendly in UI, though). Photoshop users find here their way too fast. I say "too fast" because many of the complaints are like if they were actually using a Photoshop variant directly delivered from Adobe, or something. Which is far from being the case. Despite the gigantic convenience of following PS standards (now standards in many applications), these are new applications !! , we need to adapt, even if just the very tiny little bit (trust me, for what is the difference between two powerful, professional packages, this smooth transition is an absolute gift ) that is required.
And ... I invented those 3 tricks in minutes, real time as you asked about it (well, as I found the post, in that second). I didn't plan that in any way, didn't either knew from before, for the very reason that I am not using selections, because I am not yet inserting AP/AD in my projects (even while I purchased AD, and will do so , no doubts, (pro tools at an amazing price.) with AP ) . What is required every time one jumps to a new program, is to adapt to it, is an excellent exercise for the brain, and amplifies your software handling capabilities enormously (you get this sort of Déjà vu thing in your brain after adapting, that allows you to learn relatively new stuff easily. Combined with a major brain flexibility). Without knowing how it dealt with the matter beforehand, I knew AP has a lot of depth, so an efficient workflow was there already, most surely (it was: indeed, several). And in my view, it definitely is, but is also a matter of habits, the ones you bring from other software applications... ;) . My advice : Keep adapting, you'll find your favorite workflow with every application. :)
I'm telling you this so that you would be able to enjoy the ride as I do...! :D That's the main purpose. :)
You have been an exellent support for all the aspects related to my above issues.
I am not a professional user as designer, but I have a huge number of old photos that I aim to publish in some way.
I was looking for a software suitable for may needs, beside IrfanView that I have used successfully since too many years, despite that is almost a toy.
A few months ago firstly I tried GIMP, but I did not like it so much.
Then only three months ago I discovered really by chance Affinity Photo, that looked great, but was not yet available for Windows, therefore I started with Affinity Designer, just for curiosity (as a mechanical/electric engineer I have used of course Autocad, by means of script commands, and a lot of Solid Edge 3D that I have enjoyed a lot due to the fact that, by means of Exel, it is possible to create complex parametric products).
Immediately I have appreciate so much also AD due to the fact that it is basically a technical software, where you get easily what is expected for.
Since AP for Windows has been available I started the use of it, but I discovered soon that the matters were more vague.
After about 2 months of struggling I know now enough, but each time I discover some new difficulty; I do not have at all the experience with Photoshop and everything is new for me.
One of the last thing I was looking for was that blody command on how to Copy and Paste; despite all my attempts I could not find the right simple way and I was surprised to realize that Serif Company did want to consider this as a problem.
Now thanks to your help I have come to all I wanted and I can start to work on my projects by using not only AP, but maybe much more AD that will be of great help, mainly to create artistic Photo Albums.
I thank you one again for your ultimate great tips and advices.
Ciao
Daniele
Beta crashes immediately when slecting pen-tool
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I got the same problem; I am surprised that Serif Co. do not take the proper steps to solve the problem; this is not a simple ussue.
I have removed the Command.xml file and now it works.