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Very slow to load new Presets (LUT's)
curio replied to Geoff Stokes's topic in V1 Bugs found on Windows
Same here (on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, Ryzen 9 3900X, 64 GB of RAM, fast SSD). Imported a pack of 80 "*.cube" LUT files when I saw you can do that, and now when I select "LUT" on the adjustments panel, AP becomes unresponsive for a few minutes (!). It doesn't help that the application has no general concept of properly indicating it's busy doing something and showing progress, the greatest niggle I have with the entire tool suite... To me, it seems like all those files are loaded from somewhere as soon as one clicks that option, instead of them being loaded individually only when selecting a specific LUT. -
Nik Viveza 2.5
curio replied to Simone72's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Tried it myself, Viveza appears to work fine irrespective of color profile or bit depth. -
Nik Viveza 2.5
curio replied to Simone72's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Has there been any progress on this with the new v3.0 release of the Nik plugins? -
Whenever I record a macro (in my case with a simple document size change) and then click attempt to save it to the library, AP freezes after the dialog prompting for the name, regardless of whether I close that dialog by OK or cancel. This is with AP v1.8.2.620 on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit. In this state, I need to force-close AP.
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NIK Trial Version
curio replied to toadpoker's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Add to that color space issues, you need to convert to 8-bit sRGB. -
Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Also, I've tested with GPU acceleration disabled (setting rendering to WARP, whatever that is): makes no difference, i.e., it's not a GPU acceleration issue. -
Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Meanwhile, I'd like to mention that when AP crashes, a window titled "CrashReport" pops up, telling me the the crash reporter cannot be started because it cannot find an error report to send or the error report ist empty. -
Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Thanks for confirming this! Granted, wrong colors aren't as much of an issue with Dfine as they are with Viveza. -
Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
@AlainP: You sure about Dfine and there being no color space issues? Please try this: make an image 16-bit and ProPhoto RGB, then open it in Dfine. For me, colors in the latter are clearly wrong (blue sky becomes purple etc.) in both the main view and the preview of Dfine. This is with v1.5.1.54. Also, do you have hardware acceleration (GPU) enabled? If so, what GPU do you have? I do and will try without... I has nothing to do with the color space issues, in any case. -
Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
It's not only Viveza; Dfine 2 at least also has color space issues. Can anyone who claims not to have any crashes please open an 8-bit sRGB image (mine are usually about 16 megapixels, in case that matters) in Viveza and make a greater number of adjustments (create, say, 20 control points and play with the sliders of each)? I'll almost guarantee you that you will get a crash doing that at some point. This has never happened to me with PS, which is why I'm blaming AP (supposing something about the context it provides to the plugins is buggy). The issues are, however, not straightforwardly reproducible, either — crashes happen randomly, but in a session of editing a single image using some of the Nik plugins including Viveza, I almost always get a crash (not only in Viveza, sometimes also in the apply stage of one of the other plugins) at some point which forces me to save early, save often (and even then it means work lost when it crashes in the middle of an extensive Viveza edit). Add to this that Viveza doesn't work with 16-bit/non-sRGB images and you see why I feel forced to stick with PS. :-/ I'm more than willing to create logs or dumps of any kind if there's a way to do that, to help Affinity diagnose the issues. My system is Windows 10 x64 and has a Core i7 6700K, 32 GB of RAM (memchecked, no issues), and a GeForce GTX 1070. -
Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where the Nik plugins will 1) work also with 16-bit, non-sRGB images and 2) not crash randomly every now and then? Both of these are no issues with Photoshop, so it's not the plugins themselves that are to blame. Honestly, this is the thing holding me back from switching from PS to AP for good. -
Is it intentional that Affinity Photo foregoes adding an EXIF Software (Exif.Image.Software) tag when exporting images, as about any other image processing software does? As things are, it retains the tag's value (if present), indicating, say, Photoshop as creating software if the image has previously been processed therein. It's nothing major, but I'd like to see AP put itself in the tag, so as to enable me, for example, to easily recognize AP-exported photos in my DAM software. Thoughts?
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Just some more practical wishes ...
curio replied to DarkClown's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Seconding all of the TO's suggestions/requests! -
Handling aside the "features"
curio replied to DarkClown's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Adding to this topic, feedback about ongoing operations stalling the UI is also lacking. Various operations take noticeable time even on powerful hardware, rendering the application unresponsive in the process (sometimes even to the extent of triggering a Windows "application does not respond" warning) without there being a progress indicator. This is rather disorienting for the user and not the way blocking operations should be handled. Coupled with the fact the AP is still prone to crash rather frequently, it always makes me fear that it's actually in the progress of crashing once again without me having saved my work prior to it. -
With 8-bit sRGB, colors are correct for me with the release version at all zoom levels (even if repainting happens visibly). With 16-bit sRGB, colors are indeed (and only) correct at 100% and higher zoom levels. ProPhoto RGB is completely off at all bit depths and zoom levels.
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Meanwhile, with the release version, Viveza works OK for me with 8-bit sRGB images, but colors still get funky with 16-bit images.
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Still bad color space in Nikon JPG
curio replied to pgraficzny's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Yup, same here. Outlandish colors irrespective of format (8/16 bit, sRGB/ProPhoto RGB). :-/- 5 replies
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Wacom tablet, brush cursor
curio replied to curio's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Yep, it's fixed with .44. Thanks! :) -
Wacom tablet, brush cursor
curio replied to curio's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
That was with .43 and earlier. Will test again with .44 when I get around to it. :) -
Hello, for me, when using my Wacom tablet, I never get the regular tool cursor I get using the mouse but only the default arrow cursor. For example, when using a brush, I have the arrow cursor instead of the circular brush cursor and the tool's effect preview. My tablet ist a CTH-460 and I'm using Win 10 Pro x64.
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Nik Collection support?
curio replied to vegasabel's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Unfortunately, color spaces other than sRGB still don't seem to work with Nik in general (case in point: ProPhoto RGB), and Viveza shows outlandish colors even with 8 bit sRGB. :-/ -
Rotate in Healing Brush
curio replied to TEcHNOpls's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on Windows threads
Out of curiosity, how do I use the keyboard to rotate it? -
Yup, this should be an option, along with the type of compression (none/LZW/ZIP). Affinity Photo appears to save TIFFs uncompressed, rendering them needlessly large.