John Rostron

I think that for us to to help you further, you should post your logo (as a file, not a screenshot). John

Can I suggest that you use a photo-viewing app to quickly view each image in turn? I suspect that the rogue areas are not always in the field of view, so cannot properly be combined in any focus merging algorithm. All I can suggest in this case is that you crop the final merge to exclude the rogue areas. If you can increase the distance between the camera and the subject, using a longer focal length lens, it will give a more consistent field of view and reduce the chances of getting rogue areas. It would also help if you give some breathing space around your subject. John

Focus Merge will work with raw files, but has the disadvantage that you have no control over the development process. Sometimes, as you have found, it works fine. Try that first then, if that does not work, develop your images and save them. The format does not realļy matter so long as you don't compress them too much. John

You are scaling your image by 0.893 which does not give the resampling algorithm much leeway. Have you tried Nearest Neighbour? Why do you need to scale it by that amount? John

@Salus, I wonder if your images are misaligned. Or perhaps, as you change focus, the field of view alters. Did you bracket the photos by changing the focus with the lens or by racking the whole camera to and fro? John

Googling "Affinity hdr presets" gives this page. John

@lanna,if you have the plugins, just try them out in Photo. Use Edit > Preferences > Photoshop Plugins. You will need to tell Photo where your .8bf files are, and tick the 'Allow unknowns' box. John

How did you scan the drawing? Was it into black-and-white (1-bit) or greyscale (8- or 16-bit), or what? Photo will not behave properly with one-bit images, it seems to convert them to 8-bit greyscale. If you really need a black-and-white image, use the Threshold Adjustment to get rid of any unwanted greys. I am not aware of any way to resave as a 1-bit image, just as a greyscale. John

@PBMc, even though your problem is solved, I would still urge you to follow the advice from @firstdefence. If another user had the same problem, they would more easily find your solution if your thread was titled "Should I be using my monitor profile?" John

Hello @lanna, and welcome to the forums. Affinity Photo will not recognize Photoshop macros. Do you mean actions? Or perhaps you mean Photoshop plugins? Photo will recognise many (but not all) Photoshop plugins (.8fbf files), but not actions (.atn files). What are you trying to load? John

Hello @mario daloiso, and welcome to the forums. No, you cannot record such actions as you would like. The macro recorder will not record or perform disk-based action such as saving a preset, or opening/loading a file. John

See this thread here. Note that the final solution is on the second page. John

The stated intention from Serif is that version 2... Will be a new, paid-for version. John

You can't have it all ways! John

If you post your images here, then we can try to do this for you and explain how we did it. John

Another workaround: simply remove underlining from letters with descenders. This might sound fiddly, but it could be easier than some of the other workarounds. It would also preserve the underlining/gaps if the words are restyled. John

Essentially the same. This assumes the two images are aligned properly. If not, adjust the opacity of the top layer to about 50%, then move it so that the two align. Finally set the alignment back to 100%. John

Hello @Alan Thornbury, and welcome to the forums. Is your old machine also a PC? Did you buy Affinity Photo from the Affinity Store? If so, then yes, just use your existing installation file and email code. John

There does look as if there is periodic noise in your image, but the FFT screen does not display any hotspots for you to paint out. If you zoom out, some might appear. John

The png format has five variants, of which png-24 will give you a colour depth as good as a 8-bit tiff or jpg (8 bits per channel). It has the advantage over jpg in that it is lossless. However: It does not support layers. It does not support exif data, but some embedding of metadata is possible. John

Hello @Caliandris, and welcome to the forums. I clicked on your afpub file and discovered that it opens automatically from Firefox into Publisher. (It never did that with Chrome.) The document opened at the end of the item by Fee Berry with an image (of Hilma af Klint?) selected. I was able to move this image without crashing Publisher in both InLine and Floating mode. Is this what you have been trying to do? John

The Nik plugins are just that: they plug in to the main photo program (Photo or Photoshop). They do not work with raw developers. I have never tried opening a raw file in any of the standalone programs, so I cannot help you there. John

Hello @daniellev, and welcome to the forums. Use File > Export and then choose png or jpg from the tabs along the top. These formats will be raster formats. If you want to preserve the vectors, then you should select pdf or svg. John

I thought it had, but if not I could provide the OP with a macro for 2700px compiled in v1.6 which should work OK. John

It is unclear to me whether you are wanting to crop the document or to resize it. If you want ro resize each document to 15in on the longest side, then you could just enter 2700 pixels (15x180) in each of the W and H boxes in the batch processor. Failing this you could use my macro that will resize a document to a fixed maximum size. You could modify the macro to first set the dpi to 180, and then specify 2700 as your maximum size. John