John Rostron

I ran Affinity on your three raw files and, like @James Ritson, it looked fine to me. I could not really compare it with your posted image because it was not saved at 100%. John

See this thread as well for help on combining Raw development with merging. John

Hello @Bill Alpert, and welcome to the forums. Your problem might lie in that Photoshop possibnly applies a cetain amount of sharpening by default before focus merging. Affinity does not apply any such sharpening. What happens if you sharpen your final focus-merged image? Although it is faster to use the raw files for focus merging in Affinity Photo, you will consistently get better results if you develop your raw files first and save them before merging the developed files. If you need further help, please post your original raw files for us to look at. John

Your source greyscale tiff image probably does not have a colour profile embedded. By default Affinity Photo assigns a colour profile to such unprofiled images. You can assign a Greyscale profile to the image, but this will be a 8-bit or 16-bit greyscale. This profile should be remembered when you save and re-open. As @walt.farrellsays above Photo does not offer a 1-bit profile. John

A few questions@ Are you viewing your images at 100% onscreen? Has the resolution (ppi/dpi) been changed recently? Is the image size still what you expect? It would help if you could post a screenshot captured at 100%. John

Hello @Tony Hicks, and welcome to the forums. You can install your Affinity Apps on two machines you control if they are running the same Operation System (Windoes or MacOS or Ipad). The way you access/activate it will depend on your OS and where you bought it. If you bought if from the Affinity Store, the same Serial code will work as before. John

Hello @Norb76, and welcome to the forums. Sorry, but no.you cannot install Affinity programs on different computers with different Operating Systems. You would be OK with two Windows computers or two MacOS computers (or even two iPads). You will need to purchase the appropriate version for each OS. John

@EMC UAV, your two displays both show Moire effects because your screens are inclined. This obscures any checkerboard. It is much better to post a screenshot of each image at 100%. John

A common solution to regular banding issues is the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) filter. I applied a FFT filter (Filters > Noise > FFT Denoise) to the image you posted. It reduced the banding to some extent, but not completely. What you actually posted was a photo of the screen, not a true screen capture, so the alignment was not accurate, leading to a Moire pattern. This would have contributed to the interference you report, and also why the FFT filter does not work so well on the downloaded image. John

Hello @Franciscosaos, and welcome to the forums. Batch processing can only deal with single files in turn, doing the same things to each. Thus, batch processing groups of files to create HDRs is not possible. Affinity is not an alternative to Lightroom. Affinity Photo could possibly be seen as an alternative to Photoshop. John

Hello @Saanapix, and welcome to the forums. I cannot see any spurious white lines on either of your images. Where are they? I cannot see anything on your .mov file either. It is just 12 seconds of black. John

Hello @Tim Newby, and welcome to the forums. The answer to your question is no, you cannot. You need a new licence for each Operating System. John

It will help others who might have the same problem as you, if you would explain how the matter has been resolved. John

Hello @Fowzia Zaka, and welcome to the forums. Many users have requested that the default display size is 100%. I would suggest that you add your support to one of the requests in the Feedback for Affinity Photo forum such as this one. John

With DeNoise AI and Adjust AI, I get the message 'Error Launch plugin failure', with an OK button. When I click on this, Photo closes. With Sharpen AI, I get the Topaz loading message, then everything hangs. The non-AI Topaz plugins seem to work OK. John

I still get this error with 1.9.2 on Windows. I thought that sandbox mode did not apply to Windows. John

In Photo I would use one or more of the selection tools to select the eye, and then just delete the selection. John

Cropping in Photo is non-destructive. If you use Layer > Rasterise and trim, it will (destructively) remove the cropped-off areas. John

@HaraldFfm, see my reply to your recent query. John

I think that @Ka21k's problem is that when you copy/paste in a macro, the Macro records and pastes the image/selection at the time of recording, not at the time of execution. John

Are you using the width and height boxes in the batch job dialogue? The point at which Affinity Photo applies this resizing is not documented and it might explain your anomalous results. You might do better using an Equations macro to do the resizing. Have a look at my macro to do that here. Using such a macro you can decide at which point the resizing occurs. John

I can only suggest that you post a Feature Request in that Forum. John

If Reset Rotation fails, then the only thing I can suggest is to explicitly rotate the document back again in the Transform Panel or use the straighten tool. John

Hello @AHEA Ed, and welcome to the forum. Open the History panel (usually in the tab next to the Layer panel). Can you see a step there which indicates the rotation. If you can see this, then click on the step before that one. John

A workaround could be: Set your dimensions display to pixels. In the Resize Dialogue enter your desired width and press Enter. Unlock the Aspect Ratio lock. In the height box, enter the displayed value again, but rounded to whole pixels, perhaps adding '.0' after it. Repeat with the width box if necessary. John