John Rostron

I have tried loading these, and it loads just up to 8027. I also tried it using every other image, and it still omitted 8028 onwards. These last images do have some in-focus items as text in the very foreground. I do wonder if the algorithm is not recognizing this. What happens if you try to merge just these last dozen or so? John

Do your original files open in LR and Nik HDR? John

The Corel programs must do something like I suggest. I get a list of TWAIN-compliant programs from which I select VueScan. I would guess that VueScan and SilverFast install some information in the Windows registry that other programs can access. It is many years since I did anything like that sort of programming. I leave it to the experts now. John

@emmrecs01, thanks for your comment. What I am suggesting is that Photo asks the Operating System to load the scanner program. Doing it this way should mean it should work even if the target program is 32-bit. The scanner program saves the image in whatever bit depth you specify. Note that the image bit depth (8/16) is not at all the same as the program bit depth (32/64). Given that you have asked the operating system to open image files in Photo, then the scanned and saved image will load into Photo. John

Affinity has explained why it does not offer inbuilt scanner support (lack of 64-bit drivers). I have been looking at other software to see if it will support scanners. I have PS CS5 which used to work until I re-installed Windows 10 on a SSD. It now tells me it cannot find any WIA hardware, although it does detect my Slide Scanner software (Silverfast). I have been trying Corel Products. I have an old Corel PhotoPaint X7 which I have managed to re-activate after my re-install. I have also been trying Corel PaintShop Pro 2019 32-bit. These both seem to work on the principle that they look for TWAIN drivers (rather than WIA). They both find that I have VueScan and activate that. VueScan loads and will scan from my flatbed scanner (Canon MP630). However, it will not load into the graphics software. If I save the image from VueScan, it will load into Affinity Photo. This approach seems to be a possibility for Affinity Photo. Could File > Import it be set to detect any available scanner and activate it; then, when the scanner has done, and the image saved, it will automatically load into Affinity Photo? John

I would have thought that if the program had run out of resources (RAM or whatever) you would have received an error message, or else it would have cashed or frozen. It might help (the experts, not me) if you gave us your system specifications, and the size of your images. John

It struck me that a faster initial approach would be to remove the steps, just using the flood select and delete, then a judicious use of the erase brush. I took about ten minutes to produce this. Still some way to go, but it is an approach. John

I have a Coolscan V for scanning slides. With both VueScan and SilverFast, I save the image as a tiff. Since I have Affinity Photo set as the default program for tiff files, the saved tff automatically opens in Photo. I find that SilverFast is marginally better, but both produce good-quality images. John

When you load your 53 images, are all 53 loaded in the Add files dialog box? Any focus merge algorithm will be looking for parts of the image which are in focus. Do your missing images have any in-focus areas? John

@HVDB Photography , You beat me to it on this. By the time that I found my posting, you had provided the link. @AlanWood, If you need to contact me on this, please feel free to do so. John

Use the Artistic Text tool, select the text you want to modify, then change the font size (or any other property) in the context toolbar at the top. John

I have done several tilings recently. Each one has involved around half a dozen Affine transformations in both axes. I have seen no sign of degradation in any of these. John

You could use the Inpainting Brush. That usually works, provided the text is not to extensive. On the other hand, if the text is a copyright notice, then you ought to leave it where it is. John

If I look at enlarged views of these images, I can indeed see the artefacts where the sweater meets the background. I was only looking at the 100% view. I feel that if you can't see a problem at 100%, then it is not a problem. John

I have to say that I cannot see any jpeg artefacts, but then my eyesight is definitely not what it was. I would agree though that jpeg artefacts could exacerbate the definition of your image on resizing. Was the original image a jpeg? If not, then could you apply the reduction/resizing to the original non-jpeg image and see what that looks like? John

Another gorgeous panorama. However, the bottom right quadrant looks to be all dark shadow with no detail visible. It looks like a candidate for a combination of HDR and Panorama. Ideally you take your bracketed images for each segment at the same time. However, as you took Raw images, then you may be able to develop the images first to extract the detail from the lower parts, using the same procedure for each photo. You would then need to save as developed images before applying the Panorama stage. I also like your second image. We do not have mountains like this in the UK. The best I have been able to manage are the High Atlas in Morocco. John

Sounds like the classic "Have you tried switching it off and then on again?" John

I tend to use the destructive approach for anything where I can easily and quickly start again from scratch. I use the history stack to start over. This would generally be the case for most of my photos. John

I ran the DxO NIK installer, locating the files into D:\DxO\Nik Plugins. In Affinity Photo 1.7 Beta, I opened the Photoshop Plugins dialogue and selected Add. I then pointed AP to the location of each plugin, in turn: D:\DxO\Nik Plugins\Dfine ..., repeated for all the plugins. John

I have recently installed and tried all of the DxO Nick collection plugins (installed November 2018) with Affinity Photo 1.7 Beta and Windows 10. They all work perfectly. I have also installed and tried the following Topaz plugins: Adjust 5, Clarity, Clean 3, InFocus, Remask 5 and Simplify 4. These also work properly. They are all older versions, before Topaz Studio. Imagenomic Noiseware (unregistered) and Neat Image Reduce Noise 8 also work. John

The fact that the horizon was approximately half way would contribute to a good projection. Here is a panorama I took on Herm (Channel Islands) looking south from the north clifftop. The horizon was above centre. There is a path in the distance which was about halfway (just about visible) where it appears straight. The path in the foreground is noticeably bent (though it does bend naturally to some extent). John

Use the Help facility and enter expressions. This gives (amongst other things) the various values and functions that can be used in equations. I use these a lot with the Filters > Distort > Equations to modify images. You might like to search the Tutorials or the Resources forums using the Search word Macro. A few of these contributions give the text of the macro so that you can see how the expressions are used. When using Equations, the field for entering expressions/equations has the useful facility of displaying any incorrectly formed expression/equation in red. John

A great panorama. I always find the main problem with panoramas is maintaining good horizontal control. You have done this well It is good to see results from Photo in this forum. Most postings are from Designer. Perhaps the sub-tile of the forum (Post your fantastic designs for all to see) does not help! John

I think that @sehreilig2 means that it works on his Windows 10 computer. John

The photos I was referring to here were the ones in the links at the end of the previous message from @dmstraker. I was following the one posted by @Fotoloco fairly precisely as far as I can tell. I was very careful to only tick the HSV box when instructed to do so. I did this three times, once on the window (Gloucester Cathedral Great West Window), then on the half-timbered building (in Tewkesbury), then again on the window for these images. Each time I got the same result. I was using version 1.6 for all of these. I will try and emulate the layers in the .afphoto fies which I downloaded. I shall also practice using groups and nested adjustments. Thanks for your comments. John