John Rostron

You have a text style set, with the misbehaving text panel selected, look at the text style panel and select No Style; if you don't see a text style panel go to Window > Text and click on Text Styles to activate the panel into view.

There are two ways of doing this.
Either: Locate the default plugin folder. You can find this from the Photoshop Plugins box. Copy your plugin to this folder.
Or: In the Photoshop Plugins box, Click on Add, then navigate to the installation folder for your  plugin and select the folder where the plugin resides.
Have you done either of these?
John

Or you could have a gradient so that the upper part of the bird is a blue tit and the lower part is a great tit!
John

Hi John, thanks for replying. I had looked through the topaz site and most conversations are revolving around P/s and Lightroom. There are posts about affinity but couldn’t find what I needed to know. I posted here because I couldn’t work out why it wasn’t loading in affinity as a plugin and hoped someone had experience with gigapixel / affinity and as a plugin specifically. 

I got the answer and I'm quite happy to use GAI as a separate app.
 
Cheers
 
 

In another thread in Questions, I have been discussing with others how to write a macro that will resize an image so that the longest side is a fixed value. For example, if I resize a 4000x3000 image to maximum of 800, it will give a 800x600 image. For a portrait image, the image will become 600X800.
After many iterations, I came up with a set of macros included here in a macro library: Resize to fixed max size.afmacros, which is attached here.
This includes five macros:
Resize to 640 max
Resize to 800 max
Resize to 1280 max
Resize to 1600 max
Resize to variable max side
The first four will resize any image to the designated maximum size. The last one includes a parameter which allows you to partly-specify the target size. The default target size is 2000px, but for any other value (up to a maximum of 4000, use the pop-up to adjust. The value of the parameter is the desired maximum size divided by 4000. A convenient way of specifying the final maximum edge size is to enter a fraction. If your target is (say) 800px then, in the parameter box (not the slider), enter 800/4000. If your target is 3200, enter 3200/4000.
I have given technical details of the macro in subsequent messages in this thread.
 
EDIT:
This is a revised version of the macros (as of 2nd November 2018). For details of the changes, see the item below which gives the macro details). The changes were in response to a user who found that if he cropped the image first, the macro did not work.
 
Resize to fixed maximum size.afmacros

Here is a worked example of the procedure described above:
1. Create two blank layers.
2. Add a Perlin.noise filter to each. (I actually created one layer, added Perlin Noise, then duplicated that layer.)

3. Apply the Affine Filter (Filters > Distort > Affine) to the top layer with displacement of 50% for X and Y.

4. With this same layer, use a soft brush to erase the horizontal and vertical hard-meeting area. Erase up to, but not reaching the edges. You can use a broad brush near the centre and a narrow one near the edge.  Because of the Affine filter, the top layer will tile.  (Note that I set the visibility of the bottom layer here to zero to make the erasure clear.)

5. Choose a suitable blend mode to give the effect you prefer. Normal may be OK. (I used Normal here, after setting the visibility of the lower layer to 100%.)
6. Merge the two layers.

It should work because of the randomness of the Perlin effect. To test this, I applied another Affine filter with displacements of 70% and 30%. This brings the edges to the body of the tile. As you can see there is no obvious tiling.

John

The only thing you can do is use one of the macros created/shared by other users that do this, and which were recorded before the (still unfixed) bug appeared in the applications.
Such as:
 

Are you sure about that? I cannot find a "Resize Pixel Art Document" menu item in any of AD's personas or any mention of HQX or XBR anywhere in its UI.

A recent post in the Questions forum asked about seamless tiling. There are also video tutorials available, such as the one on Seamless Textures. I describe here how I created a seamless tile to form a repeatable background to the pages on one of my web site.
The website was for a wood, so the starting point for the background image was a photo of the autumn woodland floor covered in leaf litter:

This image will not tile seamlessly. The first step is to apply the Affine transformation (Filters > Distort > Affine) with an offset of 50% in each of the x and y axes. This gives:

The left and right edges of this would now tile seamlessly (as would the top and bottom. But there is the mismatch along the central axes. To get rid of these I placed images of single leaves onto these axes. The leaves were scanned on a flatbed scanner;  the individual images edited to remove the white background and they were then saved as .png images. The leaves were placed onto my background using File > Place, and then resized to some extent to get the right scale, and they were randomly rotated.

This has now masked all the non-seamless axes. The Affine transform is now reversed, using the same procedure as before ( (Filters > Distort > Affine) with an offset of 50% in each of the x and y axes)

This has now created a seamless tile. However, in this example, The placed leaves are conspicuously around the edges, so I added some more at random points over the rest of the image:

I could have added more, but I chose to stop there. This image now forms a seamless tile. To demonstrate the effect, I placed four copies of the image together to show how they tile seamlessly (or they would do if I get my placing more precise).

In this example, I started off with a background of leaf litter on the woodland floor. I could have started with a blank image and placed leaf images all over it to hide any background. Then I would begin the procedure as above. This would probably have been better since there would be no distinction between the the various leaf images; they would blend in better. However, for my purposes, I liked the original woodland floor image.
For a background page for a website, I faded the image above to as not to be too intrusive. I used this technique for the Friends of Coombe Wood web pages. (Apologies for not updating it. I have been unable to visit for the last few months.)
John

@Nigel Kendall, I am the author of the ChangeDPI macros recorded with Photo 1.6.
I have just tried it using 2.2.1 on my PC and the macro works fine, both as a one-off and as a batch.
John

This one uses molded fragments drawing from at least half a dozen images, including the remains of torn-off posters from the plywood wall around a construction site and - believe it or not - a spider web,.
 

I have also tried this, resizing to 1500px, Lanczos, and see no moire at any view magnification between 25% and 400%.
John

Developed in DxO PL7 and finish with Affinity Photo 2.2.1

I use PhotoZoom rather than Gigapixel, and I tried what you have been doing using PhotoZoom. It uses splines as part of the resizing process.
The size of the output from PhotoZoom as exactly the same as the input.
John

As a substitute for copy and & paste inside
You should be able to use Layer > Duplicate (CTRL+J) and Arrange > Move Inside to move the duplicated layer inside the target layer - which will work correctly in a macro
But as I don't fully understand what you are doing it's hard to advise further at this stage
 

@VectorWhiz, I downloaded your original png image and applied a curves as close as I could to your one. What I got was this:

I have to admit that the solarised effect was more what I expected from the shape of the curve you depicted. It was nothing like the first image you showed.
John

As has been stated many times before, Serif never (well, hardly ever) comments on what it is working on until it announces it in a beta. For all we know, it has a team of twenty developers working on AI. Then again ...
John

Prefs → External Viewer → choose APh

I waited all summer to catch this female of natural aviation at the lunch counter getting her fill up.  I'm glad Affinity Photo was there when the waiting was over.

If you are selling a reproduction, are you not then in breach of copyrght? Even though you are not passing off the original work as your own, you are making a profit from the other's intellectual property.
John

If you are selling a reproduction, are you not then in breach of copyrght? Even though you are not passing off the original work as your own, you are making a profit from the other's intellectual property.
John

Surely nature can take some of the credit 😜

100% Affinity Photo 

I used some macros from James Ritson.

Thanks man! Someone else did one for me, but its nice to know the steps to do it!