John Rostron

Nice. What was the $99 camera?
The last pic looks like a Dig Violet Viola.

It is probably due to how individual programs install themselves. Many programs appropriate the file type names for all the file types that it can open.
You need to change the way Explorer displays file extensions. Try this page for a how-to.
John

It is probably due to how individual programs install themselves. Many programs appropriate the file type names for all the file types that it can open.
You need to change the way Explorer displays file extensions. Try this page for a how-to.
John

Without the links from @John Rostron & @Fred C I would not have gotten anywhere with that, so the credit should go to them.

Here it is: https://thepluginsite.com
I did a search on ""The plugin site".
John

More specific:
https://thepluginsite.com/news/issues/mar2019.htm

No - the ones in the British Parliament have no legs to stand on.

Are they also in the british parliament negotiating brexit ?

"Overtaking" Adobe is not necessary for Affinity to avoid failing, so I will put about as much faith in this "will fail" prediction as I would in reading tea leaves.

It is not necessary for the files you want to merge to be in your Pictures folder, or even all in the same folder. Just follow the procedure @John Rostronmentioned in this post above. In step 2 you can navigate to any folder on your computer that you have read access to, in the same way you can when opening a single file.

I suggest you get a depth of field calculator. These are several apps available that will do this for you.
John

I was going to say HDR first, Focus Merge second. However I think that it will really depend on your subject matter.
I would suggest that you try it both ways and report back here. I'm sure that many members would be interested to see your results.
John

9 different focal points sounds too many.  I'd start by finding how small an aperture you can use without seeing diffraction effects and then do some hyperfocal distance calculations to see how many exposures you need.  My guess would be only 2 or 3.  
 

You need to add images to the stack by clicking on the Add button, then go look for the images in the window that opens, once you have the images in the focus stack window the OK button will be active.

I do a lot of stuff using power duplicate on semi-transparent layers to make repeated outlines appearing to move back into or forward out of the image. Sometimes it would just be much easier if I could duplicate behind.

Had some rain overnight, so got a couple more dianthus pics I liked
 

My PC specs are not all that different from yours and I have no difficulty in running any of the Affinity apps (including the betas).
John

By "LR photos" are you referring to the LR catalog? Or do you mean your original image files? Your original image files will still be there plus sidecar files whilch LR  (or ACR) will have used in translating raw files into other image formats (such as tiff). AP will not be able to utilize the sidecar at present. When I ditched LR I was able to use the 'developed' files (tiff, jpg etc) and to read my raw files without any LR adjustments. None of my files were lost, just the sidecar edits.
If you mean the LR catalog, there is no way that AP can utilize this.
John

My PC specs are not all that different from yours and I have no difficulty in running any of the Affinity apps (including the betas).
John

It's always good to learn new languages.
Mind you, what do I know, I'm English. They just teach us to speak louder if people don't understand us 

Or you could use the clone tool to copy the background  over the old signature.
 
I suspect that the reason you did not get a solution earlier was that the respondents assumed that your signature was on a separate layer  from your drawing. This is why they asked to see the Layers Panel.
John

John, your suggestion worked, I removed two adjustment layers...the colors are now correct. Thank you!!!

Hi john
Just to say FF8 works fine in Photo1.7 beta on Mac so I’m assuming it’s a Windows thing.

Thanks John, I didn't know about the free trial.  I will do that, and let you know if I figure this out.  
John

Yes, I like this.
John