KurtB

I am using Focus Stacking a lot and sometimes I by mistake open files with Open... instead of using New Focus Merge... My stackings consists of hundreds of images an this will hang, crash or slow down Affinity Photo. Sometimes I must restart my PC with reset when also Windows will hang. A warning when opening many files with Open... would be fine. If the opening with many files should work, it would also be fine with a Close all command instead of closing Affinity Photo. Repeting Cntr-W is not useful.

Sorry for the delay, I am using Photo for Windows. These commands will recreate the behaviour. New image layer with cntr-J New Mask Layer Alt-click on image thumbnail to get the layer mask on screen Using the Paint Brush Tool with standard round brush with default settings Painting in the layer mask will not give a solid line

It’s not possible to cancel time consuming operation like HDR, Panoramas, Focus stacking, etc. I have to wait for the operation to complete. I would appreciate a progress indicator for time consuming operations. I would be great to be able to reduce the number of used CPU’s to be able to do other things during heavy operation like Focus Stacking. The computer is more or less dead for other programs during these operations. Key toggling between images in Focus Stacking instead of mouse clicking on the eye symbol when retouching would be a great improvement. Resizing of canvas is only absolute, using a relative size is an improvement. The use of a luminosity masks is difficult to understand. I have not been able to copy an image into a layer mask. I can’t find tools for manually aligning images. Such as fine adjustment of pixel shift, rotatation and scaling. Move tool is course and is not usable when the image is zoomed in. In some cases only a part of an image is needed to be aligned. An Exif editor is wanted to be able to change or add information. Is it possible to use the same settings for many raw files in Develop Persona or in Photo Persona? Or save used settings for an image for later use?

A script error occurs when using the help function.

Painting in the layer mask is slow, lags and will not give a continuous line, its more like dots in a line. Spacing is set to default value.

The image resolution for a raw file is wrong. It does’t correspond to the camera resolution, nor to the exif info about the image resolution. I have a Canon 60D with 5184x3456 px and Develop Persona will result in 5202x3465 px. The image has also some pixel shifting according to its corresponding jpg image.