[Photo: new stack, sometimes cropped]

3 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

Hi afx,

all 25 images may be a bit too much different.

I got very good stacking results when using the first and the last 8 images, which stay within a reasonable range of perspective variance.

Hi NotMyFault,

yes, you are correct. But that is not the point.

In your result you show an outer and an inner frame. I expect the outer frame, but often I get the inner one. Of course, the outer frame would need some cloning work, but it would not cut off essential parts.

But depending on the mood of Affinity I sometimes get the outer and sometimes the inner frame with the same image set and settings.

cheers
afx

[Photo: new stack, sometimes cropped]

On 4/19/2021 at 4:24 PM, DWright said:

If it is possible can you please send me a copy of the files that you are using for the stack

Hi,

sorry for being such a laggard.

Here are the files: http://afximages.com/tmp/Set1.zip

In the end, they are not worth the trouble, I would cone myself to death with them, but they show the issue nicely.

cheers
afx

[Creating a stack crashes every time with OpenCL]

5 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said:

Oh sorry, I saw your comment about an "Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti" and assumed that was the same machine.

Yes, I also have crashes on the big box with the Nvidia, but as the same workflow crashes on the Laptop with the Intel GPU, me thinks this is a different issue.

cheers
afx

[Creating a stack crashes every time with OpenCL]

10 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said:

Capture One causes crashes in the NVIDIA driver, see the following post for more information:

As I wrote above, this is an Intel 620GPU, not Nvidia.

cheers
afx

[Photo: new stack, sometimes cropped]

Hi Timo,
in this case it is animated GIFs, silly things like yawning or playing dogs.

I have done a few so far and perspective never worked, it distorts images.

What I absolutely do not understand is why Affinitys behavior is not deterministic.
Two stack generations one after the other with completely identical settings deliver different results. This is usually a bug indicator.

cheers
afx

 

[Photo: new stack, sometimes cropped]

21 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

looking at your second screenshot it seems the alignment did not go well,  meaning one or more images got mis-aligned.

Both results were generated from the same image set with the same options, that what makes it so puzzling. The result is not consistent.

The second one is actually what I want as it is perfectly aligned (I am too stupid to hold a camera straight...), the first one is utter rubbish and unusable as Affinity crops away way too much. On the second the alignment is perfect, I just need to clean up the outside mess and provide a common crop afterwards.

cheers
afx

[Photo: new stack, sometimes cropped]

Hi,

I am using 1.9.2.1035 on Windows.

Sometimes when I start a new stack it is cropped tight other times it is just aligned.

I use the "scale, rotate and translate" option.

This is how cropped looks (with all layers active):

If the crop where usable, I would not worry, but it cuts of important parts.

This is how aligned looks (with all layers active):

In both cases I used the same settings for the stack creation.

So am I missing some setting in the background or is this a bug?

thx
afx

 

[HOWTO: Generate aligned cropped frames for animated GIFs]

Just now, David in Яuislip said:

You are much more polite than me, glad it works

Wow, never ever would I have expected someone calling me polite

[HOWTO: Generate aligned cropped frames for animated GIFs]

13 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

You need to import it into the Macro panel not the Library as it is .afmacro not .afmacros.

....

When you record the macro, click on the layer below with the mouse, there is no keyboard shortcut as you know. This then writes the amazingly helpful "Set current selection" into the History

Ok, my error. The import button in Macros did not get me a file browser, so I thought I had to rename it to macros and try the library way.

Once I had a macro recorded, I also could load the file.

The mouse selection is puzzling, but helpful

I'll try to recreate manually. Yup, that worked!!!

thx
afx

[HOWTO: Generate aligned cropped frames for animated GIFs]

4 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

RasteriseAndDown.afmacro 563 B · 0 downloads

Thanks, but I get an error loading it: Unexpected macro format.

How do you get that Set current selection into the macro? I thought I need a key for that?

thx
afx

[HOWTO: Generate aligned cropped frames for animated GIFs]

Thanks, but as the Windows version has no keyboard command to advance to the next layer, the macro solution seems impossible.

cheers
afx

[rasterize & trim for all selected layers [implemented in V2]👍]

Yes please.

Absolutely needed to work efficiently with stacks and exported Slices. The current way is utterly tedious and time consuming.

cheers
afx

[Paste onto a layer]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Did the video help?

Yes, it works exactly that way on the ThinkPad. So why not on my big box earlier today?

I think I know. The region has to be defined on the source. Using a region that was defined on the target does not work. But I need to define it on the source to make it fit exactly.

thx!
afx

[Paste onto a layer]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Make a selection on the layer you want to copy from

Select the layer you want to copy it to

Edit > Fill > History

Hmm, looks like I am missing something, I do not get anything copied.

[Paste onto a layer]

24 minutes ago, Joachim_L said:

Select both layers and then menu Layer >> Merge Selected or use the corresponding keyboard shortcut. Please note that the name of the merged layer is the name of the lowest selected layer.

Thx!

That works, especially as the copied layer ends on top, I just need to hit the hotkey.

[Paste onto a layer]

Hi,

I have Pixel layers and want to copy some pixels from one layer to another with Photo on Windows.

So far I always get new layers for the copied pixels.

Is there no way to copy directly onto a layer?

If that is not possible, how can I merge the new and the existing layer so hat I have a new layer with the name of the original copy target?

thx
afx

[Creating a stack crashes every time with OpenCL]

Thanks Chris,

the funny thing is, it also crashes on desktop with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti, so it is not specific to the Intel GPU.

And the latest C1 always has an OpenCL error when processing the first image of a batch after restart.

So my assumption would be that this is some common Windows driver rubbish, as this all started only recently.

(I must admit I only use Affinity Photo every blue moon for tasks that cannot be handled by C1)

Reading Petes Post seems to point to getting original Intel drivers. Will do, maybe that also fixed my 0aD game scaling issue on the laptop.

EDIT: Looks like I have an up to date driver already, It only differs in the Build number, not major/minor.

cheers
afx

[HOWTO: Generate aligned cropped frames for animated GIFs]

So ages ago I asked about using Photo's stack function to generate aligned images for an animated GIF.
All the hints were about using the slices in the export persona.
But I never got the crop to work on all the slices.
I have seen similar questions and answers since then.
Today I tried again, looked through answers and one thing finally gave me the hint I needed:
Rasterize & Trim, that finally resulted in an applied crop in the slices for export.

So if you do not use Rasterize & Trim your slices will not have applied crops,
it looks like this:

But if you painstakingly apply Rasterize & Trim to all the layers, then you see an applied crop in the export persona and everything is fine:

Any ideas on how to apply "Rasterize & Trim" to all layers in one go?

And just for completeness a hint on the GIF generation:
ImageMagick is very easy, but also very inefficient, so I switched to FFMPEG which produces GIFs that are half the size in a much shorter time:

ffmpeg -framerate 4 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' out.gif

Note, I use PNGs, with JPGs I had artifacts.

cheers
afx

[Creating a stack crashes every time with OpenCL]

Yuck, then why bother shipping it...

(so where is the frustration emoticon when I need it?)

[Creating a stack crashes every time with OpenCL]

Hi,

this happens on 1.9.1 and also 1.9.2. I have 13 JPGs (Created by Capture One) each from 6-10MB.

I open Photo and create a new stack with auto alignment. No matter whether I have live alignment set or not, the program crashes before showing anything. It creates crash dump files.

This is on a Quad I7 Lenovo x1 Yoga with 16GB of RAM, 620GPU and the March Windows updates applied.

This happens when OpenCL acceleration is activated.

It does not happen when OpenCL acceleration is deactivated.

cheers
afx

[Slices do not use the size from the layers]

Hi,

to create an animated GIF from a handheld series of shots, I used the stack creation with automated alignment. I cropped the whole stack so that I now have aligned images in layers of the same size.

But when I create slices from the layers and export them the alignment is gone and images have varying sizes aligned differently in some canvas.

What is going on?

thx
afx

[Undo Brush and Crop]

Hi,

I would like to use the dust and scratch filter. And then the Undo Brush.

But the Undo brush ignores the crop that I had previously applied to the image and I do not see any history (I just open the afphoto file that does not show any history) to set the current snapshot..

What do I need to do to get the undo brush to work based on the current image representation if there are no snapshot cameras to click on?

thx
afx

[Retouching an old T-Shirt print]

So for me the question is, how can I quickly define masks/layers based on color boundaries?

I have black, red and blue, with black being like lines through the rest. Because of the cracks, I don't have continuous areas, so the selection needs to be loose or I end up redrawing everything.

 

thx

afx

[Retouching an old T-Shirt print]

Thanks jhoy,

but I don't see how that can work.

Cloning would have to come from a 4mm² spot to a much larger area to get over the cracks, that does not sound efficient.

Inpainting would probably need to trace all cracks, a job for ages.The sample I posted covers about 3cm² on screen at 100%, the total image is about 3000px².

 

I was thinking about defining masks based on colors (with soft enough borders to cover the cracks and then make sure the areas are filled from a dropper.

 

thx

afx

[Retouching an old T-Shirt print]

Hi,

usually I don't need much of the power of a full blown image editor, Capture One is all I need for my photos.

But occasionally I need more, then I turn to Affinity Photo and fumble through, don't use it often enough to really become proficient.

 

Now I started a project where I am at wits end. I have an old T-Shirt with a faded and heavily cracked print. see attached sample.

Can not buy a new one, they where one off from 20 years ago and a place I can no longer visit. So I need to copy the drawing to a new custom T-Shirt.

 

I manged to generate a PNG with only the drawing and no background.

 

Now the question becomes, how to I regenerate the colored areas without the cracks?

 

Pointers on how to solve this are very much appreciated.

 

thx

afx