MarcH

DXO is not that helpful; only allows .exe. Thank you for the detailed explanation which may work with some other apps I use.

I'm being particularly dim ("no change there" my other half would say!). How do I "point" DXO PhotoLab to the batch file? When I "Export to Application" in DXO it asks for a .exe file?

Lem3 - Thanks for letting me know.

Created a 2x6 ratio crop and saved it. On recalling the 2x6 crop on another image it gives me a 6x2 crop!

I always have Rasterise ON and set to 360ppi (the resolution the rest of my pictures are printed at).

Thanks for persevering! The effect is the same when printing from APublisher as well, so I assume it's one of the cross app functions. Good luck and if you need more description let me know.

My print attached. The ExportImport screen matches perfectly, the "TestPic.tif with Grad is "washed-out" and does not match my calibrated screen.

Chris B, 1. Open the image I previously posted and apply a Gradient Map; Position 100% make white and position 0% make a colour (I left it at the default Red). Print that image. 2. Open Open the image I previously posted and apply a Gradient Map; Position 100% make white and position 0% make a colour (I left it at the default Red). Save the image as a 16bit tiff. Open the newly saved image and print. 3. Compare the two images you have printed. The image from 1. will be lighter and not match the screen, the image from 2. is the correct colour. I hope that helps.

Attached is a tiff file that shows the effect. All in 16bit AdobeRGB - To show the effect in Affinity Photo (AP) open the TestPic and apply a Gradient Map Position 100% make white and position 0% make a colour (I left it at the default Red). Create a "piece of paper" 16bit ARGB (I did A4 at 360ppi) and copy the file with its gradient map onto the new piece of paper. Now go back to the original TestPic (with its gradient map) and export it as a 16bit Tiff ARGB. Re-import the saved file onto the new "piece of paper" (so you should have two images that look the same one being the original TestPic with the gradient map the other being the exported imported file). Print and on my Epson 3880 the Export Import image looks like the screen, the TestPic with Gradient map looks faded. I hope this helps! TestPic.tiff

Opened a 16bit image AdobeRGB in APhoto. Applied a Gradient Map adjustment (white to a colour) exported the image as a 16bit tiff AdobeRGB. Then I created an A4 page 16bit and AdobeRGB. Imported the image as a tiff and also copied the original image with the gradient map; so on the screen it looks like two copies of the same image. When printed (Epson 3880) the tiff version looks correct, the copied image looks "washed out"! I get the same effect when working in APublisher where I am having to export my files as Tiffs to get the colours to look "right".

Chris, Just tried it on the latest beta and no problem, works as expected! Thanks for checking in and consider this closed. Stay safe. Pete

When using a Global Colour as a position on a Gradient Map subsequent updating the Global Colour to a different colour does not update the Gradient Map. Hope that is clear! Pete

Open a blank "sheet of paper" and place an image on it. Now select outline from Layer Effects. If you chose Alignment:Outside it works perfectly but using either Alignment:Centre or Inside and the whole image is filled with the Colour selected. This is on a Windows 10 64 bit machine. There are workarounds of course. Keep up the excellent work. Pete

Open an image, draw a circle, blur the circle with Gaussian Blur, clip the image to the blurred circle (you should now have a circular cut out of the image with blurred edges). If you print this image the blur is removed and you get a hard edged circular print, if you rasterise the image before printing you get a blurred edge circular print which is correct. Hope that makes sense!

Open a blank page, create a new text box and insert some text, set a baseline grid for the text frame and (assuming you have the baseline grid visible) all is OK. Now "click" outside of the text frame and the baseline grid moves, click back in the text frame and it moves back to the correct position. Never had the problem with any of the previous betas.