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The best workaround so far.

Thanks Garry for the extensive answer. Every possibility covered! The default idea behind Affinity Photo might indeed be photograpy. Image creation goes beyond that. Too bad! Thanks, Onno

Garry, I was hoping for a quick answer too. The original file is client work, but I have another file, same setup, same results. My guess is that it has something to do with the application. Or the tool. Antialiasing also occurs when you have one-colour (say black) pixel shape as a layer. Once you rotate that 90 dgs. there is the antalias again. Shouldn't be with this 90 dgs rotation. camouflage-test.afphoto

wet edges are off (by default)

I have a clean pixel image with flat colours. In the blend options the coverage map is flat-top, antialiasing set to force-off. Yet when I use the clone brush with a new brush- hardness set to 100% opacity and flow to 100% - I get antialiased result. Is there any way to get rid of this? Like in Photoshop you can set your general settings to always use nearest neighbour. Thanks, Onno

Hi, I use LYN (https://www.lynapp.com). Good for photo collections also from external drives. Has basic image editing possibilities. No match for Affinity Photo of course. But for viewing and organising it works well. You can make changes to IPTC and GPS too. You can tag (Finder compatible) and add keywords. And it has smart folders to search your tagged images. And it also reads AD and AP thumbnails (which XnView on Sonoma does'nt anymore).

incredible! what a difference 1% can make. Thanks a million!

Hi Walt, thanks for the quick reply! it just does not mix colours, it can paint, but that's not what I want.

It's just not working reinstalled photo v2 I'm using a MacBook Pro with MacOS 10.15.7 with 16Gb and a SSD 2Tb with plenty of space. On my iPad pro it works like a charm. Thanks, Onno

more or less the same here: crash on opening files. In different ways: opening by double clicking the file, dragging it to the menubar on the publisher icon, from within publisher when choosing open... Latest version 1.9.3 Mac os 10.14.6

Hi doug-life, You mean to say there's no difference between 'bilinear' and 'nearest neighbour' ? Good to know. Since your output's going to be quite big (4.5m x 0.9m roughly) you may ask yourself if png-format is right for this job. Is is for print on paper? what will be the viewing distance? etc. A tif maybe more practical. Will you be printing yourself? I'm not certain that png is meant for really big output and my old PS CS4 has difficulties with it, PS CC does not AFAIK. Good luck, Onno

Hi doug-life, (and Schmu) Your artboard is set to 300x60 pixels which amounts to 2,54cm x 0,51cm @ 300dpi. In vector you won't see pixels but in PNG you will. My suggestions would be, depending on your output (size)needs: 1 in AD check all layers and shapes: Layers > cogwheel > coverage map: make it a horizontal line at the top. This provides clean sharp edges. 2 set your artboard to the real world output size in cm or inches. make sure the document setup is @300dpi, don't forget to scale the artwork as well. 3 in export persona when choosing PNG set the 'pixel format' to 'use document format'. For resampling I always use 'nearest neighbour' so colours stay clean and unmixed. with a size of like 25,4cm by 5,08cm your output @300dpi will be 3000x600 pixels. Hope this is of use

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Not able to open a tif, either Photoshop made or AP. Not when creating a new file and then 'open', not when dragging a file to the dock icon. Not when going to 'open...' Opening a regular APhoto file works and I'm warned about the beta status. When opening a pdf it works like normal. A png as well. AP beta 1.8.0 163 on 2 different computers (MacBook Pro, Mac mini on 10.14.6 Mojave)

sorry, I had the impression I was on the beta forum Yes i meant the beta version Thanks Mark