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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Chris B in Latetly when i export a Picture from Affinity Photo to FIlm Pack it result in a square format.   
    Thank you very much Lee!
     
    to be honest, i belive the problem is on the FilmPack (DXO) side, because it worked all well till the last FilmPack update and i don`t have updated Affinity Photo.
    i also opened a Thread on the DXO Forum
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Lee D in Latetly when i export a Picture from Affinity Photo to FIlm Pack it result in a square format.   
    @Aktive Pupille I've tested this plugin on both macOS and Windows and get different results but the image is still distorted in some way. I've logged this with our developers to look into to see if any improvements can be made.
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Patrick Cray in Latetly when i export a Picture from Affinity Photo to FIlm Pack it result in a square format.   
    Latetly when i export a Picture from Affinity Photo to FIlm Pack it result in a square format.

    When i`m back in Affinity Photo this is the result:

    Film Pack is the latest Version, deinstall and reinstall dosn`t do the trick, any Ideas?
    Btw. this happens with every picture which i send from Affinity Photo to the Film Pack PlugIn!


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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Ash in Affinity V2, updates, pricing and no subscription [repost]   
    Hi All,
    Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
    This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
    With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
    Updates to V2 moving forward
    Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
    It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
    Updates to V1 moving forward
    While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
    We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
    Offer period
    In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
    Upgrade pricing
    It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
    I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
    The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
    Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
    However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
    We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
    A comment on no subscription
    I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
    We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
    But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
    All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
    All the best,
    Ash
    This is a duplicate post of a thread that is now locked and moved to the questions forum
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Blue21 in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Die Frage ist ob das mit dieser Lösung auch mit zukünftigen Updates funktioniert
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to AlainP in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    C'mon @cybertec69 make a man of yourself, stop crying, blow your nose, take a deep breath and ... write your batch file.
    Or just stop posting, ask for a refund, sign up with Adobe and have a nice day.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to 00maxx00 in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    kid? I would love to be still one 😂 
    please, your and my ages are irrilevant.
    crybaby.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to 00maxx00 in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    you're just a crybaby, interested in whining and not in solving the problem.
    Uninstall the sw and ask for a refund. that's easy enough?
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to 00maxx00 in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    I already wrote this problem (the export from other softwares) should be addressed by Serif. Apart from it, ap2 works fine.
    you're making it just too tragical about this single problem and refuse to spend 3 seconds to create this .bat and solve it, while waiting for the official solution.
     
    and please, stop calling "hack" this procedure. you have to create a .txt file, copy 2 lines of text in it and renaming it to .bat.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to AlainP in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Stop whining and write your batch file !
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to 00maxx00 in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Serif surely has to fix these problem, but the .bat file is a very simple and effective solution. with the time it took you to write all your complaints you would have already solved the problem and be using ap2.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to AlainP in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    You post too much about your poor situation that's why you don't have enough time. It takes a few seconds to make it work. Life must be hard on you !
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Wolfgang_AP in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Die Frage ist ob das mit dieser Lösung auch mit zukünftigen Updates funktioniert
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Wolfgang_AP in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Da wäre ich mir nicht so sicher, es ist zwar keine "Microsoft-App", aber eine "Windows-App" sonst würde diese nicht im Ordner WindowsApps landen.
    Affinity Photo V.1 gab es zuvor parallel ja auch schon als WindowsApp.
    Blöd ist es allemal
     
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Wolfgang_AP in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Mein Antwort bezog sich auf den Post von cybertec69.
     
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Hans De Smaele in Not able to start Affinity Photo 2 from DxO, XNViewMP, ART and Raw Therapee   
    Hi Draig (and others).
    These are the steps to implement Walt's workaround (on a Microsoft Windows OS):
    1. Open notepad
    2 Typ in the text below:
    start /b affinityphoto2.exe %1 exit 3. Save the notepad file somewhere (e.g. c:\affinityworkarounds\APhoto2.bat)
    4. Now, from within your applications (e.g. DXO Photolab) point to that file as the file to open AffinityPhoto2.
    5. This should work now !
    6. Pay a beer to Walt for finding the workaround
    7. Tell Serif Affinity team they have to solve this cra....
    Have a nice day !
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Patrick Connor in Is AFFINITY dead?   
    Sorry, we are focussing our efforts on a major release (new features and fixes) and consequently have not done any minor patches for a long time, as you say. But no not dead.
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from HenrikF in default colors (in color palette)   
    Hi,
    i`m searching for a way to "reset" the foreground and background colors to their defaults (black + white).
    in many other programs the shortcut "d" will do the trick.
    i know that i can use my own shortcuts but i cant find a function for this.
    perhaps i`m to blind to find, so how is the name of this function or is there already a shortcut available?
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Enneco-Gotzon in Icon Size in the Layer Palette   
    Official YouTube channel of Affinity Photo: Advanced layer options -> Resize layer thumbnails [& colour code layers, chequered background].
    Works for Designer, Photo & Publisher.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Jowday in Confused by Color Profiles   
    Always convert images from Adobe RGB to sRGB before saving for web use. Most monitors and devices cannot show all the colours in the Adobe RGB colour space.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to BofG in Confused by Color Profiles   
    For web use, you have to beware that some browsers don't do proper colour management. For the most consistent results you need the rgb data to be usable "as is" without relying on an icc profile.
    Non colour managed browsers assume sRGB, so you will need to convert your document to that colour space prior to export. It wouldn't hurt to also embed the sRGB profile at export. When converting the document it's best to work from a copy as it's a destructive process.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to walt.farrell in Confused by Color Profiles   
    You're welcome.
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to walt.farrell in Confused by Color Profiles   
    That setting applies only when your camera is creating JPG images. RAW images have no standard color profile.
    The setting in Affinity is for the document's color profile. This is separate from, and has no relationship to, the monitor color profile, which you would set only in your system settings.
    This Affinity Spotlight article might be useful: https://affinityspotlight.com/article/display-colour-management-in-the-affinity-apps/
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    Aktive Pupille got a reaction from Chris B in New Beta Focus Merge Crash   
    Thanks csbro, i`m uploading them right now
    reports.zip
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    Aktive Pupille reacted to Manofjesus in Affinity Photo Windows Customer Beta - 1.8.0.486 need very long to start   
    I have almost 2000 fonts installed - feel no much difference in startup time, hmm.
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