SU24

Thank you. I just found this. Very much appreciated.

Thank you for coming back to me. It's good to know I'm not the only one. So I'll wait and practice patience.

Hi, downloaded the MSI-Installer of all three applications. First I tried affinity-photo-msi-2.5.0.exe. The intallation or inizializaton process stopped at 'loading font ...' and I was left with my windows desktop although with a refreshed aphoto application icon on the desktop. Did the same with AFDesigner. The exact same behaviour. Initialization stopped at 'loading fonts ...' and I was left with a new 'Affinity Designer 2 icon' on my desktop. I then didn't try publisher.

Thank you very much! Unbelievably generous of you to share your brilliant work.

Hi DWright thank you for your response. Unfortunately (or maybe I'm rahter fortunate) I can't reproduce this issue anymore. I tried to verify the situation a few minutes ago and it now simply works as expected, meaning a file window opens when selecting the load bump map option. As I mentioned above I was playing around this morning to see which options the "live lighting filter" provides. And I had this phenomenon that klicking the "load bump map" option didn't do anything but freezing that same dialog window. And I really tried this several times. But what I didn't do, is restarting my PC. That seems to have done the trick. Sorry for the confursion caused. SU24

Hi, I was playing around with the live lighting filter options dialog. All options worked as expected. Only when trying to load a bump map the dialog window freezes. I'd expected a file dialogue window would be opened to choose an image from. That doesn't happen. Although the lighting options dialogue is frozen, I can move and drag the handles on that fan-like shape to alter different options. And the changes are shown in the "frozen" lighting dialogue window. I can also use all other functions like choosing different tools, choose layers in the layer panel, open all menu options. I can even use the "displace filter load from file option" from the Filter - Distort - Displace menu. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I'm using Affinity Photo 1.10.5.1342 on a Windows 10 Pro PC Vers. 21H2, 48 GB RAM, OpenCL disabled. Thanks SU24