Franzi von Fragenfeld

This would be fab!

And by the way I use the very latest version of Affinity Photo and E-cycles 2.90.

Sorry, I just got back. Cycles.

Hello everybody, I've got an issue with an evening scene of mine. I have taken a photo and removed the sky (with refine edges). This is done as to have the HDRI background visible when rendering. There are different lighting sceneries I need to use. In daylight it looks ok. because the sky is bright, but when I render the night image in Blender I have these "glowing branches". To make it better visible here I put a black layer behind the PNG with the transparent png. The black area of the PNG on the right is the transparent area. Left is the rendered result, right is the png in Affinity photo. How can I get rid of that glow? i like to do that in the transparent png before rendering. Thanks for your help. Fran

Thanks to all of you! Great help!! Horray the PC is back earlier than anticipated. I did manage to do it now with Lagarto's macro in two batches. 1st one to resize the images, second one with the macro from him. To do this yourself, just read the thread above. Thanks so much, Fran

Hey John, thanks again. I'll be able to use it once the PC is back, hopefully before Friday. I'll follow your advice. Thanks so much, Franzi

Hi John, looking forward to your solution. Take your time, my computer needed to go to the doctors yesterday and won't be back before Friday. I appreciate your input on this, as will surely be many others with the same issue in the future. Kind regards, Franziska (OP)

Yep, thats the final canvas size and canvas aspect ratio. I need to have the original images to fit as big as possible into it, while maintaining their aspect ratio.

Hi. OP Franziska here btw. she, not he As to clarify as to what I would like to have, final dimension of all images 3000x2000. BUT, and this is a big BUT, all original images have to fit each horizontally on a 3000 x 2000 canvas while maintaining their original aspect ratio. No matter if they where bigger or smaller before. How should I proceed? Im a bit unclear as to which suggestion to follow now. Prepping my files right now for the big batch. Thanks for all your brainwork!

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a shot later tonight. My machine is busy with a big render job right now. Prettypicturegirl

" This will work for images that are originally larger than 3000 or 2000 but not for images originally smaller than those sizes For that you will need a slightly more complicated formula I believe the OP has stated that he has some images that will need upscaling (resizing upwards) " Thanks guys, yes Carl is right. I've got bigger and smaller file resolutions. Is there a way to adjust for this? Thanks, Prettypicturegirl

Thanks Aad, thanks David, guess I need to look outside of AP than. Love AP but it can not do all I need in this case. Will see if i can find a solution. It's not cruical, but it would be great to be able to do it. Have a nice evening, Fran

Aad, thank you! Unfortunately its not quite what I need ;-( maybe my description was not good enough. I need to fit those original images onto each onto a separate new canvas of 3000 x 2000 with white background. No matter if the original is bigger or smaller or if it has a different aspect ratio. The image itself should fit as big as possible onto the new canvas but should keep its own aspect ratio while doing so. Unfortunately I do think that might be more involved to achieve. I appreciate yours and others ideas!

Hi, I have about 300 images with various sizes and aspect ratios. Is there an efficient way to achieve a "fit image maximum size" into an 3:2 aspect ratio canvas? Ideally as batch process (!!!) & without cropping the actual images? In a second step I need to up and downscale the resulting images so that they all have 3000 x 2000 pixel. What is the most efficient way to achieve this? Thanks so much for your suggestions or a shared script. Franzi

Hi, I have a feature request. Would it be possible to add an automatic (possibly AI driven) sky replacement a la Luminar in one of the next releases? Sky replacement is perhaps one of the most popular things to do in photo editing software. I am aware that this can be done in AP and I do it regularly, but a built in almost one touch button functionality would be really a big timesaver. Thanks, Fran

Hi, any progress on this? I am rendering out equirectangular images in Blender & work on them in Affinity Photo. Once I export them as jpg. Facebook fails to recognize that they are 360. Any chance to add the option to edit the relevant Metadata within Affinity Photo? Thanks, Fran

Hi, I've got an image here, of which I need to recolor some areas of. In principle thats working well with HSL. Still I have some areas which are in a very dark green tone wich in turn have some dark shadowed areas. The new color I need to apply is a light grey. Is it somehow possible to copy only some sort of "shadow value map" from the original image and apply it as a new layer? So that I could select the complete green area, fill it with the paint bucket and than apply this "shadow" layer on top? Thanks for any hints as how to proceed, Fran

So at last, the printer accepted the last trial, which was the Pdf exported as Pdf/X1a:2003. Horray! Thanks to all, and especially to Lagarto. Summing it up, I would definetly wish that Affinity makes this a bit more fool proof. If there is an option to export CMYK one should get an all CMYK pdf as a result. To someone working more with online then print products the current interface hasroom for improvement. At least now I know and learned that Pdf/X1a:2003 puts out full CMYK.

One sidequestion. Would rasterising everything on export help? Or would that be bad for printing quality?

Hey Joachim, I understand that the Pdf is fine according to Lagarto. Still the issue is that the printers check does not agree with that. Its a huge company and as such has very very limited feedback. I was under the impression that setting CMYK on export should automatically take care of converting the images. Btw.: How would you convert the images manually in Publisher? Thanks: Still hopeful that the X-1 export is fine. @Lagarto, Thanks for testing, guess I will use another printer next time. This time I'm kind of stuck with the big "Sa.....t". You cant upload there without account. I think I'll source a smaller outfit for future work. Usually you get better customer support from them.

Yes it is an automatic check. They offer to convert this, but that gives me the the impression I am not under control. Which i do not like. In the worst case I proceed with that. Better would be to get the proper settings. But as you stated after your test above the pdf should be fine. Still waiting for the result of the X1 upload. Btw. They state specifically that Word and so on do NOT produce suitable pdf's....

Thanks again, so, resulting from my test to submit with the Acrobat 1.7 profile I still got the "no color profile embedded" back from them. That despite setting the color profile in export as PSO Coated v3. I give it another go with Pdf/X1a:2003 profile. Colour space as document, ICC Profile as document. Honor spot colours off. Will see what happens. In the worst case they offer to do the conversion, but I feel that should not be needed. @Palatino, no, no black logo

Thanks to both of you. I'll try another thing first, as I just noticed something When I choose the default export for print Pdf preset (PDF 1.7) instead of Pdf-X and choose the CMYK profile I get just underneath the option of "Convert image color spaces". On PDF-X that gets greyed out, which I overlooked before. So, I think you are absolutely right on that the X version does not embed the color profile. I try to sent the 1.7 Pdf now to the printer and see what happens. On a side note, I think Affinity should not make it more obvious that images do not get converted when specifying X4 as the Pdf type. Not all of us work predominantly print and are aware of that. Thanks again!

Thanks Katrin, the printer asked for PDF-X4 and requests for the PSO Coated v3 to be used in the document. The printing company is a huge saetup and as they ask for PDF-X4 I'm pretty sure they can handle these files (so have a PDF Print engine). If there is no color profile embedded in Pdf-X why would they ask me to use the one specified. Anyway thanks for your thoughts. I just dont get why setting the right color profile on pdf export would not make sure everything is converted to it...

Thanks Lagarto. Should not all images convert automatically to CMYK if I set that as export color profile? In my view thats the purpose of setting a color profile on export. Attached the PDF of the extra page exported in the same way... Not sure what I need to change....??? I added the images by "drag and drop" and replaced some later with "replace image" Any thoughts? Would exporting as a different Pdf type or TIFF help? Would rasterizing all help? Test.pdf