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When will the official update/patch be released?

Since the most recent update to 1.7.1 my UI keeps on breaking. windows disappear and I cannot get them back unless I reset all the preferences which I am now doing multiple times a day. The toolbar on the left hand side with brush tool etc keeps on disappearing. The only way I can get it back is by doing a complete reset.

ok. I was not aware that you had to merge all the adjustment layers first. I merged everything this time and then exported from the top most merged layer. Now I also understand why there is a "quality" slider in the LUT export dialogue box. At first I didn't get it. I though that the LUT file would have the exact settings from each and every adjustment layer. From what I can see happening here it seems like a LUT file is just a squashed, mushed up approximation of the look you're trying to export. I once again merged the LUT file with the original unedited source file to see if I would get an exact replica and once again no. Just a very rough approximation. is this how LUT files are supposed to work? are they just rough approximations of the "look" you're exporting. Thanks for your hep so far. much appreciated.

I am able to achieve the exact same look by just copying and pasting the adjustment layers to the new photo file. This is a bit clumsy and time consuming. I was hoping to automate this process via a LUT and a batch convert or macro

ok thanks. another question/problem. I conducted a test and exported a LUT from an affinity file/photo and then reapplied that very same LUT to the exact same photo before all the adjustments had been made to see if it would indeed modify the file to exactly the same state. It didn't .It changed the look yes, but it looks nothing like the file from which the LUT had been exported. What gives here? I though the LUT was supposed to allow one to apply the exact same layer adjustments to a new file to get the exact same look. especially when applying it to the exact same source file. any feedback greatly appreciated

Can you batch process a LUT onto multiple photos? I want to create a look using exclusively the adjustment layers then presumably export the look as a LUT then apply the LUT to multiple photos. Is this possible and is that the correct workflow? cheers

Please create a tone mapping plugin for apple photos alongside the other plugins (Affinity Miniature, develop, monochrome etc) so that it's not necessary to leave the apple photos application. Thanks

Please introduce the ability to batch tone map image sequences. I want to use affinity photo to "color grade" video. Thanks

ok. thanks

I have an image sequence of a hundred images I wish to apply a tone map filter to. I have looked at the Macro feature in Affinity but it doesn't seem to support the Tone Mapping tool. Any ideas? Thanks

Thanks for the replies so far. I am still unsure as to how to get both the foreground/background icon to show in the colour palette. sometimes its there, sometimes it isn't. I need this icon to show so that I can use perlin noise otherwise the filter doesn't work...

hi - thanks for the reply. i'm not sure. when i press ALT D it does not reset the foreground and background colors back to black and white.... in photoshop there was an icon you could press to reset the foreground and background colors to black and white...

Thanks

Hi Thanks for the reply. I already own a licence of Affinity photo and am working exclusively in the program. ok that answers my question. i will work exclusively in afphoto and then just export to psd format whenever i import into motion then. I find the psd format os the most robust out of all the export formats. when I use other formats like exr etc I get strange results that do not match what i created in afphoto. psd always produces the same result. Thanks

For workflow reasons I would like to work exclusively in the psd format so I can import these files into apple motion without first having to export to another format. Is this possible? Is the psd format as robust and fully functional within affinity as the native afphoto format? Thanks