proshot69

Thanks, I'm using the latest official beta with windows 1803, so far, no problems.

Affinity photo 1.63 does some very weird things on Windows 10 1803 to the point of the program becoming unstable and unusable. I was editing an 8 megabyte JPEG when the inpainting brush started doing weird things, white inpaints went black, the dodge brush tool caused a flickering lighter darker effect where used and one swipe with the sponge brush tool made the program crash. I was going to send JPEGS of the files with the steps I used when the problems manifested but get I this error message ' There was a problem processing the uploaded file. -200 ' (approx 25megabytes of files in total) anyway, AP sent its own crash report both times, the third time it vanished.

This beta works really well. It seems to start faster than any other, the speed and quality of the photo stacking seem to be better and many other operations seem to work flawlessly in my workflow. Well done.

If you examine the edges of the opal in this picture you will see what I mean, about artifacts, the stone is superbly cut and smooth oval, not what you see in the picture. The quartz crystal in this picture picked up a blue 'patch' which doesn't appear in any of the stack images. I'm not uploading the stack images as they are all each roughly 150 megabytes in size, Canon RAW images.

The latest beta can't do focus stacking, it just overloads the processor (also an I7) and basically makes the PC useless for anything else while it is running, or attempting to align the images for a focus stack, the only escape after a long wait for anything else to happen is to power the PC off. A pity as the earlier 1.6 series betas did some awesome focus stacking. Then there is the layer problem., try adding a layer then moving whatever image is in that layer, it just stays in the same spot dragging the whole image along with it. The only reason I've stayed with affinity is that the selection tools work well and just do their job, but with the artifacts that seem to have just appeared on all images after focus stacking, (with the production version) it becomes quite a chore to select anything as you have to spend quite a while cleaning up what should have been clean edges from the focus stack. This is the first time ever for me that beta programs have regressed from a great start. A pity actually.