jackamus
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I have a photo with an area that is very dark and I want to lighten it using the Levels tool. I used the polygon selection tool to select the area but when I apply Levels it affect the whole image and not just the dark selected area. What am I doing wrong?
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LOL - there's nothing like being cautious!
I think what would be helpful at this point would a Serif staff member to confirm your advice. Let's hope one of them see this comment! I shan't actually do anything until I hear from one of them.
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Hi Carl, that was a nice concise explanation of the procedure. I don't have any AD2 assets so I've nothing to lose or duplicate.
So technically all that will happen is that my ADV1 assets will be migrated to ADV2. Correct?
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LOL - I'm filled with confidence!
Can you explain in non-technical terms what happens when I do this in order to move my Assets from AD1 to AD2?
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I did a ctrl start-up and saw the above mentioned window.
I'm a bit cautious when I read the warning at the top of the window. In AD2 the first three boxes are ticked. If I tick the 'Reset Content Migration Prompt' and then click 'Clear' what will happen?
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3 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
That would probably work, but it would also (of course) overwrite any Assets created while using V2.
I believe the Assets would have been copied from V1 when first running V2, assuming that (a) the user allowed it when first running V2 and (b) V1 was still installed (as you mentioned). There are, however, additional considerations when multiple Affinity applications are installed, as the Assets are not shared among the applications for V1 but they are for V2, and that might prevent complete migration from the non-shared to the shared format.
The official way to migrate them, if the automatic migration does not work, is to export each Asset category from the Assets panel in V1 into .afassets files (one per category) and then load them individually into V2.
Thanks Walt. I will have a go at your suggestion of exporting from V1 to V2 and see what happens.
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Thanks Thomaso I was able to restore my old AD V1 and I found all the assets I thought I had lost.
When I upgraded to AD V2 I would have expected the Assets to install as well but they didn't. Is that a separate operation to install any previous user features when installing a new upgrade?
How do I copy these Assets into AD V2?
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How do I restore my old ADv1 which has been backed up on Time machine on my iMac. When I find it and try to open it a message says that I can't because it is in Time machine backup. Is there a special way to 'Restore' the app? The reason I want to restore is to see if it has some assets that I saved.
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Thank you Callum. I'll try that next I have this problem.
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Brilliant! That was very easy to do. Thanks very much Anto.
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Thanks for that but I assume that the Knife tool only applies to shapes. Is that correct? It would be more helpful if it said this in the manual!
However I'm trying to cut a jpeg image in half. Should it still work?
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I think that the idea of the Knife tool is a great feature. I checked out the instructions on how to use it and they make sense. However the instructions do not tell you how to separate the parts!
Having used the tool to cut document in half I do not know how to separate them.
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I rebooted my Mac and the same thing was happening.
What I am now trying to do is to close all the open files and deal with them on at a time but I can't do that because I have to Force quit and when I reopen it all the files are there again!
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I have 10 files open each one between 200 and 300MB. They are saved as AD files but I want to export them as jpegs so I can edit them in AP. If I try to open the AD file in AP it can't because Ad is a later version than AP!
As I try to export them as jpegs I can save the exported file then when I try and open the next AD file it hangs! I have had to Force quit 3 times to try and move on. When AD reopens it restores the files that had been present before Force quitting. Then as I start to export again the same thing happens. The only thing I haven't tried yet is to re-boot my Mac.
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I re-launched AP and it is still hanging when I search for a folder to save a file in. It takes several minutes to navigate to a directory then hangs again when choosing a folder etc etc.
There is definitely something wrong with my AP app.
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I have a number photos all at about 3MB. I am cropping them, using Levels and Unsharp mask.
I'm finding that AP is a bit sluggish using Levels and Unsharp mask. Currently AP is 'hanging' and I can't move forward so I'm going to close it down and start again.
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Thanks Walt but what was missing from the comments was where to find this tool! I discovered it by looking at each tool in turn to see what it offered and found in the 'Patch tool'.
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What is the 'Inpainting brush tool'?
Reluctantly I'm attaching the jpeg file which is a child's drawing so you can try the Clone tool yourself. I'm trying to remove all the blue lines - you can see where I have had a go.
Let me know if you encounter the same sluggishness.
Also can you advise on my question about fixing the sample area in one place?
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If you mean, 'you think it should do' well it doesn't.
I'm also having problems with the Clone tool as I did yesterday. It is very sluggish and not very responsive.
Is there a way to select the target area but keep it stationery whilst moving the tool remove the unwanted parts? I don't want to use the Erase tool as it will be obvious that an erasure has taken place.
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But surely if I saved the edited image as an AP file it should copy with the editing intact.
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Carrying on from my topic yesterday, I edited a pdf image using Vibrance, to enhance colour, Levels to remove blue tint background and the Clone tool to remove unwanted areas. I saved it as an AD file.
I then copy and pasted the saved image into a blank page in AD and the blue tinted background that I removed in AP is now visible in AD.
What is the best way to copy an AP file into an AD doc?
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I see what you mean. It would have been better to scan the original image as a jpeg rather than a pdf.
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9 hours ago, R C-R said:
It works fine & quickly on my Mac (specs in my sig below) but I don't use it on huge files.
How large (in pixels) is the layer you are working on & is it an Image, Pixel, or some other kind of layer?
The images were 12MB pdf. I went back to do a screen shot to show the blurring but couldn't reproduce the problem. I can only assume that it was a one-off glitch.
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Hi Carl,
No I made the selection first then tried the Levels feature.