IanColley

I've been having a similar problem for some months now too. I edit a lot of Real Estate photos and often use Overlays in the Develop module to modify highlight and shadow areas separately on the Raw file. Yesterday drove me insane as I could only process 2 or 3 photos before the overlays stopped working, requiring me to close AP and reopen and start again. I select Overlays, click on the 'add brush overlay' brush bottom right and a new brush overlay layer appears. Unfortunately nothing happens from here. The 'overlay paint tool' doesn't leave the red coloured adjustment area highlight and if you go to "Basic' adjustments panel and then use overlay paint tool nothing happens either. In the recent past I have been getting between 4-6 photos before it stopped working, yesterday every third photo adjustment failed. This needs to be fixed asap please AP folk. I am using i7, 32 GB memory, Radeon RX580 8GB graphics running Catalina 10.15.6 and dual screens. Regards Ian Colley

Thank you, I will have a play over the weekend and see if I can sort it out. Regards Ian

That's a pity, manually adjusting two or 3 photos at the same time in Adobe Camera Raw is part of my current workflow. I will have to modify my workflow to suit. I already use macros in Affinity for bulk editing of jpegs but no good to me in this case. Thanks for the reply. Regards Ian

Hi Affinity folk, I am trying to blend using darken mode and brush in a window pull for RE photos. I read some iPad information and it appears I have to open the 2nd photo and make it a child layer of the 1st photo opened. I have tried clicking on File, then Place and selecting the 2nd photo from the drop down but it always opens as another Parent Layer. Help to do these window pulls would be appreciated. Regards Ian

Hi Affinity folk, Is it possible to synchronise the editing of two or more photos at the same time so that the same adjustments apply to all photos ? I use this a lot for lens corrections on bracketed exposures. Thanks Regards Ian

Thanks again jhoy, I will try this tomorrow. Regards Ian

Hi jhoy, was just sorting through the photos produced in the batch after getting it to work (I thought) and have found that the macro didn't downsize the images. Un-ticking the "Document properties" removed the downsize step. How do I downsize the images in the macro ? Regards Ian Colley

Hi jhoy, finally got some time to try some batch processing again with some new photos. I un-ticked the 'Document Properties' step in the macro and it now works a treat. I will continue to use this method to downsize and lightly sharpen my work now, as I prefer the look of the High Pass sharpen and the ease of doing it compared to my previous method. Now, if only we could rename the finished image it would be perfect :-) Regards Ian Colley

yeah that's what I have been doing but I want the files to be renamed so as not to confuse them at any time with the full-size original files. So it looks like I have to run another seperate batch back in PS to rename the files. I'm talking large numbers of photos from events, so this is a little inconvenient. Something for AP developers to look at I think. I'll get back to you and let you know how I get on with the macro changes later in the week. Thanks again. Regards Ian Colley

Thank you jhoy, I will have a chance to look at it at the weekend, appreciate your efforts to solve it. Is it possible to rename the newly created files, either in the macro or the batch process ? Regards Ian Colley

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Ta, I'll have another crack at it. No, no luck, keeps giving the message below when I try to attach the file. I am saving it to my desktop and giving it a name. Am I supposed to save the file as a particular type when I export the macro ? Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file ​

Hi jhoy, I have created quite a few different macros now with slight variations on the signature layer. While trying to get something to work I thought that part of the problem may have been the need to move / place the signature where I wanted it in the photo each time. So the latest macro I made places a transparent layer 2400 x 1800 I created in AP (with my signature where it needs to be) straight on top of the downsized image, also 2400 x 1800. No need to move the signature every time just place one layer on top of the other. Couple of other weird things happening, I was playing around with the macro this morning and when I run the macro on a single image (in edit macro mode) it works 2 out of 5 times on the 1st run but if I run it a second time on a photo that downsized and sharpened but didn't apply the signature, the signature gets applied each time. It still doesn't work on a batch though. How do I export the macro to you, do I send to an email address ? I did what you instructed and exported the macro to my desktop but I can't seem to attach it to this message. If I use the "add code" link I receive an error message that says "You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file" (an .afmacro file). I would prefer if I didn't have to upload my macro with my signature to an open forum, no disrespect meant. No worries about when you can get back to me. Regards Ian Colley p.s. I have done some more playing and if I run the macro twice, first time on original photos and then 2nd time on photos from the 1st macro run, it adds the signature. Now, to figure out how to get it to work in one run and rename the files during the macro. I will continue to play until I hear from you.

No worries, after work tomorrow.

Hi jhoy, I have tried this 5 or 6 times now and no success. I record the macro and when I get to the signature placement I go up to "File" in the top menu bar, scroll down and select "Place", this allows me to find the png file I want. I double click on the png and then a little placement tool appears on the photo, I click roughly where I want the signature and then click drag to resize and reposition the signature. From here I have done two things 1. just stop recording the macro at this point 2. merge the layers down and then stop the macro when I run the macro it still doesn't apply the signature to the finished photo, it downsizes and runs the high pass filter but no signature. The png doesn't have to be created in AP does it ? Also how do I rename the files with a suffix like ds2400 ? Regards Ian Colley