[Varying behavior of vivid light + high pass]

This is still a bug.  If you use 'Vivid Light' on a 16 bit image, you get all kinds of artifacts.

 

[HD Acceleration Problems with new .3 update]

1.10.4 appears to have corrected the issues that I was having with funky square boxes and pixilation under 1.10.3..  Thank you.

[HD Acceleration Problems with new .3 update]

Same issue(s) with same graphics card.  Had to turn off hardware acceleration to work.  Did not have any issues with previous 1.10 version.   A lot of pixelations and square artifacts with latest upgrade. 

[Bilateral Blur Does Not Work on 32bit Images]

Forgive me if this has been asked already, but I'm unable to find on the forum.  I have 32bit images and I'm trying to use the Bilateral Blur.  Neither the Filter drop down nor the live filter of Bilateral Blur work.  I have to convert the image into a 16bit image for the blur to work.  Is this on the Affinity Photo team's radar to fix?

[Help with restoring old photo.]

Thank you... I follow and thought I'd watched all of Olivio's videos, but definitely missed this one.     This is exactly what I was looking for.

[Help with restoring old photo.]

Greetings,

I'm trying to duplicate a process that I found on a Youtube video on removing white / black specks from an old photo using Undo Brush and snapshots.  I'm not able to duplicate and was wondering if anyone can assist.  The video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqh7Ixuyp8&list=WL&index=1

 

[Graphical Representation (Histogram) in Curves disappears after selection]

On 5/24/2021 at 3:33 AM, Chris B said:

Hey Mesquito,

I think this is because the marching ants are quite heavy on the CPU and the histograms outside of the Develop Persona are not prioritised by the CPU so as NotMyFault says, it often takes time. 

I believe I already have an improvement logged for this so I will go and update it with your feedback—thank you.

Thank you - I'm still having issues after I deselect.  I waited ~30 minutes and it never returned.   My best option at this point is what 'NotMyFault' suggested by moving focus off the selection brush.

[Graphical Representation (Histogram) in Curves disappears after selection]

2 hours ago, PhotoCat said:

I went through Mesquito's  original process and the histogram, in color, stayed visible as I was applying the selection brush and after I deleted the marching ants.  No issues.  I have version 1.92.

Are you using Windows or Mac?

[Graphical Representation (Histogram) in Curves disappears after selection]

3 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

I have the same issue, but its mainly lack of patience: it can take several seconds until the histogram gets displayed (>10).

What sometimes helps:

• Switch to "move" tool"
• Click the yellow triangle in the histogram panel
• Open curves layer again

Can you try again and wait ... a lot?

NotMyFault - Thank you for the your response.  Switching to the "move tool" did the trick.  None of the other suggestions worked for me, but at least I do have a work around now. 

Affinity Team - While I now have a workaround, please look into this issue.  I also experience same issue with the "Levels" adjustment.

 

[Graphical Representation (Histogram) in Curves disappears after selection]

After making a selection, I lose all graphical histogram representation in the curves tool. To recreate issue:

1. Open file
2. Make adjustment using Curves (histogram is shown)
3. Create a selection (histogram disappears in Curves adjustment tool.
4. Delete selection and problem still exists
5. Delete previous Curves adjustment and problem still exists.

Nothing I do, will bring back the original graphical representation on the Curves tool.  This is happening on the current release (1.9.2.1035) as well as the beta (1.9.4.1065)

OS Name    Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Version    10.0.19042 Build 19042
System Manufacturer    LENOVO
System Model    81Y6
System Type    x64-based PC
System SKU    LENOVO_MT_81Y6_BU_idea_FM_Legion 5 15IMH05H
Processor    Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date    LENOVO EFCN46WW, 12/4/2020
Installed Physical Memory (RAM)    16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory    15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory    9.47 GB
Total Virtual Memory    21.4 GB

DirectX version:    12.0 
GPU processor:        NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Driver version:        466.11
Driver Type:        DCH
Direct3D feature level:    12_1
CUDA Cores:        1536 
Core clock:        1590 MHz 
Memory data rate:    12.00 Gbps
Memory interface:    192-bit 
Memory bandwidth:    288.05 GB/s
Total available graphics memory:    14269 MB
Dedicated video memory:    6144 MB GDDR6
System video memory:    0 MB
Shared system memory:    8125 MB
Video BIOS version:    90.16.4A.00.78
 

[Masking does not work]

On 5/20/2021 at 5:37 AM, Pedro ghsfhfghfhs_a2 said:

Thank you! Good advice. I don't have Photoshop so I dab between 5 different types of image editors (the old Paintshop Pro Home Edition, Serif DrawPlus, Corel Paintshop Pro x7 and Serif Photo Plus x7. I already had Serif products so Affinity seemed a logical purchase and does offer great features which has added to the scope of functions available to me now. Good to know the forum will be always on hand to help! Much appreciated once again.

I have used PSP since version3 (~18 years)and jumped over to Affinity Photo about 18 months ago and never looked back. Affinity  has so much more to offer, but like any software it does take time to learn.. 

[Masking does not work]

You are welcome, don't give up on Affinity Photo.  As I have found many times myself, it's usually user error.  🙂   This forum is a great place to get answers quickly.

[Masking does not work]

Pedro,  check your brush settings.  I was able to recreate your scenario by lowering the accumulation to 0.  Try raising the the value to 100 and see what happens. See attached vid.
 

[Masking does not work]

52 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Please refer to this Apple article about how to make clear, jitter-free screen recordings. It is very hard to tell much if you use a handheld phone or the like. 

 For Windows 10, you can use the Windows Key + G to record.

[Masking does not work]

Pedro,
I'm not having any issues with masking on the file you provided.  Maybe, you can show the error by recording your screen as you attempt to paint on the mask?

 

2021-05-18 09-08-41.mkv

[Requesting Align with mask feature]

Thanks, I've tried the new stack option but its not able to lock the foreground and comes out blurry. I am working  nightscapes, like the milky way with the desert cactus silhouetted in the foreground. 

[Requesting Align with mask feature]

I like to take night photos with features on the horizon.  I would like the ability to mask out the horizon so that only the night sky is aligned. Currently, I am using a software called 'Sequator' to align my photos, but this software only provides an single file output.  I'd much rather have multiple layers aligned using one of the layers as my base for foreground.

[Macro - Bug or Feature?]

Thank you

[Macro - Bug or Feature?]

After downloading 1.9.0 & 1.9.1, I reinstalled several macro packs via the account sign in.  I noticed that I can no longer edit the macros that are downloaded. The 'Edit' option is available, but when I click the button nothing shows up on the macro tab.  This does not happen to the macros that I created or imported. Is this a feature or a bug? 

[Sharpening with Bilateral Blur Filter and 16 Bit image causing color artifacts]

Thanks for posting this workaround.  I've been struggling with same issue.

 

[Varying behavior of vivid light + high pass]

Checking in to see if this issue is still on the radar to be fixed?

[Varying behavior of vivid light + high pass]

I'm experiencing same issue with 1.8.2.  I'm using the Extract Detail Macro that Pedro Soares created here:   https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/36265-extract-detail-macro/&tab=comments#comment-178831 

It too uses Vivid Light filter. Works fine on Jpegs, but creates colored artifacts on raw (NEF) files.  Problem disappears when I convert to RGB/8 bit.

 

[Stocks-Tab: Unsplash not working]

Same as arkoe.  Pixabay and Unsplash work fine for me, but I'm getting 'connection failed' trying to get images from Pexels.  Works fine outside of AP.

[Importing from Scanner]

On 8/31/2019 at 3:20 PM, David P said:

Thanks for the reply.  That's too bad, as I import a lot using Corel, which has no problem with drivers for scanners.  One of the reasons I got Affinity was to get away from Corel.  I guess that ain't happening.

 

Thanks again.

David - I switched from Corel about a year ago.  While the twain support is nice to have, it's not a show stopper and you really should give Affinity Photo a try.  I use Epson scanner to scan my photos to tiff and open later in AP for editing.   I find this is actually faster for me than using Corel to scan, save and edit later.  But, I scan a lot of photo's in, so I usually work in bulk.. I scan 30-40 photos, then work on them for the next couple of weeks.

 

[Thumbnails on layers not displaying]

Thanks Tom - Following other thread now.