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Jaffa

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  1. Thanks casterle, you have been very thorough in your explanation, however,  you really need to speak to me as though I am in kindergarten ---- in this particular instance.  I did look at First Defence's link, but when I saw "geared towards motion picture production", my eyes started to glaze over.  

    Do I need a plugin - seems NO

    Do I need specialised knowledge - seems clearly - YES

    Where can I start (from an EARLY POINT in the process)  -  Not identified, I would love to know!

    Am struggling here!  O.o :S

  2. Have just been viewing the Official James Ritson video tutorial on Blend Modes. Whilst it looks very impressive indeed to me and I can follow quite a bit of it, I am completely lost on one aspect. At the beginning, he talks fairly quickly about "3D Render" and "Render Passes". I have just looked in Help and not much there to enlighten me.

     

    Does one have to use a Plugin to do this? Or can I activate "Open Colour IO"? Is there a video tutorial to start to learn 3D rendering?

  3. When I say this, this is just after upgrading to V 1.7.   I was tutoring a class of seven others in an Affinity Photo process

    I had done before.  We got to the point where I used the Warp Mesh Tool and it showed as two strong

    horizontal lines with a normal line in between.  I managed, with difficulty, to do some manipulations,

    with a very pixellated and stepped result.

    When I got home I experimented again and on that occasion the Warp Mesh Tool seemed normal.

    Not sure what to expect ongoing?

  4. I have just carried out an experiment with doing a standard crop of an image.  I put a red marker first however in the area to be cropped out.
    Following the crop, I extended the canvas, which showed that the information was still there.
     
    The second part of the experiment was to do the crop, then I rasterized the layer.  Again I extended the canvas which clearly showed that
    the part cropped out was no longer there.  
     
    Thinking about it, after you crop, the history records that it is a "raster crop", so that alone should be a clear indicator. 
     
    Interesting!  Though I don't think much in life will change after this :D  - though it does help me understand rasterizing that bit more.
    Also many thanks Carl, for your informative response!
  5. I, more or less, understand what rasterizing is, particularly for smart objects and for changing vector images.  However, I have just been watching a YouTube video by Hubert in which he crops an

    image and then rasterizes it.  Now, I belatedly learned that the area outside the crop is hidden.  So, presumably (or guessing)  rasterizing the image serves to make the crop final, in that the hidden part disappears completely?

    Is that the case please?

    Also, how does this relate to vector or smart images, or is it something different again?  

  6. This turns out not to be a problem (yet anyway!).  I followed the very clear Vimeo Video by James Ritson to plugin the Nik Collection to Affinity Photo.

    Despite ticking the box bottom left and rebooting,  I seemingly could not get six modules to "work".  Tried ticking and unticking, restarting Affinity, and kept getting the

    dialog box under.  So I rebooted the whole desktop - still the same.

    In the end, I went to Filters, Plugins, Nik and saw Silver Efex Pro 2 (the only module I really want) as an option.  Tried it and it works perfectly. 

    Still get the dialog box shown under ........ but not a problem - it seems.

    Thought I might let others know!

     

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  7. Hi RC-R,  it's not just when I have a new session,  I can have Layers and History open for one photo, then later when that photo is closed I open another photo and the Layers and History are not there - and I have not closed those panels.  This is in the same session and I go into Studio thinking that - maybe they are there and perhaps hidden behind another window - but they are unticked!   It is certainly not screen size because I use two monitors, one for the program and the larger (about 550 mms) for the image.

  8. Just about every day I am opening up "Layers" from the Studio by going to View>Studio, then I want "History" and repeat the process.

    Is there any way that I can leave the Studio open until I have ticked the items I want, instead of this repeating?  

    I have looked through the Manual and for Studio it shows 22 entries - I may have missed how to do it, but doubt that!

  9. Many thanks for your responses, RC-R and Alfred.  I have watched the video tutorial a couple of times and now understand.  What confused me at first, was that I wondered how I had managed fine, so far.  However James Ritson, explains that at the end when he says that both the clipping and masking work the same when you are dealing with adjustment layers, etc.  It is just in situations I don't really encounter at this stage, that the difference is crucial.

  10. I have been creating many standard layers and child layers -  it seems forever.  However, one thing I have taken for granted up to now is that I am creating Child Layers in the correct way.

    However, have just realised that Windows Affinity Photo shows a small perpendicular line and that seems to be the normal way to achieve it.  The way I have been doing it is to drop the

    adjustment layer into the blue line that does not extend all the way to the left, my image re-inforces what I mean.

    My overall question therefore is - what is the difference between using the "partial" blue horizontal line and the small blue vertical line?  (Note: I fully realise that the "full" blue horizontal line is

    used to create a parent or standard layer).

    Child layer.jpg

  11. Hi firstdefence

    The two documents were

    1st started at 1620 x 1079  -- resized to 3243 x 2160

    2nd started at 1056 X 1080 -- resized to 2112 X 2160

    In Affinity - Export (from File Menu) I chose Bicubic and obviously 100% quality. 

    At our club they will be viewed and assessed using a 4K projector.  I have viewed at 100% on my LG (TA) monitor at home.

    .

  12. Just yesterday I wanted to have two images at a bigger size, in fact I practically doubled them in size in Affinity Photo.  I did not expect it to work too well and had in mind to use ON1 instead.  However, whilst I may have just been lucky with the particular images that I was working with, the results, to my eye, were excellent.  I have not seen any mention made of this with Affinity and wonder about others experiences??

    Of course the traditional way is to enlarge 10%, save, enlarge another 10%, save, etc, but I did not even need to do that.

  13. I love the noise reduction in Affinity Photo.  Just recently I used 395% on a girl's face and it worked beautifully.  Now we all know that in practice you can only have 100%,  so the scale must be different in some way.  What is 100% based on in Affinity Photo?  Is that the measure to which some other programs can only reach to?   

    When I am singing the praises of Affinity Photo to others how do I explain this?

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