Alan9940

Thanks, I will try that...so much to learn!

Thanks for the quick reply, Walt. Yeah, I don't know why software hardly ever works the way I want it to! Yep, I know I can just keep applying adjustments, then I could dismiss the final dialog at the end of my editing session. But sometimes I just want to remove the distraction of the UI (or most of it) and view the image by itself following an adjustment. I guess I need to lower my expectations a bit and enjoy the wonderful app that is AP on the iPad.

Is there a simple way that I'm totally missing to dismiss an adjustment dialog panel? For example, I have a background pixel layer that's my starting image, then I add a curves adjustment layer and now want to view the modified image without the curves dialog box at the bottom right of my screen. The only way I've figured out how to dismiss it is to open the layers panel and click on the background layer. But if I then want to add an additional adjustment layer on top of the layer stack, I have to click back on to that curves layer. You can imagine how tedious this would get if you have more than a few layers involved. Thank you for any insight provided.

Looks like export presets are only available on AP desktop.

Yep. I use Merge Visible quite a lot to create a stamped layer, and then move on with other editing. I try to keep my editing as non-destructive as possible until I'm done, but actions such as Live Filters need to run against an image layer. Not sure if that's totally correct, but it's my understanding up to this point. Once I know I'm done with an edit, I will flatten the document to minimize required storage space for the file. Lots still to learn...

Yeah, OK, I think of those "menus" as dropdown lists. No matter...a HUGE thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I can't tell ya how many times I looked at that list under the Document icon and never saw Flatten. Just tried it and it works like a charm! Thank you, again, for the help.

I agree, but it doesn't work. It might be because the assets added are groups with both active & non-active layers. I don't understand why that would cause the merge to stop, but who knows? I'm going to play around with it some more today. And, yes, it has happened to me with other projects.

@carl123 That's for the desktop version...there are no menus in the iPad version.

Does anybody know how to flatten all layers into one single layer in AP iPad? I've tried merging down, selecting all the layers, and then doing merge selected, merge visible, etc, but I cannot get my layer stack to one single merged layer. I have full pixel layers, adjustment layers, and layers from my assets (each asset layer containing multiple adjustment layers within) in my layer stack. Perhaps there's something about the makeup of my layer stack that AP iPad can't deal with? Thank you for any insight provided.

I had this same problem recently when working with assets (clouds) from a recently purchased collection. The solution for me was to uncheck OpenCL on the Performance tab in Preferences. Give this a try, if you have OpenCL enabled.

Yep, I've got it now (see my last post just above your reply.) Basically, all I wanted to do was to create my own sharpening macro, put it into my own category called "My Macros", then get my newly created macro into AP on my laptop and on my iPad. I didn't fully understand the difference between the Macro Studio and the Library Studio and what all this meant vis-a-vis exporting/importing a macro. The in app Help documentation is not exactly verbose with explaining all this stuff. But, with the help of members here and playing around I've got a much better idea of how it all works.

Wow, thank you Walt! Something about the way you said it made me realize I was trying to drag the work thing. I just did the drag & drop with a single macro from one category to another. Just a little slow with these things...I blame aging! Thank you all for your patience and help.

Just did some quick playing around and drag & drop doesn't work for me. Here is what I did: 1. Exported "Default" (the only category I have in the Library Studio) to the desktop. Interesting (to me, anyway) side note is that it doesn't matter what I name the resulting .afmacros file; it will import as "Default 2". 2. Therefore, I renamed "Default2" to "My Macros". 3. Created a new category called "My Macros 2" When I grab "My Macros" and try to drop it on "My Macros 2" all I get is a blue line either above or below to reorder the categories. OK, I just had some unused synapse fire...Does the drag & drop mean I can drag an afmacros file from the desktop (or wherever) and drop it on a category in the Library Studio? (Answer: Nope)

Yes, it was a single macro in the Default category. I created a new category, but as you said the drag & drop of the single macro didn't work. This is all rather confusing to me. If I can only drag & drop one category to another, what's the purpose here? If I create a new category and drag Default onto it, will default now be a sub-category or would it contain only the single macros as shown in Default?

Thanks for all your help. I now have my sharpening macro on the iPad. It was a bit strange though when I was air dropping from my Macbook Air to the iPad in that Photo was already open and the import failed. When I closed Photo and did the Airdrop, again, it all proceeded without a hitch. I did find it a little odd that it created a "Default 2" category vs over-writing the existing "Default", but I just removed "Default" and renamed "Default 2" back. smadell - Yeah, creating a new category in the Library Studio still has me a bit baffled. I had no problem creating my own category, but I couldn't drag any of my macros to the new category; probably some small detail about doing this that I can't see, again! It makes total sense to me to create, say, a "My Macros" then copy all my custom macros into it. Makes it easy to move between platforms and you won't over-write and/or create a "2" version like I did with "Default". Well...still learning. Thanks, again, for all the help.