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An in-depth video tutorial would be appreciated.

Hi all, I need help making a proper square or any shape with perfect sharp corners/strokes. I can’t find out how to do so - am I missing something or is this a limitation of Photo’s engine? Please see the attached screenshot. Anything drawn has round corners, even the Pen tool and the Pixel brush! The only way I can get sharp corners is to import a vector object but even then it’s borders lose opacity and it doesn’t look right.

Yes it was fixed quite a while ago in beta, and I think it made it to App Store too (v 1.6.4, 2 weeks ago). It’s not possible yet to share .afphoto except to iCloud/Files app from my experience. I hope to see this feature too.

Actually, to take care of that yellow tint, I had a duplicate layer with only the blue channel. Using blend mode as lighten makes it look like the original image. Not sure if the blur will act the same in a blend mode though. Then I guess you could group these two layers. If that doesn't make sense, please disregard. I'm a noob. #UPDATE# Nevermind, I see the yellow tint with the blur!

Sorry, I misunderstood your question! Perhaps you could apply a Channel Mixer Live Filter as a workaround, seems to work:

Hi @bit98, Here's how to isolate a channel for applying edits: See it in action: 9EBA8F80-5DF0-4AFC-8A30-FD4FF68FA30B.MOV Clicking in the 'edit icon' will toggle it on or off. Disabling it for a specific channel will prevent changes to that channel. Similarly, the 'eye icon' will allow you to toggle channel visibility. There's a tuto on this, scroll down to the Channel section:

See attached. When in portrait mode and there are lots of layers, I can't scroll down to the bottom the list. If that glitch is active and I rotate to landscape it will persist. The only fix is to close the layer group, be in landscape, open the layer group. I can then scroll all the way down until I do some other manipulation, after which I may be restricted again. iPad Pro 9.7", iOS Public Beta 7, Photo beta v1.6.5.59 27D1BBC0-D580-416C-973F-4F76D6E19AE3.MP4

As an example, there is a 3rd pane for the Pen Tool: Likewise for some other tools, there are additional shortcuts .

Two-finger tapping brings a contextual menu.

Does the attached video help? It's about converting a canvas with white bckg to a transparent one. Transparent Canvas.MP4

If you import the NEF file from iOS photo gallery in stacking, you'll end up with the JPG. Try copying a few NEFs to iCloud first, then import them in Affinity Photo in the stack mode, this time it'll import the actual RAW file. Then, I presume you'll experience the crash!

Yes, 1.6.4.50. This bug is persisting since the main launch afaik - so the devs should already be aware.

The issue was resolved for all except stacking though, which still import JPG from the RAW. I hope they didn't miss it or that it is not a limitation. Currently importing RAW in "New Stack", as little as 2 x 12 Mb files, crashes the app every time. @Patrick Connor

Hi, Please compare the first two attached items, which are the final outputs of a focus stack. 1+2+3+4: VS :A+B (i.e. [1+2] + [3+4]) Here's what's going on: 1+2+3+4.png is a focus stacked image from 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg, & 4.jpg >> The result is blurry, so I tried dividing the task to help the alignment algorithm. A (1+2).png is a focus stack using only photo 1 & 2, while B (3+4).png is one using 3 & 4. >> These 2 intermediates, when combined will contain all 4 focus points (as would 1+2+3+4). A+B.png is a focus stack of A (1+2).png and B (3+4).png. >> This result is what I expected initially when merging the 4 photos at one go. This means that the current alignment is not optimal, perhaps you could offer an alternate mode where Photo would proceed by using intermediate image states, as I did above. There are different ways to approach this, perhaps the same result could be obtained by first combining 1 and 2, then the resulting image to 3, and finally the latter combination to 4 to get the final output. Or alternately, use some kind of algorithm/AI to determine the closest set of images to merge sequentially before the final render. Is this logic legit? I tried, it's repeatable. Thanks. 1: 2: 3: 4: A (1+2): B (3+4): Source_Photos.zip

You peeps are so fast in implementing updates and resolving issues. You must have really amazing teams and dedicated coders!

@Lee D While renaming any folder to .ocio wouldn't work for everyone, anyone can use the .bundle extension to convert it into a package on macOS. Perhaps a workaround would be to allow Affinity Photo to handle .bundle formats? Currently it's grayed out when I try to open it through iCloud, see attached. OCIO Package via iCloud.MP4

Please refer to the attached photos of the Channel Mixer Adjustments settings in both portrait & landscape. The adjustments settings fall out of range in portrait mode. Affinity Photo 1.6.4.49 on iPad Pro 9.7” iOS 11 Public Beta 3

Found what converts a folder renamed to ocio extension as a package: I tried installing Affinity Photo Trial on the macOS, hoping it'd register the extension, but I didn't work. Having a look at "Info.plist" from the "Affinity Photo.app" package contents, .ocio doesn't figure as a handled extension. Meaning, Affinity guys have something installed that makes .ocio being recognised as a document type in macOS, which is why this works for them but not regular users. @Lee D More about Document Packages: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/DocumentPackages/DocumentPackages.html

Hi Lee, Please refer to the video from: This method doesn’t work for us common mortals, even if followed to the letter!

Would like an update too. Is there anyone that can upload the big .ocio package (if the terms allows)? Thanks.

You can check this thread out too: I also use FileExplorer, found it worth it to upgrade as we can then link Google Drive/Dropbox/OneDrive too and also edit files on any desktop linked share folders.

I believe the image you see in the Camera Roll is just a jpg preview stored in the RAW file. Few apps on iOS shows the actual RAW images (attached is an example). That jpg includes any post modification made on the RAW file (e.g. cropping by your camera software) while the actual RAW file remains as natively shot. My guess is that your camera shoots 3:2 natively (max sensor coverage) and just apply the 4:3 cropping afterwards without modifying the RAW file (storing the metadata in a separate file in the camera folder, or perhaps embedded in its own slang). Hence when the RAW file is handled by Affinity, it wouldn't know about ulterior modification made by the camera software. 5CD2B117-393B-4F93-A4D0-2ABD9E52B337.MOV

Having the choice is great, but from time to time I rely on thumbnails to swift through the extensive presets (I'm not an advanced designer). On that note, I would like to see accurate thumbnails, please refer to the attached video. The initial state of the image is a non-flipped one, and thumbnails doesn't seem to take any modification into consideration. Granted, that would involve having small snapshots generated for the thumbnail preview (using resources), but rather have such accurate thumbnail previews, or none at all. 0C6F12A8-1CBF-49D3-BCD7-3036913DF0BB.MOV

My preferred method to load a font is through the Workflow app and this extension: https://workflow.is/workflows/437f80cc68574be9b9da2992d7c3e9ba Supports TTF and OTF, and Photo even support random characters from OTF's (the only iOS app I'm aware of that supports it). See attached example, where I've used my handwritten font >> the characters are randomized.

Issue since 1.6.2, present in this beta: Whenever using two-finger panning, the marquee/marching ants would sporadically disappear. Zooming in/out would restore it. See attached video. ##Update## It's the case when using the Pen tool as well. | Also, When converting a curve to a selection, if the curve has been hidden in the layers panel, it doesn't produce a selection at all! I doubt this is the intended behaviour. D4B584BC-3EED-4019-9F10-B82A42D55556.MOV