Gregory St. Laurent
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3 hours ago, Jens Krebs said:
Same on Mac, but everyone who bought the software can download and install a preview version (beta) for update 1.7 (avialble here in the forums) -- these betas are usually updates every couple of weeks simultaniously for Windows and macOS.
A big update with version number 1.7 is going to be released together with the new Publisher, which is, why things take a bit longer than usual.
But it seems the Mac version is further along and gets a little more love. The Windows version still doesn't have the GPU acceleration yet
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Any news as to when the next Beta update for Windows will be released? It's been a while.
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26 minutes ago, Stuart444 said:
I downloaded 1.7 only to find it's a mac file. Is there a Windows version?
Make sure you are in the Windows Beta forum. The latest Beta download will be around the top of the forum list.
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12 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
I think it's been resolved in the 1.7 beta. You might experiment with the beta and see what you think.
Yes, much better in 1.7
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I've been suffering with this for over a year, but it seems to be fixed in the 1.7 update as the Beta shows much better results for me.
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14 hours ago, Wosven said:
I really don't understand people asking about why we stay on an OS version when this forum is full of people staying on old OSes for running old programs, or because their companies don't want it for now, etc.
It's not he purpose of this thread, the main question is why AP stopped working on his computer.
There are cases where older programs may not work (which from 7 to 10 is very few) but there are very easy ways around that (virtual machines) so I know where you are coming from. My point is the majority of people that are staying on an older OS for no apparent reason is not necessary and then they wonder why they have problems running newer programs? No offense really just an observance.
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I really don't understand the resistance of people to not upgrade to Windows 10? It's free and in my opinion is faster and far more stable than Windows 7 ever was. It also must cause a lot of headaches for developers to maintain compatibility to a legacy OS, which is very counter productive to the very reason they hold on to the old version in the first place! Affinity Photo is a modern program so run it on a modern OS simple as that.
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Great experience with the latest build, all the issues I had with the previous betas are fixed and there seems to be a sizable increase in speed! Thanks to the team for all the great work!
- Mark Ingram and HuniSenpai
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This bug still persist in the latest Beta update 1.7.0.231
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6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Document > Assign ICC Profile, if I remember correctly.
Thanks I looked in there but I wasn't sure which to pick, Update: figured it out Thanks again
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Where do you go to apply the non-linear profile.
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I'm having the same issue, using Olympus .ORF files
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4 hours ago, Mystical said:
I did not realize the windows version did not have GPU acceleration yet. I've only had Affinity Photo for a few days but it is so smooth and runs very well I assumed it did already. 1.7 sounds to be really awesome. I too heard about Adobe buying Allegorithmic, I mostly use 3D Coat over substance but like their texture creation tools. Been trying to distance myself from Adobe products lately and when I heard the news it made me decide to get Affinity finally after thinking about it for a while.
You won't be sorry, I myself dumped Adobe I can't stand the idea of renting my software. Affinity Photo is an excellent product and is constantly getting better.
- nezumi, myclay and Frozen Death Knight
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23 hours ago, MEB said:
Hi PilleniusMC,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Version 1.7 of Affinity Photo for Mac added support for Metal compute (GPU) acceleration for several tasks (besides displaying/rendering the image on screen) thus the frequent fixes for this platform (for issues that have been reported related with its implementation). Affinity Photo for Windows doesn't benefit from any GPU acceleration yet - this is still being worked on. All the other fixes/improvements unrelated with GPU acceleration should come in an upcoming Beta for Windows.Are the GPU accelerated functions coming in the 1.7 update for windows eventually or are we going to have to wait for a later version?
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2 hours ago, Ztrby said:
What folder are you telling affinity photo to search for the plugin?
I'm at work right now, when I get home I will check that for you. I believe it is the root folder for PortraitPro but I will confirm. Updated: Confirmed it is pointing to the root folder of PortraitPro
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22 minutes ago, Ztrby said:
Its a fresh Portrait 18 install (i did'nt have the studio edition of 17). I used the manual install of plugin and pointed Affinity to the folder with the PortraitProPSFilter64.8bf and PortraitProPSFilter32.8bf . I don't understand the "do it manually" part.
As I said you don't want to use the .8BF plug-ins you want to use the ProtraitPro program itself as the plug-in. I'm not sure why you aren't seeing 2 plug-ins from within Affinity Photo, I helped someone else with this issue and they had the 2 same as me. Try removing the plugin from Affinity Photo and try reinstalling ProtraitPro and start over.
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8 minutes ago, Ztrby said:
This is great news, there is hope. But i only have it once with the three dots
Did you install 18 as an upgrade from 17? That is what I did. and don't use the supplied plug-in installer do it manually within Affinity photo and you should see the 2 plug-ins. The plug-in with the 3 dots is a Photoshop .8BF plug-in, you want PortraitPro to start as the stand alone program within Affinity Photo as a plug-in
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22 hours ago, Ztrby said:
What version of portrait pro are you using? i can't run portrait pro 18 as a plugin at all.
I'm running Ver. 18 I initially had problems but I figured it out. If you look in your plu-ins you will see it is listed twice make sure you pick the plugin that doesn't have the dots (eg. PortraitPro... and PortraitPro)
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26 minutes ago, rudyumans said:
Hmm. I use several Topaz plug-ins (the old ones, non-studio), All of DxO's Nik, Corel's Particle shop, and some others and they all work fine. I don't encounter the same problem as you do. All the files are Tiffs or AP
Do you have this only with Olympus RAW files?
Yes when I bring in a JPEG or TIFF It's fine. This is a new problem in the Beta for me , I never had this issue in the past.
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After exporting out to plug-ins images are being rotated 90 degrees. I brought up this bug in the prior Beta and it still isn't fixed.
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2 hours ago, mike21 said:
I have installed the new beta and ran a speed check, comparing it with the current version 1.6.5.135. I loaded a RAW (CR2 format) file of 27.5 Mb; the current version took 20 secs and the new beta 22 secs. I then immediately (without any processing) "developed" in each version - the "stable" version took 15 secs and the beta 1 min 22 secs, with almost all of that time without any sign of activity. I repeated the beta test with the same result. Saving the resulting jpeg in afphoto format and exporting as a jpeg gave virtually equal timings.
My open speed has improved for ORF files, but I have to agree the develop speed is slower.
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Fixed in Beta 1.7.0.188
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16 minutes ago, Sean P said:
Would you be able to attach a copy of the RAW file you were sending through to the plugins please, and if possible a copy of the AFPhoto file from Photo 1.6 you were using prior to sending them over please?
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2 hours ago, Sean P said:
Hi Gregory,
Have you tried this in a 1.6 version and was it working correctly? It looks to me like your original source file has EXIF rotation metadata. Unfortunately there is already a known issue that this gets lost when handed over to plugins. You could try right clicking the Pixel Layer and selecting 'Rasterise' I believe this should then be rotated correctly.This never happened in 1.6 or lower, as a matter of fact this photo was from a shoot that I entirely edited and delivered to the client using 1.6 I chose a RAW from this shoot because of that, to see that it was a bug in the beta.
I'm having the same issue, using Olympus .ORF files
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Sorry I didn't mean to start a firestorm, I'm just anxious and look forward to the new version. I appreciate all the hard work you guys do and really enjoy using Affinity Photo.