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  1. Hi Bryce, I hope you are having a good weekend. I'm studying my Memory Used so that I can learn what is 'smart' to have open, and what is not. I'm learning a lot. I'm progressing through the Affinity Photo Work Book, paying real close attention to 'masks', and I've learn a convoluted way to achieve masks, but it's not the same as Quick Mask in Photoshop. However, if I put Quick Mask in the Affinity help window, it tells me it exist. But where? How? And just so that you don't think I'm a spoiled brat and insist having things "quickly", that is not it. I want to 'paint' precisely where I want a mask to exist. That's all. Does such exist? Thanks Bryce in advance. Bill
  2. To show you how much I do not know about iMacs, I do now know how to find the Performance window. It's not in my Preference, although your screen capture looks like what I saw when I had a PC. Could you be using a PC? I do not know if my internal storage is HDD or SSD. You say that SSD will make the machine go much faster, but is that an internal device put into the computer by Apple, or is it something I can purchase, attach, and make my machine move much faster? Also, on this machine, I am not saving any image files (Affinity) or word files (Word) on the machine. I have two external 4TB HDs that are being used to save any work I do on the machine.eir And Brice, the Affinity Photo Work Book is one that I purchased from Amazon. But since I updated my Affinity, I see their store on the home page. The book is great, and I'm studying it now. HOWEVER, since I clicked on the link and there are 64 tutorials, including masks. It is Quick Mask that I need to learn for my New Orleans photo. I can do Quick Mask (actully, that means you can paint exactly the object, and its borders, where the selection tools seems to always use "magnetic" methods) easily in Photoshop, but I don't know how to do that in Affinity. I welcome your responses about HDD or SSD.....this is the first iMac I've seen without a HD icon on the desk top. I value your suggestions....I'm running my machine now with the Activity Monitor running, with the bottom edge visible all the time. With Affinity open and one file open, the Memory used is 6.62GB, with the simple file closed, the Memory Used went down to 4.69, and with Affinity closed that 800e Memory used is down to 3.45 GB. is this all normal? if my "Cached Files" are at 802.2MB, is that bad? The Swap used is at 627.8MB. Bad yet? Bill
  3. When you say 'it is in the File menu > Save History with Document' ... I would find "File" where? Obviously not Thunderbird, where I read your e-mail. So I clicked on the desktop, which brought up Finder, but under Finder, there is no Save History with Document. I'll gladly untick it, if I could find it. Just out of curiosity, what OS is on your iMac? When you go out with your camera for a shoot, how do you save your images? I've never saved them to the computer's hard drive, but instead, I've always used Toast to save them onto a DVD. I've even pulled up a DVD or CD from ten years ago, and all the images are there. So, to answer you question if Toast has an auto backup feature, I don't know how to answer your question. When I installed it, I was not asked if I wanted to back it up. So let me ask: When you use your Affinity Photo, do you ever have two or three or more images opened at the same time? If yes, how has that impacted your computer. And...have your purchased the Affinity Photo Work Book? It is impressive. On on the Core chapter, for I really want to know how to do Quick Mask as I've done so frequently in Photoshop. I have a wonderful capture when we vacationed in New Orleans at their bar/pub/museum, with three statues of historic jazz performers. I want to extract them so that I can better improve the image. But so far, in Affinity, I've only found the "auto" selection. I don't want auto, i need to "paint" my selection. I'll bet you already know how to do that, don't you? On a separate topic, how did you survive the winters there????? No sun for months, right? Bill
  4. It came new, in the box, in February. And no pre-installed software that I'm aware of. I purchased Microsoft Office and installed it. I purchased Affinity Photo, needless to say. I Installed Photomatix Pro6, OnONE 10, which means Perfect Resize, Toast 17, and FastRawViewer, and Wacom's Intuous Pro. The Photomatrix and Perfect Resize were downloads previous paid for from my previous iMac. You said one thing that really shed some light on the matter. you said that Affinity takes up about 2 GB, until you load a file, and when ywhyou open a file, it uses all of it. Can that be the reason why my computer freezes/long time out when I have one, two, or more Affinity files open? And what do you mean about a log out?
  5. Log out and back in again? How is that different from Restart? And....this computer doesn't have a hard drive icon on the desktop, as all prior ones have. Will the Activity Monitor have that data? We've been on a cruise up to and past Vancouver. This is your best weather time, isn't it?
  6. Tell me, what causes/builds up the Swap Used? Hours ago, after the restart, it was 0. Now, just a couple of hours later, it's 379.3 MB. What did I do to cause this?
  7. I should have added this on, can I ask how much memory your Affinity uses on your computer?
  8. Oh, I should have mentioned, after the restart, the Swap Used is now down to 0 bytes, thanks to you.
  9. Are you in Canada? I looked at the radar for the west coast and found rain only in Canada. Now, if you look in the Midwest, you'll see lots of it, and coming my way for St. Louis. BTW, I did the restart...and closed everything before the restart. Wow, I'm impressed, and you know your stuff. Think about this: after the restart, I before I opened Affinity, Memory used was 4.9. After opening Affinity, it went up to 6.6 GB. Now I'll know to close everything before Restarting the computer. Lunch time here, two pugs are reminding me of that. BRB.
  10. Thank you for the login automation. There was only one, and it was ITunes. I've unselected it. Apple keeps sending me "y updates" for the 10.14 OS. NO! My last computer was only four years old. The newer OS on this computer cost me a scanner and my Wacom pen tablet. I had to replace both. I choose not to rush to any update based on my past experience. thank you for the link to Wacom drivers. Last week, when my pen was working only part-time, I called Wacom. Got an expert in the Dominican Republic, who told me I needed to update to the latest due to problems with 10.14. But.....I don't have 10.14, but he told me I must update that drives. The pen is much better, and maybe the computer "freezing" is due to something else. I've learned to just sit, wait a couple of minutes, and I'll have it back. Now you understand better why I was asking if it could be due to Affinity. BTW, where are you? Morning coffee?? Europe??? Afternoon tea????
  11. By the way, I should also tell you that I've purchased the newest Wacom Intuos Pro pen tabled, and from time to time, the pen fails to respond. And also, there are occasions when I will click on something with the mouse and the Apple time icon will appear, but not even spin. But during that time, even the mouse has no effect, as though the screen is frozen. Maybe I'm picking unfairly on Affinity Photo. One last observation, from the Activity Monitor is running about 7.00 to 7.35 yesterday. It's currently 6.95. I'm making it a point to close all software except for Chrome, Affinity, and Thurnderbird for my e-mail. There it is.
  12. I bought this in February, from stock at Micro Center here in St. Louis. Yes, 10.13.6 High Sierra the 'about this mac' says. I haven't thought of closing all programs. I will definitely do that next restart. I haven't set any programs to auto open. I'll watch that too. And if a program auto opens, where do I turn that off? Sorry for the questions. I teach college physics, but that doesn't mean I'm a computer expert. And thanks for your suggestions.
  13. I've just checked it, and it said 2.6 gb. I'll try that, but let me ask you. On this new iMac, it takes forever to reboot. Do you think that's normal?
  14. I'm studying my way through Affinity Photo Work Book. I find so often that when I click on a function, I'll see the Apple color time icon, stationary and I won't even be able to use my mouse. I'm also learning how to use the new Wacom Intuos Pro. I've experienced the much older one on my old (retired) iMac. It too, seems to freeze the screen. The Activity Monitor tells me that of the physical memory of 8.00 GB, the Memory Used: is 7.55. Is that why my Affinity moves soo slowly, with frequent frozen screen until it unlocks its self? BTW, I've used PhotoShop since 2005 up to PSCS5, but switching to Affinity Photo and loving it. If you tell me the long pauses is normal, then I'll just accept it. Either way, thank you in advance.
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