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I was not aware of that feature. Thanks for the tip!

Hello all, I'm not sure what is going on here, I'm still very far down on the learning curve with Affinity Photo. In the photo persona, I've gone to the View tab, then "customize tools", and added both dodge brush and burn brush tool icons to my tools selection column. But, when I open a photo and select either the dodge brush or burn brush tool, both icons then change to whichever tool I have selected. Is this due to my misunderstanding how to use these tools, or is this a bug in the software? Affinity 1.8.3, on an iMac running Catalina 10.15.6 beta. Please advise, thank you!

That worked! Thanks again to you both. I discovered that combining the photos in a "stack" was not the way to do things, as Kosakdeschamps suggested, in focus merge, and using TIFF images, all came together nicely. This was my first attempt at such a project. I was going for capturing some simple star trails, I've attached the resulting photo for your amusement.

Walt and Kosadeschamps, thank you both! I'll try the suggestions you provided and let you know how things work out. Marty

Thanks, Walt! Not to challenge, but to better understand - why TIFF rather than JPEG? (I'm still pretty new at all this.) Thanks!

Hi All, I'm trying to "stack" a number of raw images for the first time, playing around with simple astrophotography. (think photos of the North Star with star tracks all around in a circle.) Having some difficulties, I've tried researching but did not find what I was looking for. 1. Running Affinity on a 2015 iMac, 3.1 GHz processor, 16 GB RAM, Catalina 10.15.5 (beta) if that helps. 2. Files are about 20 mB each, CR2 format. 3. I'm loading about 25 files using "new stack". THis process seems to bring the system, and/or Affinity, to it's knees. Am I "biting off more than I can chew"? When I run the Activity Monitor, I see that Affinity is using very little CPU, generally less than 1 %, but it is using up to, and sometimes more than the 16 GB of memory. I have a blank screen in the Affinity workspace. I've closed down all other running programs, makes no difference. So - Is Affinity still running slowly, do I just need to wait this out, or have I exceeded the limits of my system? Any guidance would be appreciated, thank you!

Well, i think I may have figured out my conundrum. For those who may be wondering - I was attempting to bring out clouds in some landscape photos I had taken using AEB. But in using AEB, the more exposed image was a bit overexposed, thus looking faded, and I believe that the Affinity HDR tool simply picked up the overexposed areas. I think that what I should have done was to use exposure compensation in parallel with AEB so that the “most exposed” image was closer to correct exposure and this might not have occurred. Oh, well, I guess I’ll just have to go out and take some more photos! Thank you for your offer of assistance. Yep, I’m a rookie - at least with HDR. Marty

I’m attempting to learn by doing with Affinity. I have been attempting HDR merges of landscape photos, most often using a series of three raw images taken using AEB in raw format (Canon 6D if that matters.) Most all of my merged images appear somewhat faded after the merge operation. Am I missing something, doing something wrong, or is this a characteristic of the HDR tool? I can and will provide further info as needed. Thank you!

Hello All, OK, I'm almost embarrassed to ask this - but have any tutorials been updated to reflect the differences in the newest (1.6.7) version of Affinity Photo? I'm a complete newbie to photo editing, and the Affinity app. And I must admit i'm getting a bit older and Not quite as mentally nimble as I once was. There seem to be enough differences in the new version of Affinity vs. the version used for the photos that I'm struggling to do even simple tasks. Thanks for any help you can provide!