[(Help) Blend Options / Blend If]

On 4/28/2019 at 4:53 AM, Heres Johnny said:

whether the Curves adjustment layer will get precise (numeric) node editing, like Photoshop?

Like this? Screenshot from the current Beta, 1.9.4.1048

 

[Remove unwanted people]

Welcome to the forums @djf,

What you're wanting to accomplish, works best when you have more than one shot of the scene. If so you could use the Clone Tool, using the Global Source (2nd shot) to remove those pesky tourists. 😉 Even without that, I think your best option is using the Clone Tool. It allows you to control what parts of the image will be used to replace what you want removed.

Clone Sources Tutorial (Legacy)

Tutorials in the Tutorial Section of the forums:

Newest Tutorials on Serif's Website:

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/tutorials/photo/desktop/

 

 

[Why are the Affinity Photo defaults so bad?]

ADJUSTMENT LAYERS

Don't use the Adjustment Layers Panel. There's an Icon located at the bottom of the Layers Panel, just to the left of the FX icon. Clicking on it brings up a Menu of the adjustments. Then you click on the specific adjustment, and now you have the adjustment dialog. Probably still too many clicks. Maybe they'll jump ahead of PS, where you sit at your computer, plug cables into your bean, and stare at a screen, and everything will be done via bean waves... 😁🤣😂

[Missing features for graphic designers and illustrators.]

Welcome to the forums @RevTim

While not like PS, you can apply textures in APhoto. It just requires you to clip the texture file to your text layer. Sadly you can't create a style that includes the texture.

 

[Suggestions for following along with Bob Ross tutorials]

Serif provides a forum section for sharing one's work..

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/10-share-your-work/

[Brushes in my account fail to stay installed]

Well I thought wrong (no surprise there)

[On Screen Tips in Affinity Photo]

Your very welcome

[Previous versions files]

I'll add that if you do revert to an earlier version, you will get the Newer Version Available nag dialog when launching. I don't know if there's a way to disable this, shy of getting into the system registration.

[Why does Affinity Photo take soo long to load?]

😯 Wow, I have an old Win machine,Intel i7-4770 @3.40GHz, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD (Primary), 500GB SSD (Secondary), 1TB 7200rpm HDD, 3rd, all internal, not to mention all my USB external drives.

To launch APhoto, 4.9secs.

[Affinity is stuck.]

More evidence Serif should not have Hardware Acceleration enabled by default. Until such time they get this major bug ironed out.

[Brushes in my account fail to stay installed]

@Rczech,

They should be installing to the raster_brushes.propcol file, which is located on a Windows machine at C:\Users\yourusernamehere\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user, and should stay there.

I've tried to replicate your issue, by checking/unchecking that box, finding it has no bearing if the files were downloaded.

Did you install Affinity Photo to some other drive? I think Affinity Photo will check the location for the Affinity\Photo\1.0\user folder to install them.

For an explanation of the AppData folders (Local, LocalLow, and Roaming) you can read about them here... https://www.thewindowsclub.com/local-localnow-roaming-folders-windows-10

 

 

["Save failed because the file could not be written to" message appearing every time I try to save.]

This issue seems to puzzle a lot of people, even the Developers...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=save+failed+site%3Aforum.affinity.serif.com&ia=web

[JPEG XL Export format]

I agree.

[Export Layers/Trim Layers.]

11 hours ago, loukash said:

… and when everything else fails, look up the user manual.
affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/ExportPersona/exportPersona_layersPanel.html

The old adage holds true, men do not read assembly instructions, manuals or stop and ask directions.. 🤣🤣

[Masks layers doesn't work properly in Studio Link]

Welcome to the forums @Darko290,

I'm just guessing here, try changing the Blend mode, on your Mask. It shows to be set to Darken.

[Issue with Color Adjustment Post patch]

@Maryalicia, welcome to the forums,

You have a Black & White Adjustment added, which correctly turns your image to Black & White. The Recolor Adjustment has no color to act on, since it's contained within the same group as the Black and White Adjustment. To test this, simply turn off (uncheck the box beside) the Black and White Adjustment, and you will need to turn on (check the box) beside the base image which has the color info. Try moving (dragging) the Recolor Adjustment above the KatieCrop.jpg Group.

Better yet, apply the Recolor Adjustment to the Base Image, by dragging to the Thumbnail of the KatieCrop base image. Make your color adjustment there.

[Need help with drawings glitching out]

6 hours ago, Schindigg said:

I thought it was always best use hardware acceleration? Is that not correct? 

I think the Design intent was for better performance, but there's a lot of unresolved issues with it, they are working on fixing it. Until then it's better to not use it.

**It's been mentioned, Serif should not have this enabled by default**

[On Screen Tips in Affinity Photo]

@Ainslee, Welcome to the forums,

1. What OS, Windows or Mac?
2. How are you running Photo? In separated Mode (on Mac) or Floated on Windows?
3. Are all the Studio Tabs visible?
4. Have you set up a Studio Preset ?

It seems by your limited description, you may have pressed the Tab key, accidentally or intentionally. The tool tips are part of the UI framework. If so, just pressing the Tab key again will bring them and the tool tips back.

 

[Can't access 3 of 4 Paper Farms overlay sets]

Sounds like you downloaded the *.afassests file from the website. If so, there are separate afassests files for each group of overlays, that need to be downloaded. OR

You can download them through the app, by clicking on the My Account  icon

in the upper right corner. Downloading them through that automatically installs them.

[Jim Ritson Atmosphere Downloads (OT discussion split)]

59 minutes ago, William Overington said:

Oh. Is it birth name aversion?

William

 

Might be to some. I know many more people that when you greet them, they introduce themselves, they use the shortened name. It's considered a show of friendship, being friendly. In fact when someone is corrected, after using the "friendly" version, it comes off as that person being snobbish.

[Jim Ritson Atmosphere Downloads (OT discussion split)]

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

Although may be common it should be the addressee’s choice: I’ve never been known as Al to friends or family. You’ll find several replies to posts by @firstdefence where I’ve called him Dex instead of Dexter, but only because that’s what he calls himself.

Oh I agree, but like I said, it is very common here by people that know each other, acquaintance, friends or relatives. They prefer to be called by the shortened version of their name. I have friends that prefer to be called by their middle name, and some that have a nickname they prefer. I'm sort of an exception, the common proper or legal version of my name is Ronald, which is not mine. So I would have an assumption Snowcap1 is from the US, and that's a common practice here, people prefer Jim instead of James, I have a nephew that is very much that way, don't address him as James..

[Chromatic Aberration]

It appears the CA correction dialog is tied to the Default Lens Profile setting in the Develop Assistant. If that is enabled, AP automatically applies CA adjustment to the image. You can see what it's doing by just checking/unchecking the CA box while looking at the Histogram. Disabling the Default Lens Profile in the Develop Assistant, you will get the CA processing pop-up.

[Jim Ritson Atmosphere Downloads (OT discussion split)]

2 hours ago, Alfred said:

If you’re going to refer to James as Jim, may we call you Gaz? 

Most people on this side of the big pond, don't object to this, and it's common to refer to someone with the birth name of James as Jim, William as Bill, Ronald as Ron, Alfred or Albert as Al, and so on.

[Photo 1.9 hangs when batch converting CR2 files to JPG]

FWIW, I have not had any hanging while batch converting CR2 files to jpg. I converted various numbers up to 15. I had task manager running during this, and noticed my Memory usage did climb to around 12,000+ MB, CPU of course at %100, GPU only around %4.

Knowing this would be very heavy task for my old machine, I done the following before running the batches.

• Disabled from the internet
• Disabled my anti-virus
• Disabled UAC

I tried both saving the converted files to the same drive as the CR2 files, and to an USB external drive. I also ran them with and without Parallel Processing enabled.

*My video card Nvidia GTX 645 does not qualify for the OpenCL so it was not enabled. *

Just a side note; I learned years ago, while I was a moderator and then Administrator for Corel (originally Ulead) help forums, to set up a profile to edit videos using their programs, Ulead MediaStudio Pro, and VideoStudio. I learned this from a college, where the profile would have the bare minimum services running. Might ask why do that? To get the job done, without having hanging and crashing,= fewer headaches. Some tasks ask a lot of a computer, sometimes I think, more than what we think they're capable of.

[Is this program unlearnable, or am I an idiot? (1 of many)]

8 minutes ago, jstnhllmn said:

You may be right. I'm still working on shapes.

I tried following that tutorial. One problem from the start, the Threshold adjustment can only be applied to color and it seems more than one color needs to be present. I could not get it applied to the text even if I rasterized it. I don't know what in AP to substitute for the threshold. Sorry..