walt.farrell

It's there for me (Affinity Photo, on Windows), as you can see in the attached screenshot.

I found the Affinity Designer tutorial on Artistic, Frame, and Shape Text useful for learning more about how Frame and/or Artistic Text work in Affinity Photo. Edit: Basically, though, you should be able to select the layer containing the text frame, and if you have the move tool or the text frame tool selected the frame will be visible and the text will be editable.

Perhaps you missed DutchShader's first step: Select all. Without an active selection you'll only have the choice to export the entire document.

Have you tried the Flood Select tool with the Contiguous option turned off?

I can't comment on the need for some kind of "level of undo" as you suggested in your first post. I haven't used Live Lighting much yet, but in the playing around I've done I have not experienced the problem you seem to have. Regarding further adjustments: For all the live filter layers, if you look in the layer panel you should see the filter layer there, with an icon in it. Double-clicking on the icon should reopen the filter dialog.

Thanks, Alfred. It does look like the history is the modification being indicated, so that explains it. I probably would never have found that on my own However, this happens even when I have not selected Save History with Document. And in any case it seems odd because it's the .jpg or .tif document being marked modified. If I do nothing else after the export except try to close the document, AP will ask if I want to save it. If I say yes it will happily save the document, overwriting the original .jpg or .tif (and, not saving the History anyway). That potentially loses some EXIF information, and I'm concerned that for .jpg the quality may suffer from the unneeded save operation. As I didn't choose to save History this is a totally unneeded operation. If I had chosen to Save with History then at least when closing I would have had to flatten the document, or Save As a .afphoto file.Save As is the only case where the History becomes relevant. Of course, I suppose it is probably a rare situation when someone has done nothing to a document except open it, and then export it. So it's probably a very low priority change for the Affinity team.

Note that in the prior description, if I Cancel from File->Export rather than Saving, the current document is not marked modified. But here's an additional scenario: Open a document (jpg, tif for example) File->Export Click More... Click Close. Current document is immediately marked Modified. In this scenario canceling the File->Export leaves the document marked Modified.

Affinity Photo (on Windows, at least) tells you on the document's title bar that the document is "(modified)" if you have any unsaved changes. I imagine (though cannot check) that this also happens in Designer, and on Mac. Does that satisfy your need?

With AP 1.6.1.93 or Beta 1.6.3.96 on Windows, I've noticed that if I open a file (e.g., a .jpg or .tif), then immediately do a File->Export to save a copy of the file, AP marks my original file as Modified when I click Save on the Export dialog. Why? I haven't done anything to change the original file at that point. Then, when I try to close the original, AP asks if I want to save it, which is confusing as I haven't made any apparent changes to the original.

I'm curious why you don't use the "min" approach you discussed the other day. Did you find some problem with that, other than the Transform Panel showing the wrong size.

Sorry to drag this in a slightly different direction, but I'm curious what different effect you would expect if you could merge the adjustment into the mask? That is, how would one expect the merged adjustment to behave, as compared to the non-merged adjustment? Thanks.

TIFF is also be a lossless format, though it will probably result in larger files than PNG.

Thanks for the clarification/correction, Alfred.

He's not using the official Affinity Photo logo, though. He's using one that is visually similar, but if you look at both of them at the same time they are definitely different.

Yes, but it depends on support within Windows 10. Specifically, it requires Windows 10 version 1703 (Creators Update) or newer. And, if you have version 1709 (Fall Creators Update) then you must have specific hardware. So Zoner is most likely simply supporting additional capabilities on Windows 10, and like Apple, Microsoft is requiring specific hardware depending on the OS level you're running.

I know we say that, but it's not really true for Save. If you edit a .jpg file, for example, and make adjustments to it that do not result in adding layers (or, if you flatten the layers) then Save (File->Save or ctrl-s) will happily re-save that .jpg file with your modifications. If you've added layers, and try to Save the .jpg, you'll get a dialog asking whether you want to save flattened or not. If you respond to save flattened, then, again, your .jpg is re-saved with the modifications. The same is (I presume, but have not tested) true for TIFF files. "Save As" seems to be reserved for saving in the native .afphoto format, though.

Thanks, @wgphoto, but I still don't understand. If I choose the White Balance Tool (not the White Balance panel), and then click on a pixel in the image using the tool, doesn't that adjust the white balance based on the pixel I clicked on? It certainly seems to, and that's what the Help says should happen: If it's not doing that, or that's somehow different from what you've asked for, I'd like to understand more.

I'm rather new to AP, so there may be something I simply don't understand about your request, but doesn't the White Balance Tool in the Develop persona already do what you want?

Interesting. I didn't expect that. The macro resizes the canvas (+= 5 px), adds a (white) fill layer, moves the fill layer to the bottom, and inverts the fill layer. But I see something similar to your photos when I try it on a different photo. So that must mean that the macro recorded the final canvas size, rather than my change to the canvas size. Sorry. I guess that approach doesn't work as a general macro solution. Thanks for helping me learn something more about AP macros!

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that your ctrl-s did not do a Save. I just tried that as an experiment. The on-disk copy of the file was not changed, nor was a .afphoto file created which is what should have happened if the ctrl-s worked. In any case, "Save" would not get you a new JPEG file; you need to use Export for that.

While you can use the Develop persona for your White Balance adjustment, you can also do that from within the How did you Save your work? I do not see a Save option in the Develop persona. It might be simpler to stay in the Photo persona and perform your White Balance adjustment there, then Export. While you can use the Develop persona to do it, I believe the main intended use for the Develop persona is for handling RAW images, not JPEG. Staying in Photo you can do the adjustments you need without that extra step of clicking Develop.

1. On Windows you probably see a workspace with one photo visible at a time, and a tab bar that you can click on to switch between them. If you need to have multiple photos visible at the same time, you can drag them to undock them from the workspace and give them their own window. That will make it possible to drag something from one photo to another. [Edit: To undock, click on the photo's tab in the workspace, then drag it. You can also redock a photo by dragging it to that tab bar.]

Here's a version that makes it black automatically. After moving the white fill layer to the bottom of the layer stack, it adds an Invert Adjustment above it, giving black. 5pixelborder-black.afmacro Edit: As mentioned below, this approach does not work. Sorry.

Yes, creating and using a WB preset does give more consistent results, from a quick experiment. Thanks. (Still trying to understand LUTs, but that's a low priority item for me that I won't worry about right now.)

Thanks. That looks interesting.