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Thanks again! I'm going to write it there then. R

By the way it is very hidden, so my suggestion for the developers to make it easier to find might be to just add an option directly in the option bar when you select the artboard itself, or in the drop down menu when you export the document

Thank you very much!

How do I export an artboard with transparent background?

Oh! Nice to know! thank you very much for the tip! I'll certainly try both solutions! Ric

Hello everyone, I experienced multiple total freezes of my laptop PC while doing basic operations on small jpg files both on win 10 and 11 (I have an MSI GS66 stealth). It was hard to backtrack the problem but I've noticed that the freeze happend 3 times while I was using the rectangular selection tool, the operations I did were: -select a raster layer -activate the rectangular selection tool -select a rectangular area -click and drag the area to move it wherever I need -freeze. To resolve the freeze I had to hard restar my PC everytime it happened by holding the on/off button, there was no other way to unfreeze it. I experiences the same frezes before and after wind 11 update. Ric PS: attached my machine stats and apps GS66_Stealth_10SE(20211203).txt

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for! it helps a lot speeding up the work!! PS: I also discovered that ctrl+alt+shift allows to select and deselect multiple object inside different groups!!

Hi, how can I selct multiple objects inside different groups from the canvas? And how can I select nested objects without double clicking a million of times? Thanks, RIc

I don't think you are supposed to click on a white area. If it was like you said the colours should be shifted in a way that the particular pixel you selected becomes white (255 255 255), and it does not do it either. So even if you are right (which I think you are not, I'll explain why below) this tool is not working like that either. My guess is that the tool is bugged, because it works properly in raw files (by clicking on a white or grey area), but it does a different thing in jpgs, in raws you click on any white/grey area and it makes that particular pixel of a neutral grey (no warm, no cold dominance in the colour, just flat grey with 3 equal rgb values, which is exaclty how the same tool in competitor applications works). The problem is that for jpg it only moves the temperature slider alone leaving the tint slider fixed (the "temperature" slider changes name from raws to jpgs and becomes "white balance" slider, which I don't understand the reason for this choice either... I guess this is the reason why who programmed it changed the behaviour for jpgs), while when working with raw it actually moves both of them, my best bet is that they just forgot to consider the second slider for jpgs in the script... Or maybe if it was an actual rational choice of the programmer that worked on it, maybe he didn't understand how the white balance works in every other software which is a bit worryng for a software that does photoediting. What I find even odder is that this is a basic tool that any photographer would use on daily basis and I reported this bug more than one year ago, so I'm starting doubting that affinity photo is a tool that profesisonal are actually not using for professional works, if no one complained about that since then... Just one last thing, if it was not for this minor thing I would have left the competitor software one year ago, because affinity is perfectly capable of doing all the rest fantastically, but untill I'll be able to balance the white/grey with one click I'll really can't use it. (PS: I've found a work around but it's cumbersome, you put a marker using the info panel on the point you want to white balance, then you use the white balance adjustment layer, you colour pick the same point, this operation will only move the white balance slider (which should be named temperature), then you move the tint slider manually untill the three RGB values on the info panel are equalized, note that if the difference between the RGB values is very high this method wont work anyway, but in most cases works.)

Hi everyone, any news about this one? I'm still waiting for an automatic way to correctly white balance a jpg image in affinity. If it is not considered as a bug anyone knows a workaround?

Let's keep an eye on future updates and let's hope for a quick fix. In the mean time thanks for the hints .

The correct one is the one that gives you neutral colour in the picked area no matter how the sliders move and what the numbers are . If affinity would have performed a correct white balance I would be perfectly fine not having both sliders moving.

I see what you mean now, I guess that what you say is correct, the raw bigger colour space provides a non destructive white balance and you always can go back to adjust it non-destructively as many times as you want (provided that the blue/red areas don't clip out of the coloured triangle). However, I still can't get why you mentioned that the tool without raw data is not bugged, it should provide the same effect of flattening the rgb values in the colour picked area, while shifting the RGB colour values of the entire image, exaclty as it happens in the bigger colour space, with the only doun side that it might be destructive. Anyway, I think the devs are already looking to the problem, if they will fix it we will know if it was an actual bug or a feature XD

I'm not sure if I completly grasped your point, but the white balance tool should correct the overal look of an image so that the areas that are picked are neutral (grey) and the rest of the image is shifted accordingly, exactly how it happens when you work with a raw file. According to this definition how can I do it if I don't have the raw file in the first place but only a jpg file? I didn't find any way other than manually moving the sliders, which to me is not what it is supposed to be.

Thanks for testing it, I'm using Windows, but I guess you are using an image with raw data am I wrong? Try to open a .jpg picture and switch to develop persona, it does not work for me. Furthermore the white balance adjustment layer in the photo persona has the same problem. Ric

Cool, I'll stay updated! thanks a lot!

Thanks! Will you post here when or if there will be news??

Yep, I've noticed this bug last year, I already tried to report it in the forum but nothing happened yet, I found this area of the forum only recently, I hope posting it here will make it more visible to devs. Finger crossed. Thanks for your answer in the meantime.

Don't worry, I will not calim any copyright infringement for this image ahahah. If it's usefull to solve bugs than feel free to use it ;).

Yes I did exactly as you said, however I'm sure the colour space shouldn't matter, the tool should work in both cases in the same way don't you agree? At least in photoshop it's the same with raw and non raw data, and anyway I don't see the point of making it doing different things. When should I need to balance only the temperature and not the tint? And even if I would need it how to regulate the temperature then?

BTW now the white balance tool in Affinity (both develop and photo persona) is broken, now it only moves the temperature value and not the tint. They should move together to properly fix the white in any picture. Looking at this old video it worked fine (if you look at the tint and temperature sliders on the right while he clicks with the white balance tool in the develop persona at 1:27 they both moves at the same time as it should be), it means they broke it in one of the last updates... I already reported the bug, let's hope they'll fix it fast because it's a pretty serious bug for people working with photos...

BTW in this video it shows how it should work, and you can clearly see that when he clicks on the image both the sliders of temperature and tints move together to make the whites grey, however when I do it in my affinity photo (updated at the last version btw) it only moves the top slider, the second one stays fixed in place.

Yea, it should do what you say, but it does not work, and btw an area that is supposed to be white in a picture (such as a wall as in the example) is always grey really otherwhise it would flatten all the values to 255 instead, which is not what the "white balance tool" should do.

Hi everyone, apparently in develop persona the white balance only affects the "temperature" value and not the tint, thus it does not give perfectly balanced greys automatically. Am I doing something wrong? is it a bug? or is it a feature?In any of these cases how can I balance the white properly in affinity designer whitout necessarely moving manually the temperature and tint sliders? I provide this image as example, to reproduce the problem just click on the left area with the white balance tool in the develop persona, and you'll see that the RGB values will not be flattened out as it should be, instead the 3 values will stay different, also if you look at the sliders "tint and temperature" on the right you will see that the second won't move

Thanks for trying, did you find a solution for this, other than moving the tint manually, yet? How can I report the bug?