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    MAffinity reacted to Wanesty in Affinity Suite v2.0.4 on linux [ Wine ]   
    Since a few peoples were interested in a "guide" to get Affinity v2 working on Linux here it is,
    Before asking for help or sending logs here try and troubleshoot issues yourself with WineHQ's documentation :
    https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User's_Guide
    https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine
    Before anything else I'd like to state that this does NOT deliver a stable nor 1:1 experience to what Windows10/11 will give you but i believe it to be an important step for Serif to witness Affinity's potential on the Linux ecosystem.
    And that yes peoples like us, going to this hacky extent to get your products working on our OS of choice is meaningful so please consider your marketing impact if a native version were to exist.
    An other note to Serif, Affinity's devs and managers :
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    MAffinity reacted to art0 in Cryptomatte support in Photo v2   
    The missing cryptomatte support is basically the only reason I'm not yet replacing PS with Affinity. 
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    MAffinity reacted to Nickfranken in Cryptomatte support in Photo v2   
    Good one! Maybe adjust it for full exr support incl linear acescg workflow!
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    MAffinity reacted to OdFori in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    CryptoMatte in Affinity Photo would make the Affinity suite more complete for me. 
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    MAffinity reacted to gaia in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    Please make an   plugin for cryptomatte  in affinity photo, all 3d perpectivists bless will you.
     
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    MAffinity reacted to travisrogers in Cryptomatte   
    ThiThis isn't the best solution as Photoshop is an expensive plugin in this case, but I open the file through EXR/IO in PS, have it auto generate the alpha masks from the cryptomatte and then I re-save it as an EXR that I then open in Affinity. This gives me perfect masks without having to do crude color selects in AP. Of course this functionality is a must have for AP. Hopefully they'll get around to building it in sooner than later.
    @James Ritson I'm sure the AP team already has this on the to-do list, but I thought I'd copy you just in case.
     
    Best / Travis
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    MAffinity reacted to Pixelatedvertex in Cryptomatte   
    This looks really nice at first, but I'm kind of getting the feeling, that this is more of an awkward workaround, than a real implementation of cryptomatte.
    First of all, even after downloading the latest version, my cryptomatte passes don't get imported the same way they look in the tutorial and for some reason don't seem to allow me to do flood selections (probably because the values in the cryptomatte pass aren't really colors). My suspicion is, that before comp, they saved the cryptomatte, that is supposed to be an EXR to work properly, as a tiff or png or something from the vray frame buffer (so pretty much just a diagnostic view of the cryptomatte instead of the cryptomatte itself), to get the color info into affinity photo, discarding the data that makes the cryptomatte pass actually useful in the process. You can see at the file tab, that it's a 8-bit file, that could never hold the necessary amount of data for an actual cryptomatte layer to work. The workflow shown here looks more like using render ID passes, which I've seen some people do before cryptomatte became a thing, but's not the same. Please don't get me wrong, this can save you a lot of time setting up masks, but doesn't give you the functionality cryptomatte was supposed to give you.
    The way cryptomatte is supposed to work, is, as far as I understand it, that you get a channel for every object/material/tag, that the cryptomatte pass is supposed to capture and you end up with a file, that basically contains an alpha mask for every unique tag in the scene. Sure, the files get huge, but you get really nice selections including antialiasing and sub-pixel details.
    Kudos on the spare channels trick though. That is something I didn't know about and it looks super useful!
    But back to the topic. There's two problems with the workflow presented here:
    +one is, you're limited to 100 objects, that can be stored in the mask, if the Flood select tool slider works with 1% increments, which can be a problem in more complex scenes with 100+ tags, maybe even less, since the colors are assigned randomly and can be pretty close together at times
    +the other, much bigger problem, in my opinion, is the selection borders. Since you're not really extracting cryptomatte data, but only doing a flood select on a flat color image, you don't get antialiasing working and you lose definition in areas with very fine detail, often in sub-pixel scales. You'll also probably get nasty selection borders with glowing edges or some kind of ghosting, if you try and do some kind of a more extreme adjustment.
    Maybe I'm just clumsy, couldn't get it to work and am misunderstanding something, but I find this video a bit misleading to present it as working with cryptomattes.
     
    Cheers,
    Ivan
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    MAffinity got a reaction from OdFori in Ohhhh..... what a great Tool ... wouldnt it be nice ...   
    Yes, Cryptomatte in Affinity Photo please!
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    MAffinity reacted to hifred in context sensive RMB context menus please   
    RMB=Right Mouse button
    I see that one of the underlying principles in Affinity apps is what is called Context Toolbars (under the Menu bar). This probably works well for many users – but I have to admit that I prefer moving my mouse or pen even less, whenever it makes sense. Obviously I'm a heavy user of keyboard shortcuts – but there's a lot of options which don't really lend themselves for shortcuts.

    From Photoshop I'm super used to /spoiled from a wealth of context sensitive RMB menus: For every tool there's a matching RMB menu, which offers a drilldown of exactly the options required in this very second by that very tool.

    Affinity apps have context sensitive RMB menus in their dockable editors, but on the canvas there's only one generic RMB context menu – but (looking at Photo right now) most of your tools don't even offer an RMB option at all. When trying out Affinity I can not tell how many times I already right-clicked without any effect... Am I the only one who finds this painful?

    Please let me know – are there plans to add context sensitive RMB menus everywhere?


    Some samples of Photoshop's RMB menus: 

    Context Menu of Photoshop CS 6 Crop tool

    That's what you get inside the text tool...

    Extremely useful in Photoshop's Brush tool. No equivalent in APhoto.
     

    Also sorely missed: Further options in Free Transform via RMB
     
     
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    MAffinity reacted to hifred in Right click options.. more context-relevant please.   
    Yup. Many tools don't even have a RMB menu at all! I made a feature request already.
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    MAffinity reacted to eobet in Cryptomatte   
    I would also like cryptomatte support.
    We're about to test a new open source cryptomatte plugin for Photoshop at work, so it can be done:
    https://www.exr-io.com/exr-io-2-00/
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