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Hi all - I feel like this should be very easy. I am having trouble selecting just my ferns ... I've tried the various selection methods and in every case I am getting a lot of the orange-ish sheet behind the ferns. I've tried the flood select (on the sheet and ferns) with and without contiguous and various levels of tolerance. Ive tried the select color range and select sampled color (on both the sheet and ferns). I thought that putting green ferns on an orangey sheet would make selection of the ferns simple and easy, almost one step. Instead I am finding separation very difficult. The selection brush seems to do OK but a lot of manual work. Why can't I simply select GREEN and just get the ferns. The sheet really is orangeish although it shows more beige here. How can I easily do this, what am I missing? Is there a better choice of sheet for the background?

I am finding that 1.9.1.979 crashes a lot more than older releases. Things that make it crash: focus stacking, panorama stitching, loading saved projects which have several layers and unusual crop sizes. This attached file, seems to crash AF everytime I try to load it, it loads, thinks for a bit, I scroll in and out, and bam !! AF crashes. -- Appears upload of af file failed with a -200 error

ha ha - what a maroon am I - Opacity was 0!!! Pebkac

well old Bruce, you are probably on the right track - I don't know and I guess I need to RTFM a bit more. 🙂 I'll take more explanation on there if you're up for it, or I'll find it in the docs. Thanks Update: Online help says nothing about this under Inpainting brush using image or pixel layer. My layer is a 'merge visible' layer named of all things 'Pixel'. So I'm guessing I'm dealing with a pixel layer.

Often when I use the inpainting brush NOTHING happens (regardless of the layer setting (Current Layer or Current Layer and Below). I paint over the object, the computer does some thinking and then the image looks just the same. Am I missing something on how to use this properly? It happens a lot. I'm on 1.8.5.703.

When I open Fuji GFX 50R .RAF images in AP, taken with a Dynamic Range of 400%, they are underexposed. They are correctly exposed everywhere else in other software. It would appear from my testing that AP does not recognize the GFX 50R dynamic range settings causing the photo be be underexposed in AP when a Dynamic Range of 400% is used in the camera. Picture shows image in Nomacs and AP side by side. Picture take at iso 500, Dynamic Range 400%

I don't think so becuase when I select the layer the purple box / move tool the purple box gets the dots for resizing and rotation. I would not expect the snapping candidate to have that, although I must note that the Snapping is ON. I'll see what happens when I turn it off.

I used the selection brush tool to just select the church, and then duplicated it onto a new layer and used the Move tool to move its position. The purple box showing the slection is WAY TOO BIG for the selection, which means I have to zoom way out to grab the control points for adjustment. Why is this purple box so much LARGER than the selection? IS there some setting or some way to fix? Yes, I know I stretched the church (just playing) but I would expect the purple selection box of the smaller church to basically bound only the church, not extend way over to the left of the original church nor stretch way up towards the top, beyond the steeple. First pic, the AP selection area is way to large for what was selected Second Pic - I drew a rectangle around what I would want/expect the selection control size to be.

AP is no longer behaving in it's normally awesome way. I am noticing lots of little quarks that seem to be graphics related but are hard to describe and hard to explain (see attached image) but let me try a few examples: I am now seeing magenta square box around ALL of my layers when I chose the move tool even though I I selected a specific layer. I did not see this before When using the mask brush I may not actually see the expected change until I actually start brushing, it used to show me the intended change before I brushed When working on a layer mask, all of my other layers disappeared and did not come back until I turned off and back the other layers Screen did not fully refresh Installed plugin disappeared from list, and I had to re-add it to AP despite the fact it never changed at it's installed location My hardware specs are awesome, so it's not that I don't have enough; Geforce 1070ti with 8G, 32 Gig Ram, i7 Any ideas?

Yes, I believe HVDB is correct - Delete the temp folder Unruly temporary files maybe ?%appdata%\Affinity\Photo\1.0\tempIf so clean up the temp directory ... I ended up posting to some AP facebook page and got a very rapid response but can find that post. Perhaps it was deleted in favor of creating a positive image or I am just a searching noob? Whatever - DON'T clear your setting as suggested -it won't fix the problem and you'll have to set your AP up again, it will wipe out any plugins you have I did clear out some directory, probably the ProgramData one and that DID resolve the problem, as I suspect, some file is sitting on the hard drive making AP think that it is loading a file when it is not. Without a file on the file system or an entry in the registry how would a restart cause a program to think it had pending work?

Anybody else have other ideas? Problem persists, resetting did not fix it.

Tried that, cleared the first 3 items. Could not close the app, same problem. Killed and restarted and the problem continues.

AP does not quit gracefully anymore. Every time I try to exit the application I get a dialog that says: Quitting At least one file is currently being opened. Please wait for the files to load before quitting the application. However NO files are being loaded. There must be something messed up and I bet it's easy to fix. Any body know how to fix?

Recently I am seeing a processing wait bar that says "Analyzing Scene" - this seem to come up and take several seconds every time I switch layers. I have version 1.6.4.104 and I do not recall seeing this happen with great frequency until recently