BeauRX
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I have a MacBook and larger second-display which I use with Photo for editing. If I use Photo with the second-display connected to edit photos. Then disconnect the second-display from my MacBook when taking it elsewhere. Start Photo without the second-display i.e. disconnected. This results in the Photo window being restored/displayed to a "virtual video region" for the second-display that is inaccessible since it was disconnected. Reconnecting the second-display will show the Photo window but that will not work if not home. Recovery attempts The Dock (Show All Windows) menu will display the hidden Photo window but there is no way to move it from the disconnected-second-display area to the MacBook-display area. The Photo > Window menu has a (Move to my Tablet), but there is no (move to my MBP) menu. MBP M1max 64GB, macOS 14.1, Photo 2.2.1
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I occasionally need to scan documents to create a multi-page PDF. I can create single page PDFs from each scan. I was hoping to use Publisher to assemble the collection of one page files into a single PDF file with all the pages. If the [Add Pages From File...] menu would allow selecting multiple files that would do the trick as it stands know even with a [Add Pages From File...] shortcut it's pretty tedious. I am pretty familiar with Photo but mush less so with Publisher, wondering if there is some other way I haven't found/considered. Thx
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@NotMyFaultFantastic job enumerating the conditions! It's hard to pick out exactly what is wrong with an image, just that something does not look right/the way you want. Problems with a single feature are annoying, but this type of issue is much more concerning as it is the core function of compositing the layers. They really should be doing nightly build tests with a suite of these types of very specific edge/corner cases. To add to your list, adding a Merge Visible layer on top does not duplicate the gradient close to the sum of the combined layers. I believe I have seen this elsewhere but your file provides a great test case for Affinity. nested alpha live filer again V2_MV.afphoto
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In looking into color profiles on my Mac, the management is not great. First the files can be located in multiples locations with different scopes and second the files names and internal profile names can be and are different. While not encountering a problem myself it is far from robust especially with multiple app installing their own profiles. This is even further complicated by multiple engines with what ever rules they have about where they look for profiles. Not sure if this is the problem but it doesn’t help.
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I ran across the following WebP review shortly after reading this thread. A less than glowing review of WebP by a photographer and image processing engineer. It would seem that while shrinking images is extremely valuable to Google, it's less so for photographers especially given the quality concessions. https://eng.aurelienpierre.com/2021/10/webp-is-so-great-except-its-not/
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True accurate preview for Photo
BeauRX replied to NotMyFault's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
Wow! Not clear how much of this I have experienced, clearly there are times when my results does not look great, but since still on the learning curve would have attributed that to lack of skill/knowledge or initial image quality. I have my setting generally to best rendering over speed. Based on above I should be able to create a merge visible and use diff blend mode to spot issues. Thx -
Wondering if anyone has done a side-by-side install of different versions of the same app e.g. APh 1.9 and APh 1.10 from Affinity Store? It seems that GPU/Metal development is proving tough for multiple vendors (I don't have Adobe products but have read same on LuLa) and the errors are often catastrophic. If not, I sure would support actively testing a short beta of final build since beta and release and coexist side-by-side. It would be better being stuck or having to revert. In my own SW experience I found coordinated short focused betas much more effective than long ones where customers mostly did not participate actively. Thx
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The hang does not occur with the settings Display: OpenGL Hardware Acceleration: Enable Metal compute acceleration = unchecked There is also no hang with Display: Metal Hardware Acceleration: Enable Metal compute acceleration = unchecked I guess this is the first diagnostic check to run in the future for hangs/crashes.
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The aphoto file was created last night with 1.10.1(?) and saved. I updated to APh 1.10.3 this morning and loaded the file fine, but at first interaction APh repeatably crashes. The original JPG was from a GoPro. This does not happen on the 1.10.2.266 beta. Attached OS crash report (seems to have all the config info) debug log? (just popped up on terminal one point) aphoto file Let me know if you need further info. Thx HG Crash Report.txt HG APh Terminal dump.txt GP030010-4.afphoto
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Still unable to exit fields [1.10.2.260]
BeauRX replied to Old Bruce's topic in [ARCHIVE] Photo beta on macOS threads
I have experienced some weirdness exiting fields and moving to next one too. Can't ad a specific example right now but will add that I checked the tab option at the bottom of attached preferences dialog. I change it after tabbing hid the whole interface. I am on my first Mac after decades of Windows. -
To escape the MAS sandbox, I have “upgraded” Affinity Photo from the MAS version of to the Affinity Store version. Wondering if anyone knows what happens when the next MAS release is available? Does it automatically install side-by-side or overwrite the Affinity Store version again? There is no option to "un-buy" in the MAS store, and the MAS Preferences only provides a global option [Automatic Updates: App Store will download and install app updates automatically.] which I don’t want to turn off for all my apps.
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Smarter object selection
BeauRX replied to Dirk_Germany's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
+1 I still find selection one of the most time consuming aspects of APh and don't feel creating object selection masks is part of the creative endeavor. Thx -
Developing Plugins for Affinity Photo?
BeauRX replied to khair's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
As far as I know the plugins for Affinity were all developed for PS against the Adobe SDK https://www.adobe.io/photoshop/. But there are further limitations to what kind of plugin will work in APh, I believe its only the filter type, so think you can't make an export plugin, you should verify that. -
@RichardMH I'm curious how/why this would be better than using software made by Canon/Epson to print on the respective printers. Obvious the latter are in the business to sell HW not SW, but it seems they would still want sufficiently good results and I would expect them to know how the HW they designed should works best. There are a number of quirks with human vision works and so this is not pure HW science, but looking at the Mirage webpage it does not seem more sophisticated in terms of setup/settings. The algorithms are of course are completely invisible and ultimately determine the results so they may be far superior? Thx
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Gamma Factored Computation Option
BeauRX replied to BeauRX's topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I believe the 32bit space is linear hence does not need the additional steps for computations. -
Gamma Factored Computation Option
BeauRX posted a topic in Feedback for Affinity Photo V1 on Desktop
I would like an option like PS (Blend RGB colors using gamma). I ran across the video Computer Color is Broken (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw) which demonstrated the effect of not factoring gamma into operations. It also showed the PS option (Blend RGB colors using gamma) to address this issue. I don’t have PS to test the option myself, maybe someone else can contribute. I do not know the inner workings of APh, but a simple test (attached) with the Gaussian filter exhibits the same dark band issue for adjacent colors (top half). Adding a Procedural Texture filter before the Gaussian to square the color-values and one after the blur taking the square-root of the color-values appears to eliminate the dark band and yields a more pleasing transition (bottom half). Thx GammaBlurTest.afphoto -
How to show red overlay when masking
BeauRX replied to user_0815's topic in Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products
Just thought I would pile on for good measure. +1 Selection is still one of the more time consuming aspects of my editing. I won't say this is a trivial or could easily be done in X time (since it's infuriating to developers), but will note the UI (dropdown/button) and underlying rendering capability is already implemented to work in one set of conditions so this is an incremental effort. Thx