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Hello Nathan I went to Photo Settings and changed 'inference' to 'CPU Only', restarted .... Success! Just to experiment I went back and changed it back to add GPU and the programme crashed. Changed again to CPU only and did not crash. Many thanks Trevor FYO I recently bought a MacBook Pro, M4 chip with 24GB ram and left my desktop mac to automatically download a mirror of all my software to it.. this was a few weeks before my desktop version of AP started crashing. The laptop has not crashed and overall works very well with AP.

Thanks MikeTO, for your attempt to help. If I don't hear from Serif soon I will try reinstalling a fresh copy.

Thank you for your reply. I checked if display was set to Metal, and I guess that since I have an M1 chip it was automatically set to metal. I did as you suggested and changed to OpenGL. I restarted and tested. Sadly clicking on the object selection tool caused AP to crash again. I am beginning to wonder if there are other tools that will cause a crash - but I don't intend to conduct a search right now! Here is one of the several crash reports that were made: Affinity Photo 2 Affinity Store-2025-04-18-170257.ips

I have returned to my desktop computer after ten days shutdown... a new problem has arisen: each time I go to the object selection tool it crashes AP. I tried with four images in succession and it crashed immediately every time. The tool worked satisfactorily before I went away. Using a Mac Mini M1, Benq sw240 display monitor. 8 GB ram Sequoia 15.3.2 Please advise. I find this tool to be very useful.

I have a strange issue since updating to 2.6 - and it didn't show with the Beta version. Issue is that when I save a small folder of .afphoto images on the desktop, and then hit the space bar to temporarily enlarge the image to review, some of the images are very blurred. Oddly not every one in the folder is blurred. If I open 'blurred' image in AP it is not blurred. Obviously I cannot send a photo to check as the file itself is fine. They are usually 8000+/- pixels long side Mac OS Sequoia 15.2 using Benq 240 display. Mac Mini M1 chip 8GB ram.

Solved? I just updated to Sequoia 15.2 and now the Object Selection tool appears to be working fine. I tried it on two images, a jpg I downloaded from the web and an .afphoto I created in AP 2.5.7, and it worked without crashing. Best wishes T

Hi, I am using a Benq SW240 24inch screen, 1920x1200. As far as I can tell one cannot alter hardware acceleration on a M1 Mac Mini. here are some crash reports you asked for: there are several covering different file types - .afphoto, tiff and jpg all the best T By the way, I have just been invited to update Sequoia - I will try beta after updating Sequoia and if the problem resolves itself I will of course let you know. Affinity Photo 2 Beta-2025-01-10-224016.ips Affinity Photo 2 Beta-2025-01-14-140033.ips Affinity Photo 2 Beta-2025-01-14-175147.ips Affinity Photo 2 Beta-2025-01-14-175352.ips

Hi, As seen in the attachment, I tried jpg and tiff and just opening. I did not even make the jpeg, so it was not affected by any of my programs. As to a crash report, I am not very good at the Mac's innards so just copied out the crash report for you - thinking you can make use of the pause button! If you want anything more expert then advise me on the method and I will help as far as I can. Screen Recording 2025-01-14 at 17.51.05.mov

With pleasure. T Screen Recording 2025-01-14 at 13.59.47.mov

Hi EmT, Trying to be helpful I took an image and created an .afphoto version afresh in 2Beta, starting with a blank in 2Beta and placing the image - then rasterising. I also saved a copy of the image as a .jpeg. In both cases, just clicking on the object selection tool caused the programme to crash. Both files are attached, as you asked. Thanks Itinerant workers near Dharamsala.afphoto

I just updated to 2.6 and opened a tiff file made in 2.5. I wanted to use the object selection tool on an aeroplane in a clear blue sky. I clicked on the owl tool and programme immediately crashed. I started it again and had the same result. I had reported this also happened to the previous iteration of the beta. It is disappointing! mac Mini, Apple M1 with 8gb ram and with Sequoia 15.1.1.

Hi I just thought to mention that I developed a photo in the Beta, then duplicated the saved copy and made a jpeg. I later decided to try the auto selection feature in Beta. It opened the jpeg but each time I attempted to use the auto selection the programme crashed. Thought you should know... mac mini m1, updated to latest OS and AP. Using Intuos pen tablet at the time.

Hi Just to say I was finishing off a composite - adding text and cropping whole image. I flattened and nothing was selected. However, as is my custom I hit Rasterise and Trim only to find the pre-crop outlined and program refusing to comply. Hitting flatten did nothing and there were no signs of anything selected. I hit Deselect and the bounding box shrunk to the intended crop and allowed me to rasterise and trim... Is this something you may care to tweak - it could confuse some of us! File had been saved in .afphoto. Mac mini M1 Sonora All progs including this beta updated.

Sorry should have said I am on Mac Mini M1, Sequoia 15.1.1.

Hi Someone might care to look at the potentially superb object selection tool when selecting objects one has 'painted'. I experienced a bit of a fight when creating a fanciful backdrop to a photo - object selection went haywire when I tried to select some painted boxes and shapes. Oddly when I ignored it for a while and returned after altering colours by choosing different blend modes it worked fine. It is a very useful tool and had worked excellently when I selected a group of nine backlit people. I'll attach the painted page intended for further use as a backdrop to a painting... background painting.afphoto