Richard Liu

Could you supply a linke to that review, please. Thanks. Never mind, I think I've found it: In a remark almost at the very end of the video the author counts the inability to install as a plugin into Affinity Photo as one of the disadvantages of ViewPoint 5.

This question pertains to running on a MacBook Pro M1 with macOS Sonoma 14.7. [This remark is superfluous, now that I've updated my signature, but I'll leave it here anyway.] I just upgraded my DxO Nik Collection to version 7 and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was automagically installed as a plugin into Affinity Photo 2 (2.5.5). Sadly, I didn't experience a similar surprise when upgrading DxO ViewPoint to version 5. Is there a way of doing this manually, similar to what had to be done with older versions on Nik Collection in previous versions of Affinity Photo?

Pertaining to Affinity Photo 2 for macOS: The text in the UI is way too small and the contrast of white text on a dark background too low. Admittedly, all this might be mitigated by setting my BenQ SW271 to its native resolution instead of that of a 32" display. On the other hand, referring to the attached screenshot, the text could be made a bit larger requiring the space for each layer to increase. By the way, don't be fooled by the quality of the screenshot. I'm sitting about 80 cm away from the screen and wearing my computer eyeglasses. What I see is nowhere as sharp as the screenshot. The prescription is current. Has anybody found a workaround for this nuisance?

All I know is what is contained in my attachments above. When I click and the box opens, it stays open. When I click and it immediately closes, clicking again usually does solve the problem.

Yeah, I know, but I couldn't find a macro in the file that I happened to be working on when I finally got so disgusted with this behavior that I decided to look in the forum for some advice. Of course, it disappears so quickly that one can't even see whether there's anything to twiddle.

What should happen is that the box to which the arrow points should display, so that I can change any variables that James Ritson foresaw users wanting to change. What sometimes happens is, the box appears then immediately disappears. Clicking the ∑ produces the box, that immediately disappears. It's impossible to stop from disappearing. This happens twice; the third time, the box remains. When I close it and click ∑ again, it disappears. I did that three or four times before stopping the recording. Disappearing textural window.mov

The macro is Saturate Blues and Greens in James' JR - Photographic Retouching V3 macro collection, available on his site https://jamesritson.co.uk/resources.html and described here https://jamesritson.co.uk/pdf/jr-photographic-retouching.pdf . I was unable to make a video of the described behavior, but here's a screenshot of what's supposed to appear when the ∑ is clicked.

No, sorry for not mentioning that. I'm using some of James Ritson's macros. Some contain procedural textures in which a user can set some variables.

Affinity Photo 2.5.2 running in macOS Sonoma 14.5 on a 2021 MacBook Pro with M1 Max and 64 GB memory. When I click on the ∑ symbol for a live procedure texture in a macro, most often the LP is displayed; however, sometimes it subsequently immediately disappears. After that, the behavior is the same for any LP. The only reliable to "solve" the problem is to save my work, close the file and reopen it. Thereafter, it's only a matter of time before the problem reappears. Any ideas, how to solve this nuisance?

Walt, I believe I took advantage of an offer from Affinity, made simultaneously with the announcement of Affinity 2, to acquire the whole Affinity 2 suite for installation on any and all supported devices. This offer evidently didn't qualify for inclusion in the various app stores at the time, but perhaps that has been changed.

I realize that when Version 2 of the Affinity apps for macOS was released, there were good reasons why it wasn't available in the Mac App Store. I understand that the EU is compelling Apple to relax its policies governing the App Store. Are there any plans to distribute updates there? It's so much more convenient to receive a push notification regarding updates than to have the question pop up when one has work to do and launches the app.

Seems to have something to do with using Affinity Photo on the secondary display, the BenQ SW271. I moved the Affinity Photo window to the laptop's display, and Preferences display in the same workspace. Then I moved Affinity Photo back to the BenQ, and the Preferences nevertheless displayed on the laptop's display. Moving the Preferences panel into the same workspace on the BenQ as Affinity Photo seems to "solve" the problem. Surely this has the same cause as the notorious quarter wheel display of the HSL layer with some external monitors, this BenQ among them.

Setup: Affinity Photo 1.10.5 running under macOS 12.3.1 on MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Max. I want to examine preferences, so I click on Affinity Photo > Preferences... and nothing seems to happen. Has something been changed here???

Hi, Regarding those older tutorials: Could you please provide a link to those older tutorials? I find myself searching for particular ones, e.g. making rock "glow", or selecting the sky behind the branches and leaves of a tree, etc. I notice that, in contrast to the older ones, the new tutorials seem to take a "here's a feature of Affinity Photo and here's what you might want to use it for" (as opposed to "here's what you might want to do with programs like Affinity Photo and here's how you can do it") approach. It's quite aggravating to remember some key frames of the video in question, but for lack of knowledge about the adjustment layers or (live) filters involved, not know where one might find the technique described in the new videos. I understand that new users might find the organization of the new tutorials better for learning Affinity Photo, and that the older tutorials will contain details that have to be adapted to newer versions of the product, but surely there must be a middle ground, e.g., cross-referencing the titles of both sorts of tutorials.

Not sure what is taking so long to squash this bug. The circumstances under which it occurs are well known: external monitor, probably not running at default resolution. Mine is a BenQ 27" running on the same resolution as a 32". That's the way it came. Therefore, the bug is reproducible. Furthermore, the workaround is also well known. All the speed enhancements of the latest version are lost when I constantly have to drag the HSL dialog back and forth.

@MEB, has 1.10 squashed this bug, or has its seemingly perpetual lease on living quarters in Affinity Photo been confirmed?

Maybe contact BenQ (in the UK, I presume)? Tell them, theirs are the only monitors with this problem, some people even asking whether monitors with the same specs have the problem, would be a pity, such a nice monitor, etc., etc. Maybe they could lend you one. By the way, does this happen on Windows, too? For the record, I have a MacBook Pro 15" 2018 model running macOS 10.14.6.

Hi @MEB, I believe it has to do with the fact that the BenQ SW271 external display is a 27" display that is operating (by default) as if it were a 32" one, i.e. at 3840x2160. You might poll the users who have reported this problem and see what display and setting they are using to see whether there's a common thread. Thanks,

@MEB, Will this ever be fixed? It seems to be a "resident" bug. It's one of the first that I check for in each new release ... by which you can tell that I haven't upgraded to 1.9 (yet). Despite having a latent fondness for it, I would not mourn its demise.

Aha! Thanks. As you say, it's there in 1.8.6, too. I just wasn't looking under Adjustment.

@walt.farrell, I apologize for somewhat "hijacking" this thread, but I am rather uncertain about upgrading to 1.9 due to the many errors and "errors" being reported regarding things that used to work but no longer do, or work differently. Apple doesn't make downgrading exactly easy. I notice no Default preset in 1.8.6. Could you perhaps supply a screenshot of this in 1.9? I think I see in 1.8.6 the Adjustment icon and Layer > New Adjustment to which you refer. Thanks.

@Boldlinedesign Why not keep the old Mac just for running things that don't have updates to Big Sur/M1, and get an M1-Mac for running everything else?

Here is what Thom Hogan (ByThom.com) had to say:

@Patrick Connor Are there any new features or bug fixes in AFP 1.8.6 compared to the previous release for macOS? I miss the usual list.

@Chris B, I seen several problems that seem to be regressions, i.e., fixed in the previous version, "unfixed" in the current one. How is that possible? Do your developers not perform regression tests on updates?