Richard Liu
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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.
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Can't go to Preferences in Photo
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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???
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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.
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Color Wheel in HSL panel isn't displayed correctly
Richard Liu replied to JeMa's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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. -
Color Wheel in HSL panel isn't displayed correctly
Richard Liu replied to JeMa's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
@MEB, has 1.10 squashed this bug, or has its seemingly perpetual lease on living quarters in Affinity Photo been confirmed? -
Color Wheel in HSL panel isn't displayed correctly
Richard Liu replied to JeMa's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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. -
Color Wheel in HSL panel isn't displayed correctly
Richard Liu replied to JeMa's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
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, -
Color Wheel in HSL panel isn't displayed correctly
Richard Liu replied to JeMa's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
@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. -
Affinity Photo 1.9 - double click Layer - does not open
Richard Liu replied to Focus9's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Aha! Thanks. As you say, it's there in 1.8.6, too. I just wasn't looking under Adjustment. -
Affinity Photo 1.9 - double click Layer - does not open
Richard Liu replied to Focus9's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
@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. -
Discussion on Affinity Suite for macOS 1.8.6 release
Richard Liu replied to Oval's topic in News and Information
@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? -
Discussion on Affinity Suite for macOS 1.8.6 release
Richard Liu replied to Oval's topic in News and Information
Here is what Thom Hogan (ByThom.com) had to say: -
Discussion on Affinity Suite for macOS 1.8.6 release
Richard Liu replied to Oval's topic in News and Information
@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?
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Printing in 1.8.3 excruciatingly slow
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Chris, 1.8.4 has just been released. Does it fix this problem -- incl. both issues?. -
HSL adjustment: only 1/4 of the wheel is displayed
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Is this the case with Catalina as well, to which I still intend to upgrade? -
HSL adjustment: only 1/4 of the wheel is displayed
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Yes, the laptop's 15.4" 2880 x 1800 and a BenQ SW271 27" 3840 x 2160. -
Printing in 1.8.3 excruciatingly slow
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Any news on this bug yet, Chris? Is it fixed in the latest beta? -
This is what I'm referring to: This has been an annoying "feature" of many releases of Affinity Photo for Mac now. I believe I was told at one time that this was due to my not running the most recent version of macOS. Now that I have the time to upgrade to macOS 10.15 Catalina, I'm wondering whether this bug has since migrated to Catalina. I'm still on macOS 10.14.6 Mojave.
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Printing in 1.8.3 excruciatingly slow
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
OK Chris, thanks. When I review some of the photos that I have printed since discovering that the printing was once again working with live filters I also see discrepancies between exported .jpeg, .tiff, display in AFP and the prints produced by AFP. These differ in a different way than the examples that I sent you, e. g. a wall of a ruin that has too much black in it, almost as if the contrast might have gone crazy. -
Printing in 1.8.3 excruciatingly slow
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Chris, Thanks. Any clues as to why the other problem, the discrepancy between an exported .tiff and a print is so crass? For the understanding of those reading this thread, I sent Chris a PDF generated in the macOS print dialog configured the same way as when I print. I can confirm the similarity between the PDF and what I see when I actually print. The .tiff that I sent him very closely resembles what I see in AFP on my monitor. The Soft proof adjustment layer configured to use the same ICC profile as I specify in the print dialog gives no hint of the discrepancy. Chris, I there a way to provide links to those uploads so people can see the problem? -
Printing in 1.8.3 excruciatingly slow
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
Chris, I've uploaded a "bunch" of files. The AFP file beginning with _DSC2980... has the behavior I described, i.e., slow to load the print dialog (64 sec.), slow to change the printer in the dialog (50 - 55 sec.) and slow to finish the print (64 sec. before the printing message disappears in AFP). With the other files I have a problem with printing that I just discovered while timing it. The timing in the print is OK (this is the one that is about as large as yours), but the printout is drastically different from what soft proof shows in AFP, not to mention how everything appears on the screen. When I export to tiff then print that from Preview, the results very closely resemble the appearance in AFP on my display. When I print directly from AFP, the result looks like the .pdf that I uploaded. I produced it by printing to PDF in the print dialog, incl. specifying the ICC profile for the printer. That is pretty much how the actual print from AFP to the printer looks. In the AFP file you see at the top a group "Soft proof & corrections". I use the stuff in here to soft proof with out of gamut stuff displayed, then use adjustments below the soft proof adjustment to correct. I rarely need to use it, but the result was no different when I did this time. The print didn't improve at all when I activated the group and the corrections but not the soft proof. It resembled the print without the corrections. What's going on? -
Printing in 1.8.3 excruciatingly slow
Richard Liu replied to Richard Liu's topic in V1 Bugs found on macOS
About that size. They're obviously too big to simply attach, but I could send you one if you tell me where to upload it.