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And with my admittedly old i5-85xxx (no graphics card, but with 16gb of ram and a very fast NVME SSD), I use a macro to load levels, white balance, and curve adjustment layers and some auto adjustments into a separate layer; and sometimes the layer thumbnails stay "black" seemingly for ages until updated. If I open one of the adjustment layers, the large display is also black. And then there are the intermittent freezes and crashes. Hardware acceleration is turned off. There seems to be some real problems with Photo. ps why, oh why, oh why, is there still only one forum covering all the Affinity programs? Makes it a right PITA if, like me, you are only interested in Photo? Beta programs have separate forums.

Got it! Nice and easy. TVM As it turns out, for my purpose I was better off drawing the rectangle and copying to a new layer (Ctrl-J), then I could transform/resize etc etc.

Just to be clear for me please, is the rectangle drawn on a new, empty, layer?

The mono interface is rubbish IMO!

Good job! Maybe try flash next time?

We agree!!!!

I want to be able to see, easily, which is the active (photo) tab; and agree that elsewhere in the GUI it should always be obvious what tool/option/whatever is selected. That's it!!

How are these, to me, semantics relevant to the issue?

Using Dark Mode, I find it very difficult to see which is the active tab when I have a few photos open; I close the wrong tab too often. It's much clearer in Light Mode, but I otherwise prefer Dark Mode. Is there any way to preferably lighten the active tab background, or perhaps change the text colour of the active tab. I have played around with the User Interface Grey & Gamma sliders to no avail.

And why be so stubborn and not give users what they want, even if Serif disagree in principle. Of course, there is a colour picker in the White Balance adjustment, but IMO it is not a patch on the Photoshop alternative.

Care to share?

OK, thanks.

Please, can anyone explain why disabling hardware acceleration is a good idea/improves performance?

I had exactly the same problem and got the same advice here! BUT an extra 8gb of ram (to 16gb) and it now seems stable, inc with using hardware acceleration. Further testing required, but at least it's no longer freezing every time I use it.

thomaso if you choose grey for the histogram and close the window the image will remain displayed grey. Yes, I realised this when I was playing around with the various options. LAB lightness may be the way to go, BUT then holding down the alt key while using the Level's sliders to show blown-out areas doesn't seem to work, which is a bit of a pain. Perhaps for me, using the white area in the Levels display may be an acceptable compromise in most cases. If not on the odd photo, then I can always use LAB Lightness or indeed Curves; probably the latter. And I should have said that I am using Windows, but I think that sort of became clear. Sorry, nevertheless.

thanks 😎

ps anyone getting lots of crashes with 1.10.4.1198? i5-8500 with 8gb ram - maybe current version of Photo needs more power &/or memory

LAB Lightness looks to be the same to my eye as Curves Grey Master, as opposed to Curves RGB Master. So is Curves Grey the same as Luminosity? And so what does the light-blue scale in the Live Histogram represent? Yet according to thomaso's quote above the light-blue values do not reflect luminosity, which if correct means I have to assume the white levels values similarly do not reflect luminosity. So I get even more confused, I'm afraid. I am finding my ignorance rather embarrassing.

That is a big help, thank you. The white levels histogram seems to be a close if not identical match for the the light-blue one in the live histogram panel once I adjust the display scaling - see below, in which case it solves my problem, albeit that it is not the most clear representation.

I hadn't but my brain cannot cope with the scatter format rather than the nice, clear, line I am hoping to see.

Pls excuse my ignorance, but I don't want to see the individual colour components, just one "line", as shown in the curves adjustment.

I'm returning to using APhoto after many many months, but is there (still) no way for the live histogram or levels adjustment to display luminosity? Curves adjustment does, or appears to do to me, but that is not where I want it.

OK, latest 1.10.4 installed. I am returning to photo editing after a long time away from it. For future releases, I suggest on opening program should tell the user if the beta program has finished and a later release version is available.

Ok, I always update to the beta that the program tells me to on opening; assuming it will always be the latest Looking at the beta forum, I can only see 10.10.3.1188 - please advise

Totally unstable, crashing nearly every picture edit ☹️