PeteThailand

Observations on the latest Firefox update. Surprise, surprise the latest update of Firefox has taken it from a major consumer of CPU and memory (at times, under certain conditions over 50% of the computers assets) to insignificant 0-5% of memory maxing at 20 or so % and less than 25% of memory instead of 40-60% !! With the latest update of AP beta the loading and developing have had a very significant increase in performance. I'm still looking at a faster computer, be it with less urgency than earlier this week. Pete Karp Cashmere, WA USA

Definite improvement, in loading a 25MB file this morning it looks like a 7 second improvement over the 22 seconds on 1.6.5.135 on my I7-7500 2.7Ghz machine. Since I've been using the Beta I have been taking advantage of using both versions, when the primary version bogs down with processing, I use my time to move over to Beta to work on a second photo, so it saves me quite a bit of time using that methodology. My question becomes... is there a way in which I can have multiple copies of AP in one machine? Either by buying additional copies, or any other method? Pete Karp Cashmere, Washington, USA

Pretty much reflects my experience I currently have 10 images open, which is a fairly normal number for me, but that seems to be my machines limit for now. That being said, when I watch my CPU usage and frequently find it pegged at 100% and memory nearly pegged as well. I'm currently shopping for a more powerful CPU with as much ram as possible, the current machine is an i7 with a 2 core processor and 16 GB of ram and a SSD drive. Pete Karp Cashmere, Washington, USA

Thanks for the FAST help, after I updated Photo this morning the vignette tool came to life, I don't know what the update was about but the program seems to have sorted it's self out. Thanks for the assist! Pete

Yes, that was exactly what I was doing on several of my attempts. I am currently downloading a update that came up after my post, I will be attempting again after the update. I'm on a slow connection, so it will be an hour or so. Thanks, Pete

Sorry if you caught my post on another thread, It looks like this is a more appropriate place to post My problem. After downloading my paid version last night (Windows version, on a Asus UX490) I had no results using any available instructions over a 2 hour period. The only way I could get a vignette was if I loaded a unprocessed RAW file and the first thing I did was apply the vignette. No results at all with JPEG, TIFF, or any partially worked files. Loading the same files in Photo Director 9, or ACDsee ultimate I was able to produce a vignette on the various files. I love what I can do with Affinity Photo, and I really liked the quality of Affinity's Vignette. What do we need to do to work around this flaw? Pete

After downloading my paid version last night (Windows version, on a Asus UX490) I had no results using any available instructions over a 2 hour period. The only way I could get a vignette was if I loaded a unprocessed RAW file and the first thing I did was apply the vignette. No results at all with JPEG, TIFF, or any partially worked files. Loading the same files in Photo Director 9, or ACDsee ultimate I was able to produce a vignette on the various files. I love what I can do with Affinity Photo, and I really liked the quality of Affinity's Vignette. What do we need to do to work around this flaw?