[Affinity Photo perspective display problems.]

Hi arturwagnerowski

What format are you exporting to, and what settings are you using please?

If possible, could you upload a copy of your file to the following link so I can investigate this?

https://www.dropbox.com/request/xN3YPXMWQCDrq3nLRpom

[Alternate and Winding Fills]

Hi Markcq

The fill mode applies to singular curve objects, not multiples. This is why you're seeing no difference when changing the fill mode currently. As can be seen in your first post; 

Filling self-intersecting shapes

Shapes which have been constructed using self-intersecting lines can be filled in two different ways.

I've created a quick video below showing this, I hope it helps clear things up!

[Affinity Photo crash in open]

Thanks for that, we're a little closer to solving this. Could you please confirm if you're running any third party antivirus or firewall software?

The welcome panel that shows is essentially a live webpage in Affinity, and it sounds as though an external program is blocking this and terminating the program.

[Selective Colour Adjustment Problems]

Hi Dave

Thanks for your report, this is related to the above and our devs are aware of this issue and are working to repair it. This method shows the adjustment is clearly not working as expected and I will update our devs with this workflow as an example, hopefully it will be patched shortly.

 

[White edge on overlays and selections]

Hi Delta5,

Welcome to the forums

Could you possibly provide the sample image you're using so I can look into this for you?

[workbook resources]

Hi djh

I've downloaded the resources for this project and there is 1 .tiff file and the final version of the .afphoto file. Could you confirm which image you're referring to when you say '003 image'?

You can redownload the resources at anytime from the provided affin.co link in the workbook!

Thanks for your suggestion, I recommend creating a new topic in our feature requests section of the forums

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/55-suggestions-for-affinity-photo-on-desktop/

[Affinity Photo crash in open]

No problem at all

How strange, I can't replicate this behaviour on a Windows 10 machine here, but there's an easy way to test with your PC.

Please open an image into Affinity Photo, then select Help>Welcome. This should open the welcome panel, does this crash the program? If not, there is a tick box in the bottom left of the panel that will stop it from showing at launch. Untick this box (if possible), then close and re-open the app. The startup screen should not show, does the app still crash?

[Refine Mask after it was made]

Hi evtonic3

When right clicking a mask which has already been edited, refining the mask should work as below;

Refining masks work very similarly to refining selections, you can see more on refining selections here - 

Right Click> Edit mask provides a view of the grayscale mask only, which can then be independently edited using the brush tools etc. Using edit mask does not provide you with the same studio window as above for fine refinements. I hope this helps!

[Affinity Photo crash in open]

Thank you for trying that and I'm sorry to hear it hasn't helped. Do you have any other programs installed from the Microsoft store? Do these open/run correctly?

Please read through the following thread, do you have any of these programs installed currently?

 

[Merging paths (add geometry) takes forever]

Thanks for confirming that, this is a bug we're aware of when using the expand stroke function and then adding multiple curves using geometry. We're working to fix this asap.

Unfortunately the only workaround currently is as gdenby describes, selecting less curves at once before adding them, my apologies for any inconveniences. 

[Export Doesn't show all my layers]

Unfortunately I can't replicate this, in the below document I have a group of curves, and the same document embedded again.

When exporting by JPEG, using the JPEG (best quality) preset, I create the following JPEG:

What export settings are you using please? Could you provide a copy of your .afdesign file for me to investigate?

Do your embedded documents contain artboards?  

[Export Doesn't show all my layers]

Thanks for that. What format are you exporting to?

1 minute ago, CyprienDlp said:

the only layers that doesn't export are the .afdesign imported ones.

Are you referring to an embedded document? A screenshot of your layers panel would certainly help if possible

[Export Doesn't show all my layers]

Hi CyprienDlp,

Welcome to the forums

What format are you exporting to please? Are you using File>Export, or the Export Persona? Could you please upload a screenshot of your layers studio, or a copy of the file?

[Affinity Photo crash in open]

Hi leandrohartmann,

Welcome to the forums

Please open your start menu and navigate to Affinity Photo, then Right click on the app and select App Settings. In the next window you should see multiple options, one of which is repair and the other reset. Please try to repair the software first, and if this does not help then reset.

After doing this, what happens if you right click on an image file and select 'open with Affinity Photo'? Does the image/software load correctly?

[Merging paths (add geometry) takes forever]

Thanks for your file, here are my results on the following platforms:

Windows 10 - 

Mac 10.13 Mojave -

iPad iOS 12.0.1 -

It took roughly 4 seconds on each platform to add the curves together in your document (102 objects), are your results different?

 

[Can not install Affinity Photo and designer]

No problem at all, could you please follow the steps provided in this post?

 

[Develop persona appears to be limited to the gamut of sRGB!]

Thank you for that. I've spoken with James and I believe we've discovered the issue.

When opening a RAW into the Develop Persona, the displayed image is narrowed down to the sRGB gamut, however the actual value behind this display is correct due to the floating point arithmetic in use.

This allows for colours to extend beyond the sRGB gamut and not be clipped when developing, hence you see the correct values in the Photo Persona.

We'll continue to investigate this and I'll pass all the information collected through to our developers.

[Support for Canon's .CR3 file format]

Hi Jawaun,

Welcome to the forums

When using Affinity Photo for iPad we're limited to using the Apple Core RAW engine, meaning it falls to Apple to support certain cameras/RAWs. Hopefully Apple will include you camera in the next major iOS update!

[Batch Job Skips Files]

Another thought, are you using the Mac App Store or the Affinity.store build of Affinity Photo please?

[Develop persona appears to be limited to the gamut of sRGB!]

18 hours ago, >|< said:

Dan, are you personally checking this with AP 1.6.7 on a wide gamut Mac?

Not personally, but my colleague Leigh is doing so as he has a wide gamut Mac and we're using the digital colour monitor app built into the Mac to verify results.

Could you provide a copy of this image for us to test here and screenshots showing the values you're seeing?

18 hours ago, >|< said:

displayed colours while working in the Develop persona are constrained to the sRGB gamut despite my P3 screen displaying colours outside of sRGB when I work on ROMM-profiled documents in Photo persona

What are you using to measure this please?

Taken from our Spotlight Article (under the Colour heading) written by @James Ritson;

During RAW development, the software assigns the image a colour space, and translates the colour values from the camera’s colour matrix to that colour space. Most software will typically ‘develop’ in a wide colour space (such as ProPhoto), which provides more flexibility for manipulating colour values, before converting to a standardised colour space like sRGB upon saving. Affinity Photo is no different in this regard: in its Develop Persona, colour-based adjustments are performed within ROMM RGB (otherwise known as ProPhoto, a large gamut profile), which allows for colour values far outside the range of sRGB.

[Rotating items, start and end angles]

Hi J4BPX  

I recommend reading the below post regarding positive rotation being anti-clockwise:

 

In regards to the donut, I'm not entirely certain for the design reason, but the start and end angle work along the horizontal axis. If you wish for the start point to be vertical up your screen, simply rotate the object by 90°, once rotated, a start angle of 225° and an end angle a 135° (270° total) would look as such:

I hope this helps  

[Batch Job Skips Files]

Thanks for trying this, it's more than appreciated.
Below are my results from running batch processes using your files across different operating systems, at all times having Finder open where the folder was created:

 Operating System ¦ Input ¦ Output ¦ Missing ¦ Parallel Processing?
------------------------------------------------------------------
10.13 High Sierra ¦  601  ¦   599  ¦    2    ¦ On
10.13 High Sierra ¦  601  ¦   598  ¦    3    ¦ Off
10.14 Mojave      ¦  768  ¦    0   ¦   768   ¦ On (Crashes)
10.14 Mojave      ¦  768  ¦   768  ¦    0    ¦ Off

Unfortunately I can't replicate missing files to the same degree as you're seeing currently. 

I'd recommend resetting your app to it's default settings as this may help. You can reset your app back to its default settings by holding down the CTRL key while launching the app. When the Clear User Data window appears the first three checkboxes should be ticked, then select Clear. The app will now open.

Be aware that resetting your app back to its default settings will lose any custom settings such as keyboard shortcuts and brushes etc. To backup such settings before resetting the app, please watch our Affinity - Exporting User Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts video.

14 hours ago, LinkLayer said:

A user interface nit: It would give me a warmer feeling if the batch job dialog box reported the number of files to be processed as you add them. The file count is displayed when you actually start the batch job, but at that point it is too late if you see it is not the right number.

I agree, I'll log this as an improvement with our devs

[Merging paths (add geometry) takes forever]

Hi Bung

I'm sorry to hear this, it certainly isn't an issue I've come across before. Could you please confirm your PC specs & OS version?

If possible, could you upload the file to the link below, so I can test it here?

https://www.dropbox.com/request/eBijs9EAm4T5JLdlhJKE

[Using a shape to select other objects?]

Hi Doc Ricky

Unfortunately this isn't currently possible on the iPad, but is certainly something we may add in the future! In the meantime, I'll move your thread to our Feature Requests section of the forums.

[Filter Forge 8 Coming Soon Needs AP 8bf update plugin Please]

Hi LyricsGirl

Photoshop plugins support is still being developed for Affinity. 8bf is the extension for Photoshop plugins files on Windows, so Affinity Photo is able to use them however this doesn't mean the plugin itself will work. That's depends on a lot of factors like the features it relies on to work, if it uses any kind of automation etc etc. There's no feature parity between Photoshop and Affinity Photo so some plugins may have limited functionality or not start at all.
There's an unofficial list of supported plugins available here.

We are working to improve this as we move forward.