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  1. Thanks for getting back with me. Actually, while I was waiting for your reply I also did some experiments to see if I could get around this crashing problem. I found it was crashing with the other layers too. The only layer that did not cause a crash was the bottom (6th) layer. As part of my experimentation I re-rasterized all 6 layers and that seemed to fix the problem. Just to let you know, this also could be related to Affinity Designer. This file was originally created using Affinity Designer, but I needed to do some work on it that could only be done with Affinity Photo. So I opened the original Designer file with Affinity Photo and resaved it as an .afphoto document. I then reopened it with AP to continue my work and that is when the crashes started occurring. It is only a theory, but maybe this is a compatibility issue between Designer and AP created files. Perhaps the original file had coding in it from Designer that did not get properly converted when I resaved it as an AP document. That could be something to investigate. I'll let you know if I have any further issues.
  2. I almost forgot. Here is a screenshot of the settings panel. Except for the RAM usage, and the Disk usage warning, I have left everything at the default settings.
  3. Thanks for your response. I am in Arizona so there is a big timezone difference between us. I just finished uploading the file in question to the DropBox link you posted. Here are two screenshots. The first screenshot shows the file open and the filter dropdown menu. The Shadows/Highlights filter is highlighted. When I click that to make an adjustment on the 5th layer, which you can see in the layers on the right, the program freezes and then quits after about a minute or so of the spinning rainbow wheel. The adjustment window never does pop up. The 2nd screenshot shows the error report that pops up after the program quit. I clicked "Send to Apple" so you should get the details of that when Apple forwards it to you. I've got to go out today, so I may not be able to reply further until later today or tomorrow morning, but hopefully you can solve this problem.
  4. I don't know if this has been brought up yet, but I am working on a photo manipulation that has 6 layers, with each layer being a separate image. When I was trying to initiate the Shadows/Highlights adjustment from the Filters dropdown menu to make adjustments on one layer the program would quit and I would get the error notification to send to Apple. This has now happened 10 times, which is why I am posting it in the forum to see if this particular error has been encountered before. I am running AP2.4 on a 2021 MacBook Pro Ventura. The problem seems to be affecting only this one file because I tried the same adjustments with a Nikon D810 raw photo and had no problems. The image I am working on is 7000 pixels square, 32bit HDR in ROMM RGB color. As I mentioned, it is composed of 6 layers that have been rasterized. The file is rather large at over 700 megabytes saved as an Affinity Photo Document. I have worked on files much larger than this without a problem, so I am wondering if this has something to do with the number of active layers. The problem started when I added a 6th layer. If this is a bug that is currently being addressed please let me know so that I can await the next update.
  5. Fortunately, Upscayl works on mine, but I had to upgrade to Ventura because many of the business sites I deal with would no longer let me log in using High Sierra. It got to the point where my bank kept warning me that my older version of Safari was no longer supported and would not let me login for security reasons. That's just the nature of our current computerized society. The manufacturers push the latest gadgets and gizmos. I only upgrade if I have to in order to do my work.
  6. You're welcome. I am currently doing some experiments to see if I can improve the detail even more. If I can come up with a procedure I will share it in a separate thread.
  7. As you suggested to me in the other thread about lists of vector related tools, I tried the Upscayl program and it does seem to work pretty good. It is not perfect, but for low resolution images it should provide the detail I need for my work. I am including two examples. The first image is the original low resolution version. As you can see it is extremely pixelated. It was originally only 72PPI and only 21 Kilobytes in size. So it had very little data. The 2nd image is the result using Upscayl. It is obviously clearer, the colors are good, and details are impressive given how pixelated the original was. It's not 100% perfect, but if it can do this with a virtually unusable image the program should work good for images that have more original detail available for the program to extrapolate from. Thanks again for the reference of this program.
  8. Good news. I tried the program and it does work. It wasn't perfect, but it should give me the details I need in low resolution images for my manipulation and illustration work. I will go to the thread your list is on to post the results for those that might be curious.
  9. I sent Nathan at the Affinity Team an email explaining that this forum thread he originally referred me to did not provide all of the information I was looking for. He replied to my email and sent me a link to their official site Help Page that explains all of the tools and features in more detail. I bookmarked that page so that I can refer back to it in the future. Google does not always find what I am looking for. But I will try that Upscayl program that ashf referred me to. If it helps sharpen up the low resolution reference images I get off the internet for my work then at least I got something out of this discussion.
  10. I have used the warp mesh in AP. But it doesn't always work the way I want with certain images. There are some instances where I needed to create some pretty unusual curvature effects in a photo, but when I used AP's warp mesh it would cause some softening of the photo. When I watched the video tutorial about using the fisheye warp tool in Designer I thought that maybe that would enable me to create the effects I need without losing the details of the photo. But it didn't work. That is why I wanted to see if there was a way to convert a raster photo into a vector object. Anyway, I will try out the Upscayl tomorrow to see if it can sharpen up some low resolution photos I have.
  11. I managed to download it this time by clicking the DMG link beneath the App Store link. I thought they were both the same link so I didn't think to try them separately the first time. I will install it tomorrow and give it a try. If it works then one problem will be solved. But there is still an issue I have with Affinity Designer. There are some effects I wanted to do with some of my photos that cannot be done with AP. That is why I got Affinity Designer. But when I tried to use the vector related tools in AD on my photos, such as the warp group, it would not work. That is why I contacted the Affinity Team. They told me they were still working on vector conversion tools for raster images and didn't know when they would be ready. So I asked them about 3rd party conversion tools to convert my photos to vector so that I could then do the manipulations with Designer. That was when they referred me to this forum. But since the 3rd party vectorizers cannot preserve the color gradients in the original photos I will have to wait until Affinity has something ready for me to try. If the Upscayl program works I will let you know. Have a nice evening.
  12. Thanks for the suggestion. I was thinking of giving Upscayl a shot since you had it on your list as being free, but when I went to the site it redirected me to the Apple App Store and the program now costs $12.99 I'm reluctant to pay for it without trying it first. It has only 2 reviews and one of those reviews is bad. The developer offered to help fix the problem that customer was having but there was no followup comment on whether the customer got the problem fixed or not. When I first tried Affinity Photo it gave me a 14 day free trial period before requiring payment. I think I will wait and see if Affinity comes up with some more tools for their programs.
  13. Before I came here I sent the Affinity Team an email posing these questions. It was they who referring me to this thread since one of my questions had to to with converting a raster photo to vector format.
  14. I understand what you're saying. The problem I was having was with resolution conversion. Some of the images I got off the internet were only 72 PPI. When I changed that to 300 PPI and then attempted to upscale to the pixel size I needed I would get pixelation on the sharp edges and detail softening in other areas. I was able to solve some of this problem by resizing the image document using one of the Lanczos algorithms. That removed the pixelation, but the details were still lacking.
  15. The Affinity version of a smart object is apparently not the same as the CS5 version. When I tried scaling up some of the photos I got off the internet I would either get pixilation or detail softening. That's why I was hoping that a vector program would work. But no such luck. The CS5 version of smart objects allowed me to scale an image up to 5 times its original size and still preserved at least 75% of the details. Right now I am using a 2021 MacBook Pro running Ventura. So any Photoshop programs below Creative Cloud will not work. I will have to wait and see if Affinity improves their version of smart objects to give them more vector properties while preserving the colors of the original image. Thanks for the suggestions.
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