jedorme

I am a long time Affinity Photo user, but have found that for Fuji X Trans RAW files, that Capture One, or even Iridient, has worked better as a RAW converter than AP. With the new V2 version, have there been any changes to the ways that AP now works to convert these Fuji X Trans RAW files? I would love to be able to use AP for this in order also to be able to work with them in 32 bits rather than 16 or 8. Thanks for any info about this.

I've recently created a 4 page document & experienced the following problems: After closing & saving the document, when I next reopen it I get a warning that some files are missing from the document. And when I click on the find & restore warning window, it opens the folder where I have put the images & text being used, all of which are in either jpeg or pdf format. But it doesn't provide any way of knowing which ones are missing from the document. And when I click on the most recently used one, if it isn't the correct one it incorrectly overlays whatever I selected on one of the pages. I also exported the document in draft form as a pdf file, but when I print it out on my Canon Pro 1000 printer, using their Pro Luster photo paper, it leaves one of the fill colors out used as a background color on one page but correctly prints the same fill color used for background on the 3 other pages. I printed it twice to see if it was a printer issue but got the same result. Any suggestions?

I'm also running Firefox v.97.0, & as noted above, this problem was only a temporary one & now I have no problem accessing the tutorials by any of the avenues taken to get to them. I also don't use any Firefox extensions or Themes, but the problem may have been due to trying to access them on the page I had bookmarked in the main Bookmarks Toolbar. Thanks for these added suggestions. Now back to work trying to learn this app; fortunately some time ago I was using Adobe InDesign CS3 (which I still have but it won't run on my iMac with Big Sur 64 bit), so most of what I am seeing is looking very familiar. Just a whole lot faster to do anything with much less complicated means of accomplishing it. Affinity Publisher looks to me to be what InDesign should have been. The same reason I gave up on Photoshop & switched to using Affinity Photo for anything I tried to do in PS, & much less expensive as well. i don't even know what it would have cost to update from ID CS3, but I am certain a whole lot more than $55 USD, & also likely requiring a never ending subscription.

Many thanks for these suggested workarounds. I did open the Publisher app & clicked on the tutorials box in the opening screen; that brought me to Serif's main page for all tutorials; & these could be opened without any problem. So I went back to the bookmarked link I had created in Firefox for tutorials & now these tutorials open & work as they should. I don't know if this was a temporary glitch in Firefox or a quirk in the Big Sur OS in my iMac. But good to know that coming at them from a different direction can help solve these temporary problems.

I downloaded Affinity Publisher to my 2017 iMac (40GB RAM) recently & have been using the tutorials on the support pages created by Serif. Today when I went back to using them, I cannot get any of them to open. Clicking on all of them takes me to a window showing that tutorial that is mostly blank & won't open when clicking on it. Restarting my iMac & Firefox doesn't help. I have been using Photos since it was in Beta so am familiar with their software.

Just like above, I finally got the download to 1.9.1 to work by using this suggested workaround by attempting a number of different ways to do it. I didn't have the download starting & stopping problem but just couldn't get it to even start working. Now hopefully it won't have any other problems due to running Mojave on my machine.

Until this bug is addressed by apple, it looks as if you'll need to use the above workaround to download every time you use the MAS I'm running Mojave on a 2017 iMac & followed the above suggestions for dealing with the fact that I have been unable to update Affinity Photo from 1.9.0 to 1.9.1. I only recently switched from High Sierra to Mojave but don't want to update OS any further due to running 32 bit software. I tried to force quit the appstoreagent under the the CPU, Memory & Disk headings in the Activity Monitor as suggested, but this did not work to allow me to update. I still get the spinning loading circle without any update. Is a restart or something else needed in order to cause this to work? Any other suggestions to be able to update AP? I do astro photography & really want to be able to use these new features, so updating is quite important for me.

I believe I have found the answer to my problem which should have been obvious to me. When I checked this out after installing these NIK plug ins, I had an image file open but I didn't have a pixel layer selected. When I try to access them with a pixel layer selected, they are all solid black now, so should be fully available. Obviously this needs further checking on my part, but didn't want to waste anyone's time with my initial query. If it turns out that there are still some problem, I'll get back online for help with these.

I have a 2017 iMac running Mojave OS, & have been able to access the NIK plug ins to various editing software going all the way back to the Google ownership of them. I updated to the DxO version 3 of NIK when it came out but now I can't get it to run NIK as a plug in to AP 1.9.1. I followed the DxO instructions to add them to the AP Preferences "Plug In Search Folder" & got them recognized in the "Detected Plug Ins Folder", but some are shown as "Detected" & some as "Unknown". However, I checked the "Allow Unknown Plug Ins to be Used" box, & when I go to Filters > Plug Ins in the AP Menu, the NIK Collections is shown; and all of the NIK apps are there but they are all greyed out & unable to be used as a direct connection to AP. My efforts to get support directly from NIK were only partially successful, with them finally telling me that "In some cases, where the Nik Collection is installed in an unsupported host program, it can be used not as a plugin, but as an external editor." I responded back to them that I understood that the NIK Collection was a supported software app with AP 1.9.1, but I have not received any response to this effort for some clarification from them. I am curious to know if anyone else has had this problem running the NIK Collection 3 as a plug in with AP 1.9.1, or if there are any ideas how to resolve this from others more knowledgeable than I am. Thank you.

Thanks as I think you were offering this advise as I was discovering it as well.

Pls disregard this erroneous bug report as further research into using this filter educated me to understand this greyed out screen was normal & that the blending modes in the Overlay block were needed to see its effect. Now I understand why I had never used this sharpening tool beforehand. Think I will stick with Unsharp Mask & Clarity.

I am unable to use this sharpening tool either as a regular Filter or Live Filter Layer on my iMac running Mojave OS. All other sharpening filters (Unsharp Mask & Clarity) work as Regular or Live Filter Layer on my iMac. I only get a greyed out screen, but if I push the Radius slider all the way to the right, a very faint, greyed out image appears. In both methods of attempting to use this filter in the Photo Persona, I first created a new consolidated image layer also. Is this a known bug?

I'm now having unexpected hip surgery tomorrow so won't be able to get & use this new Affinity Photo guidebook as soon as expected. But I hope that someone else out there will get it & post what they think about it. The table of contents & preview pages I read on Amazon look promising as giving more than enough attention to many of the most important features in AP.

The first release is only available on Kindle but in a couple of weeks Amazon will also be selling a soft cover book as well for the same price.

With all of the interest previously expressed on this forum for a user manual for Affinity Photo, I’m surprised no one has expressed an interest in finding out whether this guidebook covers enough ground for new users. When I get my copy, that is something I’ll report back.