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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.

A new Affinity Photo Guidebook, entitled "Essential Affinity Photo", has just been announced & released by English landscape photographer Robin Whalley. Robin has previously published quite a number of both soft cover & ebooks covering a range of subjects, mostly to do with using Lightroom or Photoshop. He also operates both a website & blog under the names "The Lightweight Photographer" & "Lenscraft Photography". I have purchased & used quite a number of his earlier efforts, which I find to be very focused on those features of these programs that are most useful to many photographers. I haven't bought this latest one, which is available as an ebook now & softcover in the near future, but definitely plan to do so. This guidebook may be what many on the forum have been looking for in lieu of a user manual created by Serif. You can get more info about buying the book from Amazon by clicking http://viewbook.at/affinity-photo; also you can do a Google search using the title "Essential Affinity Photo". The price is 4.99 British Pounds or comparable currency.

Can you possibly post a copy of the images with these splodges as you call them. Hard to tell without seeing your results, or how a histogram of your images would look, to tell what is really going on. What kind of camera are you using, RAW or JPEG & assume if RAW you are using Affinity as your RAW converter. What size files are you working with? Might possibly be some kind of color management issues also. But if we could see what you are getting in results it might help to give you some better suggestions for dealing with it.

I am far from an expert when it comes to printing in general or specifically with Affinity (I've done all my past printing with Lightroom & profiles for my RAW files printed on a Canon Pro 100 wide format printer). But one general suggestion I would have is to remind you that when setting up the printer & doing your soft proofing, bear in mind that the image you see on the computer screen is back lit, but the image when printed on your paper will be lit with reflective light. So it is quite often a good idea to add some brightening with increased exposure or brightness sliders to adjust for this. It sounds like this might help with the dark & rather muddy output you are getting.

It sounds like you may have arrived at a very workable solution to this problem that many of us face with owning new cameras not yet supported by AP. I am a Fuji user with a new X-T3 whose RAW files also cannot yet be converted by AP. I now use Capture One Pro Fujifilm as my RAW converter & am fairly certain that their regular Pro software also supports the new Nikon & Canon mirrorless cameras & converts their RAW files. C1 also works well to incorporate AP as a plug in to allow round trip file editing between the two applications. Good luck & happy shooting with your new Z6, which looks like a very good camera.

I just switched from using the free Fuji Express version of Capture One 12 to the trial version of Fuji Pro; & in this version I can use the "Edit With" option to open & move my images into AP, which I could not do in the lite C1-12. So I don't know if that means the bug is limited to this free version or whether my ability to do this in the full one was a fluke, not common to all others.

If you look on the Apple forums, there are a lot of comments about problems in general with this new OS. So while I haven't had an personal experience in using it on my 2017 iMac, I am still running High Sierra until things settle down with some solutions to these problems with Mojave.

Right now I am running the Fujifilm Express version of Capture One 12, which doesn't have the full feature set of this upgrade. For example, I don't have the "Edit With" option but only have the "Open With" one. But if I right click on an image that I have edited it C1 (12), one of the options shown is Affinity Photo. But when I select that it attempts to open AP, but it won't open; & the finder of my iMac says that it is not responding, so I have to force it to quit. I recall however when I was using the prior V.11 Fujifilm Express for C1, I was able to use the "Open With" option to send images to AP, but I only tested it without attempting to further edit in AP & don't recall if it was an edited Variant of my C1 image or just the original raw.

I'm looking to cancel my Adobe subscription to LR & PS; then use Capture One 12 as primary editor with Affinity Photo used for anything previously needed to be done in PS. So I am very interested in the answer to this question. I know that one of the new features in version 12 of C1 is a feature to support plugins & wonder if this is the issue, i.e., that AP will have to be set up to work as a plugin for C1. If so, I hope that Serif will work this out so that it can be used that way.

Hello Dan C, On the Apple forum, one of the members stated he was already able to convert Fuji X-T3 RAW files, & when i inquired if he could use the Develop tools to edit the image & then click on the Develop tab to move into the Persona module, he said he could do both. Here is a screenshot he attached to show an X-T3 RAW file in his Develop module. Can you please explain this to me?

I downloaded the free lite version of C1 for Fuji as it is getting a lot of positive support on the Fuji X forum, and it seemed to do a nice job of converting my X-T3's RAW files. I spent a little time trying to figure out the layout & tool functions, but ultimately decided I really didn't want to have to completely learn another editing system. Also since I still might need to use Photoshop for anything C1 was unable to do, it would mean having to figure out all the ways where something could be done in both apps, & then decide which to use because it was either better or lacking in C1. And I think, in my opinion at least, that I prefer the conversion from RAW to DNG that I get with Iridient X-Transformer, which only cost $30 US & I think better integrates with Lightroom. So having C1 for RAW conversion use only, seemed redundant & a bit cumbersome to me. But that is just my opinion as an old ****, & many others might think differently.