jbrent

It seems that the squares appear both when I make an adjustment i.e. Shadows & Highlights and when I press the "Develop" button. I have found sometimes if I just press the Develop button with no adjustments it works.

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the raw file is too big for IMGUR to create a link. How should I send it????

I will send the raw file.

I just updated to 1.9. When developing a photo sometimes I get areas that appear to be brighter than than the general background. Never had it happen before 1.9. Its does not happen all of the time. Here is a link to the picture https://imgur.com/a/JmMGPnK. I just do not have any idea where to start to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

I also use blend ranges for sky replacements. It just bothers me that the refining tool is so inconsistent. Thanks for the tutorials.

I have a photo of a house with a tree in front of it and extending above the roof line and into the sky background. I want to replace the sky. I make a selection of the sky with the tree. When I try to refine the selection, the tree area, ie limbs, is not completely defined leaving red background on the sky area. I have tried changing settings like border & ramp but to no avail. Any suggestions on how to get a clean refinement on the tree limbs???? I have included 3 screenshots showing the problem. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the suggestions. I am wondering if I need to un-install and then re-install. Any thoughts on that approach?

The Screen shows with the title "Affinity Photo Help" but is blank underneath whereas all the other programs show what's up.

Windows 10

Actually I have 3 screens, the icon appears on the task bar, but it won't open. I reduce all of my open programs and it just isn't there. I have used the help screens a lot in the past. I just have to believe I have a problem in the program. I have problems occasionally with the clone tool and inpainting tool. I do not know why they would be related to the help screen not opening, but it seems odd.

I guess the point is that it does not work, why. Is there a glitch in the program????? What do I need to do to fix this glitch.

Cannot get Affinity photo help to open. An icon appears on the task bar but will not open. F1 does not open it. Any ideas????? I have closed and reopened the program, no luck.

What is the correct setting to define the source layer

Thank you

Now the clone tool and inpainting brush appear to be working just fine. I don't know what to think!!!

I have been using the clone tool for 1 1/2 years now and it has worked just fine, as well as the inpainting tool. But now this procedure does not work. If I open the inpainting tool and drag it, the red area is not under the brush. It is like the sample area and the brush are not aligned. Same with the clone tool, I click to get the + sign into the brush, then I press the alt key and click. In the past it cloned from that area, but now it selects an area outside of the brush.

I cannot get the cloning tool to sample within the round brush, it keeps wanting to take a sample below and to the left of the brush. Doesn't matter how I click or even get the + icon with the circle, it still takes a sample away from the brush. I have reinstalled/repaired affinity photo but it didn't make any difference. I need help.

I just did a test on the same photo, one a jpg and the other afphoto. The inpainting works just fine on the jpg version but not on the afphoto version. I have no ideas why.

I have never rasterized a file before and the inpainting has worked just fine, so I guess I do not understand why you would need to rasterize. Is it required for any of the tools to work???

The inpainting tool does not always respond. Some files it works perfectly and on other it does not respond. Have no idea what would cause this. I am using Affinity Photo 1.6.5.123

Thank you Thank you, they open just fine now. The lens is a Sigma 8mm f3.5, the camera is a Nikon D750

Photo on camera preview is fine, when downloaded to affinity I get this. Any ideas why this is happening? I have downloaded fisheye photos successfully in the past. D75_3803.NEF D75_3803.NEF

There are times when I try to paint onto a mask with the paint brush tool, the tool comes up black or white when selected, depending on whether background or foreground is selected, then the paint brush paints black or white onto the mask instead of revealing under the mask or adding to the mask. Having a hard time with this. Any ideas out there.

Toltec, I am not comfortable with the tolerance setting yet. I understand the concept but do not yet have a feel for where it needs to be set. More practice I think.