Chosen Idea

For those that are just doing this for one or two images, I just do it in two steps for my print work. I change the dpi with resample first (leaving the dimensions alone), then I resample again using the same dpi with the dimensions I want in inches. Hopefully it won't take as long to fix as the "resample" itself took to implement.

I've been pretty happy with it for some of my macro work, although I haven't done any focus stacking yet (looking forward to it). Be warned Affinity Photo is not the tool for batch processing RAW files. I'm doing that in Capture One. I used the unsharp mask tool, and a curves adjustment on this fruit fly.

I understand that going from Photoshop to Affinity would be a problem with all the layer types Affinity Photo doesn't have. I can't seem to reproduce the issue for Gabe, so maybe it went away by way of magic.

I'm hoping I'm not repeating anything here that has been covered. I've run into another embarrassing issue trying to use Affinity Photo for my client work. On recent project I had to send my client a .PSD of a pretty complicated composite with lots of layers containing masks, and adjustment layers containing masks. Not expecting any issues I sent him the .psd export and got back an email with him freaking out that there are a bunch of blank pixel layers and no masks associated with my layers. I can't provide a file (NDA). The job had to be completed by the client's Photoshop person, so that leaves me with lots of time to figure out how not to lose more money. I'm running 1.9.2.1035, and I've tried exports using both "preserve editability" and "preserve accuracy". Any ideas?

I just spent some time deleting everything to do with Serif on my system and doing a reinstall from the 1.9.2 download. All is well! On my Mac the problems went away a few months ago when I had to do new install of my system. I'm guessing some gremlin that didn't want to go away with the usual methods. My dad is running Photo on his Mac, and I fixed the same issue easily by just doing the Cntrl-start thing. I'll leave you guys in peace for now lol. Thanks for listening.

I don't believe they were expecting an answer to "you're SOL". You sound like you're a genuinely helpful guy, and I do get responses from other users (maybe the several topics you're talking about). The last user suggestion I got was to ship my entire system to Serif. That was a good one, and deserved a speedy reply. The "alternative" software crowd can be hypersensitive, I get that.

What questions or suggestions are you talking about?

It has been a problem on some Macs as well, but thankfully it has been fixed since 1.9.1. No not that unique.

I've been reporting it on every new release for years in Windows. Resetting whatever you want won't work. There are recents from the first time I opened Photo, and Designer (clearing recents does not work). Not sure why recent can work with any other application than one developed by Serif. The pop-up window with the ads is also completely unaffected by unchecking in as well, another five year old issue.

Really? Why are only Serif applications affected? No permissions issues or cleanup applications here. Someone get on this, it's been five years of new versions (and even system reinstalls for general maintenance on my end).

I've been reporting this bug in the Windows version for five years now, so not really confident. The "Show this panel on startup" check box useless. Still getting advertised to without my permission. The "recents" still have problems (there are none). They exist in all your products for Windows. This bug submit page also has a bug. It has had me put the CAPTCHA in several times while typing this.

Everything? We don't even have them for things that make common sense.

Thanks PaoloT. I've switched back to paying for Photoshop in Sept 2020 for the third time since owning Affinity Photo (2018), I'll have to think about what to do. There are actual bugs I've reported for three years that are still in both Mac and Windows versions across all their software, and they drive me nuts.

I'm not sure why I keep mentioning this bug in all your software (it's been there since 2018). "Open Recent" still doesn't work, and after clearing it the same recents have been coming up since the first time I launched the software three years ago. This is Mac and Windows. Why am I still marked as a newbie here if I've been posting for three years?

I'm not sure why I keep mentioning this bug in all your software (it's been there since 2018). This is in both Mac and Windows versions of the software. That annoying window pops up every time you launch one of your products regardless of whether you disable it or not. Every time an update is released I for some reason expect this to be fixed.