CC Hogan
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On 3/11/2024 at 3:40 PM, DWright said:
Can you please confirm the dimensions and pixel size of the image that you are trying to apply the Tone Map adjustment too...
Sorry - nearly missed this.
It is happening with anything I try. EG: I open a jpg in photo, then press the tone mapping profile, and Affinity crashes. The one I tried was a photo 3885px x 2592px.
I don't get a chance to try any tone mapping settings.
I just disabled OpenCL and restarted, and the problem is still there.
The crash report folder is empty. (Using the MSIX version)
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Hi, Walt. It only did that the once. The other times it just crashes AP. I think it froze Windows as an afterthought!!
I have checked all my drivers and they are up to date, so I think it is an AP problem
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I am trying to tone map a large image.
Three attempts. On two it crashed Photo. On the other it crashed Windows 11 - it froze.
When it crashes Photo, it shows the progress bar for tone mapping for a few seconds, then closes Photo.
I have just updated to the most recent version.
I have tried on three other images - same problem.
System: i9 14900, 128gb ram, 2070 graphics.
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I know that Stage Manager support is not there yet, but when it comes, would it be possible to put a preview screen on an external monitor that is zoomable?
For instance, I am drawing a character. While I am working on its face, the current preview is of the whole document, so the face is very small and of no help at all.
An option to be able to zoom into a specific area on the preview on a large, external monitor, would be very powerful.
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2 hours ago, h_d said:
At the risk of sounding pompous...
When you buy an Affinity application licence from Serif you enter a legal arrangement in which you agree, among other things to the following:
a.) You have no right (and shall not permit any third party) to copy, adapt, amend, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, create derivative works of, decrypt, modify, distribute or make error corrections to any aspect of the Serif Software in whole or in part;
(My italics.)
It does make me chuckle that someone should post on Serif Software's own forum asking how to hack the software.
Well, you took the risk.
At no point have I suggested that I wished to hack the software. I suggest you take your accusation back immediately. I do not hack, pirate or otherwise destroy other people’s work. Indeed, I have used and paid for Serif’s products for many years, long before their current offerings. I only wished to use the icons on a private remote that I use to help control the software at home.
I have obtained them from their publicly available PDF.
I expect an apology.
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Found them!
I just found an updated Keyboard Cheat Sheet for V2.
Happy now!
Edit - erm, how do I edit the OP title so I can add [Solved] to it?
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18 minutes ago, DWright said:
The icons in the Affinity UI are hardcoded into the exe file and are not available to be selected for other programs to use.
Thanks, DWright. A pity. I was hoping to put them into my remote.
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Thanks, @Michail
What I am looking for are the icons for the tools like brushes, personas, pens, and so on. I suspect they are stored in a .dll sile in the affinity app folder.
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I am using Touch Portal to control various bits on my PC from my iPad Pro. I want to create pages for the Affinity apps.
Is there anywhere I can find the icons for the v2 apps? I had a look in Windows Apps folder, but I could only find the main application apps.
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And it gets worse.
If I have used the Blemish Removal Tool for several blemishes, then it slows down all the other operations in the develop persona too.
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When I use the Blemish removal tool in Develop persona, the more little blemishes I remove, the slower it gets.
After a while, Photo 2 even momentarily goes into "not responding" for each one. I am trying to move little flecks of ash from the attached screenshot, and it is taking ages!
After the number of little corrections (these are single clicks of the tool) it is taking around 8 seconds to process each one - very slow!
This is a NEF file. I am on Windows 10 (latest), on a i9 with 64gb ram and a GTX 2070
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Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company!
And so they should be. They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.
- Sam Neil, Mithferion, PaulEC and 5 others
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On 10/28/2019 at 10:54 AM, stokerg said:
Hi CC Hogan,
I'm not aware of a max number of nodes. Would you be able to provide a sample afdesign file for this? If you'd rather not make it public, just upload it to our Dropbox here and i can at least get it logged to see there is anything that can be done to improve performance
Hi Stokerg - did you get anywhere with this?
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Anyway, at least there is a workaround by Sharing from the export screen.
With Save a Copy, I will have to save somewhere else and move it if I have problems.
At some point, it would be nice to have a dedicated Project Management App that works across all Affinity products and all devices. So, for instance, I could create a "Project" on OneDrive or pCloud or iCloud from the desktop, then anything created within that project from whatever device, is automatically saved to that location. And exports and so on use the project location as default. This could also apply to Asset folders and things.
Also, that would neaten up opening in different apps. From the project management app, one could open in Photo or Designer or Publisher as required without having to move the projects around.
Thanks for your help, Sean. iOS and various third party apps are a bit of a mess at the moment.
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1 minute ago, Sean P said:
Thanks for that! I've just been trying similar shared folders set to Can View, and then inside that another folder set to Can Edit. However Apple's files app itself wasn't behaving how it should. for me!
For example Files would only report it has Read Only access despite the OneDrive app saying I could Edit it. Then trying to move or delete a file inside the folder was not allowed, yet I can duplicate a file inside! Duplicating an image would then create 2 copies as well!
I have a feeling the Files integration with a lot of cloud drive applications and photos just isn't great! iPadOS 13 has really made a mess of things with Files I feel.
Ah!
Interesting about the 2 copies. I was moving a group of images the other day in the files app which kind of didn't work. But then it did. When I opened the folder, I had three copies of each image. I thought it had been me, but couldn't quite work out how. Also, the original image was still where it had started - it seemed to have copied rather than moved. Nuts.
How do I see the Read Only status (or not) in the Files app? I can see anything in the Info popup.
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1 hour ago, Sean P said:
The Podcasts folder looks to be a shared folder. Are you the owner of that or is it being shared to you? I presume it isn't Read Only? Does it work with non-shared folders (the ones without the people icons)?
Yes, it is a shared folder (I am not the owner).
So, I can save into that folder, but I cannot save into the subfolders.
A series of tests:
Checking, I have "Can Edit" access to both Podcasts and the Subfolders.
Saving from Export on a different folder that is shared with me from the same account (actually, both me, but that is irrelevant!), I can save in the parent folder AND the subfolders, several layers down.
So, my feeling at this point is that it is a OneDrive issue somewhere.
So, I tried with the Pages app on my iPad. I exported a PDF. There was no problem in saving to the Dark Forest Art Folder.
Probably NOT a OneDrive issue then.
Now - next test.
Go to Export, but this time click on Share and Save to Files.
That works!
So, for some reason, Exporting goes wrong, but sharing (which I assume uses the internal Apple module) works fine.
But this is not consistent, and I cannot work out what is different between folders here.
It gets more complicated! (Sorry)
It wont let me save in the subfolder "Grimm"
However, Grimm has a subfolder of its own. And it WILL let me save into that! Huh?
Now, just one more bit of info. Dark Forest Art folder was created by me on my iPad. Whereas Grimm and the Useful Bits folders were created by the sharing account. But all have the same issue, so this is probably NOT the problem. I just throw this in to eliminate it.
I am not sure any of that helps really, other than I think it means it is definitely something to do with the way the Export script works with the file system. But why it is so inconsistent, or appears to be so, I have no idea.
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Hi, Sean. Here you go. This is trying to export. As you can see, it won’t let me save in the Dark Forest folder
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I am having various issues when using export or export persona, especially with OneDrive, but other clouds as well.
On Export Persona, it won't let me choose anything except iCloud. This is the case if I choose the export folder on the slices menu too.
On Export (doc menu), it won't always let me choose sub-folders. I haven't tested this with all clouds, but I definitely get it with OneDrive and pCloud. But I think it is inconsistent. I have also had this with Save Copy.
Also (and this is probably me being thick) how do I customise my output on the export persona like I would on the desktop?
Sorry if these have been posted before (which I am sure they have). I searched for Sub-Folder and kind of got lost...
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Hi, Stokerg
I have made a stripped-down version for you to play with which I have added to this thread in case anyone else wants to play.
The curves are not joined up, but I have put a text box on the drawing describing exactly what I did and showing where it went wrong.
This is a problem with the number of nodes on a single curve. Without joining those curves up, there is no problem at all, even if I duplicated the layer several times.
For extra info, my iPad is the 2nd Gen 12.9 pro (iPados 13). My desktop is Win 10 (current version), 14 core, 64mb ram.
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Is there a maximum number of nodes you can have on a curve? Cos I think I broke Designer!!
I am creating a large map using the Vector brush on the iPad. I was working on the coastline, and because I want it very rough with lots of crinkly bits (Hitchhikers Guide joke there), I was zoomed right in and did it in bits.
After that, I thought it would be nice to join them up
I got about 3/4 of the way around my coast when it crashed. So I opened it back up, backed off a few joins and tried again. It crashed at EXACTLY the same point.
So, I opened it on the desktop. I have a brute of an i9 with big graphics card and loads of ram. Well, it didn't crash as such, but at the same point, it kind of ground to a halt!
So much so that I couldn't work on it.
I opened it back up on the ipad (where my history was) and undid my way back around the coast. And it is fine now.
The file is only small (32mb) as I have only done the coast so far and have a couple of reference jpgs on there.
By joining them up, I created a very long thin line with, erm, I have no idea how many nodes. Loads of them! At a very rough estimate, each little curve has around 50 nodes and I joined together about 240 of them, so heading towards 12,000 nodes? I think it gave up at around the 10,000 mark, but I am guessing.
EIther way, it didn't like it one bit!!!!
CC
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One of the good things, but also one of the bad things, about the Adobe suite of apps is the Creative Cloud storage system. The upside is that is is a central point for everything, but the huge downside is that it is yet ANOTHER cloud package with a cost.
I am sure this has been addressed before, but here is my thought.
A very simply app which runs on Windows/Mac/iOS. Basically, it is an asset manager that you can link to ANY cloud service (plus local storage). But, on top of being available as a standalone system, it also is built into all Affinity apps on all platforms.
In my head, you would set up a series of defaults. This would be a default cloud (like OneDrive or pCloud etc) where everything is stored unless told otherwise. However, on each device, you would also be able to set up default local storage that overrides device defaults.
The cloud storage would, initially, be three folders:
- Assets
- Projects
- App
Assets would include as asset library (as we already have, but being on the cloud, it is shared between devices), and a resource folder which can be used for brushes, palettes and other resources that are application and device wide. I would love to "install" a brush there and know it will be available to all my applications on all my platforms when I next launch them.
The projects folder would be simply for projects and could contain multiple files, project assets and so on. But again, available from all apps on all platforms.
This would make moving from Desktop to iPad, for instance, much more intuitive.
In the future, I suppose this could include the ability to share with other users, but that might be problematic depending on the cloud platform.
The APP folder is simply where the app stores any additional data needed to make sure the app on all devices are saying the same thing! That might not be necessary, I suppose, depending on how the system works.
My main thought about this approach is that it should use existing cloud solutions rather than selling yet another one. Firstly, I think people are fed up of having multiple cloud accounts with multiple subscriptions, and secondly, it allows people the choice of working with the environment they are happy with. Lastly, of course, I am not sure Serif want the pain and overheads of managing a cloud solution! Managing an App solution is much more attainable.
In addition, I do have problems with jumping between apps on the iPad (it is fiddly) and how different all that works between the iPad and desktop. Something like this would, from the user perspective, iron out all those wrinkles by making it appear to work the same everywhere.
I don't see this app needing to be integrated into a cloud system.
I am certain this has all been said before, but this is just my take.
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I just ran into this as well. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
Preview on both the export persona and on FILE > Export (and on iPad as well) is not just useful, it is a productivity issue that can speed things up immensely. The lack of it will stop people migrating fully. It is one of those things that will attract users.
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Me too
I notice this when doing very short, quick strokes mostly where I have to wait for the lines to catch up, but once or twice with large soft brushes if I am covering a large area quickly.
Photo 2.4.0 crashes when opening Tone Map persona
in V2 Bugs found on Windows
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I have found the problem. It is a problem with the i9 14900k processor that is causing all kinds of issues for people. I also had a completely unrelated issue with MS Word - in solving that, this problem was also solved.
I am not that techy, but basically, there is an issue with the processor going overboard with some programmes and triggering the 6ghz boost. As someone else put it, it is like someone suddenly speeding up and tripping over their own feet!
The solution is (in an asus MB) to go to BIOS, Advanced, AI Tweaker, set it to manual, sync all P cores, then adjust the core ratio from original ("auto") to around 55-58. I set it at 55. To be honest, I have noticed no slowing down in the system at all, but this and other problems have been solved.
I had one issue - once I set it, it wouldn't start first time. So I held the power button down, then restarted. It went into the error screen, asking for you to press F1. I did, it went into BIOS, I exited, and it started perfectly. But I haven't seen anyone else have that issue, so that may be peculiar to me.
I hope this helps anyone else who is having issues with the 14th gen i9. Note - some had this with 13th gen too, but that seems very rare.