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  1. I got Photo a couple of days ago and it's pretty much exactly what I've been trying to find for years. Kudos! Two things that have frustrated me: 1. Live filters versus destructive filters. This looks like the typical seam that arises when a program starts with one way of doing things (destructive filters, in this case), then adds a new way of doing things. Seems to me that Photo is too young for this kind of legacy interaction. Especially since it appears that the way of the future is live filters. The ultimate way to fix this is to only have live filters, with a separate option to freeze a filter's results. (Or to rasterize a layer.) I don't think Photos is so old and has so much of a legacy tail to drag that a change can't be made. A much-less satisfying solution would be to have only one way to select a filter, but the filter dialog could have two tabs: Live and Static. That way, it would be possible to have different options available for each -- Static might have more options since they don't have to be performant in real time -- but at least there's only one "Gaussian Blur" in the menus. 2. Applying filters to areas of a layer. Some of this inconsistency is due to item #1: destructive filters don't show up like live filters, so the selection is hidden/baked into the layer. My main concern is when I might decide that I want to restrict a filter to portions of a layer after I've applied the filter. The "Yeah, that makes the whole thing look better and... oh, it does mess up the video screen in the background, so I really want to apply it to the entire layer except that rectangle" issue. I've struggled mightily with this and the Mask to Below helps a bit, but it's a pain. Try using Quick Mask after the fact. Nope. Try turning a pen-tool rectangle into a mask and then invert it to select everything except what's in the rectangle. I couldn't get it to work. Seems that some masking (or selection) works with black/white and other works with the alpha instead. Maybe masking/selection is more consistent than I understand, but it's been the thing that I've spent a lot of time struggling with a program that's otherwise very intuitive. Thanks!
  2. I often need to edit full spherical panos, specially in the zenith and nadir, but also small changes everywhere else. Especially in the zenith and nadir you need to concert the file into cube faces or similar otherwise you cannot cope with the distortion. Same is when you need to edit on the right and left edges of the flat picture. It would be very handsome if there would be a panorama viewer available where direct editing and retouching of such a file would be possible.
  3. I would be very happy if this Transparency tool would be introduced in Affinity Photo toolset, which is currently available in Affinity Designer allows work with Pixel layer partially changing its transparency. With working with internal partial layers, which have been selected from base texture. This will be a unique feature of this powerful software! Thnx :)
  4. For Gimp, there's a cool script available that is called Shellout: http://registry.gimp.org/node/24977 This python script will call an external program, providing the active layer or a new from visible layer to this external program via a temp file. Once the external program is completed, it should save/overwrite the original temp file which gets pulled back into gimp. This is extremely useful to use standalone versions of plugins that don't work correctly via the Photoshop Plugin Import in Affinity Photo, for example, some plugins of the Nik Collection. It would be really useful to have such a "Send to standalone and Back after editing"-function, especially if you have some programs that aren't available as plugins but want to keep your workflow efficient.
  5. The text in the title bar gets cut off if you reduce the Help window to its minimum size. (The same happens, to a lesser extent, in Affinity Photo build 1.5.0.37, but I didn't want to cross-post unnecessarily.)
  6. Exporting a Tif file adds the file type .tiff not .tif I know both are acceptable but .tif is done by everyone else so AFFINITY should conform. cheers Ian
  7. Hello, I can't seem to work out how to do this. I've limited experience with Affinity Photo, using it mostly for simple contrast and exposure adjustments. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but can't figure out how to apply a simple ND Filter effect to an overexposed sky. Thanks!
  8. Hi Small usage but PPM files open in PS and FastStone but not in AP. Can it be included in the future?
  9. Hi guys, This feature request relates to the following question here. It is currently a feature in Adobe Photoshop and is very useful. Basically you select a vector path on the artwork and then click the button on the paths palette marked in red in the image below: This will use the previously selected vector path as a guide to run the currently selected brush along. Much like using the mouse or stylus to draw with the selected brush, this feature treats the path as a guide rail for the brush and allows you to get nice smooth, perfect strokes when required. It would be great if this feature could be implemented into Affinity Photo. Thanks, Emil
  10. I've requested this once already in the Designer Windows Beta forums, but you really need to add the feature that Photoshop has basically had forever where holding SHIFT automatically constrains brush movement to 45, 90, or 180 degrees. This isn't a "deal breaker" per se for me, but it is absolutely the difference between me telling people, "Yeah, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are pretty good, decent products I guess" to "Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo are amazing tools that you're simply a fool if you don't own them." It's just one of those niggling things that makes me sigh every time I try to do it in Designer/Photo and then remember it simply doesn't work. I realize you can do click/release -> SHIFT -> move cursor -> click, and it will automatically do a brush stroke from the first click to the second, but this is not the same functionality as what I'm asking for. I also know you can do box-select, column-select, etc., and it kind of sort of works . . . but it's not the same. There are so many instances where I've used this feature in Photoshop that not having it in Affinity Photo / Affinity Designer feels like driving a car without a speedometer.
  11. For me DPI resizing of an image without the resample option ticked is very essential to determine its print size. But resizing an Image in the "resize document" dialogue in DPI without the resample option ticked doens't affect the values in the upper boxes (cm, Inches,...) during changing the DPI values. So I cannot see how a value change from 72 DPI to 300 DPI affects a document in centimeters. First I must apply my changes and then I have to reopen the resize document dialogue to see the new values. So the document resize dialogue in its present form is not very useful.
  12. As i have seen, affinity foto 1.5.0 beta (both mac and win version) cannot open .kro file format. Will support for .kro (read and write) come? greetings from germany Chris
  13. It would be great if the rotation setting on the cloning stamp and healing brush tools would allow negative values. Sometimes I want to have the cloned source rotated just a little to the left and with the current value control, I have to set it close to 360 which is a little cumbersome. Thanks :)
  14. Some fonts are incorrectly shown as 'Segoe UI' in the dropdown list and display as Arial when selected. Dingbat font names are still displayed using the font itself instead of something legible (e.g. Segoe UI or Arial). I've annotated the attached screenshot with the names that should appear. MT Extra and MT Symbol are MathType fonts; NWC2STD2, like NWCV15 listed immediately below it, came with NoteWorthy Composer 2 Demo, which I downloaded in the wake of this discussion three months ago. Affinity Photo on Windows beta build 1.5.0.35 exhibits exactly the same problems as Affinity Designer on Windows beta build 1.5.0.35.
  15. Wanting to center an object (e.g. overlay picture). In AP I need to use alignment on both, horizontal and vertical position after each other. Would love to have a center option added. Or even a "9 Options Selector": Upper left Upper middle Upper right Middle left Center Middle right Lower left Lower middle Lower right
  16. Hello, is there a plan to advance the brush options like they are in Photoshop? Regards, Martin
  17. Hi, I have a very basic issue with photo and hope you don't mind me asking. I am very familar with using adobe illustrator and more recently affinity designer. I have never used photoshop. I would like to use affinity photo for illustration work and make use of the daub brushes. When I open a new document I would like to sketch straight onto my layer but the layer is dark grey and does not allow any thing to be drawn unless I fill the layer with white using the paint bucket and then I can draw ontop of that. This feel clunky so I know I am doing something wrong. I have looked for an answer using the affinity videos and also basic photoshop videos but cannot see what to do Thank you in advance sarah
  18. This was already posted on DPR I've just started testing the image stacking tools in Affinity which are the reasons I've been excited most about the promise of Affinity. All I've got right now, are some HDR suitable photos, I'm going to need to shoot some focus stacking suitable images sometime this week, but with the Thanksgiving holiday coming up in the USA next week, I'm not sure I will get to it as promptly as I would like. The HDR utility isn't what I had hoped it would be. I haven't been able to get it to accept raw images directly, it seems to want me to develop them first and convert them to a tiff (or jpg, I guess, but I never use jpg for HDR). I've found developing raw prior to invoking the HDR utility to be a chancy thing in terms of making a good consistently developed series of raw images. I'd rather be able to submit my raw files to the HDR utility directly and let the HDR utility do the conversion. I've found it easier to do that development/conversion step in ACDSee, and convert the photos to tif files from within ACDSee, then invoke Afinity NOT as an external editor, but from the desktop, and load the photos manually into the Affinity HDR utility. It would be nice to be able to send the selected photos directly to the stacking load area from within ACDSee. (and without the ability to SEE the raw thumbnails from within Affinity, an all Affinity workflow is impossible for me) It's kind of kludgy and isn't a smooth flow of work even from within Affinity itself. PSP's HDR utility is a much better and smoother workflow implementation even though it doesn't play all that well with ACDSee as an HDR tool either but it's much easier to work with raw HDR series from within PSP itself. The easiest way for me to deal with HDR, so far, continues to be with Photomatx Pro 5.1 I just select the 3, 5 or 7 raw files in sequence from within the ACDSee 'Manage' tab, right click the selected group and send the raw files to Photomatix set up as an external editor. I process the photos in Photomatix, and send back an HDR in tif form to ACDSee. I think there are certain HDR 'looks' that I prefer to use PSP's HDR utility for. It's a little more complex there, but still a lot easier than Affinity's workflow. In that case, I exit from ACDSee, launch PSP X8, go to the PSP manager tab, select the raw sequence I want to work with, and then invoke the PSP HDR utility. Right now, I would like better interface with third party organizers and viewers, and a smoother, better thought out HDR utility. I'm also not too impressed with the Affinity raw development, but at this point, I am assuming it is my lack of knowldge and skills with the Affinity toolset that is the cause. But I have to admit, I like ACDSee better for raw. I think as a bit mapped editor, Affinity is pretty nice. For me that has been its strongest most pleasant functionality so far. I'm looking forward to testing the other components. By the way, the panorama stitching was fast and easy It isn't Hugin (and doesn't need to be), but it's better/easier than ICE
  19. Hello, what I don't like in Affinity Photo is the function of white balance. In Photoshop (Elements) there are three pipettes for the black point, white point, and the neutral gray values. In AffinityPhoto there is only the possibility of matching the middle tones. But what if you do not find anything in a picture that corresponds or could correspond to a neutral gray? I hope that Serif in this respect improves the function at example of Photoshop. Regards, Martin
  20. I would like to see batch processing of raw files as in lightroon or Olympus 3. I believe to be competitive with photoshop, affinity needs the library or photo bin facility as well as cascading windows so users can compare at different zooms or clone from one image to another. I would also like to see the brushes for overlay accessible without moving from one tab and back again in RAW just as in lightroom or photo director. So far I am impressed with the stacking, HDR and panoramic usage and overall performance. I have had only one crash so far during a sharpening stage. TrevorGY
  21. Hi, This is the feature I miss: B&W mode. This file format is very convenient in preparation for printing. Could that be possible? Thanks! Ps: By the way, I really like this program and Im very happy that finally I have it for PC.
  22. I open a RAW file in AP, adjust it, select the Photo persona and am told I need to "commit" or cancel if I want to switch to another persona - there's a Develop button but no Commit button, so now I'm confused. This was mentioned over a year ago in the Mac beta forum so I assume people have decided there's a good reason for not changing the wording, but what is it? Searching the help file for commit shows that it's mentioned under "Developing a RAW image" but it isn't - the word doesn't appear. The help file includes the line "On the context toolbar, select Develop" - perhaps it could read something like "Commit the adjustments by selecting Develop on the context toolbar".
  23. Additions to be made: Zoom buttons in Toolbar Fit, Fill & 1:1 (100%) Options: Healing brush: Proximity match missing. Cropmode rotating: Option to crop at the bounding box alá PS & LR. Will Add to this list as I start to use and learn this app /Cek
  24. The focus stacking is great: - Question: Can I use New Stack > Live Alignment > focus merge? I can't seem to focus merge a live group. If not then: - Feature request: Live alignment option for focus stack. QoL: Adjustment sliders: - Question: How do you reset an individual slider quickly, rather than the whole panel? - Feature request: Double clicking the slider header (lightroom) or right clicking the up/down arrows on the number entry box (3DSMax) resets the slider/number entry to default. Detail Refinement in the Develop Module: - This is sharpening, right? - Feature request: Unsharp mask/threshold for sharpening. Without this it's mostly useless on any photo that has blurred and sharp areas (dof/panning/etc). QoL: After selecting a menu with drop down options you can't transverse the options in the menu with the up and down arrow keys. Eg. Blend mode drop down menu. The Export Module: I understand the use of slices for advanced users, but most people just want a nice big simple export button. It should probably default to the slices pane rather than the layers pane when entering the export module and the export all slices button might need to be a bit more obvious. Just a few thoughts, feel free to disregard.
  25. Firstly a big thank you to the Affinity Photo for Windows team for this software. I am learning more and more about it and liking it the more I use it. I would like to see a simple but accurate and consistent of adding a border to an image. In Photoshop it is done by going through "canvas size" and in Paintshop Pro (a program that I have been using lately because of problems with PS) it is even more simple, you go to "add borders". In both you can select what colour you want. I like to add a 4 pixel white border, then a 4 pixel black border to images that will be projected or posted on Flickr. The two methods do not remove any pixels from the image, whereas in the tutorials for Affinity it appears that pixels may be lost. Also it does not seem to be as accurate, or as easy, as I would like. Many Thanks John.
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