GregHH Posted April 8, 2020 Posted April 8, 2020 (edited) Usually, I use the inpainting brush and clone brush on a separate pixel layer for which current layer and below is selected. I noticed when I exported an image on which I had made these corrections, that they could be seen in the export, but not the image when viewed in Affinity Photo. Flattening the image before exporting cures the problem, but this is quite inconvenient. The images are included. Two images of the errors are provided, one with the errors pointed to. Also, when I tried to merge the correction pixel layer with the original base layer, the corrections disappeared altogether, so flattening the document will solve the problem, but merging the two layers will not. Update 3, it appears to be a problem caused by an interaction between the layers and the lanczos 3 (Non Separatable) compression because if I use bicubic, it don't see the artifacts. Edited April 8, 2020 by GregHH Additional info. Quote
pixartia Posted April 8, 2020 Posted April 8, 2020 Hi, completely agree. Inpaint tool doesn't work as well as it should do, even in comparison with Pixelmator for Mac. Suddenly and sporadically it starts to produce so... regular patterns that it seems there's no AI behind... Hope it could be better... Quote
Staff Chris B Posted April 8, 2020 Staff Posted April 8, 2020 Hey GregHH, For some reason I can't seem to get these artifacts to show up. Can you send me an afphoto file with the edits already made so I can just export them using the different settings? Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials
GregHH Posted April 11, 2020 Author Posted April 11, 2020 I sorry, but for some reason, I got no notification of any response. Maybe I don't have the right settings. Anyway, there are two separate issues here, 1 lanczos3 ns leaves artifacts if corrections on separate level and 2, if you use merge selected levels, the correction level will get lost and not be merged with the level beneath. I couldn't make your system accept my upload, so here is a google drive link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sHFnyrxDTgz7toZISklnh9d-YSMQv1lU/view?usp=sharing Quote
Staff Chris B Posted April 15, 2020 Staff Posted April 15, 2020 Hey GregHH, I'm only seeing an issue if I paint on the top layer. This also shows in the app. If I paint on the pixel layer above the background layer, I do not see any artifacts at any point or with any of the Resample settings. Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials
GregHH Posted April 15, 2020 Author Posted April 15, 2020 4 hours ago, Chris B said: Hey GregHH, I'm only seeing an issue if I paint on the top layer. This also shows in the app. If I paint on the pixel layer above the background layer, I do not see any artifacts at any point or with any of the Resample settings. Then you are having a different response than I. I can confirm with another image that if I paint corrections on a blank pixel layer above an image, and try to merge those corrections with the original layer using the "merge selected" setting in the layers drop down, that the correction layer simply disappears. Or at least this happens on my computer which is which is a pretty standard mac. Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 15, 2020 Posted April 15, 2020 13 minutes ago, GregHH said: Then you are having a different response than I. I can confirm with another image that if I paint corrections on a blank pixel layer above an image, and try to merge those corrections with the original layer using the "merge selected" setting in the layers drop down, that the correction layer simply disappears. Or at least this happens on my computer which is which is a pretty standard mac. I think you may be running into an issue that I've seen mentioned, where (if I remember correctly) the merge happens into the first layer you select. Previously, I think it merged downward. So, given two layers A and B, with A above B, and your corrections painted in A, try selecting layer B, then A, and then do your Merge Selected. That may give you what you want. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
GregHH Posted April 15, 2020 Author Posted April 15, 2020 6 hours ago, Chris B said: Hey GregHH, I'm only seeing an issue if I paint on the top layer. This also shows in the app. If I paint on the pixel layer above the background layer, I do not see any artifacts at any point or with any of the Resample settings. Here is a little video of one of the problems I am having... merge_layer.mov Quote
Staff MEB Posted April 15, 2020 Staff Posted April 15, 2020 Hi GregHH, This is a known issue (Merge Selected) that's already logged to be looked at. If you select the bottom layer first then add the second layer to the selection it will merge the layers correctly. Same with the first document you posted above - start selecting the layers you want to merge from bottom and it should work as you expect. Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing you. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
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