polheg Posted May 17, 2020 Posted May 17, 2020 Hi all. A small problem which maybe someone can help with. Had no problems with loading an image to edit with Affinity Photo until yesterday. When I load an image for editing, it appears on screen as underexposed. I have found that if I minimize Affinity then open it again it appears as I shot it - properly exposed. I have run all the maintenance programmes I have to clean up the computer to no avail, I have also uninstalled and re-installed the programme to no avail. This morning I uninstalled all three Affinity programmes and then reinstalled. No problems now with Photo, however, the same problem exists with Publisher even if in minimize then maximize the programme, which means I have to go into the Photo persona to attempt to correct. May be a problem with Publisher. When I use the 'place image' tool, publisher does not respond. When I click on it a second time, the programme says it is not responding, then after a few seconds I can then place the image - but under exposed from the first as mentioned earlier. Any thoughts? Kind regards. Quote
lepr Posted May 17, 2020 Posted May 17, 2020 The dark images when raw files are developed by Publisher is not the same problem as you were getting in Photo's Develop Persona. Publisher currently uses a different raw development procedure than the one used by Photo's Develop Persona and I don't think Serif recommend using it. The problem in Photo on Windows that can be temporarily fixed by minimising then restoring the app window is an intermittent display management bug when the app is working in linear 32 bits per channel mode. Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 17, 2020 Posted May 17, 2020 6 hours ago, anon2 said: The dark images when raw files are developed by Publisher is not the same problem as you were getting in Photo's Develop Persona. Publisher currently uses a different raw development procedure than the one used by Photo's Develop Persona and I don't think Serif recommend using it. I agree. Prior to 1.8.3 it was only "safe" (in my opinion) to Open RAW images in Photo and Develop them. Using them for File > Place in any of the applications, or using them in any other File menu operation in Photo except Open generally gave darker images. There was an improvement made in 1.8.3, I believe, to better handle RAW images in File > New Batch Job in Photo, but that improvement has not yet made it to File > Place | New Panorama | New Stack | New HDR Merge | New Focus Merge. 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 18.2.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
polheg Posted May 18, 2020 Author Posted May 18, 2020 Thank you one and all for your prompt and helpful replies.Uninstalling and reinstalling all three programmes solved the 'Photo' problem. Regarding 'Publisher', I was not aware of the RAW issue and that was indeed the problem. Tried developed images with success. Now I know. Thanks again everyone. Kind regards. Quote
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