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(June 11, 2020: This is an unresolved problem -- or I am the problem.)  Although I have created a macro (see below) which is identical to that demonstrated with the Affinity Photo: Macros tutorial, when I try to use it on an image to which the correct crop/straighten steps have been applied,  instead of the macro working as set up with the first step LAYER>Rasterize and Trim, when I click on the macro I get a full canvas of transparency.   The image also vanishes from the layers panel.  But if I crop and straighten the image, and do the LAYER>Rasterize and Trim step first, then click on the macro, the other three steps work perfectly.   What am I doing wrong?   Since the macro contains the Rasterize and Trim step, why won't that apply?  Also, even in the tutorial, the first step is "Rasterize" rather than Rasterize and trim.   @James Ritson could you help???

June 11:  I have now tried this in v. 1.8.3.  Still the same problem.  I tried making a new macro, following the same steps, and again, "LAYER>Rasterize and Trim" turned up on the macro as "Rasterize."   When I followed with the next steps, some very strange things happened.    Below is one sample.

I might add that if I follow all of the steps included in the macro, but just one by one, the process works perfectly.

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Hey jmwellborn,

Can you attach the macro for me please? 

I've just ran through and set this up following the tutorial

So I can either crop and straighten the horizon, or just unlock the background layer and straighten it manually, then I rasterize and trim. I then run the macro and it works fine.

Remember we do not want to include the rasterize and trim in the macro as every image will need a slightly different level of trimming and straightening. 

Inpaint after straighten.afmacro

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Thank you so much @Chris B for responding.   I looked at the macro tutorial again, and it is exactly as I remembered it.  Further, it was exactly the way I made my macro.   Then I fiddled with some images and had some wonky results.  And then, the light bulb went off.   This macro doesn't work at all, if one opens a new file, PLACES an image and then crops, applies the crop and uses the macro.   Either one gets a blank screen, or a total mess.   In no case does one get the checkerboard corners shown in the video.  If one rasterizes the placed image layer, and then crops, etc. the macro works part of the time, and not so handily the rest, particularly the grow-shrink part.

But if one OPENS an image, which automatically rasterizes it, crops, and straightens, the macro works perfectly.   So I guess the real lesson is that the video would ideally make it clear that any image layer must be turned into a pixel layer before this is going to work.   Probably everybody else on earth already knows this.  I do now!!   Thank you so much for checking on this for me.  My macro file is attached.

 

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