Affine Extend Mode Is Not Working

[Hephaestus]

The Affine filter doesn't work to fill the document properly. As the attached example shows, wrap isn't actually wrapping, so it's not possible to create a seamless pattern. This worked correctly in Affinity Photo 1.

Reproduce:
Open a document.
Select Filter > Distort > Affine...
Set Offset X to 50%
Set Offset Y to 50%
Set Extend Mode to any value. (Attached image is set to Wrap.)

Affinity Photo 2.0.4
Windows 10, version 21H2
Identical effect with  Hardware Acceleration set to On or Off

[GarryP]

This seems to be working for me on Windows 10 – see attached image.
If you can share the image we can experiment with it.

Note: Full-screen screenshots are usually better than smaller screen-grabs as we can often see more information about things like layers, settings, etc.

[Chris B]

Fine for me too:

 

It looks like you are stuck on Zero - does zooming make the image pop in at all?

[Hephaestus]

Well, now. This morning it is working. Clearly the coffee had a powerful effect today.

Thanks for responding. If it happens again, I'll try a few other images as well as zooming. Also, thanks for the advice on sending an entire screenshot.

Cheers!

[IrisStudios]

I seem to be having the same problem with affine. The attached shows that after a 50% 50% using wrap, this is what I get. I'm using 2.0.4 on Windows 10. In the reply someone mentioned "stuck on zero" whatever that means. I've tried zooming in and out and nothing seems to work. I notice that the layer boundary in blue lines is not at all what I would expect, considering before I did the affine, the blue outline matched the document size. Thoughts? Solutions?

Thanks

[James Ritson]

Have you done any cropping, e.g. to create a square ratio document? Try right-clicking your layer and choosing Rasterise & Trim before running the Affine filter—does that solve it?

[IrisStudios]

Hi James,

Thanks for the tip regarding rasterize and trim. That seemed to take care of it. As you were so helpful ...

I suppose I could create another thread, but as I have you here, I have a question.

I'm trying to set up Affinity Photo to be my PSD pipeline editor for Cartoon Animator 5. To do so I need to go to the location of the .exe file. While I was able to do this with Photo1 with no problem, for the life of me I'm unable to find the actual .exe file. When I do searches on my drives and when I look at the shortcut, I always end up with this:

C:\Users\randy\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SerifEuropeLtd.AffinityPhoto2_3cqzy0nppv2rt\AffinityPhoto2.exe which has a 0 file size.

When I try and select this from Cartoon Animator 5 (as well as Fastone Image editor) I get Affinity Photo 2.exe Cannot access this file. Also, the desktop shortcut doesn't provide me with any option for an icon. I've done searches on my computer for *affinity*, *affinity photo*, *.exe and I don't get anything but the same path listed above. However, as I still have version 1 on my system, it finds the actual .exe file.

What am I missing that I can't fine what I need, which is really annoying because I need to setup both Photo and Design for my pipeline apps. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Randy

 

 

[carl123]

1 hour ago, IrisStudios said:

C:\Users\randy\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\SerifEuropeLtd.AffinityPhoto2_3cqzy0nppv2rt\AffinityPhoto2.exe which has a 0 file size.

 

[IrisStudios]

Thanks Carl,

I followed the link and instructions. It works fine for editing with Photo 2. However, when I used the same AFLaunch.exe for vector editing, it opened Photo. Are you ware of a similar workaround for Design 2?

Thanks,

Randy

[TJack]

On 4/30/2023 at 9:42 AM, James Ritson said:

Have you done any cropping, e.g. to create a square ratio document? Try right-clicking your layer and choosing Rasterise & Trim before running the Affine filter—does that solve it?

This worked for me, thanks.