Using Gradients in Affinity Photo

[ciscrh]

I'm trying to do a tutorial using gradients and AP is very slow when working with gradients. Very slow in this case means unusably slow: It keeps becoming unresponsive for several seconds at a time (an information window comes up saying it is unresponsive!). Delays for many operations can take several seconds even it if is responding, which often means I accidentally issue a command twice.

 

I'm the built-in Intel graphics so I'm used to a slight sluggishness in some operations, but gradients are far worse than anything else I've tried to use in the last 2-3 months. Is there a problem with the gradients implementation?

 

I'm using AP v1.5.1.54 on a Windows 10 PC with an Intel Core i5 3330 CPU, 8GB RAM & the OS installed on a SSD drive.

[Lee D]

Hi ciscrh,

Welcome to the forums.

 

I can't seem to reproduce your issue when using gradients. on my Windows machine, which has a slightly lower spec than yours. Perhaps you could provide an example file that I can open and test on my system?

[ciscrh]

Hi,

 

I've been trying various things since then and the problem I reported is no longer an issue. Not sure what was going on originally, all I can say is that during that session working with gradients was consistently causing severe problems, several restarts of AP made no difference, nothing else I did in AP at that time gave me those symptoms & otherwise the PC was behaving normally.

 

Thank you for your response, but I cannot now reproduce the problem.