John Rostron Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I compiled a group of images into a focus stack. When it was done, I had the sources panel visible. Before using this, I wanted to examine the final image in close up, so I closed the sources panel. Having decided what needed doing, I could find no way of re-opening the sources panel and I had to start again. Is it possible to re-open this panel? John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted February 6, 2017 Staff Share Posted February 6, 2017 Hi John, Just click on View > Studio > Sources and this will reopen it for you. You can also drag it over the other panels and dock it, so it's alway visible. David Cheshire 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 Thanks, Lee John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Anve Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Hello, I use trial version 1.6.1.93 and I do not see the source panel even after the focus stacking is complete and Clone brush is selected. I tried to go to View > Studio > Sources and it was checked. Pixel8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixel8 Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Hello, I have tried stacking/merging but I never even get to see the sources panel. I have tried unchecking and rechecking in Studio, but still no sources panel. Any ideas what this could be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 After focus stacking, I have found the sources panel always there. However if I save the file (as .afphoto), then when I re-open it the sources panel is empty. I would guess that there is some preference I should have set to get it to be saved in the .afphoto file. Could anyone tell me what this might be? John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixel8 Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 On 1/9/2018 at 8:25 PM, Pixel8 said: Hello, I have tried stacking/merging but I never even get to see the sources panel. I have tried unchecking and rechecking in Studio, but still no sources panel. Any ideas what this could be? I've been following the workbook and used the link to download the files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFS Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 On 1/10/2018 at 5:06 PM, John Rostron said: After focus stacking, I have found the sources panel always there. However if I save the file (as .afphoto), then when I re-open it the sources panel is empty. I would guess that there is some preference I should have set to get it to be saved in the .afphoto file. Could anyone tell me what this might be? John I have this same question. There seems to be inconsistency with the Sources Panel. Sometimes I can close the file and upon re-opening, it's empty. Other times it re-opens showing the Sources. Is there an answer to why this happens? John Rostron 1 Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceg Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 (edited) When the focus stack is complete I see a source panel and all the individual layers. However, once I do anything (zoom in, zoom out, select a brush, whatever) the sources panel turns empty. I can turn the entire panel on and off, but I never managed to get the actual source layers back. The panel has one merged layer but nothing else. How can I actually work on the individual layers of the focus stack? I tried a few more times, but the sources panel is still a source of aggravation: sometimes I see source layers, but they are now named "untitled" and some are missing. I don't recall having these issues when working through the focus merge tutorial in the workbook, but now, after banging my head around it for a few hours it's time to change over to a different piece of software. Edited September 16, 2018 by ceg update on user experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mice Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 If the sources panel appears empty, click on the Clone Brush Tool or press 's' on the keyboard. John Rostron, David Cheshire and Arbarus 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arbarus Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Hi Mice Was having the same banging-head on desk situation with the SOURCES panel evaporating so very pleased to find your press the 's' solution. Works a treat (and isn't mentioned in the tutorial). thank you, Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvmierlo Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 On 1/4/2019 at 2:54 AM, mice said: If the sources panel appears empty, click on the Clone Brush Tool or press 's' on the keyboard. On my Mac 10.15.4, I'm running Affinity Photo version 1.8.2. But after reopening the afphoto file with the focus stacked image, pressing 's' does not show the source images in the Sources panel. What am I missing here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvmierlo Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I notice the following. The Sources panel holds references to files at a global level. As soon as Affinity Photo application is closed, the referenced files are cleared. There is one big feature missing in the Sources panel. In order to add an image to the source panel, it has to be openend in Affinity Photo. For two or three images, this is not a problem. But working with a lot of images when focus stacking, this is really a pain-in-the-a.. to do!!! Even ordering the referenced Sources is not possible. So, you can imagine what a time consuming process this is. Further more, Affinity Photo does NOT save the Sources list with the afphoto file. This means that every time after closing Affinity Photo, all the Sources must be manually opened and added one-by-one again before I can continue working on my image. This really really really needs to be resolved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidAu Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Indeed, and if I want to re-do my focus merge all over again, this is another area where Affinity Photo doesn't quite measure up. I have two words: Helicon Focus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GFS Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 About 90% of my work in the last 10 years, involves focus stacking. I used Helicon for years. It's a good app, but AFP is superior for focus stacking. With Helicon, I always had to spend time 'cleaning up' the stack manually. This is sometimes very hard to get right with Helicon and you are sometimes working with using 2 or 3 stacks made with different settings, in order to use the best bits of each. The bug described by John Rostron in this thread re: AFP focus stacking (Focus Merge) is is an annoying waste of time and is representative of other areas of AFP, where bugs just linger on... My only criticism of AFP Focus Merge (aside from this bug) is the way it handles specular highlights, which it leaves as a kind of 'glowing blur'. Sort of as if there's a soft focus filter applied to the highlights. Ironically, this can actually be really nice in some cases ... although I would guess it was not intended behaviour, but I would very much like to have the choice of having *sharp* specular highlights when I want them. I waste a lot of time with AFP focus merge, cleaning up these blurred highlights, by manually brushing in the same actual area used by the automated merge, but even with this extra wasted time, it is still faster and better in the end, than Helicon. As is often the case, I expect the problem may lie with the fact that the people making software, don't actually use it, so they're unaware of these, slightly 'off the beaten track' bugs. Quote Grumpy, but faithful (watch out all you cats) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMercer Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I do a lot of focus stacking too. The inability to retrieve the source files for further editing is a BIG pain and waste of time to restack. Does anyone know if this will be fixed in the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doren Sorell Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 I'm wondering this too! Any updates about this?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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