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Macros vanished and then came back


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I am just learning to use Affinity Photo 1.7.1 for photo editing. I am trying to prepare a lot of photos for a web page while I learn the app.

I enabled the Macro panel and saw some pre-built macros. I viewed the Tutorial on "Affinity Photo - Macros" and created an inpainting macro, and it worked OK. Created a macro to do Filter=>Clarity and Filter=>Unsharp Mask: it worked OK too.

I opened a photo and needed to change its perspective with the Perspective tool.  The macro panel covered part of my picture, so I hit the Close X button on the Macro panel, so that I could see the control handles on the  photo. I finished editing and wanted to bring the Macro Panel back.  I clicked View => Studio => Macro and the Macro panel returned.

But the Macro panel was empty.  Neither my new macro nor the ones suppled with the app are there.  The "Library" tab did not appear. I quit the app and started it again.  Still not there.

I recorded my FIlter=>Clarity and Filter=>Unsharp Mask macro again. Clicked the 'save to library' icon and poof, all macros came back, and I had two clarity-usm macros.

bug.

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Not a bug, just poor design implementation. We should be asked at some point where we want to save the Macro, and in my experience we aren't.

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Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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On 7/6/2019 at 5:26 PM, tom van vleck said:

But the Macro panel was empty.  Neither my new macro nor the ones suppled with the app are there.  The "Library" tab did not appear.

The Macro and Library are separate studio panels. It sounds like you restored one of them, Tom. but not the other.

View > Studio > Library should get it back.

Note, too, that the Library panel is where your macros are stored. The Macro panel is only for recording a new macro or editing an old one.

-- Walt
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You are right, Walt.  Thanks for explaining.  

If I close the "thing" that holds Macro and Library (I guess it's not a panel) appears if you open Macro.  When you save a macro it goes into a "sub-thing" called Library.

If you close the thing showing Macro and Library and then reopen View > Studio > Macro, the thing reappears showing only the Macro sub-thing.

I guess it is working "as designed."

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Macro is a studio panel. Library is also a studio panel. By default, when you show one of them it is placed as a floating panel, rather than a panel docked into the right or left studio.

If you then show the other one, it is placed into the same floating panel, as they are closely related.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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