safoster71 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 greetings! i must say i do like the way things are going, but i have a few questions concerning approach with channels. Its particularly confusing to have what appears are two sets of color channels. "composite" and then the "layer name" ones. Is there a tutorial or something that might make this a bit more clear (as the second set of apparent channels are not addressed in the help menu). My particular concern is the proper practice in cutting out images and "keying" for video work thanks! S Foster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nravenlock Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 In the recent RC1 build you will find two topics in the Help which cover channels - Channels Panel and Using channels. (These can be accessed by using the search term 'channels' from the Help menu.) The former gives an overview of the panel and describes what you see there. The latter gives details on how you can use channels (and the Channels panel) to assist with image adjustment and composition. The Composite channels represent the entire image in its current form and construction, while the second set of channels will change depending on what is selected on the page or in the Layers panel. If there are particular areas within these topics which need clarifying, please let us know so we can improve them for the future. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 i guess what is confusing (other than it doesn't reference "pixel red, pixel green" etc. is the purpose of the "extra" channels. (those listed under the composite channels) They do not seem to be selectable, which also seems to be the case with spare channels. When you make a "spare channel" it also seems to not be selectable (with the only hint as to what can be done being a trash can). I think it would help the confusion a bit if the channel selected was highlighted. On a weird side note, a spare channel won't select/highlight...unless you switch programs, then it's highlighted. kinda strange. While I'm thinking about it, It would also be greatly appreciated if when you select something, say "feather" with a keyboard shortcut, that the number field be automatically highlighted :-) Would help limit the time wasted from mousing around. "Good Design" is getting the most work for the least amount of effort :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 ok, strike that... in a weird change of events. NOW the help shows what your talking about. Strangely enough the first time i loaded it it was unchanged from the previous version. go figure :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 also, when right clicking on a "spare channel" and telling it to do something silly like "load to pixel red" will kill the program dead. every time :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 oh, and can i say i LOVE "erase white paper" filter? GENIUS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nravenlock Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Thanks for the feedback. If the Help was showing an older version, it might be a caching issue. also, when right clicking on a "spare channel" and telling it to do something silly like "load to pixel red" will kill the program dead. every time :-) This is a concern. If you have not done so already, please could you raise a report in the Bugs section with a recipe for recreation so that the devs can look into this? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 23, 2015 Staff Share Posted June 23, 2015 also, when right clicking on a "spare channel" and telling it to do something silly like "load to pixel red" will kill the program dead. every time :-) Hi safoster71, Which OS are you running? I'm having trouble replicating this. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Yosemite 10.10.4 i7 2.2ghz mbpro. 16g ram :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safoster71 Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 tried to paste the crash report, but it says its too long. does this make sense? Crashed Thread: 6 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-qos Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: EXC_I386_GPFLT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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