Memory leak? Affinity Photo & Adjustment levels

[idbill]

I process a number of photos from a camera for an online store.

Generally I drag 10-15 files onto the icon to be opened by Photos

Then each photo goes thru 4-5 steps:

1) Crop to custom size

2) Adjust White Balance (optional)

3) Adjust Levels

4) Save (as flattened)

5) close file

After 5-6 of these, the Histogram (in the Levels window) starts updating slower and slower. (8-10 sec)

Note: Just found out that if I click on another file/image in Photos WHILE the Adjustment Levels window is active the delay disappears... until I work on the next photo.

Edited September 14, 2019 by idbill
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[walt.farrell]

Just to clarify: You're referring to the application as "Photos" which (I think) usually refers to a separate Mac application. Since you're posting here do you really mean "Photo", the Affinity application?

What OS do you use?

[idbill]

Yes, Affinity Photo version 1.7.2

My setup:

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) 2.7Ghz i7, 16gig ram running macOS Mojave 10.14.6

[DWright]

Hi @idbill,

What are the file types that you are dragging from Apple Photo to Affinity Photo

[idbill]

Hi,

I'm pulling images from an SD Card (camera), that are jpegs and range from 2 to 6 meg each.

I do not use Apple Photos in my workflow.

[DWright]

Are you saving back to the SD card or to a location on your MacBook

[idbill]

Originally, I was using EyeFi to have the images saved to a folder on my hard drive (by date). But EyeFi isn't working anymore... so I'm copying the images from the SD card to my machine.

I drag and drop all the jpeg images on to Affinity Photo, do my work and hit cntrl-s to save (to overwrite the original file on my hard drive). Depending on how much modification I do, I sometimes have to click the button to 'save as flattened' in the pop-up dialog box. The folder(s) named by date only have 30-50 images in each folder, and I rarely work on more than 15 jpeg images at a time (while dragging them onto the Affinity Photo icon). 

I close each jpeg image once I do the modifications... that way I know the modifications are done. Once I've run out of open files/images, I go back to the finder and drag the next 'set' of images onto the Affinity Photo icon (fyi, the icon is permanently in my dock at the bottom of the screen.)

Kudos to whoever fixed the printing issue that has plagued me for the last 3 years. About every 3rd print, Affinity Photo/Designer would crash on print. I haven't had that issue since the new version came out.

[idbill]

In case you are curious, I did a clean wipe and re-install of Mojave on my machine. Installed Affinity Photo via the Apple Store. So I'm running without any additions or modifications and I still have the issue described above.