idbill Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 (edited) 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 vague subject head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 14, 2019 Share Posted September 14, 2019 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? Quote -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idbill Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted September 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 15, 2019 Hi @idbill, What are the file types that you are dragging from Apple Photo to Affinity Photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idbill Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted September 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted September 16, 2019 Are you saving back to the SD card or to a location on your MacBook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idbill Posted September 17, 2019 Author Share Posted September 17, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idbill Posted September 28, 2019 Author Share Posted September 28, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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