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What OS is the PC running?
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Affinity Photo 2.0. 9th November?
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OK, then it will install.Windows 10
It is possible on windows 7, but far from straightforward.
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I have also got Affinity version 1 for iPad which is excellent but I don’t actually use it very often because it’s hard work using an external drive with the iPad pro, uploading photos to an external drive from a memory card takes forever, I now use the laptop for trips away
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Yes, that is an absolute pain.
My daughter uses one for illustration, and she bought one in 2019, but the memory got full, and there was not enough memory to transfer it!.
She bough a new one (1TB I think) and eventually we managed to back up the old and restore to the new one. I have now made one of the NAS boxes accept webdav connections, and she has bough more icloud storage.
Half the problem is that you can't access the storage area of some apps on the ipad.
The problem is that the app she uses only runs on an ipad!
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And a question, can you access the Affinity files on the ipad directly?
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yes it was really disappointing as the Affinity app on iPad is excellent , I didn’t want to copy the camera raws onto the iPad itself but work from an external drive but as far as I can figure out Apple has restricted the copying speed onto an external drive via the iPad I can’t see any other reason for it
that’s frustrating if the app she uses is iPad only
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do you mean the Affinity photo edited images ? Yes if I copy the file onto the iPad I can access it with Affinity and go back and access it again with Affinity, can’t remember details though sorry it been a while since I used Affinity on my iPad , I just use the MacBook Pro now
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Thanks, I may try Affinity Design on her ipad then, would be useful if I could use it on there, but only if I can easily copy the files off.
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If you open curves, then select Grey, you can adjust the black and white points and the curve, is that what you need?
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I am starting to use Affinity 2 more now , getting used to the slight differences
Its now easier to clone(heal) from part of one image to another, when you click on clone brush tool you now get the option to use a global source with Affinity 1 you had to go through a few steps on the view tab
Its now easier to clone(heal) from part of one image to another, when you click on clone brush tool you now get the option to use a global source with Affinity 1 you had to go through a few steps on the view tab
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It is separate, so you can keep or delete, they don't affect each other.
If you had any plugins etc for V1 they should work on V2
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On my iMac, the Nik V4 bundle, which works on V1, would not work correctly with V2.
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Mine neitherOn my iMac, the Nik V4 bundle, which works on V1, would not work correctly with V2.
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I kept 2 versions of On1 as one you could add a frame and the other you couldn’t which was needed for camera club submissions
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There is an interesting video from Robin Whalley on double raw processing, which couldn't be done with V1.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3lbiIhFMo
I wonder if this might also address some of the shadow/highlight concerns there have been about raw processing in AP
I wonder if this might also address some of the shadow/highlight concerns there have been about raw processing in AP
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.... Hmm, this seems to all take a lot time.
Having now given up using Capture One I find that ON1 2023 can do all of this much more quickly and simply with its Super Select AI tool which creates editable masks using AI and offers dozens of ON1's Presets and Effects filters which are in turn manually editable. It could not be simpler.
Currently I only use Affinity Photo (V2) to create my watermark layer.
So how does Affinity Photos V2's RAW conversion compare with Capture One's?
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I've no idea :-(
The double processing is a common approach with LR/ACR/C1 to increase dynamic range before sending to Photoshop. One file biased towards the highlights and one file biased towards the shadow which are then blended in Photoshop.
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Still not sure if I’m going to upgrade to V2 yet. Up until now, I’ve only really been using it for focus stacking. I now have the focus stacking extension for Luminar Neo, which currently seems to work well. Still doing some testing on it with some old raw files, but I may not need Affinity at all…
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Yes, I've been using it for focus stacking and panorama stitching. No raw conversion, since I use film. At the moment, I can't see a reason to upgrade! (I probably ought to learn how to use some of V1's other features, but C1Pro seems to do nearly everything I need... except printing with borders!)
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You could try this (I haven't. It's Mac only)...
GitHub - walterrowe/magick-frames: Easily add borders, bevels, matted wall frames, shadow boxes, text or graphic logos to your photographs with drag-n-drop
Easily add borders, bevels, matted wall frames, shadow boxes, text or graphic logos to your photographs with drag-n-drop - walterrowe/magick-frames
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"Magick Frames makes it fast and easy to add an optional print border or matte bevel or matted wall frame, a 3-dimensional shadow, your own text or graphic logo, and a colorful or transparent matte around your photographs. Best of all, you get this with a single drag-n-drop."
There is a short video here:
Walter Rowe is professional photographer who has a C1 group on facebook, and he wrote this for his own use.
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.... Hmm, I use my own created and saved Styles in Affinity Publisher V2 - Much less complicated than delving into the gobblygook world of creating scripts/applets. I Export my images from ON1 2023 into Affinity Photo to then apply my various watermark labels when wanted.You could try this (I haven't. It's Mac only)...
GitHub - walterrowe/magick-frames: Easily add borders, bevels, matted wall frames, shadow boxes, text or graphic logos to your photographs with drag-n-drop
Easily add borders, bevels, matted wall frames, shadow boxes, text or graphic logos to your photographs with drag-n-drop - walterrowe/magick-frames
"Magick Frames makes it fast and easy to add an optional print border or matte bevel or matted wall frame, a 3-dimensional shadow, your own text or graphic logo, and a colorful or transparent matte around your photographs. Best of all, you get this with a single drag-n-drop."
There is a short video here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkRCjbNo11M
Walter Rowe is professional photographer who has a C1 group on facebook, and he wrote this for his own use.
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I didn't realise it involved creating scripts and applets, it's had favourable comments from the people who have used it.
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.... It certainly offers good results as his video demonstrates and I have no doubt many find it really useful - It's me, and people like me, who don't want to have to initially write a deeper level script to set up each design. So applying border styles in Affinity publisher V2 is easier.
Another alternative, if you are a ON1 RAW 2023 user, is their AI Resize which is also available as standalone, I think(?). It offers the ability to extend images to wrap around edges such as when block mounting but does so by adding and therefore restains your original image without cropping it < Another clever use of AI.
"There is more than one way to skin a cat" as the expression goes.
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It's not something that interests me that much, I was just going on the comments from people who had downloaded it and used it. It does however provide a solution for those who don't have access to another program..... It certainly offers good results as his video demonstrates and I have no doubt many find it really useful - It's me, and people like me, who don't want to have to initially write a deeper level script to set up each design. So applying border styles in Affinity publisher V2 is easier.
Another alternative, if you are a ON1 RAW 2023 user, is their AI Resize which is also available as standalone, I think(?). It offers the ability to extend images to wrap around edges such as when block mounting but does so by adding and therefore restains your original image without cropping it < Another clever use of AI.
"There is more than one way to skin a cat" as the expression goes.
But to follow on from your ON1 comment, I have thought for some time that the ON1 Photo effects plugin (which they say works with C1) would be a potentially useful tool for C1 users
It includes adding borders in its list of capabilities (but gives no details), along with AI selections, masking and presets. The latter which you can also edit and save. But other than listing borders as a feature, I can't find any details. I assume this is all built into ON1 Raw, so you will know what it does (maybe it shares the border tools, you mention from Resize)
It's actually an interesting list of Plugins that ON1 now offer for C1 (and other programs, LR etc, but not many include C1).
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Someone on another thread in the Print subforum mentioned QImage, which seems to have very powereful capabilities for printing, including borders and captions. Not cheap, however (US$97 for a lifetime licence)! Otherwise there was talk of using Affinity Photo to do it (I have version 1, but very little skill as noted above). I looked through the workbook, and couldn't see anything about creating borders in A/Photo, so have been planning to do a search for YT videos which might possibly cover the topic. Is it possible (I really mean simple) to create borders in A/Photo alone?
I also have a copy of Affinity Publisher (again V1) bought to make a Zine but never used yet. I was pretty sure that would have the capability to create borders and you've confirmed that. What I couldn't work out from the above is whether the image to be printed goes from A/Photo to A/Publisher to get its border/caption and be printed, or whether once a border has somehow been created, it (the border) can be imported into A/Photo, have the image blended into it via layers (or somehow) and printed from there?
OT: what a pain calling your photo editing app Photo or Photos is! Come on you marketing folk, use your brains!
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I take it you don't fancy giving Magick Frames a go, or have you tried it and found it too complicated (o unsuitable), as Robin suggested?
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Qimage, easy to use, does what it was made to do, very helpful forum loads tutorials on YouTube, 10/10. But all JMO. RUSS
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Github.... runs away screaming!
My days of finagling UNIX scripts are way behind me... ;-)
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Github is used as a repository for lots of files including DMGs and EXEs, but having now looked at it, I see it does require the use of terminal and some scripting.
As I said to Robin, I suggested looking at it on the basis of users recommending it and hadn't actually looked at it, sorry it wasn't of any use to you.
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Serif have not abandoned Version one of Affinity Photo yet. Just downloaded an update to version 1:10:6
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Lance on Mastodon writes:
"I'm just getting around to setting up the new version of Affinity Photo as my external editor in Exposure X7. And there's a big problem. Apparently, some new programs now install as "Windows Apps," and these don't use the standard file paths. They are special MSIX installers that restrict how you can access programs."
Apparently this is a known problem and Serif are working on it. Anyone here had this issue?
I'm sticking with V1! (I only use <1% of the current features, anyway!)
"I'm just getting around to setting up the new version of Affinity Photo as my external editor in Exposure X7. And there's a big problem. Apparently, some new programs now install as "Windows Apps," and these don't use the standard file paths. They are special MSIX installers that restrict how you can access programs."
Apparently this is a known problem and Serif are working on it. Anyone here had this issue?
I'm sticking with V1! (I only use <1% of the current features, anyway!)