Can't save cropped picture in Studio back to Host program

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I’m using Affinity Photo (even though the error says Photoshop) as a host program but I would guess it would apply to Photoshop or other hosts. I bring a picture into Topaz Studio and crop it and apply some effects. When I click ok to return it to the host program I get an error because it was cropped (see below). I can save it from Studio but it should return to the host as a cropped file. I know I can crop it in the host after applying the effects but in Affinity, if I crop first, it still sends the whole picture to Studio. It’s hard to remember where to crop.

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For what it is worth, this problem does not occur if you use Photoshop as the platform. That is, in PS CC I can load an image, send it to Topaz Studio via the plugin interface, crop the image and return it back to Photoshop with the cropped image.

I think that would imply that the issue is with Affinity Photo.

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Don’t crop the image as when you crop the canvas size is changed and AP wont know what to do. Crop should be disabled when Studio is used as a plugin.

Note use AP for the final crop.

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@AiDon

I have done this with Photoshop and it does not seem to have any trouble handling the cropped image. I have used both TopazStudio and Dxo’s ViewPoint 3, cropped the image and returned it to PS without any issue.

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I might report it to Affinity (Serif) because if I crop first, it still sends the whole picture to Studio. I don’t know if they will do anything but they are good at answering.

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Create a stamped layer first to apply all the changes. You must remember that the Plug-in interface is Photoshop and that other software have to implement their own as the source code is not given out. As you know automation is not supported … things such as painting an effect from a plugin.

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For what it is worth if you crop in Studio it returns the crop to PS … BUT … it is not in the original resolution because it fills the canvas and the returned image is exactly the same size … so the image is degraded and you may not notice unless you do a drastic crop so AP actually protects you as they know it doesn’t work properly.

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For what it is worth - I loaded a raw 5184 x 3888 raw image into Photoshop, called TopazStudio, cropped it severely and returned the crop to Photoshop. A look at the Image Size dialog window showed the returned and cropped image to have the same 5184 x 3888 pixel size as the original, so Photoshop apparently has resized the image back to its original dimensions even though it was cropped.

I then wrote the image back out to disk and checked the on-disk size and, sure enough, it was 5184 x 3888. I would agree that the image has been degraded as resizing, even that done by Gigapixel, degrades the original image. The question is always “by how much”.