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thank you!

thanks for the reply. i tried what you said, but after i applied the filter for sharpening, affinity assistant automatically changes the grouped layer into one single layer. a prompt comes up saying affinity asistant rasterized it. what im trying to do is apply my sharpening or noise reduction but still be able to go back to previous layers in case i want to change something in the future.

so im retouching a portrait, and at the end i want to shrpen or reduce noise. i start with frequency separtion on a duplicate layer, then after that a couple of new adjustment layers, after all those i want to sharpen or reduce noise. how do i go about this? i tried adding a new pixel layer but nothing happens when i apply filters to it. i tried to merge visible, that works i can apply live filters to it but i can no longer readjust my previous layers. i can go back to previous layers but adjustments i make no longer show up. how should i do this? thank you.

thank you! i was applying it through the filters menu, i just tried live filter and it worked.

hi there. i'm trying out portrait retouching with affinity, total noob here. i've been watching video tutorials on youtube. i might be doing something wrong here, or something i dont understand, when i use freq separstion it adds noise and oversharpens my photo on the high freq layer, how much depends on the radius i choose. with all layers visible the effect isnt there, it shows up when the low freq layer is unchecked. heres what im doing, duplicate background layer> apply freq separation on duplicate layer> apply gausian blur on low freq> apply invert mask> paint face> etc etc. the problem shows up after the inverted mask, it not just hides the gaussian blur but the low freq layer as well, i can get the skin smooth by painting the face but the rest of the photo looks oversharpened and noisy. what am i doing wrong?