peterpanter

Dan C, thank you for your answer, I really appreciate it. Unfortunately, the marquee option is only a kinda-works-but-not-really workaround. I hope AP will gain this capability in the future. For me it's really the only reason I still pay for a PS subscription. Anyway, thanks for pointing out the CMD-left click for selecting the unmasked adjustment layer area. This will come in handy in another context. Thanks

Hi, part of my workflow for black and white printing is making lots of level adjustment layers. I do this to ensure that I have control of the tonal range of all parts of the image. I'll give a simple example. In the images attached you can see that I made an adjustment layer with a mask so that only the area below the sky is affected by the levels adjustment. This works fine in Affinity Photo but what I'm missing here is a histogram which only shows data for the adjustment layer that I'm working on. Because only then do I have the information about the tonal range in the area I'm manipulating. So, how do I get the histogram in Affinity Photo to show me this? Is it even possible? As you can see below in Photoshop CC this is no problem. The left histogram shows the entire image, the right histogram displays only the information for the layer so that the level adjustment triangles can be moved exactly. The same picture in Affinity Photo. Both histograms are basically the same even though the adjustment layer is selected. I can do a levels adjustment but really only based on what I see on my monitor. I tried to select the "Layer" box in the left histogram, hoping this would then make the histogram display only information for the selected layer. But, alas, everything just goes black. Selecting the "Marquee" box (whatever that stands for) didn't make any difference. So, can anybody help me out? Any tip, hint, help or suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks Frank