Steve007

I will make it easy on you. Just open the stock tab and pull any image of your choice and make a levels adjustment. If you think it's the same then it must be something on my end. If you don't see an issue, no need to respond.

I am not sure how I could explain with an image. The whole levels adjustment is just feeling wrong. RGB the black slider darkens the image when moved right but the white slider, that is at 100% to start with adds white and blows out an image with little adjustment. In CMYK, the opposite happens. The white slider reduces the white but effects the black as well, like using the gamma slider instead of adjusting the white level. I am holding my breath for some sort of patch or maybe have someone else that knows what I am saying speak up. Very strange as I have used a levels adjustment on every project I have created for over 2 yrs with no issues. I have a few work arounds I am trying out but so far, it just isn't the same. I even fired up PS to see how my image reacted to that program and it worked as intended. No clue what changed other than it is just not working like before. If this is working as intended, then I will have to change back over to PS unfortunately.

I might be losing my mind with this issue. I was in rgb, switched to cmyk and the white level does lower the brightness but crushes the blacks. In rgb the black level seems to work correctly but of course the white level is backwards and adds white the lower percentage I go. It looks like I will need to make adjustments in two steps now. I want my 1.8 back. Any thoughts?

That could be the issue, I hope. I will pull up a project and check if anything has changed in the color format being used. I have never had an issue with any update before but along with this issue, lagging and freezing has been coming and going. My pc has plenty of horsepower to run anything I throw at it and has been great for the last several versions of AP. This update needs a patch or two I am thinking. Thank you so much for your reply, I will dig a bit further. Have a great week.

While I thank you for your response, I have been using AP for nearly 2 years and use levels adjustments on everything I do. This isn't working like it did before the 1.9 update. See the second slider down? Moving that left has always decreased the white level, not make it brighter. The gamma slider is a global adjustment that effects the black level too. The top slider, black level, seems to work correctly but not the white level slider.

I have tried several different images and it seems when I go to use a levels adjustment to lower the brightness of an imagine, it gets brighter. I haven't checked any of the other types of adjustments but this one is broken on my program.

I use Affinity Photo and after the last update, I get lagging when trying to apply any fx or layer adjustments. This has never been an issue before. Could there be drivers on my pc that are not compatible with the 1.8 version? AMD 3700X 32 gigs ram RTX2070 S

I can startup the program and use it just fine for a hour or so. Then windows crashes and I can't even get into task manager for several minutes. Then, it starts working again. I am running a fresh install and basic drivers for windows 10 and nvidia drivers. Everything was great until this last update. I love the program and sure a fix will be coming soon. I reboot every hour and avoid whatever is causing this to happen.

I knew it was going to be something obvious. Thank you for clearing that up for me.

I know this is going to be a real stupid question but it has been driving me crazy. My little adjustment windows, say if I want to make a curves adjustment or any other correction, my window is missing the 3 little buttons on the upper left that all the tutorials I watch have. Could someone show me the option for those to appear?

Hello, my name is Steve and I am very new to any graphic design software but I bought Affinity Photo to learn how to make forum signatures for a hockey sim I am in. I am having a blast learning from tutorials and have had some success. So much to learn.