Miles Xx

Callum, Thanks for responding. Unfortunately I can't send out a client file. I'm under an NDA. I had to get permission for this communication on the project. That said...let's see if I can recreate the problem with another that was shot somewhere else that has no restrictions. I'll get back to you.

You mean the one that Serif never reads ? And that they clearly ignore, that one ? Instead we get arcane features that very few people will use in the latest update, that feature request list ?

nope, it’s closed, from the only way to close a file: on homescreen, tap the menu icon on the lower right of the active file preview.

I love the app and what it does. But there are times when I want to throw it through a window if I could. It’s becoming ‘workaround city” of late. Like today I discovered: 1.) You can’t record a macro on the iPad version. You have to record it on the desktop and import it. What’s the point of having them if you can’t create them ????? 2.) You can’t batch process files AND have AP apply macros in the batch. Yes you can batch process from RAW to any one of a 4 file formats but that’s it. And as it turns out there may actually be a bug with that process itself. 3.) There is no macro recording of the DEVELOP PERSONA! WTaF is up with that ?!!?!??! The whole reason why you have a develo persona in the first place is so that you don’t have repeat the same settings with 50 or 100 different images! That’s just not realistic. What are your “Gosh I wish Affinity Photo did…..” ?????

Question: When saving out a file in AP format, and then closing the file down, re-opening it, and then exporting into say JPG or PNG or really anything else the filename is “UNTITLED” ??? Shouldn’t the file inherit the saved file name of the file ? If so, why is my version of AP not doing that ? Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t, and I haven’t discovered the magical conditions (hahahha) under which Exporting into a new file format retains the filename! Anyone ?

I think I discovered a bug. After doing a batch conversion from RAW to AP, opening the file, and then Re-Saving the file (after edits, it’s a client request, so don’t ask why the tedium) into a different location on my M1 iPad Pro and closing it out. When I go back to the file, and open it again, the adjustment layer sitting over the image laye is BLACK. The rest of the content is there, the lmported LUTS and text layer, the image layer, but the adjustment layer is BLACK. This is disheartening and disappointing because it means if true that a.) I’m waiting for a bug fix that may never arrive. b.) I am not going to get paid because this is a client request that all updates must be contained in a separate file and that sep. file must show the adjustments layers, and c.) I just wasted 3 hours of my life! Please tell me that I’m being overly dramatic here and that there’s a simple fix for this, but somehow or another given the nature of this undocumented feature of Affinity Photo, I’m going to guess “NOT”. Damn. Help if you can’t, comment “MEE TOO” if you can’t. Oh and showing you screenshot of the problem is pointless. It’ll look like the interface, a text layer, black adjustment layer. That’s it.

I should have mentioned that I did try and do exactly what the documentation suggested, and it failed. That's why I searched....and got nowhere....

If I want to delete or remove a portion of an image I would use a selection tool, and then hit the delete key. Your solution above of having to rasterize the image first AND then delete is another way that you can do this as shown in the screencap below. The difference is that if the first layer is the primary layer, and it is usually locked by default. If you attempt to select and remove as i suggested, it will fail. You have to rasterize first and then remove. However, if the layer is above the primary layer and unlocked, then you should be able to use a selection tool, create a selection area and then press the delete key on your keyboard. Too bad that doesn't seem to be the case with the ipad version.

Alfred, can you edit that shape AFTER that ‘crop’/mask of the shape has been applied to the image, if so, how?

How does one crop an object on a layer but not the entire layer ? Not resize, but crop. This is one of those simple operations in photoshop but seems to be a monster challenge in affinity photo mostly to find where on earth they moved the function because when the app was designed there was no keyboard. So finding said functionality is proving to be difficult. And yes I have searched google and came up with desktop solutions but not ipad solutions.

James, love your tutorials. They're clear, quick and painless. Just like all tutorials should be. However, there's one thing missing from them, especially in the basic operations and LAYERS STUDIO. how on earth do you copy and more importantly DUPLICATE a layer ????

Simple question: How does one duplicate a layer in AFFINITY PHOTO ????? Oh and if there's a tutorial on this, because there isn't one, please do put it in your response. Otherwise, assuming I find out how to do this I'll make one and post it. Because I spent the better portion of a half hour looking for what should be a simple operation but isn't. You can do this on the Desktop with a single click but clearly that operation is hidden somewhere!!!

thanks….that did the trick.

perhaps this will be a bit clearer…. after i select something, some portion of an image, in this case, the background, i want to remove it…not mask it, but delete it. if this were a desktop, there’d be a delete function in the menu somewhere… that function is somewhere, my question is where ?????? IMG_0559.MP4

How would i cut/delete/or remove a selected item from a layer ? see video attached FullSizeRender.mov