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Sry for warming this up, The hint with the alpha was quite helpful thanks! As i have seen you can only adjust the mask in a non destructive manner, which makes the file bigger/convoluted, so i tried to merge down the adjustment layer to the mask but without success. Is there a workaround? Also if there is only one channel (greyscale) it would be super helpful if the main/master curve adjustment affects the channel by default, reopening the adjustemnt layer sets it back to master.

Thanks for your reply. I definitly don't want a copy of PS. I still have many questions how to do things/best practices, and many frustrations in the beginning can be avoided just by providing a good UI., Btw. i guess there is not only me these days swiching from PS.

Thanks for your help! There are many things i do not know yet

Coming from PS, i think Affinity Photo is really catching up with its big competitor. A few things are missing in technical terms, but also some kind of a software inherent culture which is mostly communicated through its interface. Really important for me: - Layers: controlling visibility (why not on left side together with lock icon, same style as channels, turning on of by paint over) , - Layers: copying selections into masks - Layers: linking unlinking for transforms - Paint Performance. - UI: less glitches annoyances (Buttons missing, inconsistent icons (check for layers, eye for channels) Also important: - UI: concept often not clear, e.g.: New document: templates take 80% of space (Architectural presets?), a page orientation ?, therefore Aspect Ratio lock is missing, why use page/document terminology instead of image, adding new preset hard to find. e.g.: Preferences: icons really needed?, why not just a 2 column style like most other apps. - UI: basic colourswatches (FG/BG) always visible, can be really small. - Consolidated transform perspective tool, one tool for all transforms. - Reasonable key maps e.g.: changing brush size needs 4 buttons/keys pressed at the same time. - Right click context sensitve menu was nice. Not so important, at least for now: - New Features - Fancy Features - AI Stuff - Extras like: Templates Presets Brushes, Assets

Plz. make it default, switching workstations, and for courses is not feasible to always mess with the prefs. if there are other key assignements than (d,x) i am also fine...

Worked on a 7200x 200 px image and could not switch/edit channels, when you drag the menu further out they show up again. Ver: 1.8.2.620

95% of pixelwork is about masking +1!