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Problem sorted,I'd been using the laptop for some testing and it didn't have a network connection

Thanks, I'll give that a try

I have a Widows 10 Pro laptop that I use occasionally when travelling. I've not used it for a while. If i start up Affinity Photo, I get a splash screen inviting me to update from 2.5.0 to 2.5.2 - if I click on install, nothing happens and the only way to get out of it is to kill the program in Task Manager. If I click on 'Not Now' and then 'Help', 'Check for updates' it tells me 'No update available, you are currently using the latest available version 2.5.0' Any ideas? Is there any reason it's not trying to update to 5.2.6 ?

Thanks for the fix, Walt, it works for me and I do like a good batch file, takes me back to DOS days. Its all very well, as some here have said, to say that it's down to the developers of other applications to keep them up to date, and for users to keep their installations up to date as well, but having worked in software for thirty years I can tell you thats just wishful thinking And if a software revison breaks compatibilty with old software, it's the vendor of the new software that the customer will blame, rightly or wrongly, as I know all too well.....

I'm progressing slowly through the workbook and have got as far as the 'mother of millions' project, 'removing Halos' on page 255. Now I'm not familiar with this sort of stuff, I don't know what a halo is or what it should look like, and even with my best specs on, can't see any difference between the images on p255 and 256, which i presume are meant to be before and after pictures. Can anybody give me some pointers at to what I'm meant to be seeing here, please ?

Firstly, I'm a newbie so be gentle with me, especially if this post isn't where it's meant to be.. I have searched the forums and done some googling, but to no avail I am slowly, as a newcomer to Affinity and to image manipulation or post-processing or whatever you want to call it, working my way through the workbook and the end of chapter two is in sight :-), I'm working through the section on 'Manipulating a live filter layer mask' and I'm confused - steps 6,7,8 are the same as those for the previous section, even down to referring to 'building, road, and traffic lights' that don't exist in the example image for this section My problem is I learn things slowly, step by step, but I'm now not sure what the expceted outcome is here so I don't know if I'm doing it right - could anybody enlighten me please ?