Josh Robern

Ah, lovely. I suspected I was missing something obvious!

Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but it's my best guess. I'm looking to quickly and procedurally increase the saturation of just the midtones, preferably to do so in a seamless gradient. I feel like an adjustment layer or some combination thereof might be able to do that, but I just don't know their ins and outs well enough to make it happen. Or perhaps I'm missing some other tool in the toolbox. Many thanks for your time and consideration!

Resurrecting this thread to say these brushes are magic and shading with them feels like cheating.

What exactly does the layer lock do if not prevent changes to the layer? Is there a way to prevent changes to a layer?

...I could have sworn I tried that, multiple times. >.<

I'm just getting started with Affinity Photo and have a long track record with using Photoshop for a lot of very low-level stupid things. Today's task is scanning music for use in a Keynote, and I need to get black text and notation on a transparent background. I use the non-contiguous flood selector to select all the white and near-white of the scan. Then I hit delete and... the white background is deleted. But it doesn't display the grey-and-white grid; the screen looks nearly identical to before. I can see in the layer thumbnail that all those white and off-white pixels have been deleted. When I save the file, it works just fine with a transparent background. But I can't see what's transparent and what's not while in Affinity Photo. To add to my confusion and frustration, I somehow did something different with a different file, because in that one, the transparency grid is visible. I'm sure I've unclicked a view option or something similarly simple, but I can't figure out what I've done differently.