Bryan Boly

I have heard looking into your firewall/antivirus is a good thing to do from another user. Apparently not all firewalls or antivirus work well with Affinity products. I don’t know which don’t work well with Affinity but I do know that Microsoft’s, Windows Defender works with Affinity Photo on my PC. If you have a Mac I am unsure how to help because I don’t have one. I do hope this helps you get back to editing again though. I’d suggest looking into other antivirus programs that work well with editing software as a suggestion.

Leigh, after I download the beta and login successfully do I then uninstall the beta and reinstall the Microsoft store version? I'm just asking so I don't have both versions installed in the end. You seemed to have skipped that step in the process. Thank you for your time and help solving problems in the new update.

Thank you for the facts, but in my case no. I use linear light and pin light most often.

I did try that and it sadly didn’t work. And you are right, but Microsoft is getting better in some areas... slowly.

Yes, it’s working on your iPad. Does your iPad duplicate ok too? This strange problem started for me yesterday. What generation of iPad do you have? I have the the iPad Pro that was released last year. Any ideas on how to fix this?

On the iPad version of Affinity Photo I noticed a recent issue with highpass. I didn’t notice it turning my picture gray like it normally did. I tried multiple things to see what the problem was, but none worked. I tried undoing highpass and recreating the duplicate, but it didn’t work. I restarted Affinity Photo, opened the afphoto again, and redid my first attempt to fix it, but it didn’t work, I restarted my iPad then, opened Affinity Photo, opened the picture to work on, created a duplicate, and then tried highpass again. I still saw that the picture wasn’t gray. I went ahead and tried to see if the blends would work and they did, but not as normal. All the blends except for erase made the picture darker in different ways, such as, shadows, highlights, or even the whole picture. Highpass is to help make the picture look sharper not darker. I also noticed after finding the best blend mode I could find that nothing else I did to help the dark shadows of the blend I used worked. Not shadows/highlights, not contrast/brightness, not even exposure worked on neither duplicate or the original picture. Please help me find the solution to my problem or bug Serif, thanks.