[Please add golden mean grid to crop overlap (O) tool]

It's fiddly but you can save the grid as an asset and resize it to get the crop. I also have a golden ratio rectangle as a crop preset. So with some awkwardness it can be done. Ideally we should be easily able to use any grid.

Pretty sure the grids are in here

http://www.the-art-of-composition.com/dynamic-symmetry-grids.html

[Best hardware for Affinity Software]

I've bought from Scorptec and found them knowledgeable and good. I live fairly close to them. My son builds his own gaming machines and buys quite a bit of gear from them.

[Colors doesn't apper to be accurate (no matter which color profile I choose)]

I get it right if I'm in Adobe RGB (1998) in Preferences.

[Colors doesn't apper to be accurate (no matter which color profile I choose)]

Download a colour checker and see what you get using Info when you load it into A Photo?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Color_Checker.pdf

[Colors doesn't apper to be accurate (no matter which color profile I choose)]

Can you post the png?

[Affinity Photo files keep getting corrupted]

If you upload one of the dead files someone should be able to look at it. Crash reports would probably also help them. Do you also run Capture One?

 

[Photo crashing]

Do you have hardware acceleration on? If so might be worth trying with it off. Edit->Preferences->Performance

[Can't work with Affinity Photo and Designer - I have lost my work]

What system are you on and are you saving to a network drive?

[Luminosity masks]

27 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Creating all those spare channels & deleting the extra layers is a lengthly complicated process ... so I wonder if anybody has tried making a macro to do that with a single click... 

Problem is you can't name spare channels in macros.

[How do I deepen the black point on a B&W image, so it looks darker?]

Ahh. Blend modes work differently in CMYK. Linear Burn may do the job. 

[How do I deepen the black point on a B&W image, so it looks darker?]

17 minutes ago, aettic said:

Hi there, thank you for your suggestions! Unfortunately, neither of these appear to do what I'm trying to do, unless I'm just doing it wrong. The first option definitely makes the image *darker*, but it does not drop the darkest point past the dark grey floor it seems to have, instead it just has the effect of making the other mid-grays darker, which causes a lack of fidelity.

The second option seems to increase contrast, but again, does not change the darkest gray to actual black.

Try vivid light instead of hard light. I have a few versions. I'm in Photo not publisher.

[How do I deepen the black point on a B&W image, so it looks darker?]

I have two ways to do something similar. First is HSL with multiply blend mode and blend ranges just applying it to the darker areas. Moves the left hand side of the histogram further left. Second is merge visible, duplicate and use vivid light blend mode so the shadows get nice and dark. Then fine tune that.

[Very dark image when importing]

 

This is what I mean in FastRawViewer (towards the middle of the video). The difference between the jpeg and RAW suggests you have some sort of what Sony calls creative modes operating on the jpeg in camera, which is what gets sent to your camera viewer. So if you use the viewer to set exposure the RAW is under exposed.

[Very dark image when importing]

Its a little dark for me, but about the same as FastRawViewer. FRV lets you change between the jpg and RAW (press j) and there is quite a difference. Might be camera setting affecting the jpeg?

[Very dark image when importing]

Your camera and PM (unless you've changed settings) use the jpeg. Depending on camera settings it may differ from the RAW. Could try something like FastRawViewer (it has a free trial) to look at the RAW. (https://www.fastrawviewer.com/)

Or post a RAW here and see if its also dark for us.

[Cutting out a strip from image in Photo]

Instead of removing a strip, try the Rectangular Marquee Tool to select an area including one of them, duplicate the selection and use the Move Tool to move it over.

[Affinity Photo white edges when applying color mask]

Are you using Refine to play with the mask edges?

[Affininity photo opening raw files too dark]

3 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

I’m personally dissatisfied with the capabilities of Develop Persona and use it only as quick and dirty way if i don’t want to fire up the more capable (quality wise) DPP, which is so slow that it hurts, but has it merits when batch processing and working with recipes.

 

I'm also unhappy with the Develop Persona. Fortunately as a Sony shooter I can use the free Capture One express for Sony which does a very good RAW conversion for Sony images. And it has a rather clever auto adjust that gives good base settings. Then send a tiff to Affinity Photo for finishing. The very fast Iridient S-Transformer is also good for Sony images but I think C1 Express is at least as good if not better. (There is an Iridient C-Transformer for Canon)

[Affinity Photo Crashed with New Version 1.10.0]

8 hours ago, CrezzaC said:

Could this PLEASE be fixed?! It's really upsetting to see the software just crash completely and really damn irritating. 🤒

Do you have hardware acceleration on? Edit->Preferences->Performance.

[Whenever I export this file I'm working on it always comes out super glitchy (only way I can describe it). Anyone know a fix?]

Something weird is going on. When I Merge Visible on your file it scrambles, like your output. 

[Flip selection?]

1 hour ago, JimmyJack said:

While I agree that this should be doable on a basic level....

FWIW: One workaround that hasn't been mentioned is to make a macro (takes but a few seconds). Once created the whole thing is just one click.
I have two: horizontal flip and vertical flip.
(of course in Affinity gotcha land we can't assign keystrokes to call up macros, so it must be clicked in the library list)

This is much easier if you have two screens. I have my assets and library open on my second screen and macros are one click. Its almost worth getting a cheap 2nd screen just for this.

[Affinity photo and Topaz denoise glitch]

It does seem to be an issue. A workaround could be to merge visible to create another layer then apply the layer effect to that?

Also happens with Topaz Sharpen AI.

[Affinity Photo crashed immediately!]

Try turning off hardware acceleration if its on. Edit->Preferences->Performance.

[Significant quality drop]

Do you have hardware acceleration on? It can be a cause of the freezing. Edit->Preferences->Performance.

[Using Canon's Print Studio Pro]

1 hour ago, Kalides said:

anyone using a print utility? likeQimage? as  affinity is still not good for custom inks, and medias, i was concidering dorpping the cash on a utility. i also use corel painter, and it seems that it is the same issue, with custom profiles...it is a shame, but i need to do something.

I have Mirage Small Studio Edition for a Canon Pro 300. Their pricing depends on printer size and is reasonable rather than cheap. It just works.