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I have the same problem on my PC. Upgraded to the new version, rasterised layer, perspective tool, move handles, frame changes, image does not. Apply doesn't do anything. Same with mesh. No preview, no effect, nothing.

Thanks. I did try searching but was looking for 'background' and 'colour cast' rather than 'canvas' and 'not white' 🙂 I'd solved it by deleting the monitor's colour profile profile, which must have been updated automatically or corrupted/broken by the change in Windows build. I've now changed it to the one in the FAQ. Thanks!

Hi here's the same capture twice... As you can see the JPG looks normal (the text is white), but you can see the scree grab posted into Affinity is distinctly yellow. I've now discovered this is affecting all images opened in Affinity, I'm worried as I sent some images for publication which I had to adjust to remove a strong yellow cast last week. Now I realise why I had to do more than just use the auto balance. Fortunately it looks like our designer fixed them back... I have definitely not changed any rendering/screen settings in Affinity or windows, however I've just checked and PSP and PS both show the same issue. Photoshop says my Monitor profile appears to be damaged so I'm guessing it was to do with updating my Windows to a new build last week. Any suggestions how I fix this? Thanks SCreen capture.afphoto

I am copying and pasting using either screen captures or captures made in Acrobat reader. They are coming out with a very strong yellow cast; what should be pure whites are showing a strong cream colour. If I create a new document with a white background in Affinity, or open a jpg with good whites, it's pure white. <edit> I should add that the images histograms show they include a pure white, so it's something to do with how Affinity is rendering an 8-bit RGB image), not the image itself. I haven't changed any of the colour profiles from default on this machine (having got in a muddle doing so on a previous machine) but my monitor is properly set up for good colour rendering. Much of my work is in publishing, so I need good colour rendering. I don't get this issue in my other programmes (e.g. PS, PSP), and I haven't changed anything in Affinity. This seems to have started in the last few weeks, and may be related to recent Windows updates which have been a bit flakey...

If I use control frames, stacking fails. It seems this is because my darks, flats and flat darks are being treated as lights. I am following the order in the help - create new group, set type to (e.g.) dark frames and adding my master frame. If I then look at another group and go back to that group, the type has changed back to lights. Obviously, this means the frames won't stack properly and the process fails. This happens for all types of control frame. I update Affinity about a week ago. Stacking without control frames works, and the data all stacks fine in DSS. TLDR: How do I get a folder which contains other than light frames to remember its assigned type?

I wish I could find it... So my system is confused and thinks there is an active selection when there isn't. So it seems, thanks for all your efforts to help. 🙂 Option 2 just started AP as normal. Alas! Option 1 didn't do it. Just lost all my plugins.. I still can't create a new selection after clearing the old one. Hopefully the next build will fix this.

As I mentioned, I tried this, and it did not work: See my video, the tool works as expected until I apply a filter, then gets stuck in subtract mode without me changing anything explicitly. It may be that other things will cause the issue, so perhaps I should say 'performing some operations on a selection' but life is too short to test each possible operation to see which cause the issue and which don't. But it's clearly a change that happens as a consequence of performing an operation on the selection, not solely one of using the selection tool. Can you explain an 'active' selection? Does performing an operation on a selection make it active in the context of Affinity? In my past experience an active selection merely refers to the one indicated by the marquee, in which case when I first use the tool to draw a selection drawing a new one replaces it. After performing an operation the tool subtracts from it. It's a minor issue, but it is confusing that the 'tool hints' don't change back to be relevant to the active tool. I would class this as a bug as the filter is no longer active and the displayed hint is meaningless. So what? - the whole point is that the status bar displays this when the active selection has been cleared, so these operations are no longer relevant. It would be nice if I could find a way to change the default behaviour to new, but (R1) doesn't explain how to do this (and New isn't accessible anyway). The freehand tool should default to replace mode if I clear the active selection. This is the behaviour with the other selection modes. Not being able to get back to new mode without changing to a non-selection tool and back after clearing the selection is bug.

When I start using freehand select: After using a filter (this doesn't seem right... happens with all filters) After deselecting or using another type of select tool: In my mind, this thread is a 'bug report' for the freehand select tool not going back to the first of these when you clear any existing selection. But if "that's not a bug, it's a feature" for subtracting from a null selection then yes I do want to know how to change my default. P.S. I do appreciate your help, I apologise if my bewilderment comes across as diffidence or cynicism 🙂

Question - how do I change the default selection mode for the freehand select back to new? And if this is the default mode, why does the existing selection disappear and get replaced before I use a filter? I should say I tried using 'add' mode then exiting the tool, but this did not set the (apparent) default mode to 'add'.

Did you apply a filter and then try selecting a new area?

Thanks, can you suggest a suitable screen recording app? OK, I've found one built into windows, pretending to be an Xbox utility! I'm afraid the recording is 63 megs. As you can see a filter puts the freehand select tool into subtract mode. This does not happen with rectangular or elliptical select, they stay in 'new' mode. Affinity Photo 2021-10-07 17-58-55.mp4

Hi, The default mode appears to be new i.e. if I create a selection, then draw another, the original one disappears. After applying a filter, the mode changes to subtract without me doing anything (but only for freehand select). Presumably this is the source of the problem. But why would a filter change the select mode?

Ok to clarify this are the stages where I experienced this yesterday, although I have been encountering this for a couple of weeks since the last update: I copied a number of bland parts of an image as new layers to hide unwanted background detail. I then wanted to blur the joins. I used the freehand selection tool to select the area around the first join. Gaussian blur. <ctrl>-d to deslect. Freehand selection tool would then draw a second selection, but as soon as I released the mouse the marquee disappeared (experimentation shows the selection is now void rather than just not visible). This behaviour persists through multiple attempts. Obvious remedies such as ensuring I had selected the right layer etc. were tried. The only remedy that worked was changing a non-select tool, then back to freehand select. This does not happen with rectangular and circular select. I recall an issue a few days ago with the 'magic wand' select but I may be mistaken. You can clear a selection with <ctrl>-d and make a new one with the freehand tool with no problems. The problem arises when you have performed a filter operation on the selection. If this has become default behaviour, it's pretty strange. Every other program I have used is 'aware' when the selection has been cleared and defaults back to the normal mode of drawing a new selection. And why do this only after a filter operation? If I draw a selection then clear it immediately, the tool works as expected, drawing a new one.

Hi, latest version of Affinity Photo on latest Windows 10. If I clear a selection, then after performing an operation (such as a blur) and clearing the selection I can not successfully perform a freehand selection. Usually the line is drawn, but on releasing the mouse button, the marquee disappears. Sometimes a line does not appear at all. If I click on another tool, then back on the freehand selection tool, the problem goes away, and I can perform a normal freehand selection. This does not happen with the rectangle and ellipse selection tools.

This is most peculiar as every other photo editing package I have used manages to avoid this issue. Perhaps Affinity is calculating the size of an image using a number that gets rounded in a different way to how the number of displayed pixels is rounded. This would explain why the effect comes and goes with zoom level. An obvious kludge would be to fill the offending pixels with desktop colour before filling the image data, if it's too hard to determine where the miscalculation is being made.

Hi 1920 x 1080. Here's an example - first image I opened. If I zoom out I get a white line along the top of it as well. I suspect it's more noticeable with astro images with a black background. For clarity, the lines disappear and appear, apparently at random, as I zoom in and out.

Thanks, it takes about five minutes to process a 16MB image on my (moderately fast) PC so having a bar would be reasuring.

Images often display with a white line on the left edge, despite this not being there if you zoom in. Aside from being very distracting, in the past I have cropped these off without realising they are artefacts.

I am using the StarXterminator Plugin. Apparently Affinity Photo does not properly implement a progress bar for plugins that take a long, long time. The plugin works, but the computer appears to hang until it completes.

Good grief! I think you should add these to the help section. I have nearly developed RSI trying all the strange mouse click combinations, none of which worked. Shift-left or ctrl-left would be 10-0% better than ctrl+alt - you should always use the simplest combinations for the more frequent actions. It would also be consistent with windows behaviour (shift click to extend a selection, ctrl-click to add to a selection). BUT! PLEASE EDIT THE FIRST POST IN THIS THREAD TO SAY HOW IT NOW WORKS SO OTHER POOR SOULS LIKE ME DON'T SCROLL DOWN TRYING AND FAILING WITH EACH PERMUTATION IN TURN.

I understand if the image transformations are non-destructive. Every month I have to resize a cover image of a magazine to be a thumbnail of a particular size, starting with a larger grab from the PDF proof of the cover. I will get used to doing the resize in export

I often have to prepare other people's tiny images for republishi8ng, so have a lot of experience with resizing and sharpening. Moving over to affinity I have found the lack of a resize by percentage creates and angst-ridden experience as using integer multiple sizes is key to getting the best results. I now know I can type in a percentage, but this is really non-intuitive. Don't add it to the drop-down though, a note that you can type expressions such as percentages into the boxes will encourage people to make more and wider use of this functionality. Also, why does it give real values for pixel sizes when these have to be integers for the final image?

My Epson offers 9,600 dpi. It's actually 2,400 optical resolution but uses interpolation.

Thank you - it does help, although the ability to move an edge (two nodes together) would make it more powerful (shear) and user-friendly than only being able to move one node at a time. I searched the help, and it doesn't mention 'skew' or 'deskew' - perhaps it would be useful to add that the perspective tool can be used for deskewing.

Is it possible to make the crop tool into a deskew/crop tool? This is something I miss hugely.