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Hello carl123 You're a star! That worked OK. Thank you so much for your help. All the best.

Hello carl123, Again, very thankful for your input here. Here's a copy of the much reduced file. I'm probably doing something stupid here. I'm hoping you can find it! All the best fenman_test_file.afphoto

Hi Trinity and carl123, your responses are much appreciated, thank you. I tried to invert the mask a few times using Command I and 'Invert' from the Layer menu. The icon always remains black (and pops up black if I delete the mask and recreate it). I added a more obvious Ripple filter so I could see more clearly what was going on. That also would not invert or produce any effect. I tried the same things on another file and everything works as advertised. And carl123: it doesn't default to being highlighted when you add the filter - I checked this in another file. So it must be some setting in my file. Is there a lock feature anywhere?? This is a large landscape photo. The only thing I have done differently is to increase the pixel density (horizontal was increased from 6000 to 10,000) in preparation for a big poster print. (I've even tried re-booting my Mac and re-loading AffinityPhoto: I'm using a 2-year-old iMac with a good spec running Big Sur.) I could upload the file but it's a bit big and, to be honest, I'm a bit worried about posting an image online that I hope to make some money out of! Any more thoughts I could try first?

I'm new to AffinityPhotos so it may be me, but . . . I want to sharpen an image. I used 'merge visible' to create a composite of my work at the top of the layers stack. With that layer highlighted, I then clicked on the filter icon and added a High Pass filter. The filter dialogue comes up OK, but the main image does not go grey as expected despite the setting of the filter being the default (normal). No filters seems to be working. (I tried a different type of filter.) I tried deleting that layer and adding a filter to the bottom background layer. That didn't work either. If I do the same thing on a simple background image in a different file, it all works OK. Am I missing something? See screenshot of what happens when I add the filter to the layer. Please help!