Nat Riddle

Alrighty then! thank you for your swift and thorough help! 😎

Huh! They haven't reappeared so far! Well thank you! Of course, this seems like a temporary solution. Won't turning off hardware acceleration will make things, well, slower!? I had already sorta thought to change something in the performance settings, but hesitated for that reason. Plus, I never needed to do that before; this only randomly started happening when the software updated. Is there any plausible explanation? Is this on the team's end or mine, and if its the team's, can we see this being fixed in the future? Thank you all so much! ❤️

I recently updated to Affinity Photo 1.9.1.979, from the Microsoft Store. I had no problems with the previous version, but this version has a strange problem: Whenever I perform an action such as a Merge Down on an effects layer, committing a Live Projection Layer, exporting a picture as a .jpeg, or similar actions involving rasterization, random pixels (often in thin rectangles) are rendered. The pixels appear to contain information from the previous history layer. For example, after making a picture darker and merging down the layer, there may appear pixels that are still as dark as the original layer. Or when making an edit involving a projection layer and then removing the layer, there may appear pixels that are transparent. Attached is an example. The original picture (with a disabled brightness adjustment), then darkened and merged with the brightness adjustment, contains a few pixels that are still the original brightness (which can be seen by the history brush). This happens with many other operations. This is a critical hinderance to my workflow, slowing me down by having to use trial-and-error and undo-redo until the pictures render properly. Any attention or support appreciated!