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The HSL adjustment has a great built-in range selector that can't be mimicked by any other tool. Exposing this as a tool for creating masks might be a great feature. (And the code for this should be already in place.) An additional slider/control for optionally adjusting brightness sensitivity may help making this even more versatile. This could complement or even replace the PS-like "Select Sampled Color…" tool. (I found this seldom useful, and a HSL-style color range selection would be very useful for any occasions where selections per channel or tonal range aren't suitable.) Alternatively, the HSL-adjustment may be improved by a button "Export Current Selection". I know that you can work around this by using a HSL-adjustment + blend modes + B/W + levels + rasterize to mask, but it's a bit awkward to have to jump through all these hoops to achieve something that Affinity Photo has done internally already (and still end up with some artefacts as it's not always possible to perfectly recover the selection by blend modes).

I totally forgot about this one: The PDF, these screenshots came from, was apparently malformed. While Preview was able to display it, it failed to export any raster image of a page. So I tried to import and render it using Affinity Photo, but the process didn't "come back" and I had to kill the task. Which is, why I then resorted to screenshots. I would have expected any related temporary items to be purged on application restart, and certainly on system restart. However, it may well be that this hanging task was invoked again instead and was thus hogging the application thread somehow from the background. So the issue may be related to not cleaning up any temporary items on application (re)start? (I guess, any temporary resources are also a good candidate for becoming cleaned up in the course of the daily system maintenance tasks, explaining why it worked again today.)

Just tried, but now it does work as expected – of course. Yesterday, it was really like trying to accomplish anything with a heavily severed hand. This behaviour survived program and system restarts. Now, everything is working as expected. For further information: This was specifically with files created newly from the clipboard (New from Clipboard), which were automatically converted to a grey-scale image. (Screenshots from an old manual.) There is no other input device (like a mouse) connected to the system or even registered (Bluetooth is off). Edit: Maybe a corrupted file saving state that got purged in the meantime?

After the last update to Affinity Photo 1.9.3 the crop tool is barely working on a MacBook Air (M1, 2020, 16GB), macOS 11.2.3 (up-to-date) using the trackpad. Symptoms: The handles can be used once on up to two side only and arbitrarily snap to a position, where they can't be moved from again. (This is observed regardless of the snap settings. I.e., completely off, force pixel alignment, or move by whole pixels. Moving the entire crop selection using the cursor keys works, however.) This behaviour is observed even after a complete restart. This has not been an issue before the last update. The trackpad is working as expected with other applications, like Preview.