nickbatz

Well, I can't speak from experience with a stylus, but a Bluetooth mouse is doing the same thing when you're drawing with it, no? There are other elements - pressure, mainly - but I'm still surprised. After all, MIDI works very well over Wi-Fi, and there are all kinds of real-time things going on. In any case, you've tried it, I'm just speculating, so chances are good that you know better than I do.

Thanks Bryan. I wonder why screen sharing has noticeable latency. It works fine between Macs even over Wi-Fi, in fact I access my old Windows machines using Microsoft Remote Desktop (but over wired Ethernet). This wasn't always the case - it used to be very slow. But my KVM switches have been sitting in the garage for years.

Is this possible or sensible? I don't think even the iPad Pro's 16GB of RAM would be enough for me, and I find iPads cumbersome to try and work on in general (that's not what they're good at). But this seems like it would be a good application for the Apple Pencil. If not, which tablets do people recommend? TIA

By the way, RichardMH posted a great workaround in the other thread I linked in the original post: just insert a new fill layer underneath what you want to solo (temporarily), and everything underneath it will be screened.

It sounds like you have multiple layers selected? You can do that to turn them all on or off en masse.

Yes. I was thinking Pixel layer. In any case, this is a great workaround.

And then paint bucket it white. Great idea. Thanks.

The beauty of art is that we're not all the same person.

I believe it's Alt-click.

I do know about editing posts (just changed the title), but where are the tags?

I'd be happy to do that, but I'm not sure where that is. In any case, I'm sure the people at Affinity read these threads. Also, just for perspective, it's not exactly like the whole program is garbage without this small feature.

Isolation mode (option-click on a layer) does that, but - as per the linked thread where I asked about this - the issue is that as soon as you click on an adjustment layer, the layers that aren't isolated become visible again.

Yes, and every audio program. Audio mixers all have solo buttons. This would be a little more complicated, since you'd also want to solo child layers. So you'd want to be able to solo groups.

Please see this thread: Ideally this would work like a standard audio mixer, with both solo and on/off buttons. Thanks.

Yes, but as soon as you click on the adjustment panel the layer stops being isolated. This does sound like a feature request. Will post in that sub-forum.

GarryP said: Unless I’ve misunderstood the requirements I think this can be done without all of the copy/paste/whatnot. Yes, but I still appreciate your taking the time to post the video.

Exactly, that's the whole issue.

Exactly, that's the issue.

So let's say you've selected, copied, and pasted a small part of a pixel layer, creating a new pixel layer with this copied object. You want to apply, say, and HSL adjustment to just that pasted object. So you insert the HSL adjustment inside that layer, i.e. it's child-layered inside it. I'm looking for a more efficient way to view just that layer while tweaking the HSL. As it is now, you have to select all the layers below it and turn them off, otherwise you see everything that's visible. What I've been doing is grouping all the layers I want turned off, turning them off temporarily, then ungrouping them again when I'm done. It's what you call "a bit of a pfaff" in the UK. Or is this a feature request for the visual equivalent of what in audio is called a Solo button? Hope this makes sense! TIA

I should add that for some reason, Affinity Photo now launches in seconds - much faster. Oh yeah.

Problem solved. Dan in support gets my Medal of Distinguished Answering.

EDIT: THE PROBLEM WAS THAT I HAD BETTERTOUCHTOOL'S CLIPBOARD MANAGER RUNNING. I'd forgotten about that feature long ago - never used it. But if you're running BTT - an otherwise indispensable utility - be sure to go in and turn off the clipboard manager for Affinity Photo.

EDIT: THE PROBLEM WAS THAT I HAD BETTERTOUCHTOOL'S CLIPBOARD MANAGER RUNNING.

EDIT: THE PROBLEM WAS THAT I HAD BETTERTOUCHTOOL'S CLIPBOARD MANAGER RUNNING.

Problem solved never mind. As we were....