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Thanks a lot smadell. I just tried what you suggested and it kind of works for me. I'm afraid I'm not sure exactly how to 'adjust the colours of the gradient'. I played around with clicking on the top and bottom circle of the gradient and moved the colour picker to the colours. I think it worked. However when I selected 'Overlay' in the blend options the sky came through but the foreground image was also dramatically affected - more contrast and I think saturation. I had only dragged the gradient down to just beyond the area where the sky met the foreground. I've no idea why the foreground was also affected (blend mode?) , but then again, as you will have gathered, I'm not too hot on Affinity Photo .... yet.

Hello again Michael and James. I’m afraid I could not manage to achieve the ND gradient effect on the sky. I tried every which way until I was blue in the face - unfortunately I couldn't achieve the same effect with the sky. In some way that I can’t fully repeat or understand I did manage to bring the sky down a little - it’s very very overexposed compared to the foreground, and the foreground itself is underexposed. So I did end up with both sections closer together. But I can see from the mask icon that I do not appear to be getting the correct mask effect. I’ve tried it with White and with Black and all the ways I can imagine. I went through the Affinity Beginners tutorials and some others and couldn’t find any thing useful. I found the tutorial on substituting the sky, but that’s not what I want to do. So I must be missing some important point in the whole process. In the end I went back to my old copy of Photoshop Elements 9, found this tutorial on YouTube - - and within a few minutes I had the ND effect. The principle seems to be very like what you both suggested, but for some reason I can’t get it working in Affinity. I’d much prefer to be able to work all the time in Affinity Photo. So I hope Affinity add a video tutorial showing the steps needed to achieve what is a fairly basic and useful effect. Thanks again for taking the time to help. ​(Sorry, tried to include the link to the YouTube PSE 9 tutorial, but the Affinity Forum blanks it out)

Thank you very much Michael and James. I really appreciate your helpful suggestions. It's late now, but I'll give them a try tomorrow and let you know how it works out. I agree that a tutorial on ND filtering would be useful.

Hello, I can't seem to work out how to do this. I've limited experience with Affinity Photo, using it mostly for simple contrast and exposure adjustments. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but can't figure out how to apply a simple ND Filter effect to an overexposed sky. Thanks!

Thanks very much James. Much appreciated and looking forward to it. Regards,

Hello. I really would love if you could add some tutorials on black and white retouching to your existing list. I regularly have to retouch scanned images from my very old 35mm and 120 black and white negatives. Apart from dust and some scratches, I’ve noticed some strange deterioration of the emulsion on some negatives. I also get old black and white family photos that have been bent and damaged over the years. Some tutorial advice on both would be really appreciated. Thank you very much for a great app and your commitment to support your users with a wide range of concise tutorials.

Hello Coranda. That was very useful and did exactly what you said. I had seen that 'ColorSync' button but it was not selected and the 'Epson Color Controls' was. I was used to using Photoshop Elements which greys out both 'ColorSync' and 'Epson Color Controls' when 'Photoshop Elements Manages Output' is selected. Thanks!

Thanks very much coranda. I'll give that a try and see how things go.

I'm trying to print using Affinity Photo to an Epson P800 printer. The printer software has installed ICC Profiles for different types of Epson and other papers. But when setting up a print job I can't seem to find any way to select one of those profiles before I hit 'Print'. I just get the standard Mac dialog box without any option to, for example, state that 'Affinity Photo Controls Colour' or to select an ICC Profile for the paper I'm using. Also I'd love to know how 'Soft Proofing' is supposed to work with Affinity Photo. I'd like to be able to preview a 'Soft Proof' with the correct profile and do some before/after comparison. Can someone help? Thanks!