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Thanks for the video. The main issue I'm experiencing which isn't covered in the video is with how you do the same thing with an alpha channel. Hopefully I'm not missing something but the expectation is to treat Alpha as transparency, right? If so that is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. I was trying to test this just now but ran into an issue I have to take care of some other work. Also I want to be clear that I think Affinity Photo is amazing. I've only recently become aware of it and was extremely surprised with how much faster it is compared to photoshop. This feedback is not meant as a criticism of the app as a whole but a pain point with this type of workflow. I just hope I'm communicating properly so the AP devs will understand the issue game devs are experiencing.

For the devs: I need this functionality on a daily basis as a technical artist working on games as well as any other artist working with textures on any project I've worked on. I was trying to switch over to Affinity completely when I ran into this issue and had to go back to photoshop. What I'm looking for: Alpha should not have to be transparency. Like in photoshop when you load a TGA, alpha is not considered transparency and when working with some other formats like TIFF it is optional. Photoshops implementation could be better in allowing all formats to be optional on load so with formats like PNG you don't have to go through the main menu bar > Layer > Layer Mask > From Transparency then copy the mask to the alpha channel after loading. Should have a way to quickly select the channel you want to edit and paste or paint directly to it. Without this I'm stuck in Photoshop land.