Sandra Lamb

In regards to my original question, I have been majorly distracted with other work. Back at in now. I'm not sure if I am on the right thread though and its a bit redundant now, as after many, many instances of it not working (re-boot, re-load not helping), suddenly it is fine, but other little bugs have popped up. Specifically, I would load a colour photo, convert it to black and white, then re-convert to RGB. Then on the adjustment panel I select Gradient Map and then the pre-set that I put there ages ago (which worked just fine for months). When I first posted this, at the time, I was lucky to get it to respond to any of the defaults, never mind my preset. I am (and was) working on a MacBook Pro OS Big Sur 11.6. My best guess is that I uploaded the latest version of Photo a while back and that has resolved the problem (but I'm still nervous).

Yes, that would be the gradient overlay. I am specifically taking a photograph and in essence, adding the gradient overlay to make it appear as a duotone.

My problem is similar but slightly different. I have been using the gradient feature for three or so years now with no glitches. I have an older Mac desktop and also a MacBook Pro running on Big Sur 11.6, which I use most often. My use of the gradient feature is sporadic and with the current pandemic thing, it's been about a year, maybe more since I used it. I have a gradient preset saved which has always worked great in the past for a certain client. Anyway, I went to use it today for a new photo addition and lo and behold, all I got was a lot of fits and starts... sometimes with the Affinity defaults, mostly not loading and NEVER loading for my preset. Tried restarting program, rebooting computer, posted workarounds and the best I could do was get the defaults to apply once in a while. Gave up eventually, and went back to my old Mac which still has AP and it worked like a charm. Hmmmm.... Any further ideas or is this a bug that will be addressed in five years or so?