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What about for just a single layer?

Maybe there's a way and I haven't found it. But I'm working on a layer that has 3 fx enabled, and I want to A/B test how it looks with all 3 or none FX.

@MEB Thanks! Glad I could help. Hope it gets fixed soon.

Mac OS 12.7.5 M1 - 2020 Designer 2.5.5 I just downloaded Affinity 2 for the first time after upgrading to the suite. I opened a legacy designer project, save as new project select img in artboard and switch to pxl persona add live perspective filter to image switch back to designer persona I tried this 2 and both times after switching/applying the filter, various coloured squares appeared all over the main ui area.... Product Covers.afdesign

I have no idea. I'm not good at this stuff. I just notice that when I try to paint opacity with the standard brush, even with 0% hardness like Dan C recommended, it's really hard for me to make it look natural. As in you can clearly see the brush strokes that I make, even if I try to be subtle. I thought there might be texture brushes that make this easier.

Cool feature. Didnt know about the lighting. The 0% hardness method still doesn't seem that great (or I am just bad at using it). I was thinking something like unique brush textures that make this manual painting easier? If there isn't I guess I just have to get good

I see that all makes a lot more sense! Ok 2nd scenario. I have my fill layer and applied a gradient to it, nested it to the right side of the graphic I want masked. What's a good way that I can paint adjust the gradient? I know you can paint over the mask in various opacities to reveal less/more. How do I do this subtly though? Is it using a certain brushtype? If you'll have a look at the attached graphic. I have a radial gradient, now I want to adjust the edges manually though. I'm open for more techniques.

I've made a fill layer, then rasterized it to a mask. Now anytime I'm using the gradient tool it draws the shape completely new. Before rasterising it was possible to adjust the curve. Why is that not a thing after rasterising? That is such a frustrating workflow for fading to transparency

So I tried the checklist and it works. However I don't need the options "transform origin, unlock transform child layers separately" to be on. I couldn't even find "unlock transform" so I tried it without and it still works. Could you tell me what the purpose of those actions are? I saw that my artboard was not at the 0x0 position in the transform panel. When hitting "transform origin" it was at 0, when hitting "child layers..." it wasn't again.

Thanks for the detailed answer

For my UI work I often create a graphic, duplicate it and move it a certain amount of pixels. Sometimes when pressing cmd + J AD automatically moves to the copy to the desired amount, but I found it's really inconsistent. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't and I don't know what I'm doing different....

Wow thanks for the extensive reply @Ron P. Will give this a try!

Thx for the suggestion but not really what I was going for. I drag & dropped all those images onto the project and want to audition them one by one as a background image for my UI. Most of those pictures are of a higher resolution than my canvas so they appear way bigger. So far I've had to select one, zoom out, drag the corners to make it smaller, zoom in to fit it to my canvas and see what it looks like, hide, select and show the next one & repeat. Might just be one of those things that have to be done manually. Just wondering if there's a smarter way to go about this.

I'm developing a UI for my software and wanted to experiment with different background pictures. I dragged a whole lot of pictures into my affinity photo project to see how different ones look with my controls. Problem is all of those images were really high resolution and I've had to click, and drag everyone of them to fit my canvas better. Is there a way to automatically do that? I don't want to rescale them! If the format doesn't fit my canvas I don't want it stretched to fit the canvas.