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Forum, I used the report function on post hamburger menu

I submitted a report requesting this get sent to affinity dev team for bug review.

Guys, thank you so much for this explanation and help, more than I was hoping for. It does seem to be inherent in the Refine functionality, I would think this is something that would be great to hear back from Affinity development on, as to the logic of why it is coded this way, or maybe it's something they need to be made aware of for a bug report. @Callum I was indeed using feather which seems to have been a mistake on my part, with this additional information I can play around with it. Maybe what I should have done is extended select where I was over transparency and not use the Refine tool at all.

Also, if this is in the wrong discussion let me know, the forum has changed since I was last here and couldn't determine where to post questions per a product.

I'm on Photo 1.10.6.1665, I use Selection Brush Tool, noticed after cut and paste to new layer artifacts were left behind. So then tried Refine tools, set Smooth and Feather to a value that covers edges where artifacts were left. Copy and Paste to new layer again and still seeing aritfacts, I also set Blend options 'force off' per some advise I saw somewhere. I have very limited knowledge and want to understand why the artifacts are being left after cut and paste when I can clearly see that those areas are selected. attached two screenshots of effort.

I know it was more a complaint, but it turns out that I was missing a key step in apply the transparency attributes, you have to manually add a new layer.

I don't use this tool often and I'm a part time user of Affinity Photo. I find the tool not to be intuitive, I'm sure pro users are used to it and there is some advanced logic why things are how they are, but from my perspective it is not intuitive. I add layer above image, click gradient tool on bar, drag controls to create gradient, this is fine, but after this point transforming gradient to use gradient transparency is not, I keep going back to tool dialogs on top bar and view work, then I'm stuck, I can't just click on layer and reactivate gradient properties for what I was already working on and then things get lost and I have to start over again, it's frustrating. There's no right mouse action on that dialog in context to what i'm going, the top tool bar has not retained the work and clicking on gradient tool does not sync and initiate an edit mode on what I'm working on.

thankful and confused, anyways, seems like there is some issue with Affinity interpreting it. I think I'll go back and ask what app their using, it may not be photoshop.

Tried that, no affect. It's weird , why would jpg be storing that information and why would affinity interpret it

I received image from tech who did some image manipulation, I don't know what program they used but when I open jpg in Affinity Photo there are path layers and the image is incomplete, only seems to render one image layer they were working on to get affect. see attached screenshot of how image appears in file manager view and how it appears in affinity photo with layers expanded. any ideas?

Thanks guys

Hi, new to Affinity Designer, I'm working in a graphics template and need to copy a mark and image to another group within same document, however, it seems to be linked to original mark and image and if I change image it updates image in both place in document. How do I unlink the masked image from source mask image so I can change working image? To give more detail: After copy mask/image to new group and drag it to target location on view, I go back to naviagtion layer of target object and double click on image, it opens into embedded window, I place new image and remove old and close embedded window and return to document window and see that image updated in both locations. as below. I have tried this in Designer and Publisher with same results, so I know it is linked but I can't see how to unlink them so they act independently.

Thanks guys 👍

Thanks, any recommended application to use any open source apps that will do this or are you thinking something like Word or some other word processor, or a dreamweaver type web design app?

Using Affinity Designer or Publisher, what would be a recommended migration path to an html5 document?