PaulKemp

thanks all for you wonderful replies and taking your time to help me. Greatly appreciated. I understand how masks work, and are checking out wheter AP can replace PS for me. However, when testing out the trial back in November. I sort of hit the wall with the foreground to transparent gradient workflow from PS. I know there are many other ways of achiveing the same result, both in PS and AF. But using this gradient, insted of a brush, is my preferred way. But I does not seem to be able to replace this exact workflow in AF. But I might switch over all the same though, but that is another story. Here is a video of me showing what I am doing in PS. Screen Recording 2021-12-19 at 10.29.56.mov

its about what you use to adust the adjustment layers. in PS: foreground to transparent gradient in AP: what tool is similar or like foreground to transparent gradient?

Thanks for your reply. I know of using black on adjustment layers to mask/ show different parts. In fact this is how I work in photoshop and this workflow is the same in affinity. Very nice however, photoshops gradient: foreground to transparent let’s me paint in different parts of the adjustment layer very easy and fluently. am in wondering: is there an alternative to this in affinity photo? APs radial gradient is not the same, since it cannot be painted in the same way and is much harder to enable for different parts of the image. If this still is not clear, I’ll make a video showing what I mean in photoshop later today

I dont understand. Thanks for your reply. The workflow described above works perfectly well, but I am using a brush in Affinity and a gradient in Photoshop to mask out parts of the adjustment layer I want present in the image. In photoshop this works very well with the transparent to backgroud gradient, however Affinity doesnt have that exact gradient (afaik). So the workflow gets different. I am wonderin if Affinity has that gradient or how I would reproduce this exact workflow.

In photoshop, my workflow consists of using adjustment layers, and then masking them in using a froeground to transparent radial gradient. This lets me paint in the different adj. layers in a very natrual looking way, since each stroke addes to the alredy excisting gradient. Is there a Foreground to transparent radial gradient, that lets me build up stroke by stroke, in Affinity photo?