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Have just got Affinity Photo 2 and while I'll have a chance to get used to it and learn properly in the future for now I just needed a quick fix to brighten and increase contrast on a couple of photos then save them down to a more manageable size. On other apps I've used it is pretty immediately obvious how to do this. On Photo 2 I couldn't find it. Youtube videos appeared to be showing a different version of the app. The in-app help seemed to show that you could do these things but not how to. There is an auto tab but I want a manual version. The expecting sliding scales I've found on all other apps don't seem obvious here. Doubtless I'm being dim and maybe this is designed for people who will use more sophisticated users than I am. But would be grateful for quick and easy advice just to get me started.

Thanks for the replies. I may try to do a sample document but at the moment trying to complete the thing I'm working on which I can't really share. The vertical alignment was definitely not justify. In a sense the question of why the leading was 64pt when I had a leading setting of 90% was the puzzle. The character tab on the right was showing 64pt and there was a huge gap between lines. I noticed that for some reason there was also a character style selected and when I reset this to no style, it seemed to correct itself. I'm not clear how this happened as I hadn't (intentionally) selected a character style. As you may guess I'm just finding my way with Affinity but the text and style arrangements seem very different to all other packages I've used (Quark, Indesign, pageplus).

I have created a paragraph style sheet at 18pt with a leading setting of 90%. But when I choose the style sheet it sets a leading of 64pt. I assumed I had set up the style sheet wrong. But the leading remains at 90% in the style sheet settings and at 64pt. I can't see why this is happening or to stop it. If I have to change the leading each time it defeats the point of having a style sheet. Also each time I create a text frame the text is white whereas I would normally expect black to be the default. Any advice on this issues gratefully received.

I have created a text frame and split it into columns, but when I then type into the frame instead of the text flowing downwards onto the next line of the left hand column, it goes straight across to top of the right-hand column. Which sort of defeats the point of having columns in the first place. Admittedly when importing text from another document it does flow downwards in the normal way. But I want to type directly into the frame not import text. I can't find anything online to help with this problem. Can anyone advise?