jaygro

Thanks for all the input. I'm going to try these. Just to clarify... I was trying to get the arms holding the iPads to blend into the white back ground instead of having the sharp cutoff. My thought was to use the gradient tool to make the arms fade into the white. I'll let you know how it goes. Thank you!!

Hi Everyone, I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I know it has to be something very simple. I started using Affinity Photo for very basic editing about a year ago. I am having a lot of trouble trying to get the Gradient Tool to make transparent gradients. 95% of the time the result I get is a White to Black Gradient. If I have a whole layer selected, the whole layer becomes white to black. If I have a Shape selected the whole shape becomes white to black. I have watched tutorial videos and follow step by step but still end up getting this black to white. There has to be some obvious options that is on that I am missing. I have attached some screenshots as examples. Thanks for your input!