carl123

If I recall correctly this occurs when you have an Embedded Affinity document inside your main document and then open that (embedded) document and try to adjust the FX properties inside that document The workaround (for now) is to change it from Embedded to Linked

Cant download your .afpub file (says not available) Probably just a forum glitch. Can you try uploading it again?

But if so, why would that only affect some users and not all users?

I don't think it's an AFPhoto problem as your JPG works OK for me, so you may want to wait for a member of the support staff or another user to advise further You might though want to check that you can open the JPG with any other picture editor on your PC like Paint etc

I can open the unzipped file in Photos OK - same version as yours (2025.11030.12002.0) I am opening the file by dragging from File Explorer into Photos, are you doing it the same or a different way?

Thanks the forum software has no problem with it and I can also open it in Windows Photo But when uploading to the forum the forum software can change the displayed JPG slightly So, to ensure we have the original JPG to work with can you zip that JPG file and upload the zip file to the forum It can then be unzipped and tested knowing it has not been changed by the forum software in any way

Please attach one of the exported JPGs that do not open correctly

So, you want to select all child curve objects across multiple different parent curve objects?

Select one of the child objects, then with the Move Tool do a marquee selection of the entire canvas, that should then select all child objects at that same level

Without Designer just duplicate the first rectangle then resize it smaller around the center and adjust the stroke smaller

Redundant lock files are supposed to be only valid for 5 minutes prior to the current time So, after 5 minutes they may still appear in a folder but they will have no effect on opening the file or not opening the file

The video is currently marked as private

Try it with an empty pixel layer in a group

The AIs made lots of mistakes which had to be corrected, hence the 70% time spent using the Affinity software to do this, including getting rid of the all the splotches and scratches on the original image that the AI totally missed For time reasons, I could not be bothered to fix the eyes (both people) or the watch as I was only really interested in the OP's original question as regards getting rid of the graininess in the posted image but that would have been something that would have had to be done also, possibly by patching or cloning then additional time-intensive cleanup.

Thanks, but keep hardware acceleration off for all future tests