dkbarker

Thanks everybody, I must have clicked it on somehow. I'm just happy to have it resolved! Cheers!

You're correct, that was a typo. Thanks

The Protect Alpha was it! THANK YOU! I didn't even notice that was checked, it must be defaulted in V2?

I guess I should also mention that I have a Dell Windows 11 Pro Machine, with Affinity V2.1 and everything works fine, so it does seem to be the MacBook Pro, but it's not that old. And I might also mention that the above was an example, I'm having trouble getting the brush to erase or add to the top layers using any kind of mask.

Sorry if someone has already posted on this but if so, I can't find it. Below is my configuration. Apparently I can't change the hardware acceleration anymore but everything is working fine in Affinity Photo Version 1. In version 2.1 (I think it actually started in 2.0) if I open a photo, apply a Brightness and Contrast Adjustment and change it dramatically like full brightness, then I Invert it with command-i, and select the paint brush (command-b), change the color to white, and it does absolutely nothing. I can change to the pixel brush and it erases the top layer as it should. I can do the same exact thing in V1, with the same photo and it erases the upper layer as it should. MacBook Info: Processor: 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB Memory: 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 OS: Ventura Version 13.3.1