TitlesGuy

I'm not sure what this means, but your workaround looks as if it should work. Thanks.

When I place a pdf musical score, sometimes it brings a barrage of other layers with it: Is there a way to avoid this? It doesn't happen in InDesign. If I find and lock the image layer, then select all, I can delete them, but that gets laborious. Is there a way to prevent them, or a one-shot way to remove them? The dozens of tiny layers make the layers pallet pretty useless.

I understand. I referred to the "Opacity dropdown" because the untitled "Blend" dropdown is right next to the opacity slider, so they seemed to be all part of "Opacity". I'm well aware that I don't want to change opacity.

Cool! Thanks, Hangman. One of the first things I tried was the blend settings under Layer Effects: Color Overlay, but that didn't do anything useful. Never would have thought to look at the Opacity dropdown. Couldn't be easier.

Hi, I'm new to Affinity, and need some help understanding what I'm seeing. I copied an object from InDesign and pasted it into Publisher, and it gives exactly the effect I need, but can someone explain how it works? this is a solid yellow 12-pt line (curve) over a placed B&W graphic. It appears to overprint the image. It is not "transparent" (It has 100% opacity), but is somehow blended with the underlying image. When I disassemble the line (pasted from InDesign), it reveals what appears to be a yellow-stroked curve grouped with a large mask. How does this work, and how could I recreate it?