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Has this ability been added yet in Affinity Photo 2? If not it would REALLY be useful so hopefully the serif team is listening.

Ah yes! Pretty tricky but it works! I of course use this all the time to APPLY FX but never considered using it to REMOVE FX. A bit of reverse engineering Thanks! 🙏🏼

I'm going to assume this functionality doesn't exist as I couldn't find a way to do it myself, but it would be a HUGE timesaver if there was a way to select all of the layers in a document that have Layer Effects applied to them and then choose to "Remove Layer Effects." Otherwise, I believe the only alternative is to go layer by layer, click on the FX icon, then proceed to manually uncheck each effect applied, then hit the "Close" button before moving onto the next. I've built an extremely complex image with tons of layers and most all have layer effects applied to them. I now need to use this same design for another purpose but without the FX so it has a flatter, more graphic look. It seems I'll be spending the next couple of hours doing this manually now 😞

It happens every time I've tried to do so. Not sure if it happens with bitmaps but definitely does with vector files, trying to replace one with another. This forces me to use ADv1 instead and unfortunately once you save a document in ADv2 it's no longer backwards compatible with ADv1 😞

Ok I just tried again and it kept adding the V2 license to my order for some reason. I didn't see the trash can icon next to the license before now so I clicked on that and it removed it from my cart which then allowed me to download just the brush set. Thanks.

Yesterday I purchased the Affinity V2 bundle for $99 but was just made aware today of a free brush set being offered to those who upgraded called the Dreamphotography Brush Set: https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/store/free-content/ I never received any notification of this set directly from Serif but instead found out about it in a Reddit sub. Now when I login and try to download the set even though I can clearly see my V2 license having been purchased it wants me to buy another at $99 in order to download the brush set. This is an obvious bug that I hope will be fixed soon...that is, unless I'm doing something incorrectly in which case please do enlighten me. Anyone else having this same issue?

This is the first time I've ever created anything this complex using all vector artwork. Usually my process is to hand draw everything first using a program like Sketchbook and then convert everything to vectors using Vector Magic. But this time I wanted a cleaner, more graphic look. These posted out of order so to be clear the initial design was just the truck with bikes in it as seen in the image with a red stripe. Then my initial attempt at creating a poster is the version with the full truck in it and brown borders on the sides, followed by the finished design showing only the rear of the truck in the foreground. The only element I didn't create myself is the monument rock and tree in the BG. I used a photo I found off a free stock website and then vectorized it, eventually altering some of its elements. You can see in my first attempt at the poster that the background was too dark and contrasty. I lightened it up and also added some noise and blur to help push it into the BG more. I must say I learned a LOT in this entire process and look forward to seeing what Affinity has up its sleeve for V2 which hopefully will make this process much easier in the future.

I came here looking for a solution to my problem as I was having the EXACT same issues on my brand new M1 MacBook Pro which was making me wonder why I spent so much money on this computer. Thankfully, as it turns out it was also solved (at least for now) by turning off Metal and using Open GL. As this post goes all the way back to March 2021, I'm really shocked this hasn't been corrected nor addressed by Affinity.

Thanks Lisbon. This is probably the best workaround I've seen. I appreciate your input. Hopefully they will still add the ability to mask an FX on its own at some point.

Thanks for the suggestion and for confirming my suspicions that this is not currently possible. Hopefully Serif is listening and will add this in a future update.

I'm mainly trying to mask a section of the drop shadow I've added using the FX panel as part of it doesn't look realistic. Is there any way to do this? I believe in Photoshop it's possible but am not certain. I'm sure this could also come in handy for many other FX besided drop shadow.

I also REALLY need this valuable feature and am sad to see the developers still haven’t included it over two years later 🙁

I can also reproduce this. Does Affinity have any plans to actually fix this bug or is the answer to just create a document or application palette instead?

I know this has been discussed in other topics, but I saw one of the moderators suggest someone start a new thread to make sure it doesn't get lost in the shuffle as an upcoming feature request. Many here, including myself, have voiced their displeasure in not being able to remap the modifier keys back to the Mac standard when transforming an image. Currently, all of the Affinity products use their own "proprietary" set of modifier keys instead of using the standard keys that have been used for decades in every other image editing application on the Mac platform, those being the "option" key to scale an object symmetrically from the center, "shift" to constrain the aspect ration and "command" to transform independently. Please give us the option to switch to this standard if we so choose. Thank you.

Is there a way to reassign the keys you use for scaling/modifying an object so they exactly mimic not only Photoshop, but every other photo editing tool I've ever use?. For the life of me I can't figure out why Affinity had to be different and create their own version. I tried looking in Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts but couldn't find how to remap the keys for scaling. So strange to me 😞