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Hi Leigh,
 
please reread the question again. If you have only a little bit of understanding what masks are used for, you will find, that you didn't answer it at all.
 
What was asked for is some meaningful way to EDIT existing masks. If you edit masks you get a black and white picture of the mask. If you are not able to see your photo, there is no meaning in this functionality. That is editing blindfolded. To make it useful the edit mask should be displayed as overlay to the photo. 
 
As for the erase brush tool, there seems to be something wrong. For me it only paints black irrespective what color I choose.

When will the final version hit the Apple Store?

Yes I have a TIFF image being used in a video compositing app ( Fusion9). I KNOW THAT !!!! NO REALLY I DO !!!!  Just open the file !!!!! I want to make a change, save it. The other app will not blow up, or crash. In fact it will detect the change and self update. Photoshop does NOT have this problem. I should not have to quit the other app to make a minor change in the image, save, then. relaunch the other app. total workflow breaker. ignore file is already open, JUST EDIT THE FILE LIKE I WANT AND AS PS DOES !!!!! I'm not an idiot, I know what I'm doing, stop getting in the way of letting me do what I want. 
 
please, take the training wheels OFF !
 
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It is nearly 2 months since the last new Beta of Affinity Photo. It seems to me that there is no development anymore. New features would be nice, but at least I would expect the bugs to be fixed. 
 
Has everyone, who was working on Affinity Photo, really left the company or is assigned to other projects?

The Font Kokonor comes with OSX (MacOS). It is not possible to use this font in Affinity Designer. If you select this font, as soon as you start typing, the font switches to Lucida Grande (with an exclamation mark in front of the font name). There is no problem with the font, when I use it in e.g. Pages.

The Font Kokonor comes with OSX (MacOS). It is not possible to use this font in Affinity Designer. If you select this font, as soon as you start typing, the font switches to Lucida Grande (with an exclamation mark in front of the font name). There is no problem with the font, when I use it in e.g. Pages.

First thing: If you select New Document - Photo all sizes are in Inches. Nothing else. You only have a choice for "Print" documents.
 
Why do you offer to change the units after selecting the document, when you expect that the user will work with the units of the preset? This is inconsistent.
 
Even if I have to work with a format, which was originally defined in inches, I would prefer to with metric units, because I think this way. And my real world tools are that way. I don't want to use a calculator to get from my understanding of the world to something the program forces me to use.
 
BTW. There were satellites lost, because some people still don't use metric units.

When I start a new document, I have a list of presets. Those presets have the strange unit of "inch" - whatever this may be. I can than change the document units to something meaningful like centimetres or pixels.
 
1) It would be nice, if the presets would reflect this change.
 
2) When I change to a different preset, the document units revert to "inches". This is a behaviour, which is only meaningful, if you have the intention to annoy the user. 
 
While the British people have decided to stay away from Europe, please respect at least, that other people prefer to stay away from British units of measurement.

Hi Leigh,
 
please reread the question again. If you have only a little bit of understanding what masks are used for, you will find, that you didn't answer it at all.
 
What was asked for is some meaningful way to EDIT existing masks. If you edit masks you get a black and white picture of the mask. If you are not able to see your photo, there is no meaning in this functionality. That is editing blindfolded. To make it useful the edit mask should be displayed as overlay to the photo. 
 
As for the erase brush tool, there seems to be something wrong. For me it only paints black irrespective what color I choose.

Hi Leigh,
 
please reread the question again. If you have only a little bit of understanding what masks are used for, you will find, that you didn't answer it at all.
 
What was asked for is some meaningful way to EDIT existing masks. If you edit masks you get a black and white picture of the mask. If you are not able to see your photo, there is no meaning in this functionality. That is editing blindfolded. To make it useful the edit mask should be displayed as overlay to the photo. 
 
As for the erase brush tool, there seems to be something wrong. For me it only paints black irrespective what color I choose.

Hi all,
I use many layer mask on compositing images.
Many uses mask with black or white trace to hide or reveal painted areas. What if I want to control mask transparency? Do I have to paint in gray or there's a way to control alpha level for a specific layer mask?
Is there any option to edit working mask as quick mask style (red overlay or other)?
Thank you so much.