DJeroen

Hi All, I am an experienced LR user, with some GIMP experience migrating to AP, reason I say so, I am not a experienced PS user and an AP beginner, so I may miss some of the concepts, however I have observed the following issues, I can do a little help with in my understanding. First AP team great job and product! Keep up the good work, I really like working with AP and comments below are meant in a constructive way. 1) Personas, great concept, why is there no Panorama Persona and no Stack Persona? Both develop an image and end up in the Photo Persona, I tried both with RAW files and are unable to use the RAW Persona. I would AP expect to create a Panorama or Stack in RAW for development. 2) RAW and Photo Persona, after applying development in RAW and working in the Photo Persona, going back to RAW seems to leave me with the developed picture, my original development settings are visible in the picture, the sliders back to 0. So if I make adjustments I develop an developed RAW. 3) Some of the functions are available in different Persona's and menus were others are not, to give some examples: Photo Persona, perspective correction and distortion filters, great for easy access, I would expect these in the Liquify Persona. Organisation and grouping of adjustments, filters, live filters and functions, I can not see the logic of how they are grouped. I understand their operations on either pixel layers, adjustment layers, why 2 sets of filter (destructive and non destructive (live)). Not all Filers are Live Filter (or is this part of the road map and fase out destructive filters?) I fail to understand the order of the live filters in the menu, group picture optimisation and effects (artistic) they seem to be everywhere. What is the difference between the perspective correction on the tool menu and the perspective live filter. I guess the Layer Adjustments from the Layer menu are the same as from the dialogues on the right side (adjustment tab next to layer tab with the adjustment previews (Cool!) and the icon on the bottom of the dialogue (half B/W circle) the layer effects can only be found in 1 place, next to the adjustments Fx, not even on right click layer......) Last example, there are more.. why is Lighting in the filter menu.....? it is a destructive pixel layer tool and should be in the tool box. I think every user has his view and working and I would opt for a Personal Persona ;-) where one can configure not only the toolbar and the studio but also the top menu options. I understand that Affinity want to make everybody happy but I get the Martini commercial feeling : anytime anyplace anywhere. Cheers, Jeroen

One of they (many) ways to fix this is as follows: First straiten your picture and the checkered triangles in the corners will show, showing transparency, meaning no basis to paint on. Like in real life, when you rotate a painting, there is nothing to paint on, since the material moved, here is how to fix it. Duplicate the background layer and add a new pixel layer, set all layer visibility to invisible, apart from the new pixel layer (which should be in-between of the original and duplicate background layer. Use the flood fill tool to paint the pixel layer white. Select the duplicate background set visibility of the duplicate background layer to on. (the checkered area's are now shown in white) By now you should have 3 layers in total (in this order, bottom to top), background (invisible), the white pixel layer (visible) and the duplicate background layer (visible). Select the 2 visible layers and right click to open the menu, select merge visible. This creates a new layer with the original dimensions of your picture where the checkered area's are now filled with white. We created something to paint on! Here comes the reward: select the inpainting toolbrush and fill the 4 triangles in the corners :-) You may have to experiment with the inpaining brush options for the best result, depending on the context area, if the brush size is to big you get unwanted artefacts.