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Oh, that kind of makes sense. In PS the layer behind the mask would still be visible as a thumbnail but with the mask on top. I paint onto the mask as you suggest and it works BUT look at the screenshot here. I turned off the bottom layer and paint and the pic shows up as I paint on the mask but neither the mask layer nor the picture layer behind it shows that as a visual representation. Once the layer has turned black (both the mask and its source layer) nothing can be done to make the thumbnail represent what is going on. Is that really true? Seems weird and like a bug to me. Thanks! Phil

Hi all, I had 25 years experience with PS before jumping to AP and I am now having the most basic problems with layers and masks. I have a photo. I duplicate the layer. I sharpen the new (top) layer. I create a mask on the top layer (I only want the people in the shot sharpened and not the bg). The mask exposes all of the layer but I want to expose none of the layer until I paint onto it. So the mask is white but I want it to be black. In PS I would hit CTRL+Del and it would invert the mask but if I hit CTRL+I which is invert on AP it not only fills the mask layer with black but the image layer too (see screenshots). If I take the Flood Fill tool and fill it with black the same thing happens. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing here as this should be so straightforward as it is something most people must be doing constantly, surely? Thanks! Phil

Sorry, yes. I did. All seems well now! Thanks for checking in. Phil

Just a wee point. I use XNView (just switched from ACDSee) to keep track of all my images in my life as a professional photographer and it is a free piece of software although I paid the suggested $29 cos I'm nice like that. I can save and restore layouts in that. I believe it is written by one German fellow in his bedroom (cannot provide evidence it's not in his living room!) If he can do it...

Sorry, what? How are you drawing that conclusion?

Oh, I just discovered that the other laptop has V17 on it and that must be why it works. So I really don't think that PP V18 works with AP beta 1.7.2.464 but NOT with AP 1.7.2.471. PP V17 works with both those AP versions. If there's anything I can do to help make this work I'd be happy to do so.

Hi again, I tried that and had no luck. I find that I can make PP V17 work but not 18. Does that offer any more?

Ooh, I'll give this a try. Thanks!

Hi. I am using Affinity Photo on two Windows 10 machines. On the machine I use for my photographic work I have Portrait Pro 18 and Affinity Photo 1. 7.2. 471. On the other machine that use for design work I have PP 17 and AP 1.7.2.471 so the same version of AP on each. On the machine with PP 17 AP opens PP as a plug in and works as expected. On the other machine it still crashes. On both machines PP works correctly in the latest AP Beta. Can anyone help? Is AP still broken with PP 18 for others? Thanks! Phil

Ooo0h, nice!

Any chance of the official release catching up with the beta in terms of not causing Portrait Pro to crash on opening? Thanks!

This is not working right for me though it should be really useful. It seems to work sometimes but look at the green square. It falls apart as I distort it. I wondered if it was a video card issue but on export it still looks that was as JPG. Thanks for any thoughts. Phil untitled.afpub

Oh, well duh! Thanks, I don't know why I couldn't see that.

Hi all, is there really no keyboard shortcut to place an image? I have been hunting but have been unable to find a way to do this and it seems very odd that there would not be such a keyboard shortcut. Thanks!, Phil

I would second this request. In CorelDRAW I can simply drag an object to another layer without finding it in the layers pallet. I keep trying to do it in Affinity and it's annoying!

Android is the more popular platform for tablets. Any sign we might get them? I understand the stats would need to be high to run well but....please!?

Absolutely. You can do that in Corel too, of course and yes, that would be the better option.

Oh well, duh! I hadn't updated the Beta for a while as I just went to using 1.7. Yep. Looks like it's fixed! Yay! Phil

Any advance on getting this fixed in 1.? Doesn't seem that it should be too big a job to fix it.

There we go! Thanks!

Hi, I have laid out some of a book and I'm trying to test it by uploading to Blurb for printing but it's expecting the layout to be 6.875 by 6.875. As you can see from the second screengrab, Publisher is outputting as spreads so each page of the PDF is 6.875 by 13.75. Is there a way to export splitting each spread in two? You can see that the pages are 6.875 by 6.875. Thanks! Phil

That works though it's a rather roundabout method. Ah well, it works! Thanks a lot.

Hi all, I have a set of brushes and I go to one. It is a fun speckled spark shape (see attached screenshot) and I changed some dynamics and the size. I want to now save this as a brush to a new brush category but I can't work out how to do that or if it can even be done. Can anyone help at all? Thanks! Phil

Well, thanks for seeing it that way! It does break all rules of the internet, of course (the rule is shout and shout again!) but good for you for being so upfront about it. Hurrah for civility!

Not great but this was the best I managed so far.