LilleG

Haze Removal is found in the Filters popout. It's quite a ways down so just keep scrolling.

Deleted Affinity Photo. Installed 1.6.2. Things working fine. Installed 1.6.3 update. Things are working normally now! Overlays working as they should; all tools working. Dunno' what happened but I'm back in business and a happy user again.

Hi Lee, I have bigger problems than I knew. Not only is Overlays not working but no tool in Photo/Selections/Liquify is working! Not one! I hadn't really played with anything since the 1.6.3 update till I reported the Overlays problems. Then today I did a restart of the ipad to see if that would fix the overlay issue and discovered that the only things that are working (that I've tested so far) are a few things in the File Menu and a few in the Actions/More menus. I'm in (very slow) process of uploading a "weird result" image from this morning's experiments to icloud. Then I had planned to delete Affinity Photo and reinstall it to see if that helped. The upload should finish soon and then I'll re-install and let you know if that corrected the issue.

Either I am overlooking an obvious step (as I've been known to do) or Overlays in the Develop persona are not working on the AirPad 2. Bring in a RAW image, click on Overlays, select Brush Overlay, and in the context toolbar select Show Overlay. When I brush on an area of the canvas with the paintbrush, I expected to paint in a red overlay like in the RAW: Overlays on Vimeo video but I don't see any change whatsoever. No red glow where I've brushed. No indication that I have marked the canvas at all. If I go to the next step in the Help instructions and select an adjustment, there is no change in the image. What am I doing wrong?

Callum, the Speed option is there for every tool, except Push Forward and Push Left. Bug, or is there a reason we're overlooking?

The size is just right. Large enough to see detail; small enough not to have to scroll. I especially like the first one.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a glitch in my AirPad 2 but the Clone tool remains aligned even when I got to the context bar and UN-select Alignment and with <None> as the controller.

Like Bernd-Uwe, I use...or try to use...the inpainting tool to fill in blank areas after crop or rotation and even after rasterizing the layer, it is still very erratic. It will fill one randomly selected edge perfectly, sometimes two, then either do absolutely nothing on the other two or three, or fill them at a ridiculously low opacity.

Lady, in trying to Subtract inside a selection, did you make sure that "Snap To Edges" was turned off in the Smart Selection Brush context bar? I couldn't do it either until I turned that off, then I could make an "inside" selection.

I agree. There's very little that you can't accomplish in Affinity Photo but some of it sure takes a "stand on one leg and twirl 3 times" approach to what is, in those programs we abandoned for Affinity, such a simple intuitive operation. The many areas where AP/AD are excellent more than makes up for the klunkys but also make it harder to accept the ones where they are less so.

Excellent work!

Wow! Thanks for this. I didn't know there was so much I didn't know about blend modes. :)

Glad to learn that Portrait mode is coming. I run Photo on an AirPad 2 and even if the tools and panels didn't rotate, it would be great to be able to work in portrait orientation on certain images rather than the constant scrolling and zooming that I do now.

That works well...if you have large hands and can hold both ends of your straight edge snug against the bezel. I'm still hoping for a string-type straight line tool where you position one end then drag the other to the desired destination.

That's some awesome "fiddling," Kasper-V.

Looking good!

Golfer11, you will not master it that quickly, of course, as Madame points out. Mastery takes time and effort. But you can learn to use it efficiently, prolly not in 10 days, but there is a comprehensive in-app Help section that will answer any question you might have. And the online videos are a fantastic learning tool, showing you how to do not only the things you want to do but the ones you had no idea you could do. It's worth the time and effort and will make your photography much more satisfying. Use your 10 days to sample what's possible and then...I would recommend...just buy the app and dive in. This is an extremely knowledgable and helpful forum and there will always be someone willing to answer your questions and help you figure it out.

Nikon D90 RAW files, imported with Apple's lightning card reader into Photos on my AirPad 2 and developed in Affinity Photo, show the same resolution after development as the originals, 4288x2848.

I'm glad that someone else finds the Liquify tools confusing. Liquify will get the job done but it can't take a while to figure out which tool is going to do what in which direction. If this was an often-used persona, one would quickly get learn what to expect but when you only use it occasionally, there's rather a lot of trial and error before you find the action that will do what you want. It doesn't help that some of the terminology seems backwards (to me, at least.)

Please do add an always-on brush preview. Guess, erase, and guess again is no one's idea of efficient, or pleasant.

One tap works everywhere in the Forum for me. When I start getting weird little behaviors, I do a restart and that nearly always returns things to normal. YMMV.

Yup. We're still crashing but no longer burning. :) Seriously, it IS a big, appreciated improvement.

You can Export images to Photos by tapping on the Share button in the Export Page. You can also Export to other Cloud drives, such as Dropbox or Amazon Drive by tapping on Locations in the Export Dialog.

I agree. This is one thing I really miss on the iPad version.

Wow! I never thought of looking there! Thanks for the heads up!