Alex_M

When I'm working with nested groups, I'm constantly clicking on the vertical bars on the left by mistake, causing my groups to close. Any way to hide/disable these?

Thanks for the suggestion. I've been doing that for the past month or so and it remembers the monitor position only until the next restart/sleep cycle. Once I restart/turn on my PC, it forgets where to open again.

I could just as fast drag the window to the correct monitor. This doesn't really solve the issue of things opening on the wrong monitor in the first place, does it?

Would that fix things opening all over the place?

Hi, I have 3 monitors. Affinity Photo likes to randomly open on my 3rd monitor instead of my main one which is monitor number 2 as per the Windows Display Settings. The adjustment layer widgets and the Export window also randomly open on my 3rd monitor instead of the main one. How do I force everything to happen on my main monitor (monitor 2)? I didn't have this problem before. It started happening a month or so ago when I got my 3rd monitor. Not sure if it's a bug that got introduced with the newer versions or if it's simply because Affinity Photo can't deal with more than 2 monitors. Either way, it's really annoying constantly having to drag windows and widgets around...

Yes, I still have this bug in the latest version as well. It's really annoying not having names for my layers. That should be top priority bug IMHO. Any ETA on this? Hopefully it won't be months.

Ah, I figured as much. Thanks for confirming!

Good idea. I've decided to pixelate all pixel layers while leaving the masks and adjustment layers untouched. See attached. For me it still breaks down. Let me know how it is for you. ap-2.6-16bit-conversion-artifacts.7z

I'm not allowed to post the file publicly. I can only send it to the software devs/support. I don't have hardware acceleration enabled. That doesn't make any sense. The software should work correctly no matter how many adjustment layers I have and at what point I convert the document to 16-bit. It should only slow down, but not bug out. Besides, this doesn't happen with every document. I've done such conversions in many many other documents with multiple adjustment layers and masks without any issues. It's been only on a few occasions that I've encountered this issues with some documents. The suggestion that I should merge all layers before converting to 16-bit also doesn't make any sense. The whole point of converting the document to 16-bit is to get smoother gradients and more accurate layering of many adjustment layers. If I merge all layers and only then convert to 16-bit, I lose all the benefits of 16-bit color space. I start my documents in 8-bit for the speed and the smaller file size when saving, and convert them to 16-bit only when I'm done with my work, before I export to JPG or whichever other format, so that I get as smooth gradients and layering as possible. After I'm done exporting, I switch back to 8-bit to save the finished document with the smallest file size possible. I've done this since forever without any issues up until now.

Hello, I've got a document that won't open if I have OpenCL acceleration enabled. As soon as I disable it, I can open it again.

Hi, I've got a document that goes haywire when I convert it to 16-bit colors - all sorts of weird artifacts pop up. Please check the video below. ap-2.6-16bit-conversion-artifacts.mp4

Any solution for this? Or should I just revert back to the older version of Photo?

Here's a video I've just recorded: photo-v260-cant-select-image-layer-names.mp4

Hi, I think there's bug in the new version of Affinity Photo V2.6.0. After updating, I can no longer select or copy the Image layer names. When I click on their name to start editing it, the name disappears and the field becomes blank.

Yes, the image you're seeing doesn't actually exist in the file. Instead, it's an image from another document that's currently open, or even more strangely, from a document that's already been closed. I've noticed that this issue tends to occur when multiple documents are open simultaneously, and the program seems to struggle to keep up. To reproduce the issue, you might have to open several larger documents with big file sizes and multiple layers. It seems that the problem is more likely to occur when Affinity Photo is under heavy load or "stress", and also when it has been running for an extended period of time (more than an hour or two). Maybe also make sure that you've got more things open in Windows itself to put the PC as a whole under a bit of stress too. That might be a factor as well.