HVDB Photography

What I meant is that after switching back to the basic category, did you reselect one of the basic brushes ?

Hello and welcome to the forum. Instead of your user name use a logical description of your problem in the topic title. And using Google translate (like I just did) will provide us a readable explanation of the issue : " I've been working with an affinity photo for two or more years, and suddenly the raw files from the Sony a6000 don't open, what's going on? Please inform " Hubert

Works as expected for me. Did you select that brush when switching to the other preset category ?

Th's will help you out I think Mud's Macros

Hi ChEV, If the intention was to only sharpen the rock, I would add a Unsharp Mask live filter adjustment, then apply the adjustments as desired, invert the mask (CTRL+I or Layer > Invert) and then use a white brush to paint the adjustment back in. _M7A8859_adj.afphoto

That's on Mac I suppose ?

If possible, you could attach the RAW file so we can give it a shot We just crossed one another I think

I suppose that's because you have three identical image layers on top of each other. If you're masking the middle one you wont see any changes !! If you still cant sort it out, please attach the .afphoto file you're working on

Confirmed

After you selected the mask layer ,you can use a black brush to mask unwanted parts. If you want to edit/ finetune the mask, it's ALT + click. When done, click on the "Arrière plan" to exit the editing

What are your computer specs ? Which file ? Just attach them

That depends on the type of brush and the settings for opacity,flow and hardness in the context toolbar.

You need to select the Move Tool (V) to select an individual layer

Jus click on the mask thumbnail to select it

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