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Steps to reproduce: - Create new document - Add two separate Art Text objects - Add effect Inner Glow to first text object, modify radius and color - Right click first text object in layer panel, Copy - Click second text object in layer panel - Edit / Paste Style for the second text object - Second text object now has some random Fx enabled on it, but Type of Fx, Radius and Color does not carry over Paste Fx doesn't work either, has the same problem.

When creating an "Art Text" layer panel shows text content as well for each of the texts. The updating of this panel is incorrect. After typing a text fast and waiting, the layer name in the layer panel keeps showing some earlier state of the text content. When clicking away in the layer panel to another layer, the name is suddenly updated. My expected behavior is that the layer panel keeps up to date with text content, or fixes itself after some short user idle time.

Also please make the displacement map viewable / editable similar to a mask.

Please see below the same done with 1.7.0.188. I have tried the Clear User Data advised by MEB, but it does not solve this.

Exact same steps reproduce it in the beta for me. I will record another video.

Hi, When setting Hard mix Blend mode in RGB/16 it renders incorrectly with vertical banding in Photo 1.7.0.188 beta. See screenshot below

When deleting a layer group which contain the currently active pixel layer the layers panel becomes broken and no longer show any layers later created in Photo 1.7.0.188 beta. See animation below.

Hi, When halftone live filter is placed in a layer group it renders incorrectly with a grid visible in Photo 1.7.0.188 beta. The rendering is correct when the filter is moved out of the layer group. See attached example afphoto file. halftone_render_issue.afphoto

Hi, Reflect Blend mode is not working when using LAB mode in Photo 1.7.0.188 beta. Acts as if Normal mode would be chosen. See attached example file Reflect blend mode broken in LAB.afphoto

Here is a technique to reproduce a very similar experience you get in Photoshop for editing masks

Sounds like a re-occurring issue with understanding terminology used by many people. "Non-destructive" is often understood as having the ability to do steps A, B, C, then return to whatever changes/settings were applied at step A and being able to modify them withing having to redo steps B and C, and still get the same image as if you would have re-done steps B and C. You might say that "non-destructive" is not a good name for this ability, but you should understand that it is viewed as a benefit by many. Since Affinity obviously aspires to be non-destructive in this sense with the many live adjustments, so it makes sense to point out that neither of the solutions presented can achieve that. Consider step A to be the creation of the shape, step B being the creation of blur layer, and step C being the copy of the shape to be also a mask of the blur layer. You can not change the parameters or type of shape (step A) and get a consistent result, without also repeating step C and copy the new shape to be mask of the blur. Edit: Note that I am assuming that one would like to reproduce the original Background Blur, not just a blur masked to a shape. In proper background blur you have a shape/image with it's own colors and when that is blended in, the background color used for blending is blurred before blending. See the animation with the watch earlier where the layer with background blur has a darker gray color and text as well.

It is already answered. The feature is there in Affinity Designer. While editing your document in AD, you can create a text on a circle, then return to Affinity Photo to continue other edits in your document. This was obviously a conscious decision on the part of the devs. In order to be able to use the features of both Photo and Designer, you need to buy both Photo and Designer (DUH).

This will again recolor the whole image. Anything not completely white would take on a shade of blue. I think you misunderstand OP. He has an image with many colors, with a black grid on top, all within a single pixel layer. And would like to recolor the pixels of the black grid.

Won't this make any non-white area of the image partially transparent, and this partially effected by the blue coloration?

Hi, Here is a library of macros of various LAB operations. It can do - Selective desaturation of LAB channels - Separate LAB channels to greyscale layers without switching to LAB mode - Join back LAB greyscale layers to a composite image without switching to LAB mode - LAB color contrast boost Enjoy! As for the file size being 4MB for a few macros, I have no idea, it is probably a bug. SH LAB tools.afmacros

Hi, After recording a macro you can make blend mode modifications in the macro customizable by clicking the corresponding eye icon. However, unlike the opacity adjustment customization in macros, you can not assign a label to the blend mode dropdown that is displayed when the macro is played back. This is not particularly helpful, the macro dialog may have multiple blend mode drop-downs with no way to communicate their purpose or role. Please add a modifiable text label for blend mode customization in macros the same way as for opacity.

Serif says its ok to create threads for requests which were already mentioned before sometime (second paragraph)

I would actually like to record making a pixel layer or even a layer group into a mask, not by Rasterize to Mask, but in the same way as dragging it into the mask position. Assistant doesn't help with this. All that would be needed is a menu item in Arrange menu, same as Mask to Below. Pretty minor request in my opinion.

Hi MEB, This creates what looks like an Orton effect by varying the opacity of the blur. The middle portion is a blur with the contrasty image overlaid. If the radius of the blur would be varied that would make it possible to create a gradually out-of-focus effect. Maybe Field Blur better fits OP needs? (A further improvement of that filter would be support for blur radius driven by a pixel mask)

Did you want to say pixel based textures?

Besides "why you need this?", I wanted to point out the answer to the OP: Affinity does not provide the feature to turn any pixel image into curves or vectors. It can only go the other way. If one has a distressed mask in curves to start with, one can do the cutting out you are looking for.

Both single-image defocus estimation and neural networks are possible solutions for this. I am just saying that Affinity doesn't provide the tools for us to do either, and I think also doesn't implement either of them itself. Remove Haze filter probably uses some simple heuristic of detecting grayish gradients and make them contrasty.

Maybe you are looking for defocus estimation? Or some artificial intelligence that understands the objects? I don't think either is possible in Affinty.

This thread gave me an idea to create an estimated Depth mask: I have created a macro to recover some depth information from the Remove Haze filter itself. Create_depth_mask.afmacro The way you use this is to select your pixel layer, run the macro, and then drag the resulting layer group into a mask position of some adjustment. The red tint is intentional to help previewing the mask. When the layer group is used as a mask of some other layer, the tint will be ignored, and only the alpha channel will be used. See example usage with a black fill layer being masked by the depth mask. Create_depth_mask.afmacro

Interesting idea. I have created a macro to recover some depth information from the Remove Haze filter itself. See in this thread: