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You're right! I don't know what I was doing before. 🤦‍♂️ I've just opened a photograph, added an adjustment layer, dragged the gradient tool across and it nicely added a mask with a linear gradient. 🤩 Thank you!

I am in Affinity Photo. I use the linear gradient as a mask for an adjustment layer. For example, I might want to darker only the upper part of the sky. If I start dragging the gradient without selecting a type nothing happens. I will read up on what the styles and the swatches panel can do.

I most often need a linear type gradient. By default, upon selecting the gradient tool, the type is set to "None". Is there a way somehow to have the gradient type be set to "Linear" by default?

Here you go! This is shot in a 1:1 square format. 599A0655.CR3

The Canon EOS R5 has an option called "Cropping/aspect ratio" that allows me to directly photograph e.g. with a 1:1 aspect ratio. My understanding is that the aspect ratio is then stored as metadata within the RAW file. The Affinity Photo Develop Persona seems to ignore this piece of information. Photographs are always shown in their full size. My question(s): Is there a setting somewhere in Affinity Photo that I haven't found yet? If not, are there plans for future version of Affinity Photo to consider cropping information in RAW files?