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Thomas, This excellent video by James Ritson shows what I believe is the behaviour you are looking for. R

Thanks, Patrick. That search engine is......at best....shall we say.....rather..... inadequate.

... And again here. Never has the forum designation "Newbie" seemed less appropriate!

Your English is great and so is the technique! Thanks for sharing.

That'll make a great advert for Affinity. They should pay you!

Superb. Your best effort yet. The image, the lighting: exquisite. This iconic image would be at home in National Geographic magazine. Yes really. Seriously well done. (And that's not taking into account the technical limitations of your equipment). Bravo! (If I wasn't such a nice guy I'd be feeling jealous.)

The size of the 1:1 image we can see obviously depends on the pixel dimensions of the image you choose to upload. You'll notice a variation of this around the forum depending on how much detail people are happy to share. You have generously posted a wonderful hi-res image for us to enjoy. The detail on the coils of the proboscis is amazing. R Looking again at your photo, don't you think it also looks like a parrot wearing super-bling designer shades? (No disrespect to you intended).

You've gone to great lengths to capture an astonishing image, especially when viewed full size. Maybe you could edit your post to remind people to click on the posted image to view it as a (much sharper) pop-up, then wait until the mouse cursor turns to a plus symbol before clicking again to open it larger in a new window, then click on that image to finally view your eye-popping full size photo. It's certainly worth it!

Excellent presentation! A great showcase for your skills. The interactive illustrations really reinforce the text. A superb "hands on" teaching resource.

Is this tutorial any help?

I'll have a guess... It looks like you're stretching data that isn't there, e.g. manipulating a compressed file. The algorithms in the software can't replace what has already been discarded. Try ignoring the (technical) histogram; if you just look at the image you've created it still looks fine doesn't it. So don't worry. Affinity is manipulating your image just as well as anything else would.

Hi @Marty Koopmans I think your post will get lost at the bottom of this thread. Try posting a new question to the forum. (Top right of the page next to Reply to this topic, click on Start New Topic. Call it something like "Inpainting Tool" and explain the problem). Affinity Photo Video tutorial playlists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQZN-kIrZUQyoTnexM3jJAw/playlists?shelf_id=0&view=1&sort=dd For some reason the above address won't paste properly, but if you copy it and open it as a new tab it will take you to a page of themed playlists. Scroll to the bottom to find the beginners section and start from there.

Absolutely! This forum is all about sharing experience. We've all come here to learn. So, Thanks @Vince42

Hi @Vince42 What did you find when using your new tablet with Designer? We're always keen to learn here on the forum. Could you share your method of creating that pleasing "scribble mode"? Even tiny tips are fun!

When watching on YouTube you can enable subtitles. They're not an official script, but they're certainly useful.

Tiffs - where are they? The computer is a simple creature.They'll be wherever you told it to put them. Whether you meant to or not. The saver's twitch: double checking which folder is selected.

@owenr, that works delightfully well! Super useful. Thanks. How do you and alfred know all these tricks? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ And now... ... I realise I forgot to write "correctly guesses". As I don't want any virtual litigation, it's Reactions to everyone who had a go. So, whose loud checked jacket was bursting through the threshold? If you squint hard you can just make out... Monsieur Poisson himself! And refreshingly he's forecasting some traditional British Summer weather. Well done @- S - ! Your Superpowers make you the undisputed silver lining of all the (magnetic) clouds on the board. R

That sounds like an excellent idea. But I can't reproduce it. When I ctrl-click the image's thumbnail the whole image is selected, not just the white pixels. What simple mistake am I making? R (An "Affinity Reaction" for whoever guesses the weather person hiding in the image!)

Don't worry. You did nothing wrong. It's just Refine Selection trying to imagine how you wanted the selection to look! A delightful description! My experience exactly, time after time. Unless selecting a large area of a high res image, it's best left alone. I now just make a selection, go to Select > Feather, choose a single digit number to apply, then duplicate to a new layer and view that layer on its own to see if it's what I want. At least that way I know what's been done and how I can alter it to suit. The thing with Refine Selection is it thinks for itself. If it's thinking what your thinking it's a great help. But for the most part it doesn't and then it's like having a well-meaning toddler changing the settings when you're not looking: Difficult to second guess. R P.S. We've watched the videos, read the help, and "practiced interacting with the dialogue box". But maybe @firstdefence or @carl123 could post a mini-tutorial as to what does what in the Refine dialogue box, and even better how to stop the following scenario: That part's not quite right > now it's a bit worse > now it's a LOT worse > now it's ...OMG abandon ship!

Thanks R C-R, Because of the tools we were talking about ( Brushes, Clone, Heal etc ), I wouldn't have thought of looking in the Help section under "vector content"! That link gives a clear explanation, but it would seem that the Edit > Defaults > Synchronise trick doesn't apply to the tools mentioned in this thread?

Another good 'un! Well done once again.

Well it works for me.

leminhthanh These urban landscapes are deceptively simple. Really great style. Thanks for sharing them. R

Hi Callum, I'm reading through Affinity Photo Help, but can't find any detail on this subject. So just to clarify: using Edit > Defaults > Synchronise changes the default tool settings to whatever state they are in when you click Synchronise, and they will stay that way until Defaults > Synchronise (or Factory Reset) is clicked again, whenever that may be? And what would happen if you choose Defaults > Save, or Defaults > Revert? R

Wow! That explains why I it's never done what I wanted, either! Did you deduce this yourself? Genius. I hadn't thought to check if the mask looked as I'd have expected. Who'd have thought it would fade the alpha? Time to do more reading up, I think...