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Have you tried clicking the reset (at least I guess that's what it's called as doesn't show me any text when hovered over - does that need updating Affinity?) button on the Channels palette. Shown in image attached to this post. If you have and are still having this problem then as above you'd need to attach the file for people to take a look at. Hope you get it sorted soon. Best wishes, Mark

Getting a warning coming up in the browser about the site might be trying to steal information however if I allow the browser to try to go to the site then I get a 403 error and the site doesn't load. Might be a CloudFlare issue possibly? Great work by the way though. Best wishes, Mark

Hi Ron, Thank you for that! Got to say I'd never actually seen that icon before (running a 10 year old Mac Pro here and in the past some of the icons have been a little hard to see). To be honest I wouldn't have thought (if I'd even seen that icon) that is what it would do but thank you so much for that. Will definitely help speed things up tremendously. Best wishes, Mark

Hi Leigh, Ah okay thanks very much. I understand now. Haven't done that sort of thing for years (used to work in a College) though believe we called it sintering different back then. Thanks again. Best wishes, Mark

Sorry to pop in like this but just wondering what is meant by a silent deployment? Thanks

Probably going to be a silly question as I'm sure there must be a simple way of doing this rather than what I'm doing. Let's say you click on one of the channels in a document (R, G, or B) and the image turns into black and white as you'd expect it to. How do you now get back quickly to the full colour image again? The way I've been doing it is to click on the 3 eye icons, one on each channel (when working in RGB) but there must surely be a one-click way of getting back to the full colour image again I'm sure? Thanks, Mark

Hmm okay this is now strange. I've restarted AP and now the outlines are no longer there. Thought it may have been because I turned off that preference however I just turned it back on again and restarted again and they're still not there so I've got what I wanted but have absolutely no idea of how I got that to happen!! Would love to know exactly what setting affects this so that if they turn back on again I'll know how to turn them off though if anyone knows? Thanks, Mark

I've looked through all the preferences in Affinity Photo and I'm not seeing a way to turn off the shape of a brush when painting? Say I have a grass brush selected. When I'm painting the outline of the brush on the screen gets in the way of what I'm trying to do. I had thought in the preferences that Show Brush Previews was going to be what I needed but appears not unfortunately. Is there a way to do this at all? Thanks, Mark

Explains it but unfortunately I've always thought around the other way that pinching something pulls everything from further out towards the point you are pinching so it gets smaller not that it deforms towards the viewer. Pretty sure other Apps do it in this way and whilst I know that's not the only reason to do something that way just because App 1, 2, and 3 do it but it does seem in my mind very counter-intuitive unfortunately. Will have to retrain my mind if that's the way it's supposed to be. Thanks, Mark

Hi, Was just wondering why the pinch tool makes the image larger and the punch tool makes it smaller? When you pinch something it gets smaller not bigger surely? Imagine pinching a cushion and everything bunches up getting smaller at the point of the pinch. Am I going mad or are these back to front? Also one other thing whilst using the live liquify layer it seems that the before and after split slider doesn't do anything? The image looks the same in the before as it does in the after? Thanks, Best wishes, Mark

Was going to post this today and came across this thread. Would really love to have this too. Quicklook was invented by Apple to give full or near full-size image previews however I get really quite small previews and they're not all that helpful unfortunately. Would love therefore to see bigger previews implemented wherever possible.

Good tutorial but may have been better if you hadn't lifted it straight from Unmesh's channel with the exact same images. Totally appreciate people teaching new users how to use Affinity as that's great but taking already published material and making it look like your own is not ideal. Sorry, didn't watch the video as saw the image and recognised it immediately so if you do mention this in the video somewhere then please accept my sincerest apologies. Mark

Hi Lee, I did think about that actually as I've noticed redraw issues before however I did try zooming out and panning round the document but the effects never showed up again. These are fairly large files I'm working on with a 2010 Mac Pro so not sure if that makes any difference at all? I'll have to see if doing everything as normal, saving out and then re-opening the files shows any difference. Will try that later on and see how it goes. Thanks, Mark

Hiya, Glad it's not just me. That's actually what I'm doing at the moment to remedy the problem although not exactly what's shown in the video above as that was just for showing what was happening. I'll have to do it this way for now as have a lot of images to edit but would be great if this could be fixed in an upcoming update. I've had a couple of these types of things before where adjustments / live filters have done something odd and can't see a reason as to why one would cause a problem but not others. Definitely causes a problem with workflow though which is not ideal at all as absolutely love working with Affinity and won't ever go back to PS but would love these niggly little problems to be fixed if possible. Thanks again for the reply confirming it's not me doing something silly, very much appreciated. Best wishes, Mark

Hi there, I'm putting together images for my Mom's funeral and have come across something a little odd. It may be something I'm missing though as obviously not thinking completely straight whilst doing this particular job. Anyway if you have a photo on one layer and add say a white outline to it using the layer effects and also say a drop shadow just to get a sort of photo look to it, if you now add a noise reduction live filter to that layer then all the layer fx you've added to the layer don't render any more. I've also got an unsharp mask live filter on that layer but that doesn't affect the layer fx options though. I've not tried all the other live effects so don't know if noise reduction is the only one that causes this problem but definitely seems like there's something up with that somewhere? I've attached a video below to show what I mean. Many thanks for any help with this. Best wishes, Mark Noise Reduction Problem S.mp4

Apologies if this has already been asked somewhere or is covered but I couldn't find it. Does Affinity Publisher have access to the Tone Mapping persona which is in Affinity Photo when clicking on the AP button at the top left or do we have to go into Affinity Photo in order to do that? Many thanks, Mark

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I really should check more before posting!! I believe you are correct and it was part of an older version of Default Folder that I am running. Have been using DF ever since it first came out and it was so en-lodged in my use of the computer that I just thought it was part of the system!! :-) Thanks for the pointer! Much appreciated. Best wishes, Mark

This may very well be related to a recent system update so apologies if this is nothing to do with Affinity but hoping that someone might have an answer regardless. I updated my Mid 2010 Mac Pro to the latest system it can handle 10.13.6 and I've just noticed that when I go to open a file, if I have the dialogue box set to list view then I no longer get the preview of the file showing at the bottom of the dialogue. Now there is just a thin strip of grey. The only way I can see the files is by going into columnar view (which I don't like using) or by pressing the space bar to preview the images. Problem with that is that the images load very large and so take a lot longer to go through. Was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get that functionality back? If it is Apple that have taken this out then seriously have no idea why as it was really really handy having the image preview at the bottom of the window in list view. Thanks for any help with this. Best wishes, Mark

Hi Don, That's really fantastic work, well done! Looking forward to seeing the rest in the series. Best wishes, Mark

Thanks Pedro. Will take a look at that later on.

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I edited my answer above earlier on as I don't believe now that this is what the OP wanted. I don't believe there is a way to do what was originally being asked other than doing so on the original document in the Finder. Best wishes, Mark

Same problem here - No mention of a fix or what is going on though :-( Best wishes, Mark