FrankStahl

"Nice"? Erm, yes, indeed. This is really a bold understatement. This feature should exist without saying. *OF COURSE* you should be able to use a GRADIENT for a GRADIENT MAP! This issue should not even exist. I happen to have a *lot* of gradients for photographic toning, and I can use *none* of them as gradient maps. I have to say, I am speechless here. I really cannot believe this. Slowly, I am getting really, really tired of dealing with this software. Sometimes the most simple things are just not there. This is so frustrating, so annoying when you are constantly running into walls.

Really, come on: This is just a convenience function, and in comparison to Photoshop, so *many* of them are just missing in Affinity Photo. For God's sake, it´s CONVENIENCE, it's not about whether you need this every single time. It's just great to have this when you need it. I mean, I *beg* your pardon: Like in Photoshop, just two number input fields for the aspect ratio in the selection tool's toolbar. How difficult can this be? Programmingwise I guess this is about one hour's work, if at all. Same thing with being able to move selections while drawing them just by holding the space key or having the eyedroppers in the Curves tool. Lord Almighty, we are not talking rocket sience here, it's not as if these required some kind of difficult to program algorithms. These things are *really* EASY to implement. So, Serif, pray may I ask: Why dont't you?

Same here: DDS plugin desperately needed in order not to always have to use Photoshop for this.

Amazing! Thank you so much!

I have the same problems, and this for me is one of the reasons why Affinity Photo is so extremely tedious, tiresome and frustrating to use – and exactly the reason why I (although I do own Affinity Photo) still use Photoshop, because I know exactly that at some point in my workflows inevitably there will be a point where I have to switch to Photoshop anyway because such simple things as these discussed here are just not possible in Affinity. And most of the things making Affinity Photo so frustrating are very easy to implement just as for instance mask density; there simply is no reason not to have it. And these "may be a feature added in the future"!? Congratulations and thank you very much.

I have the same issue. "Bottle-necking"? Must be a very narrow bottle neck with the connection failing every single time.

Layer effects are executed quite well in Affinity Photo. However, they do not work well with adjustment layers. For instance, it would be nice, if the color overlay was actually working here. Why should it, you may ask, as it then only would display a solid color? Answer: This is true, however, if you use this in Photoshop in connection with Blend If (the cog wheel icon here in Affinity Photo), you can then exactly see which parts of the underlying layer are coming through, which is not quite obvious without the color overlay. (Of course you would switch the overlay off after having edited the Blend If, but it is really useful during the editing process.) To be honest, it's exactly "small things" like these which make Affinity Photo unnecessarily tedious to work with for me. AGAIN: This is not about whether or not there are "workarounds" existing, it's about streamlining and optimizing and most of all: speeding up workflows.

- Like in Photoshop it would be great if you could apply live blur to masks (I mean as a live filter but so you can *see* the result if you Alt-Click the mask!) (In Photoshop this is in the Tab Selection Properties.) - It should be possible to add live filters (like Gaussian Blur etc.) to an adjustment layer: They should affect the mask of these layers. - A mask (being a kind of pixel layer) should be editable in exactly the same way as any greyscale image (including using adjustment layers) PLEASE NOTE one more thing: I am perfectly aware that there are some workarounds for this kind of situation BUT this is completely besides the point. The point being making workflows EASIER, not more convoluted.

Sorry, but I can only back-up rygar here: A gradient tool that works like the one in Photoshop is in *dire* need here. As rygar rightfully says, it is just not possible to paint several (bitmap) gradients on a single layer. This may sound like a small thing, but it is as with many of the "small things" missing in Affinity Photo: The fact that they are missing makes many workflows *extremely* and unnecessarily long winded and tedious, which is also the reason why I still stick with Photoshop for the moment, even though I own the complete Affinity Software Suite.