Nicholas Jainschigg

I just did something similar in Windows 10, but I figured it out. It turns out that I had somehow torn off the current image into a floating window. It floated over the entire interface, and gave no access to any of the menus. I reduced the size of the image to get access to my browser and saw the menus peeking out the side, so I just dragged the image back onto the workspace and it's back to normal. That may not be the problem original submitter is having, but it was baffling enough for me for long enough that I found myself here.

I'm wondering whether it might be possible, either through a setting or some interface enhancement, to make the tabs in Affinity Photo a little clearer. I'm visually impaired and the super-low-contrast difference between tabs denoting open images is really, really hard to see. This means it's kind of a pain to switch between them. Of necessity, I've gotten a bit fluent on the hotkeys, but it would be sweet if there were a setting to make the tabs, say, different colors, if only at the top. Or highlighted more contrasty when rolled over. I realize this is probably a pretty niche request, so no big. I love the entire line and have recommended it to many students who are just fed up with the Adobe Tax.

Thank you! That works! Now I just have to figure out what those commands did ;P

Hi, I'm using Affinity Photo to edit hand painted textures for game use. I'm trying to separate out the painted stuff and generate a clean, solid alpha channel for game use, that is, no grays except for antialiasing at the very edges. In PS, I'd grab the red or blue channel, up the contrast, clean any dust or blips and use that as the alpha. In Affinity, when I try the Filter>Erase White Paper I get a subtle transparency in the stuff that should be opaque, and a subtle haze/translucency in the stuff that should be invisible in the game. Any suggestions for a quick workflow that would clear out something like this? I would think it would be easy, but I'm pretty new and can't figure out the steps. Thanks in advance!

Thank you! That works beautifully and would never have occurred to me. I'm switching to AP from 20 years of Photoshop and it's amazing how much Adobe's thinking has twisted my brain

I'm trying to use paths to cut a hole in a layer (pixel or shape) in such a way as it becomes a free floating mask, revealing all the layers below the hole. This is trivial in Designer, but I can't seem to find a way to do it in Photo. All of the masking and clipping things I've tried end up with creating things that are either linked to the layer (revealing the photo or shape in the thing I'd like as a hole, or leaving everything outside the shape intended as a hole as transparent. Any suggestions much appreciated. In order to make this clearer I've attached an image of whast I'm looking for.