BeverlyE

The problem is still present in late June. I have a slightly different situation. I import a photo and extract part of it to use in another app. All goes well until I import a second photo to do another extraction. When I export it the app only exports a second copy of the previous photo. This has not always been a problem. Please fix this bug!!

I found it! I found it!!
I had the "Protect Alpha" checkbox on (see the upper-right area on your workspace. Having that checked on prevents you from painting on a transparent area.
 

I have produced a pdf version of the Affinity Photo manual that you can read without starting the program. It can be interesting to put it on your phone or tablet to read when you have some time to spare. Since the file is too big to upload here, I have put it on Dropbox for you to download. It is current for the last version of Affinity Photo. Comments welcomed. Here is the link:
 
https://dropbox.com/s/d3uxmmypdx9ruzw/Affinity%20Photo%20Manual.pdf?dl=0
 
 

Beverly I have been having this issue reproducibly with V1.7.1.143.
Thank you for your input.

Perhaps there's just generally a performance issue with it. It's just a tad worse for me in 32 bit but that doesn't mean it can't potentially happen in any colour mode. I've logged it with the developers so hopefully they can find out what's going on.

Hi,
I’m getting a crash on iPad Air 2 running iOS 12.3.1 with Affinity Photo 1.7 whenever I use the Refine Selection tool. No matter what I do in Refine Selection, when I select the output as “new layer with mask” and hit apply it waits for a short moment then crashes. 
Attached a screen recording. 
Any help would be most appreciated!
EEB53AA0-AA5E-41F4-81BE-9D429CD80294.MP4

Hey BeverlyE,
I managed to reproduce this when there was a mask layer attached to my pixel layer. I'll get this logged for you. Thank you  

Cheers BeverlyE , not clear enough for me as it is listed , with out saying 1st or 2nd .

Yes, the first gen iPad Pro works great with Affinity Photo iPad.

Thanks, Leigh!

When you load the LUT you can press the '+' button from the settings dialog to add this as a preset to the LUT Adjustments category for future use.

This time some Fire Styles (a few of them have transparency, though most do not) for those who might have a use for these things. - [NOTE: that these styles work best when used on very dark (preferable deep black) backgrounds!]
The compressed AD styles file ...
Fire styles.zip  

Just the rust styles (grunge rust textures):
 

   
The old rusty compressed styles file:
rust-textures.afstyles.zip

Yeah! It only took my 459 tries to figure that out. Okay.....I am exaggerating but I am thrilled it helped you too!
 
I still wish I knew why it didn’t work any other “normal” way but as long as it works, it’s cool.
 
Yesi

Let me go through my steps and do some screenshots. 
 
I download the file file from this forum and open in iZip. In iZip I extract all and click on the resulting afstyles file. iZip says it doesn’t recognize this file format and asks me where to open it. I click on Save to Files. When the location prompt comes up, I click iCloud Drive and then click Add in the upper right hand corner.
 
In Affinity Photo, open a document then open the Styles palette and click on Styles at the bottom. Click on the box with 3 lines (next to the pushpin icon) and click Import Styles. The Browse option should have the iCloud Drive open and you will see your downloaded file. Click that. Then watch your new Styles pop up in AP.
 
If you want a link to the free iZip app, yell.

Every location I try to import from is greyed out.

Can anyone give me a step by step (or point me to a tutorial on Vimeo or YouTube) to help me install the style files that are downloaded from the Resources forum here? I did it successfully (and easily) with the previous version but I am just not doing well with the new version.
 
I have tried saving the files to Dropbox and the Files app but nothing is importing using “import styles” in the Styles palette.
 
Color me frustrated.
Yesi

Yes it is annoying. Sometimes waiting a few seconds helps lock on selected colour, sometimes not waiting works. No consistency so hard to work around. Many good things in this beta release BUT... painting on masks is nigh on impossible now.

Hi BeverlyE,
 
I found the same as yourself and so did a couple of the QA guys. 
 
This has already been logged for investigation by the Dev team, so hopefully won't be too long before it's resolved.

Thanks for the tip. (BTW, I don't think the marching ants are ever tied to a particular layer.)
 

Bruce, when you are on the layer with the marching ants do a two finger tap and deselect is one of the choices that appears.

Beverley...thanks so much...i had one of those...”go back and try again moments” after i posted...and discovered clicking on the words....sheesh....I much appreciate your help. I had been at it for over an hour...you’d think I would have hit the button accidentally in that time...but no....lol......many thanks.

You have to click on the words "outer glow" as well as move the slider.

Hi BeverlyE,
 
I'm not sure where you may be going wrong, but here are a couple of tips that might assist you:
Preferences > Interface > Show selection in layers studio Display the Layers Studio and click the pin icon to keep the layers displayed so you can keep glancing to make sure the desired layer is selected I hope that helps you somewhat. 

Hi BeverlyE,
You can shear a layer (horizontally) using the Transform Studio - make sure you have the layer and Move Tool selected. There's also a Shear filter in the Filters Studio.
Regarding the Perspective, check the Source / Destination control on the bottom (context toolbar). Set it to Destination to distort the image while you move the grid.