Chip J.

Patrick / Sean, thank you for the update. I was able to download and install 2.5.2 on my computer. Chip

After downloading Affinity Photo 2.5.2 MSI/EXE(ARM64), the installer is for Publisher, not Photo.

This is still a bug. If you use 'Vivid Light' on a 16 bit image, you get all kinds of artifacts.

1.10.4 appears to have corrected the issues that I was having with funky square boxes and pixilation under 1.10.3.. Thank you.

Same issue(s) with same graphics card. Had to turn off hardware acceleration to work. Did not have any issues with previous 1.10 version. A lot of pixelations and square artifacts with latest upgrade.

Forgive me if this has been asked already, but I'm unable to find on the forum. I have 32bit images and I'm trying to use the Bilateral Blur. Neither the Filter drop down nor the live filter of Bilateral Blur work. I have to convert the image into a 16bit image for the blur to work. Is this on the Affinity Photo team's radar to fix?

Thank you... I follow and thought I'd watched all of Olivio's videos, but definitely missed this one. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Greetings, I'm trying to duplicate a process that I found on a Youtube video on removing white / black specks from an old photo using Undo Brush and snapshots. I'm not able to duplicate and was wondering if anyone can assist. The video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jqh7Ixuyp8&list=WL&index=1

Thank you - I'm still having issues after I deselect. I waited ~30 minutes and it never returned. My best option at this point is what 'NotMyFault' suggested by moving focus off the selection brush.

Are you using Windows or Mac?

NotMyFault - Thank you for the your response. Switching to the "move tool" did the trick. None of the other suggestions worked for me, but at least I do have a work around now. Affinity Team - While I now have a workaround, please look into this issue. I also experience same issue with the "Levels" adjustment.

After making a selection, I lose all graphical histogram representation in the curves tool. To recreate issue: Open file Make adjustment using Curves (histogram is shown) Create a selection (histogram disappears in Curves adjustment tool. Delete selection and problem still exists Delete previous Curves adjustment and problem still exists. Nothing I do, will bring back the original graphical representation on the Curves tool. This is happening on the current release (1.9.2.1035) as well as the beta (1.9.4.1065) OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home Version 10.0.19042 Build 19042 System Manufacturer LENOVO System Model 81Y6 System Type x64-based PC System SKU LENOVO_MT_81Y6_BU_idea_FM_Legion 5 15IMH05H Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10750H CPU @ 2.60GHz, 2592 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date LENOVO EFCN46WW, 12/4/2020 Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB Available Physical Memory 9.47 GB Total Virtual Memory 21.4 GB DirectX version: 12.0 GPU processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Driver version: 466.11 Driver Type: DCH Direct3D feature level: 12_1 CUDA Cores: 1536 Core clock: 1590 MHz Memory data rate: 12.00 Gbps Memory interface: 192-bit Memory bandwidth: 288.05 GB/s Total available graphics memory: 14269 MB Dedicated video memory: 6144 MB GDDR6 System video memory: 0 MB Shared system memory: 8125 MB Video BIOS version: 90.16.4A.00.78 Affinity Photo - Curves Bug.mp4

I have used PSP since version3 (~18 years)and jumped over to Affinity Photo about 18 months ago and never looked back. Affinity has so much more to offer, but like any software it does take time to learn..

You are welcome, don't give up on Affinity Photo. As I have found many times myself, it's usually user error. 🙂 This forum is a great place to get answers quickly.

Pedro, check your brush settings. I was able to recreate your scenario by lowering the accumulation to 0. Try raising the the value to 100 and see what happens. See attached vid. MaskBug.mp4

For Windows 10, you can use the Windows Key + G to record.

Pedro, I'm not having any issues with masking on the file you provided. Maybe, you can show the error by recording your screen as you attempt to paint on the mask? 2021-05-18 09-08-41.mkv

Thanks, I've tried the new stack option but its not able to lock the foreground and comes out blurry. I am working nightscapes, like the milky way with the desert cactus silhouetted in the foreground.

I like to take night photos with features on the horizon. I would like the ability to mask out the horizon so that only the night sky is aligned. Currently, I am using a software called 'Sequator' to align my photos, but this software only provides an single file output. I'd much rather have multiple layers aligned using one of the layers as my base for foreground.

Thank you

After downloading 1.9.0 & 1.9.1, I reinstalled several macro packs via the account sign in. I noticed that I can no longer edit the macros that are downloaded. The 'Edit' option is available, but when I click the button nothing shows up on the macro tab. This does not happen to the macros that I created or imported. Is this a feature or a bug?

Thanks for posting this workaround. I've been struggling with same issue.

Checking in to see if this issue is still on the radar to be fixed?

I'm experiencing same issue with 1.8.2. I'm using the Extract Detail Macro that Pedro Soares created here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/36265-extract-detail-macro/&tab=comments#comment-178831 It too uses Vivid Light filter. Works fine on Jpegs, but creates colored artifacts on raw (NEF) files. Problem disappears when I convert to RGB/8 bit.

Same as arkoe. Pixabay and Unsplash work fine for me, but I'm getting 'connection failed' trying to get images from Pexels. Works fine outside of AP.