Hansha

I must say this is probably the only reason I don't use Affinity Photo. I keep checking demos for this to come but nothing. This is a really basic essential tool for contemporary photography work. Masking without this is invalid. A fully editable rubylith layer is a must and if you don't understand this priority over cloud generation, perlin noise, voronoi and astrography then well ... many of us are forced to stay away from this app.

There is a workaround for achieving rubylith I just thought of: Make a folder with an adjustment On top of that, adjustment put another adjustment that will simulate colour overlay. You can use lens filter, gradient map or recolour - any you like best Apply masks to the group Now you can toggle the fake rubylith adjustment on and off, change its colour and opacity. It will also show while editing. See here:

What the hell is wrong with those devs — they are not fixing perhaps the single most important task a serious editor must master. One can do curves and colours in every iPad app. Crazy — open Adobe PS

A lot unfortunately. I would love to ditch PS but for start; Image calculations Convert selection to curves Mask editing equivalent to pixel layer (blur, sharpen, dodge and burn mask) Rubylith mask editing mode. Basically masking is the only thing where I see shortcomings I can not circumvent ...

Well, I completely second those rooting for "saving as" for various reasons that don't need to be mentioned ... The good news I have is that this is kinda possible with the new beta. Export the file first in TIFF with Affinity layers checked and open this file. Each command S you will do on this file will automatically save the TIFF even though the progress bar will say export. I do not know if this works as well in other formats. However - don't get all giddy. PS will not open such TIFFS with layers. However, they will be displayed and editable in Lightroom Classic!

The debate is silly and futile. I completely agree with rui_mac ... Masking in AP is horrible and illogical and it is the main reason many people can not switch to AP despite its many advantages and their wish to do so. The developers are going the wrong route here anyway. They try to make some magic masks for hobby user to remove birds from sky and cars from selfies. Completely useless for serious work ... And those insulting automatic hair masking examples that can be sold only to someone who never did work on hair with low contrast relation to the background ... The odd thing is the blur and sharpen tool work so I gather there is little technical reason for other tools not to edit it in edit mode. Should simply become a grayscale layer in this mode - that would fix it ...

Main reason for not switching to AP for me ...