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UPDATE : It's almost a year after I first encountered this " Levels Disappears from Adjustment Tabs" bug June 2021, and not receiving a fix from Serif or anyone else after reporting it in July2021 . The issue seems to occur only on macOS Mojave (and maybe theprevious Sierras) . It is persistent...it ALWAYS happens if you leave Aff Photo running all day , as I do. I can understand why Serif wouldn't put a whole lot of time into fixing a bug that appears on OS's no longer supported by Apple. They've moved on . I'm still stuck in the vintage Apple orchard...with Affinity 1.9.3 I just this week -late April 2022- I found a workable solution by chance. If the Levels tab disappears, just click and hold down the Adjustments pallette and drag it out of the right column Studio panel list. You'll immediately notice the Levels tab reappears as you drag it into the app working window. Just hold it for a few seconds then release the mouse and drop the pallette. If the Adjustment tab sticks and stays present , just drag the whole Adjustments pallette back where it came from in the right column Studio , and yer good to go. If it disappears again , just repeat this procedure until it doesn't. Only 10 seconds of downtime to fix this annoying little bug.

Followup questions: when upgrading to AffPhoto 1.10.x from v1.9.3 , is that a rolling update of existing Affinity codebase 1.9.3 ---> 1.10.x , or is it basically a clean install of 1.10 ? Would it require reinstalling the Nik plugins all over again , or are they retained ? 32 bit plugin circular arguments aside, my MAJOR question about moving up to version 1.10 from my existing 1.9.3 on Mojave macOS is whether the promised speed and performances features actually do occur. (My Mac Mini 2012 runs an Intel i7 quad core SSD, with 16 Gb of RAM). I see posts from users who claim 1.10 didn't deliver the promised performance, and in fact graphic performance got slower, not faster. ( Intel Mac Mini's do not have a separate GPU and the video card has no dedicated memory, it robs from the system RAM ). I'm quite OK with existing performance and version 1.9.3 on Mojave. Who can tell me with certainty that updating to 1.10 makes good on the performance promise on an Intel/Mojave system ? I'm too old and financially famished to even think about moving up to all new Mac Silicon , and the DXO - Nik bundles are not affordable to me, either.

Let me rephrase the question: IF while using macOS Mojave , I upgrade my Affinity Photo 1.9.3 - currently using old Nik 1.2 plugins - to Aff Photo v.1.10 X ... will those older Nik plugins still work ? Mojave was the last OS that still runs both 32 and 64 bit code. I have never even heard if it is worth it to upgrade to 1.10 from Affinity photo 1.9.3 to get the promised speed and performance gains. I've seen arguments both way on that.

Does Affinity 1.10.x retain 32 bit compatibility , as v. 1.9.3 does ? The reason I choose to remain with macOS 10.11.14 MOJAVE is 32 bit compatibility . I have manyolder Mac apps that are 32 bit only , including the older free Nik Software bundle of plug-ins for Affinity Photo. Will updating to the Affinity 1.10.x series from 1.9.3 affect my 32 bit usability, specifically the Nik plugins? ( I refuse to buy the DxO Nik bundle that costs 3 times as much as the software it plugs into .... )

Well, it has been more than six months, and I still have the disappearing Levels adjustment . No resolution. Seems the Affinity gremlin hunters have moved on... Two questions--- 1. does this missing Levels bug occur only in macOS Mojave 10.14 ( and possibly Sierra or High Sierra ? ) but not in Catalina 10.15 or later ? Might explain why Affinity won't bother fixing it since Apple no longer supports Mojave. 2. I also never updated my Affinity Photo from version 1.9.3 to any of the newer version 1.10. Is it possible this disappearing Level adjustment has been fixed or does not happen in AffPho v.1.10 and newer ? What is gained by upgrading to Affinity 1.10.x anyway , now that it's been out long enough to be tweaked ? Nobody ever made me a convincing case that upgrading Affinity from v . 1.9.3 to 1.10.x really gained that much on my older Mac, and I still run some vital 32 bit software , not the least of which is my free Nik Plugin bundle which I use in Affinity Photo often. Which is one reason I choose to stay with macOS Mojave since its the last OS that runs 32 bit code. Oh well...

GraphicConverter is a robust and talented File Browser and digital asset manager. It is how I catalog and access my 300,000 digital photos going back 25+years . Well beyond a " bitmap editor" , It just happens to be called a " converter" because it does that exceptionaly well. But grew way past that early on. Don't judge it by the name. GC is really a Swiss Army Knife image app. Like doing GPS, accepting Photoshop plugins , running AppleScripts , Facial Recognition , and hundreds more things I have not even gotten to yet. I'll never make it to the other end of all it can do.

GraphicConverter also shows high fidelity previews of Affinity Photo files in its browser, and all metadata is available and editable. The only thing GC won't do is directly open an Affinity file, but that's not Thorston Lemke's fault...Serif's file format is proprietary. I do note that NeoFinder while similar to Graphic Converter does a lot less and costs a little more and comes with 'restrictions'.

To each their own . Thorston Lemke's Graphic Converter was the second app I acquired for my Macinstosh , back in 1995. Photoshop 2.5 was bundled with the UMAX flatbed scanner I bought first. I consider Photoshop to be bloatware, then and now. graphicConverter is indispenable for any Mac-based graphics and photo user. it is not available on Windows Your Raw Power app would live down in one corner of GraphicConverter ( which is only for desktop Macs, not iOS phones and tablets) . GraphicConverter works splendidly with AP. It also does very many things no other image processing app offered by anyone can begin to approach , and works with dozens of distinct file formats coming and going. Goes way beyond RAW anything. Costs $ 35.00 , with the fastest tech support anywhere. GC is not for everyone since the learning curve is steep due to thousands of editting permutations possible, but I've grown up alongside it these past 25 years . GC and AP work well together. I leave both apps open all day every day

I have ZERO use for anything made by Adobe on my Mac workstations these days , including Bridge , since installing Affinity 1.7 three years ago . I have utterly banished Adobe products over their harsh marketing and licensing requirements. I had the Creative Suite 5.5. I banished Adobe for being greedy , basically . No more.

Looking for a DAM , media browser or whatever to navigate to/from Affinity Photo or manage archives dynamically ? I'm very surprised none of you have suggested (Mac only ) Graphic Converter from Thorston lemke's team at LemkeSoft ( $35 perpetual license; shareware; free trial ) . GraphicConverter's outstanding Browser and built in encyclopedia of image processing and editting tools is a perfect companion to A.Photo. I leave both programs open 24/7. GraphicConverter does things no other image editor can , besides working with what seems like ten dozen file formats. Lemke provides the best support and troubleshooting of any app I have used the past 25 years. No Mac user who works with imagery should go without it . I have no connection to the Lemkesoft company other than complete satisfaction The marriage between GraphicConverter and Affinity Photo is solid.

18 days after original post, and I note the issue of LEVELS disappearing from the Adjustment tab is still present. The 1.9.3 app opens clean and works fine at first , but after editting for half an hour or completing 3-4 images, LEVELS vanishes, and the app must be closed, Quit, and reopened new. Does not occur with any other setting ( and I am not planning to update to version 1.10 any time soon . Sorry ---reading too many reports of performance issues . Will wait for a few incremental fixes, as I always do ) ------- AffPhoto 1.9.3 , Mac Mini 2012 , SSD + 16 Gb ram , Mojave os 14.6

This bug occurs daily for me. At least once. Sometimes more repeatedly. I do minimize Aff Photo 1.9.3 to the Dock between uses , but the app itself remains open. This began happening about 3 weeks ago if I recall. It was not occuring in the 1.9.2 version or earlier . ( running macOS Mojave )

- here is a better screenshot of my absent LEVEL adjustment tab. No other adjustment is affected, just LEVELS at the top of the column. This bug is annoying, but not critical, since quitting and restarting Aff Photo clears it up .

I have this exact same issue . The LEVELS Adjustment will disappear completely from the top of the adjustments column. No functionality. Quitting Affinity Photo and restarting clears it up, which is not useful for the document you are working on at the time. ( The Levels in New Adjustment Layer remains functional ). Screen shot below. I leave my Affinity Photo 1.9.3 open all day , and use it frequently. At some point during the day the LEVELS adjustment will disappear, and I cannot tell you what I did to cause that, since no action was being taken . It...just ... happens. I am running macOS Mojave 14.6

Answer: when I originally bought the Affinity software, Apple was still using the iTunes Store alongside the App Store. The original purchase was inf act thru thru iTunes. Seems ridiculous then and moreso now. Apple has since evolved away from iTunes store , to just Apple Music and App Store separate. It was never a brilliant marketing scheme...iTunes was is and remains a bloated whale carcass washed up on the shore....