badjohn

Is this resolved?

Did you get this resolved? I am considering upgrading my aging Canon 60D for an EOS RP.

I would also like to be able to define preset crops with absolute sizes e.g. 3840x2160. Please add, or bring back, this feature.

Thanks, that's the effect that I want but I might need a few more hints. I am quite new to Affinity and even back the PhotoShop CS3 that I used to use, I have not tried this before. I have recently managed to apply levels and curves selectively: select the area, create an adjustment layer, and edit the selection (typically but it a bit) but I cannot seem to apply that the procedure to this case.

I have an image of a model against a featureless wall. Well, there is no deliberate or desirable featuring to the wall but there are imperfections and shadowing that I don't like. I would like to apply some blur to the wall but not the model. I have tried a few ways but I cannot seem to get it right. I have creates a duplicate of the background and selected the wall successfully but now I need a mask from the selection so I can hide the model and allow the original unblurred image to show through. I cannot seem to get it quite right. Any suggestions?

It does seem to be connected with the external monitor. After R C-R's tip got it working on the laptop display (no external display), I worked there for a while. Later, I connected the external monitor and the dialogs disappeared again. However, now I had an idea, disconnect the monitor, restart Affinity, check that the dialogs worked (they did). connect the external monitor, and check again. They were still working. A bit of a nuisance but it's a temporary solution. Provided that it works, it could be just chance that it worked this time and this is not the real explanation.

Monitor disconnected and laptop rebooted and the Levels dialog worked - wow! Mind you, a number of other tricks worked just once, e.g. starting Affinity with Ctrl and reinstalling, so the champagne is staying in the fridge for the moment. I cannot connect the second monitor and try or do anything serious at the moment as I need to concentrate on my day job. Thanks for the suggestion.

Just in case that was the issue, I tried Cascade windows and other options from the task bar. I still cannot see the Levels dialog.

R C-R, thanks. I use multiple monitors but both are connected at the moment and I still cannot find the missing dialogs. I have not changed the configuration of the displays since installing Affinity (the first install or the reinstall yesterday). The external monitor is to the right of my laptop; the laptop is always open when in use. I have heard of bugs such as that in other software but it does not seem to match my symptoms as the configuration is stable and I have seen the dialogs appear and disappear with no hardware changes. E.g. they worked just after the reinstall but when I closed and reopened Affinity they had disappeared again.

Granddaddy, thanks - at least that makes me feel less like I am going mad. At the moment, it is easy for me to reproduce since it is not working at all (except for one session after a reinstall). For me, closing and reopening, even rebooting does not help. My set-up is pretty much the same as yours.

Yes but I raised the issue on Thursday morning.

In desperation, I deleted and reinstalled Affinity. That was very painful (see another thread by me). At first, it seemed to help, I could get the levels dialog again. However, one restart of Affinity later, they have stopped working again.

it started working for a while but now has stopped again. This is highly frustrating. I am trying to process a batch of images and this is wasting a huge amount of time.

Thanks for trying. I was hoping someone from the company might respond. I am going to try a reboot just in case that helps.

Help please. The application has become unusable.