Ron P.

I'm sorry but your screenshot provides us with little to no information to work with. Can you provide a screenshot similar to this? Each one of those areas I've highlighted in red, are important to what the brush does. Also are you trying to dodge/burn on a separate pixel layer? Is it an empy pixel layer or one filled with 50% grey? If so what Blend Mode is set for that layer?

I think it needs to be 8 or 16 bit RGB for the filters to work.

Empty View, I interpret that to mean clicking on the empty area, where the canvas or opened image would be. In Windows you can double-click on this empty space, which does the same as File>Open. Is this not possible on Macs? 2022-07-10 08-43-00.mp4

@Jerry W., Are you referring to not seeing any changes made, ie; preview when applying any of the adjustments? Here's a screenshot showing that they are previewed. If you're not seeing this, please provide a screen capture showing what you're having problems with. 2022-07-10 08-25-36.mp4

Is this what you're trying to do? It seems the bottom (cone) curve was a little messed up at the left and right points. I corrected those. Then moved the nodes for the top elliptical curve to better match the bottom cone. I then moved the elliptical curve below the cone in the layer stack. Done the same with the hidden curve gradient fill. It helps hide some things that hard to get perfect. I would recommend watching some tutorials about using the Isometric Grids, if your wanting to do this sort of things. Have a look at YouTube Channel by ArtistWright. Shape Practice-1.afdesign

Are you wanting something like the Arrow Shape Tool?

I think you need to Rasterize the Layer. Right-click, select Rasterize. Once Rasterized it should say (Pixel) not (Image).

Uplift is a Macro, so you should find it in the Library Studio. The sky images should be where you downloaded them to on your system.

Yes I get it Walt. I should have continued, or instead mentioned using a shape on a layer. Main point is, images can be cropped in AP.

Here's a YouTube video tutorial showing how to colorize a B&W image in Affinity Photo There's many more on YouTube.. Search Results

It's not difficult at all. Yes you can crop in Photo, you do not need to go into Designer for that function. I think you're trying to use Serif's products as they are Adobe's. To use them, you need to re-train your brain, ie; learn the programs. Serif's do a lot of, maybe even most, of what Adobe's do, just use a different method to get there. Crop an image in Affinity Photo. Online Help Crop Tool, Cropping & Straightening Serif Affinity Photo Tutorials Cropping YouTube Tutorials for Affinity Photo Cropping Finally as stated before, Cropping in Photo is non-destructive, until you trim it, thus the Rasterize and trim. If you want to resize a layer (which can be an image), resize it using the move tool. Once you have it resized, then right-click on the layer and select, Rasterize and Trim. No, you can work on numerous images. You can use File>Place menu option to import/place images, each as a separate layer, into a single document.

But it is locked. Why can it still be edited? I don't know. Affinity Online Help for Locked Layer just says what we know, it prevents them from being moved, resized. It's been asked for a long time, and requested, locking should mean no editing too.

With the Node Tool selected, on the Context Toolbar at the top, go to the Action section, and press the Join Curves. You will need both curves selected for this.

I had a 100 f/2.8 Macro that I loved. I also used a 70-200mm, and a 150-600mm for macro type photos. I was amazed the first time shooting some flowers at 600mm.

This is how I approach these. I use the Selection Tool to create a selection of the person. In Refine Selection, I will make any necessary adjustments, like using the Matte and brushing the outline. Once I get the desired selection, I will use the option of Output> New Layer or New Layer with Mask. The reason for those, they provide Color Decontamination where the other options do not. It seemed to help in your example. man_background.afphoto

@ARP, Just for future reference, there's a forum designated for iPad issues. Sometimes you can get a faster response for ipad issues there. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/43-affinity-on-ipad-questions/

It's not likely to change. Proprietary, (one that owns or possess exclusive rights to something). Adobe owns that file format, and does what it can to maintain it's secrecy, much like Serif owns the rights to it's Affinity files. They choose not to make their coding public. Since Adobe will not release how other apps can use their format for exporting text as text, then Serif's apps can not be expected to. Sorry but hang around forums like this long enough and you see posts repeatedly asking when a proprietary file format of another, competitor's apps, be included. Granted Serif may be able to reverse-engineer this. However there just might be some serious legal, expensive consequences for doing so. If Adobe wanted Serif to do this, they would provide Serif with the code.

So far GarryP's idea sounds more workable, and would do what the OP is after. It's like creating a Adjustment Setting's Snapshot. Using your old calculator MR example, once a Memory is created, would pressing it again cancel/overwrite the previous settings, or add additional? If additional, pressing MR to recall, which step or would the user be provided a list of some sort to choose how far back?

That seems like you expect Serif to know what you want prior to any such feature request, and since they do not, you expect an apology from them? How about doing a little reading before hand. Serif has clearly described each forum's usage. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/3-affinity-support/

Is this what you're trying to do? If so, I think what you're missing is the Power Duplicate, CTL/CMD + J 2022-07-01 03-30-34.mp4

Don't really need a long lens. Good quality Macro lenses work great for this too, Wide-angle and ultra-wide do not. Too much lens distortion to add to the sensor and plane deviations. I agree with Old Bruce, a lot of physical work if you're going to be accurate.

Maybe I'm just too old, too old fashion, or stubborn. Because of the the OS, windows in my case, thinks it knows best, I make sure that files like PDF, are set to open using Acrobat Reader. I download manuals and other documents that I read, and have no interest in editing, so I don't want one of my editing apps launched when I want to read the PDF. I do have an editing app or two that provides a list of file extensions I can select to have their app launched when clicking on them in File Explorer. I make sure those apps just have their proprietary working file (like afphoto for Affinity Photo, or pspimage for Paintshop Pro) selected. I've never liked having an editing app launch when I just want to view an image.

From what I've found, using CMD/CTL + Z or the Undo in the Menu, does nothing different than pressing the Reset button. Of the editing apps I have, Affinity Photo, Corel PSP, and Corel PhotoPaint, the latter is the only one having a Cancel button. Pressing Cancel, however deletes the adjustment. I agree with RC-R. How incremental would the step-back/forward need to be. Using the Levels Adjustment as an example, would the step-back be for just the Master Channel, or would it be for each Color Channel? How about each of the Color Models, RGB, CMYK, LAB? When we have the Merge, Delete, Reset and clicking on the X in windows or whichever color button on Macs, accepts the changes, adding a Cancel button to just revert to prior state is way to complicated, and unnecessary, when we already have actions that essentially do just that. Perhaps it requires one or two more clicks, but come on, are we getting that lazy nowadays.. 🤔 Further to the above, we can add multiple of the same type adjustment layers. We can choose to just add a new adjustment layer, we can duplicate one that we've made changes, then change that one. Hiding/Showing each separate adjustment layer (think the before/after used so much in tutorials) to revert to a previous state. I hope we don't continue a descent towards more and more AI, which tends to remove or prohibit our personal creative ability. Like AI? How about Singularity?

Considering the situation, you might try looking for file recovery/repair apps. Here's an on-line service for recovering damaged files. https://onlinefile.repair/en

Corel's PSP, do not support AVIF format. However done a quick interwebs search and learned that DigiCam and Gimp both do support it.