Ron P.

I agree this could be due to your graphics card. Make sure the drivers are up to date. Don't rely on Windows to provide the most current drivers. Go to the manufacture's website to get the most current. I don't think this would cause your problem, but you might try disabling the Hardware Acceleration to see if that may correct it.

Have you tried using the Blend Ranges?, It's the small Cog icon located to the right of the Blend Modes of the Layers Panel. https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/Layers/layerBlendRanges.html

What first adjustments did you make? I tried replicating this problem with various CR2 files I have. (I also shoot Canon cameras), running through about every Blend Modes, settings in the Curves Adjustment, and simply can not replicate this. It would appear you're using the LAB or CMYK settings in the Curve Adjustment, however like I stated, I simply can not replicate this. So knowing everything you done prior to getting this green appearance could help, especially the afphoto file.

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I agree this would be very helpful.

Did you have to pay for a license to use it? Where did you get it? From one of the stock photo sites provided in AP? Those can be, unless you paid for the license.

Not meaning to be rude with this question, just wanting to understand your knowledge on this. Are you, and do you have a firm understanding of photography? The photo that you're trying focus the viewers attention will result in the girls not being as blurry (out of focus). Typical these sort of shots are done with very fast lenses, those having a apertures of f2.8 or less. Not uncommon to use a lens shooting f.1.4, which gives an extremely narrow depth-of-field. Macro lenses are real good for narrow DOF. DOF is based on the plane the objects occupy. If two objects are in the same plane, as seen by the camera, they will be affected the same. Now what I would try on this photo is to use a Lens blur, or DOF blur or even a Gaussian blur. Then invert the blur layer, this hides the effect. Then paint in your blur. You can also try the opposite, do not invert the layer. Use a black brush and paint out the area you do not want out of focus or blurry. It takes some trial and error with the brush settings to find the right settings. One other thing, the sharpness on the edges of the girls is due to the selection not the blur effect. Have you tried refining the selection? Feathering it? Again you need to experiment with the settings in the refine selection. Here's a quick example of what I'm trying to get across. The image is a stock image from Pexels. I used a DOF blur, but changed to the Tilt-Shift blur. I uploaded my afphoto file complete with history. This was a 5 min job, so not as good as I would like it. dof_blur.afphoto

Welcome to the forums @Buhaj47, Without being able to see, it's difficult to provide good advice on how to proceed. There's just numerous ways this can be done. Could you provide a screenshot or even the image? If you could that would be great, and there will probably be several members providing their techniques.

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Try going to Document>Convert/ICC Profile. That opens a dialog window. At the top of that window is a drop-down menu, where you can change the bit-depth.

Welcome to the forums @Vinn, Did you purchase Photo from Serif or MS? Your running an outdated version. The current retail version is 1.9.2.1035. You might try downloading and installing the current version. Just go to serif's Affinity website, login to your account, go to downloads and product keys. Serif released Hardware Acceleration/Open CL with the 1.9 version. If your machine is supported, it will be switched on by default. If you notice it crashes too, or other problems, try going into the Preferences>Performance, and disabling it. They've had a lot of problems with various GPUs.

Unless you saved it, using a unique name, we may never know. Once you selected a brush, if you modify it in any way, it is no longer the same brush, it's a new brush. All those brushes are presets, a starting point. If you didn't save the brush, well the info probably is floating around somewhere just below the ozone, where the bovine emissions lurk..😄

Welcome to the forums @Damo90, Not yet, this has been requested a few times... Blend Tool

I use the Windows OS, and will not purchase any app from them. Why? Because MS and Apple both Sandbox the apps purchased from them. They control how those apps, apps they did not produce, function. What Monty242 pointed out is a very good example. They don't think you should be able to use the Nik Collection with Affinity Photo, so they make it near impossible to do so. This is my opinion... I think Serif would have very good grounds for civil litigation against these two, for placing restrictions on how their (Serif's) products can be used. I think they should demand that these sandbox restrictions be removed, if not they would owe Serif damages. Again just my opinion.

Welcome to the forums @BleachedLizard, I think what you need is called Targeting. https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/LayerOperations/target.html I'm fairly familiar with AP, and the on-line help (link above) is all I could come up with after about 30mins of searching. At the very bottom of the Arrange Menu, there's 4 options: These are the same as what the 3 buttons in the toolbar provide.

Welcome to the forums @Mike Siggins, 1. Other than SVG, you can use PDF. 2. Trace function- No. Do you have a subscription or perpetual version of CorelDraw? I still have CDGS 2017, and see no reason to uninstall it or completely dump it. It has a lot more capability than Affinity products. It should because it's been Corel's flagship for decades, while Photo and Designer are scarcely 5 yrs old.

Are you wanting something like this? American Flag1.afdesign

Ok, so how thick is hairline? How is it determined? Other programs do have a Hairline preset, but would it be the same, or close to what Affinity may use? The average Human Hair is between .04mm -.25mm. So something between those parameters? Or maybe use an animal hair, and if so which animal? Hairline in digital design, art programs is term used to describe the thinnest possible line that can be displayed on screen or that a printer can make. So could that vary from screen to screen, printer to printer?

It is where it's suppose to be. The Flip function in the Document menu, Flips the entire Document, not just a layer or object. There's another Flip Function found in the Arrange Menu. This is used to Flip a layer or object. Notice the (default) Keyboard shortcuts are different for each.

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Yes I know and understand what the purpose of it. I just have not liked, and have always used the button. I don't create/save adjustment presets.

Hi @Frank Ratzlaff, welcome, This sort of issue surface a version or two ago. It has to do with the Hardware Acceleration/OpenCL. It's enabled by default. Go to Preferences>Performance, and uncheck the box beside it. Restart the app and see if that helped.

Wow, you're just flat obsessed with that Adjustment Panel 😲. I don't like the panel and never have. I don't use it, I use the "lame button at the bottom". Much faster, easier. In PS, those icons/buttons, unless you have that panel/tab on top, you must first click on it to access it. Shame you have to click on the tab/panel first. Since you do not like, in fact despise, the Adjustment Panel, please go to View>Studio>Adjustment and uncheck that one. You will no longer see it, until you re-enable it.