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Like all other UI operations which have no effect, impossible steps can be simply ignored. never changed the blend mode of a mask layer? There are many UI elements which simply do nothing when some (not easy to spot) precondition are not met. Like anti-alias settings on pixel layers. Assistent settings allow somehow to influence the course of action (rasterize / create new layer / do nothing) for „impossible „ actions.

Would be a great start

If working on pixel art, you may run into layer alignment issues, and even a basic round brush not matching square pixel.Misaligned layers lead can to a 1px round brush does not fully cover the pixel in the layer. To erase 1px areas, use the pixel tool, with CMD-modifyer to erase pixels. This works absolute reliable.

Hi, the history allows to go back (and forward) in edit history, but essential function is missing: when you have gone back in history, you may want to remove certain steps, and replace by new steps. But then, you want to redo all later recorded history steps (after the removed steps. This is different from: undo brush (solves only special cases) alternative future history (you can go back, but after adding a step it is no longer possible to redo other steps from original path). You can only redo without adding steps.

Thanks. I know this function and tried it with test documents, but never used it. I think you need to create snapshots before you can use it, another hurdle. It may help in special cases, but does not provide what I’m looking for.

No, you get Alternative future path once you have gone back to history, and start editing from that point. Those edits are recorded as alternative path. You can switch between those paths, but it does not give the function I was asking for.

Affinity allows non-destructive editing, and has a great undo / history function. What i am missing, maybe overlooked or never figured out if its possible: Using undo / history, i want to undo one specific edit action, maybe replace it by a corrected one, but the redo again all later steps. Like you edited a pixel layer, and made 8 overlapping brush strokes in changing colors. After the last stroke you see that stroke no 2 was in wrong color, but all other where perfect and you are unable to recreate those later strokes from scratch. Is this possible (in Photo or Designer) to selectively undo one specific step in history, but then redo all later steps? I‘m not talking about making the brush strokes in individual layers. It could be any operation to be undone, .e.g. deleting something, changing settings, adding something (destructively), applying destructive-only filters which cannot be seperated in layers.

In Case you are using Publisher and multi-paged documents, or using margins in any of the 3 apps: this can lead to blurriness by misalignment, too.

This sentence can be interpreted in many ways. Like you didn’t understand what I tried to explain (my fault / badly formulated), or you do not want to follow these instructions (you are assuming a software bug and don’t want to adapt, simply want to inform about the assume bug). It would help me to understand your assumptions and intentions if you explicitly say what you are expecting now. Assuming you are interested into getting information and ultimately instructions how to solve this issue: please upload the affinity file (.afphoto or .afdesign) having the blurriness, so we can show you what to do specifically in your case Blurriness by misaligned layers (fractional size or positions or stretched layers) is documented hundreds of times in this forum. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q=Fractional blurriness &quick=1 https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/177097-understanding-pixel-alignment-resample-methods-and-effect-on-sharpness-blurriness/#comment-1019345 It affects V1 and V2 equally. it can be easily solved, but requires the user to act accordingly many users agree that Affinity should change the apps to help users avoiding this issue, and have raised feature requests

This is a valid feature request, there were older questions in the past. currently as of V2.2, there is no direct support for PAR (pixel aspect ratio)

I used rasterize and trim applied on every layer, then you can create slices from layers. in V1 you couldn’t rasterize multiple layers at once, but this feature request was delivered in V2.

I‘ve use this method to get perfectly aligned images from a handheld shooting of the supermoon, to be used to create a time-lapse video.

For this rough try I made a shape using pen tool to cover all shaded areas. Filled with white, set blend mode to „soft light“, and duplicated to strengthen effect. colors are still way off.

There is no simple cure. The shadows won‘t change the lightness alone (which can be corrected more easily), but impacts hue and saturation, and introduces color noise. Try to convert to LAB mode, make a selection of shadow areas, and use a curves, set to lightness channel, to boos lightness. The edge areas will be bad. On YouTube you find lots of tutorials to remove shadows.

Another potential source for quality differences: Only when use the Develop Persona for one single file, the full Development features will be used. If you open multiple RAW files for any stacking (HDR, stack, focus), a „shortened“ development pipeline will be used, with some default settings, and omitting advanced corrections. Try a regular stack with live alignment, so you can inspect the individual layers and compare to a „manual“ Developed file. Move one layer out of the stack place an corresponding exported TIFF on top set blend mode to difference add levels adjustment, and set white level to 10%. This boosts all visible differences.

As you are on Mac: how did you open the raw files? Apple Photo has a bad habit of giving low-res jpg images to other apps, unless you explicitly export them to the finder. So try to open from files, not from Photos or iCloud.

Based on the list of recorded steps, it looks like inpainting is executed on the empty new layer.

Macro recording is quite limited. There are multiple variants of inpainting, which did you use? global inpainting via menu brush inpainting (same layer) non-destructive brush inpainting (layers below). in some cases, the result of a recorded function is memorized, instead of executing the function with content of the next file. This might happen in your case.

The + sign in the layer panel/studio will do the trick

Affinity intentionally crippled several pixel related functions from Designer (Pixel Persona). You may need to use Photo to get all those goodies: channels panel, allows to invert any mask directly Rasterize, merge and flatten (those are available on iPad, but not on desktop) other stuff I forgot.

Just reading again: to invert a mask, you need several steps: selection from layer (mask layer) delete mask invert pixel selection create mask from selection.

Long-press with one finger on the canvas. A pop-up will show up, choose „invert Pixel selection“

Wikipedia covers this topic well (and others about HSL/RGB conversions etc) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes

Please add option to inspect, save, edit the vector brush of vector layers. allow to add brush from selected layer to brush panel allow to show which brush was used from existing brush panel for a layer allow to export vector brush as png / raster format allow to edit brush settings of vector brushes after initial creation

Ok, found it: you need to press the alt modifyer when clicking the „center“ alignment UI element. It is not sufficient to choose a key object.