CarolT

😮😮😮 Wow. OK, thx! Maybe I missed that in the 'iPad Questions' list, ugh. And did not search for the right terms. This is very disappointing, though, esp since the linked post was written over 1-1/2 years ago. I guess making the AF app fully work on the iPad is a low priority. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it! 🙂

Hi! I have tried searching for the issue I am having both on the web and here in the Forum, plus looked at the pinned topics. However, I have been unable to find any info on my issue, and I am hoping someone can help me. I have a gen 5 iPad Air and 24" 4K monitor. If I open AF on the iPad itself with Stage Manager enabled, and without the external display attached, it works fine. However, if I open AF on the iPad with the external display attached (and Stage Manager enabled), the window on the iPad looks fine, but I get the image on the external display, apparently as the Desktop; the App bar is hidden by the image from AF. Pls see attachments 'AF on iPad' and 'Image on external display with AF on iPad.' Very weird. If I move AF from the iPad to the external display, I get the image with nothing from AF around it; pls see 'AF moved to external display' (image is cropped down the just include the AF window and the App bar). Then if I move AF back the iPad, it immediately crashes. I am using v 2.5.2 of AF. I appreciate any advice anyone has! Thx!

I feel you are right, that my problem lies somewhere in there. I have always struggled with getting selection to work right. Some of the stuff last night worked and some did not, and I could not figure out why not. I *was* trying to work with the selections in Adjustment layers, I rarely if ever work with the pixels on the original image. I found that if I added a mask and worked on that. the Refine tool worked far better. It's just that somehow I thought adjustment layers had built-in masks, so I thought is would work directly. I need to go back and try to understand all the fundamentals better. Unfortunately, there is not a lot of detailed learning on AP out there; I found understanding selections far, far easier with Photoshop because of the books and online guidance that are available. Thanks for your help! Carol

Hi, I am struggling to get the Matte refine tool to work, and cannot figure out what the problem is. I have this problem most of the time, but what is really frustrating is that the region in which I am working has very high contrast, so seems it should be very easy. I am trying to select dark hair against a very blown out sky. I got a rough selection with the Selection brush, but when I go into refine and brush over the boundary between the hair and the sky, it just deletes the whole brush area from the selection. I have watched a bunch of vids on this, and tried everything I can think of, and cannot figure out what is going on. I have not used AP for a while, but do not remember this issue. I fought the same battle for a long time last night with a more difficult selection, but finally got it to work. I have tried smaller brush size, including more hair than sky in my brushstrokes, and even relaunching AP. I search the forum but did not come up with anything. I would appreciate any help I can get! Really, am more frustrated by the problem in general with this tool and not even so much with this particular image. Just cannot make it work and I have no idea why it is behaving this way. Thanks! Carol

I would love to be able to use ON1 as a plugin for Affinity, as moving from ON1 to Affinity via a PSD flattens the file. In fact, I don't really see the benefit above just saving a TIFF or whatever between the two, unless ON1 will reopen the PSD from AP with the AP layers intact, at least? I mean, you have to navigate through the file system to the AP app to send the file directly from ON1, I don't see any way to set AP up in ON1 so it is direct like from Lr to Ps. And of course in Ps you can have whatever they call it where you essentially open ACR in Ps. I just wish you could use ON1 inside AP itself, but another thread I found says that ON1 uses a format that is incompatible with AP.

Another vote for support of ON1 as plugin.

Thanks for the reply, R C-R! I only have a 24" monitor (it is a nice photo monitor, though), so a bit less space. I just really miss having brushes selectible from a condensed menu of some sort. Also, unlike the dedicated painting apps I use, it seems that if you modify a brush, then select something else, the brush resets to the default. This means I need to save the brushes as a new brush, I suppose. The painting apps I use are the opposite; you modify them, they show they are modified, but stay the way you left them. If you want them back to the default, you have to reset them (which is easy of course, a button is right there). Speaking of the painting apps, when searching the forum for info before I started a new thread, I came across a feature request for something many painting apps have, which is a right-click pop-up (or even a keyboard shortcut) that gives you a selection wheel for several recently-used brushes. I doubt we will see that, but I would love it! Thanks again for your help! Carol

Hi everyone, I am using Affinity Photo quite a lot, and really love it! However, I do struggle to translate things over from the Photoshop world, and the one that is driving me the craziest is brush selection.~ In Ps, you get a little drop-down palette from the brush contextual menu, and you can also pull the main brush palette out and dock it by itself and squish it like the tool palette so it takes up little space so it can stay open all the time and show a lot of brushes. I don't find either approach in Affinity Photo (I can certainly pull the brush palette out and dock it by itself, but the narrowest option is *really* wide!!! ). How do people quickly sort through their brushes? Even if I make a Fave it all takes up a lot of room. Right now I have my Brushes palette in with the Navigator and History palettes, but I am curious as to how other people approach this? Thanks so much! Carol

Here is the video: https://youtu.be/_cfmtrpyD5A?t=2251 Liquify in Ps also has face detect and face sliders, which is nice. As it turns out, it seems to be dead simple to do what she did in the vid in Affinity: I pushed things about in one layer, Applied, selected another layer that would correspond to her contrast layer, and Last Mesh, and it made the same changes! I didn't even have to save and reload the mesh from the first layer. AWESOME!!!! Thanks so much! Carol

Hi, sorry, this might be a bit of a confusing question, as I don't have Photoshop so don't know exactly how it works there; I may be totally confused about what it can do. My understanding based on watching a video is that in Ps you can make liquify changes on on layer, then select another layer and apply the same changes to it. This was used in a processing approach where several layers with different exposures but the same scene were used. A B&W high-contrast layer was used to make masks, and Liquify changes in the Background was applied to the layer used for a mask so the changes did not have to be duplicated manually. Is there a way to do this in Affinity Photo? Thanks! Carol :)