Cybergooch

I'm trying to dig a little deeper into Masking, and have been watching tutorials etc., but still have a couple questions: 1) I know that you can add a mask to a group, and all the layers in that group that are below that mask will be affected by it, but is there a way to have more than one mask layers in the same group? Can they be combined to work together as one, but still be separate layers? 2) Can a shape be used as a mask? I think the answer to this is yes, as I'm able to Mask to Below with a shape layer, but once I've done that, it seems to not be a real shape anymore. (You can't change the fill or line style). However, if I Release the mask it becomes a real editable shape again. Is there a way to have it still be editable as a shape, but act like a mask? Thanks

Thanks Walt, good idea. I did some poking around for a while and was able to find out which 3rd party program was causing the trouble. It's Actual Windows Manager. This is a program I've used for years, so apparently something has changed at some point. I could just exclude Affinity Photo from AWM, but was curious to find out what was going on. Apparently, it's actually the startup panel. (The popup panel that asks you what you want to do when you first start Photo.) When I unchecked the box (so it doesn't come up anymore) Photo doesn't crash, even though it's still being affected by AWM. So I'll just leave that so it doesn't open. Exactly the same thing was happening with Affinity Designer, and the same fix worked. (And drag and drop is working again, yay!)

The latest version of Affinity Photo would crash whenever I started it up. I did a search to see if anyone else was having the same problem, and it turns out starting the program in Administrator mode fixed the issue. However, ever since I started running in admin mode, I can no longer drag images from explorer into Affinity Photo. When I try to, I just see the black circle with a line through it as the cursor shape, Anybody know what causes this? (Latest version of Photo in Windows 10)

Thanks, Here's a file saved out from Redshift. aov2.exr

I'm doing some testing of the EXR format with images that were rendered out in Cinema 4D using the Redshift renderer. The files are loading fine, but each channel is being split into 3 separate grayscale layers. In other words, a render pass that consists of a reflectance channel for instance, is coming in as 3 layers: Reflections.[blue], Reflections.[green], and Reflections.[red] and since they're grayscale layers there's no color information. Is there something I need to change for the EXR import? Or do I need to do something different for the exporting/saving of the EXR file from Redshift? Thanks

This was a tough vote, as I use Todoist constantly. But Todoist already has 6 million users, so I don't think they're hurting any. My vote to Designer!

This is a piece I finished a few months ago, it was the first time I used Affinity Photo to do all of my post work instead of Photoshop. Composed of 3d character render, photo pieces, and lots of post work.