WalterS

Here's a screen video of the problem of the brush cursor not appearing after leaving the refine dialog. That's to say, I have to click on the photo or somewhere else to make the brush cursor appear. I also cannot resize the brush until the brush cursor is brought back. I cannot reproduce the other problem with the brush cursor being replaced by the mouse pointer while painting, both in refine selection mode and while using the paint brush tool. However there's a reproduction of it in the following YouTube video starting at the 3:23 mark: Selection Brush.mov

It's very annoying when doing detailed work. I can't see the contours of the brush until I click on the photo and then I find out the brush is too big or whatever and I have to undo. I also can't resize the brush while it's been replaced by the mouse pointer. Just very annoying.

@CallumI'll post a screen recording here in the next couple of days. Thanks.

Affinity Photo 2.0.4 macOS 13.3.1 iMac M1 Reproducible on .jpeg photos. Add Curves adjustment layer. Apply Live Hue Range mask to the curves adjustment. Using the Picker pick a colour from the photo. Click Preview and it's completely black. In the example I used the picker to select the blue of the woman's sweater.

Affinity Photo 2.0.4 macOS 13.3.1 iMac M1 Cannot be consistently reproduced: Sometimes when using the selection brush while in "Refine..." mode the brush cursor is replaced by the regular mouse pointer cursor. Can be consistently reproduced: In "Refine..." mode after changing the adjustment brush the mouse pointer cursor does not automatically change over to the brush cursor once I leave the "Refine Selection" dialog, i.e. I have to click somewhere either in the image or outside of it to get the brush cursor back. Cannot be consistently reproduced: Sometimes the paint brush tool cursor changes over to the regular mouse pointer cursor while painting.

Thank you! The grid and axis manager did the trick.

In Develop and Photo Personas the Show Grid function doesn't work. No grid is displayed. Affinity Photo 2.0.4 for Mac.

The beta appears to solve the issue. Thank you!

Using the brush overlay usually creates an unwanted extra brush stroke that goes off at an angle. Using the overlay erase tool does the same thing. When it does occur it happens with every new stroke. And, sometimes, it tilts the image and if you can't undo it there's no way to recover; have to start again from scratch.

You can try changing the RAW Engine in the develop assistant (icon looks like a waiter in black tie on the toolbar on the right hand side of the screen) to something else. Do this from within the develop persona and try reloading your photo. Barring that, let Affinity know and they can include a profile for your camera in a subsequent update.

Thank you all so much for your input. Switching the raw engine to Apple in the Develop Assistant does the trick. Thanks again!

This is the RAW file in question. IMG_0062.CR2

Opening a Canon (.cr2) RAW file (ISO 500) in Affinity Photo (V 1.6.7) results in corners that appear to be burnt out, as though by a bright lamp. The corners are black and then there's a bright white line that bleeds into the photo a bit. This is on an iMac running Mojave 10.14. It doesn't happen with every file. I can't predict when it will happen. The "burnt out" corners only appear when loaded into Affinity. They are not present when the file is viewed in Finder. It persists when I press Develop and are also there after I export to .jpeg. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I had the same problem. Here's the fix. First, make sure you have "Current Layer & Below" selected on the tool bar at the top. Then set Hardness, Flow and Opacity all to 100% (you can adjust these later). These are on the tool bar at the top, too. And make sure the Background pixel layer is selected. Then select the region you want to clone by holding down the Option key and clicking your mouse. It works for me.