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A great video for a beginner like me

I've made a quick start guide for Affinity Photo on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8kwOQhMJA Hypothetically, if you can retain all the information in that video you will be fairly adept in Affinity Photo in just 30 minutes. 
But if you're like me, you can use Affinity for years and still be learning new things! 

You'll get used to it, its a good system, has some quirks but its better than windows IMHO. plenty of people on here with Mac's so you'll get plenty of help. 

Can't help you with that one unless you've got a few months (years?) and a lot of patience. It's always nice to solve a puzzle, though!

One more thing. Even if you were Separated Mode, you should have seen something! Take a look at the View menu. Make sure that you have Show Tools, Show Toolbar, and Show Context Toolbar checked. Also, make sure that you don't have the Studio hidden.

OK. First, on the Window menu (just to the left of the Help menu) if "Separated Mode" is ticked, untick that. Then, if you still do not have the tools, toolbar, & so on, tap the Tab key on your keyboard once. What do you see now?

You have Affinity Photo in separated Mode, Go to Window > Separated Mode and if you see a tick and the side of it click it to make the tick disappear.

1) Is "Separated Mode" checked on the Window menu. If it is, choose it to UN-check it.
2) Did you try choosing "Toggle UI"on the View menu?

On the File menu (the third item from the left at the top of the screen) choose New. The next window that pops up should be titled "New Document." Click the "OK" button at the bottom of that window. What do you see now?

First things first - look at the very top left of your monitor. There’s an apple at the left. What’s the very next word(s) in the menu bar? Does it say Finder? Or, something else?

OK. After you open the app, what do you do next?

It would help if you started by telling us which app & which OS you are using.