ianrb

Hi @ianrb,
It's likely that you're running into a known bug currently logged with the developers. Clicking anywhere within the empty space in layers panel while actively recording a macro will trigger an immediate app crash, this will hopefully be fixed soon.
Interacting with Layers within the panel (such as renaming) shouldn't cause the crash, but I understand it's fairly easy to unintentionally click in the empty area in the panel.

If I could, I would delete this thread --- had it's day IMO 

Might close this thread and start a new one to explain my work around 

HOW TO ROTATING A SELECTION HORIZONTALLY Make the selection as normal Save selection as a File Open new black document the EXACT size as the original photo Add a new white layer ''Load selection from file'' to top layer Add a mask Delete the selection Merge white onto black Rotate the photo. I used the new “select subject” to make a new section Save selection as a file Return to, and rotate the original photo ''Load selection from file'' All done and easier than for 'me' to type out and you to read/understand. I'm sure there is; or there needs to be an easier way.
  Now that was a real feel good moment for many reason.
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It would really help if you could tell us exactly what it is you are trying to flip. It might be simple; it might not, but as it is all we can do is guess.

If I make a ‘marching ants’ selection in APh, I can use the Move Tool to rotate it by an arbitrary angle. However, ‘Flip Horizontal’ and ‘Flip Vertical’ don’t seem to have any effect.

For iPad see below.
For Desktop : it’s in the context toolbar while a shape tool, move tool or node tool is active
https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/CurvesShapes/converttocurves.html

Thank you, and sorry for not replying earlier ---- I don't/can't receive Affinity emails and it seems too hard to be fixed; or they think me is not me  
You are the second kind person to send me the link (one privately 

For future reference, a better place to post would probably have been in https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/51-customer-service-accounts-and-purchasing/ but really, the best way to get help for this kind of account-related issue is email to affinity@serif.com in my experience.
 
 

Thank you. I will look into my V1 if I still have it 
There must be a few misunderstandings/confusions  when people watch a video made for V1 but they have V2
 

Hi Ian
It is in the Oils brushes from V1, but they are different in V2
If you still have V1 installed try exporting from there then import into V2.
 

ROF LOL!! was just about to 🥳 because found it all by myself

Thank you Garry for taking the time to help ----- I was beginning to think something had been changed

I have crack it folks 🤠 

Don't click preserve alpha ----- yep ;  that easy!!

Thank you all for your help and ideas

Thank you for giving the description. I really like the image with many leafs.
Unfortunately i have no idea how to improve the workflow. What you describe as workarounds could be required and the way to go. As long as you achieve the results you want it does not matter if there are more steps.
 

Try to copy the Mask layer, and paste it as child (in masking position)to the blur filter.
Edit: and invert mask layer.
 
Assuming you want to restrict the blur layer to the background behind the leaf.
 

You are at the limit of the canvas, only Affinity Designer has a feature to show clipped content beyond the canvas/artboard.
In order to make it look like it goes outside of the image you need to expand the canvas, not the image.

One of the effects lacking in Affinity is the zoom blur, in Photoshop it's part of the radial blur. Another cool blur filter in Photoshop is the Path Blur and I think Josh is using that cool filter to great effect.
 

Thank you ianrb for your efforts and explanations. I also did some experiments with AP and for now, I am pretty satisfied (as amateur). THANKS!

Regarding "recommend colour space": there is RGB only, LR doesn't support Grayscale, CMYK or LAB. – Sorry I don't know the answer but can rather 'sugguess' only:
• Does your comparison with "Adobe RGB1998" refer to the entire workflow (set & used in both apps)?
Also I wonder if a known issue in Affinity with the common default "sRGB IEC61966-2.1" profile might matter (while I am not sure if it affects profile/colour conversion only): https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/190671-on-screen-differences-between-profile-conversion-soft-proofing/
––> https://www.color.org/srgbprofiles.xalter
• Could the setting in APhoto > Preferences > Colour > Rendering Intent / > Black Point Compensation  influence this?
It seems there is/was no Rendering Intent option for LR: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/71029/in-lightroom-how-do-you-specify-perceptual-or-relative-when-exporting-image
• Does the visual deviation increase if you repeat the procedure with an affected file (LR > APh > LR > APh > LR)?
 

In the Hamburger menu for the Layers Panel make sure "Show Group Thumbnails" is ticked

HSB gradient support is in. That should cover most freely available Photoshop gradients.
If anyone desperately wants support for CMYK, Grayscale or Lab colour gradients, and they have an example .grd file they can send me, just let me know. The code isn't hard, but I don't have any examples to test against.

@Balakov you are champion for the cause mate ---- cause being Affinity to make a far simpler grad tool as LR has had for many year ( hint hint 😁 )

@Balakov thank you, I will look forward your "fake" LOL ; in the mean time I will just wander back to Lr5 for my rather simple grad needs or I might fire up the other "ONE" :eek: 🤫 .

I added partial support for transparency a while ago, but the trouble is that Adobe palettes support more complex transparencies than Affinity can cope with. Transparency stops are completely separate from the colour stops which allows for complex transparency gradients on simple colour gradients or vice versa.
The converter supports transparency only when the transparency stops exactly match the colour stops, but looking at the screenshot you posted in the other forum, that's  likely not going to help with that you need.
I have a plan for sometime in the future to "fake" more complex transparencies by adding dummy colour stops. I just haven't got around to it yet.

Thank you for sharing but I 🤣 when I was noticed "transparency not supported'' ---- the only preset grads I was looking for
Back to the drawing board (Lr5 grad tool 😁