Smee Again

Finally, all the albino brain chiggers are gone (we had about 14" - 18" of that white junk fall here in southeast Arkansas last week) and it's safe to go outside again. The only positive about the whole mess was I got to stand in the doorway and watch the birds and squirrels consuming what we put out for them. Since I won't venture out far in that stuff, the "goodies" were near my front door. Got some interesting images processed in Affinity Photo.
 

Finally, all the albino brain chiggers are gone (we had about 14" - 18" of that white junk fall here in southeast Arkansas last week) and it's safe to go outside again. The only positive about the whole mess was I got to stand in the doorway and watch the birds and squirrels consuming what we put out for them. Since I won't venture out far in that stuff, the "goodies" were near my front door. Got some interesting images processed in Affinity Photo.
 

‘Did go...wherever I did go.‘
Just a fun Composite Artwork....in Affinity Photo.
‘Fishful Thinking’- by Jason Hanson/StudioJason

 

Bright bird on a branch. Upsplash photo reference. Still trying to develop technique. The branch with buds and flower are rough and sort of impressionistic with the most detail reserved for the bird to draw attention and focus.

Photo merge taken from 34 photos. I used a little help form the  book previously purchased at Affinity shop. What do You all think. Maybe something to change ?

Perspective
1920x1080, png 16bit

Good evening All,
Slowly making progress (but lots more practice needed), going to keep going on this and see if it gets better....dew drops causing me problems at the moment. Texture will be the next problem.
 

Another way a layer fill mode would help . . . can't do it CORRECTLY with just opacity control.
 

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Dinosaur Assets
A set of multi-layer vector symbols and textures based on dinosaur skin

Cover Image
290 x175mm 300dpi all vector

Built from 15 multi-layer symbols all vector based to be used for brush base textures | assets | styles | scalable grunge tiled patterns 
 

Dead wrong, unfortunately. You are comparing apples and oranges. The magic with fill vs opacity comes when you use one of the 8 special blend modes. With any of the other blend modes, they are SUPPOSED to act the same. When you kick in something like "Vivid light mode" or "Linear burn" you are talking an entirely different effect on  your color layer.
This video will prove that the "fill opacity" slider has been misnamed. It is simply an opacity slider that does not affect underlying layers. In the following video, if it were actually a fill slider, then the rectangle on the right would be different from the one on the left --- but they are exactly the same in regular or special blend modes.
 

This topic needs a resurrection

I‘m glad I‘m not the only one who‘s missing the fill slider. 
It‘s been over two years since I started this thread and still no fill slider. That‘s a pity. 
So another bump from me! Come on Serif, it can‘t be that hard to do this. 

I am a fan of this program. I mostly use Fokus Stacking and HDR functions. Here's an exemple, others are in my Gallery in Insta    @macrophoto_studio1

Been using Affinity Photo for a long while now on iPad Pro 12.9, v.3...and loving the new 1.9 updates.
Just thought I’d share a piece..an ‘Affinity-chop’ Concept work...noticed that I actually did last year... 🤣..but thought I’d start off with it before others more recent.
In a style of more Fantasy or Literary, not going for Photorealistic, but for mood..ambiance... (plenty of realism though).

Serif has acknowledged to me via the support site that the layer fill does not exist.  I feel that is absolutely needed   here is my explanation that I gave them: Special blend modes:   in short opacity affects all aspects of a layer: styles, brightness , contrast, color etc etc.  Layer Fill does NOT affect layer styles AT ALL.  This is an important distinction. There are 8 blend modes that behave differently when layer Fill is adjusted, compared to when standard Opacity is adjusted. The blend modes that aren’t members of this Special 8 group react the same to both Fill and Opacity changes,  In Affinity Photo they they react only to opacity as there is no layer fill capability so they are basically useless and it would be interesting why they were even included. With these Special 8 blend modes, 40% Opacity will look different than 40% Fill, or 30% Opacity will look different than 3 0% Fill, etc. For all of the other blend modes (the modes that aren’t part of the Special 8), 40% Opacity looks the same as 40% Fill, or 20% Opacity looks the same as 20% Fill, etc. This is an important concept to understand, because it can extend the capabilities of these blend modes. For example, the Hard Mix blend mode usually doesn’t look all that great, but when you adjust the Fill  for this mode, you can get some great results.  In the hard mix blend mode the Layer fill  will add more colors when you reduce the fill as shown in in the video Link I attached.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxDwIjYAkL0&t=222s   here is one for color dodge and burn blend modes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YbjldiaP_  There is a fill opacity slider in the Affinity Photo Effects panel. It does not work as a layer fill slider should. Affinity is lacking an actual "fill" slider. It becomes painfully apparent if you try to use one of the 8 special blend modes. Then you can see a great difference between a “fill" slider and "opacity" slider. in photoshop  Serif need to rename their "fill opacity" slider to a plain opacity slider because that is all it is -- an opacity slider. It is really important to a number of folks on the forum including myself who have been asking for this for years. Affinity Photo really needs this capability or many folks wont be able to drop Photoshop like myself for instance simply because this is missing. The blend modes that are members of this Special 8 group are Color Burn, Linear Burn, Color Dodge, Linear Dodge (Add), Vivid Light, Linear Light, Hard Mix, and Difference. 

If you use the HSL adjustment to desaturate a colour image, you get the same problem. But if you use the Vibrance adjustment to reduce saturation (not vibrance!) it uses the human-perception values . . .

I don't generally dabble in black & white images because no matter how much I tinker with the black & white conversion I never get the type of results I want. I can work with the black & white adjustment layer but it doesn't bet me where I want to be. Add on levels, brightness & contrast, curves, or anything else and I still don't get the kind of tones I want. Blake Rudis (F64 Academy) had a video this week that has really helped me get the kind of tones I wanted . . . by adjusting the tonal values of the colors.
After trying the method he described, it definitely improved my black & white conversions. I pushed certain areas a bit too much on each of these, but here are two examples:

 

The video can be found here:
 

I don't generally dabble in black & white images because no matter how much I tinker with the black & white conversion I never get the type of results I want. I can work with the black & white adjustment layer but it doesn't bet me where I want to be. Add on levels, brightness & contrast, curves, or anything else and I still don't get the kind of tones I want. Blake Rudis (F64 Academy) had a video this week that has really helped me get the kind of tones I wanted . . . by adjusting the tonal values of the colors.
After trying the method he described, it definitely improved my black & white conversions. I pushed certain areas a bit too much on each of these, but here are two examples:

 

The video can be found here:
 

Found this a while back...and is for Affinity Photo- is a simple easy format and easy install as a Preset. Based on settings transferring Value Tones for both B/W and Color simultaneously...so correct values are displayed in either. Is a basic Correct use of a Standard B/W Adjustment use. 
Even Free Downloadable Link in Description...even gives the Color Card to test. Results are really unbelievably good. You’ll definitely notice the difference.
Downloaded and installed, works perfectly...even on iPad. Can then add other Adjustments to vary desired Brightness/Darkness...but overall Value Tones remain same.
 
   Affinity Revolution - Stop doing this to your Black & Whites
 

MEB:  when can we see the layer fill capability in Affinity Photo????  IT is becoming burdensome after asking for this for many years now.  I have to hang on to photoshop simply because of this lacking capability in Affinity Photo.

layer fill is the only reason I still have to hang on to photoshop. If I use these blend modes I go to photoshop and then of course I don't go back to Affinity Photo. The lack of this basic capability is causing me great pains.   I like Affinity Photo a lot but may have to go back to photoshop if this basic capability is not added soon. A number of folks including myself have been asking for this for years without result. 

Pretty sure you are missing the point. "Fill" and "Opacity" are different animals that's why it's confusing when the name of the check box is "Fill opacity".
That is strictly the opacity. Take a look at this video I posted earlier. It will show you the difference when you are dealing with just one the "special blend modes". You can't achieve this with Affinity Photo at this time:
 
 

One more example . . . because fill and opacity behave differently with the special blend modes (like linear light, used in this example) this is a great example for portrait photographers as to why a "fill" option would be a nice addition. This video was released this morning.
This option is especially beneficial when using a solid color adjustment layer with the soft light, hard light, dissolve, vivid light, linear light, pin light, and hard mix blend modes.

Wouldn't the fill option here work the same as with fill on the paint brush --- as in similar coding to achieve the effect?
Really unclear as to why this was not an option in photo. While it's true, opacity can help, there are occasions where when considering fill vs opacity --- fill is the only acceptable solution as there are differences in behavior.
Piximperfect (2017) explains some of the difference here:
Better info beginning at about 1:30 in on the following video: