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Thanks R C-R, I clearly have much to learn and this is very helpful input!

Thank you Ldina for your very helpful comments. Much to learn!

Thank you Old Bruce! My immediate concern was to use the Burn tool to darken light areas that I found distracting. But your impressive edit is inspiring me to dig deeper and learn to do more!

Thank you, stuck; I may go back and rescan selected negatives. I'll see if I can scan them as TIFFs.

Thank you R C-R, you made my day! I selected the image in the Layers panel and it worked! I hadn't seen that I had to do that in any of the Help topics. I got Affinity a number of years ago, struggled with it, didn't do anything for a long time and am now trying to get back to learning how to use it. Old age is conspiring against me but I'm trying...🙂

Thank you for your reply, Walt. I'm not sure how to answer the "color format" question. I scanned old 35mm black & white negatives. The scanner produced 8-bit JPEG files that Affinity categorized as "Greyscale D50". But, as you can probably tell, I'm not very savvy on this stuff! Attached is the photo I'm trying to edit by using the Burn and Dodge tools to selectively darken and lighteng areas of the picture.

I scanned some 35mm black & white negatives and now want to edit the photos in Affinity Photo 2. The photos are in the .jpg format. I am trying to use the Burn and Dodge tools but cannot get them to work. Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong? I would appreciate any help you can give me!

Thanks for the additional guidance, v_kyr. I uninstalled the Affinity Photo 2 I got via the MSIX file and downloaded/installed the EXE version. Again, the opening Affinity 2 screen appeared for a few seconds and then nothing. I again tried the suggestion in Leigh's FAQ post "How do I disable OpenCL Compute Acceleration (Hardware Acceleration)?" IT WORKED! So my problem appears to have been a combination of issues with the MSIX download and OpenCL. Thank you again for being there for people like me who are computer-savy enough to learn to use software but have trouble tackling problems like the one I faced with this software installation.

Thanks, v_kyr. Yes, I did scroll to the end. The remaining lines are for Designer and Publisher. There is one reference to APh 2 that says " No file found: C:\Users\prpet\.affinity\Photo\2.0\Settings\PerformancePreferences.xml" (see attached file). I bought APh 2 through the Affinity website. I have only ever launched downloaded software by clicking on the .exe files. I have no idea what MSIX or MSI are but I will follow up on your other suggestions and hopefully learn. Again, many thanks for your help.

v_kyr, I used your Affinity OpenCL Disabler v1.3 tool and got the results shown below. I assume that this means that "OpenCL" is not the source of my problem and that there is some other reason why Affinity 2 will not load. The Affinity 2 screen shows for a few seconds, so it would seem that it is installed (also, when I run the downloaded file again it tells me it's already installed) but I have not been able to find the Affinity 2 program files anywhere. I very much appreciate your help. I think I'll start a new thread on this with the focus on the location of the Affinity 2 files and the reason why I can't get Leigh's suggestions (FAQ) to work. Thanks again!

Thank you much, v_kyr. I appreciate the quick response. It'll take me a while to digest your suggestion but I will definitely give it a try. This is very frustrating - What I thought to be a simple program download is turning out to be something I may not be computer-savy enough to handle! Past downloads always put the program files in the same (default) location. In this Affinity 2 download I have no idea where the files went. And I don't understand why none of the suggestions in Leigh's post worked. Maybe this dog is getting too old to learn new tricks!

I have Affinity Photo 1.10.5.1342 on a laptop running Windows 10. I purchased, downloaded, and installed Affinity Photo 2 but cannot get it to run. The opening screen appears but goes away after a few seconds and nothing happens after that. I tried all three methods shown in Leigh’s post “How do I disable OpenCL Compute Acceleration…” but none worked: In the first option of Leigh’s post (MSIX/MS Store) I typed in the line for Affinity Photo given in the post and got: “….is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.” For the second option (EXE/MSI), I entered the path to the default location for downloaded/installed program files. I got: “The system cannot find the path specified”. I checked what should have been the default location but there is no Affinity 2 folder, only the old Affinity folder. I have not been able to find the Affinity 2 files even though indications are that the program installed successfully. In the third option, I launched Affinity 2 with the CTRL key held down as suggested in Leigh's post; got the “Clear User Data” window; but there was no option to “Disable Hardware Acceleration”. Any suggestions on what I should do to launch Affinity Photo 2? I would really appreciate any help I can get to resolve this. Thanks!

firstdefence, Old Bruce and iconoclast: Great! Thank you all very much. Lots to chew on here. Even though I've had Affinity for a while, I'm not yet very familiar with it. Every time I try to do something it's a new learning experience. I will follow your guidance and see where it takes me. Thanks again!

firstdefence: Thank you for your offer. Here's the TIFF file, an unedited scan of a film negative. 72-6-11 (couple-airplane)1.TIF

Well, I tried your approach, h_d. It made sense and looked very promising. But unfortunately I can't get it to work. After converting, I get a very overexposed, low contrast image. It's not useable as a base image for recoloring and I can't improve it no matter what adjustments I apply. I'm ready to give up, thinking that perhaps my TIFF scans just aren't compatible with Affinity for whatever reason. I appreciate your and RichardMH's assistance!