Ghost mask lines on Shutterstock DL

[adorablebookworm]

Hello,

I have seen a couple of similar posts addressing this issue, but I've tried all the solutions shown and they haven't worked. A couple of times now, a downloaded stock image from Shutterstock has presented annoying thin lines around masks on the image. They show when exported, too. You can see them pretty clearly in the screenshot I attached, in the darker gray clouds. In other areas of the image, I've hidden the masks and fixed the issues, but I can't do that here; it really alters the image. 

I have "use precise clipping" turned on, and I've tried editing the blend mode of the masks, and nothing has fixed it. Help?

Thanks so much. 

[DWright]

If you have downloaded the file from Shutterstock in a .EPS file format this can occur when the .EPS file contains embedded Adobe Illustrator data that Affinity can't read. This is because the .EPS format doesn't support features such as blend effects, transparency, mesh fills etc. Unfortunately, there's little we can do and we would suggest that you get a .PDF copy of the file to use in Affinity.

[adorablebookworm]

Oh, that is so sad. I was hoping that wasn't the case. Okay, thank you.