Merged Layer Adjustments to render Borders

[Christian Mueller]

Hi, first of all thank you for the great work. I switched two days ago from Adobe to Affinity. But I also found a bug already

The setting is like this: A Pixel Layer has a Color Balance Adjustment and a Level Adjustment. The Pixel Layer is inside a Layer Group. The Layer Group has an Outline Layer Effect and a disabled Mask.

The Pixel Layer is bigger then the Working Area:

Now I want to merge the two Adjustments down.

Here is what happens...

After the first Adjustment has been Merged Down the Pixel Layer got cropped to the working area:

After the second Adjustment has been Merged Down the Pixel Layer got a rendered border:

The border has become part of the pixel image:

Please try it by yourself. The test file is attached. I am using version 1.9.0.932

Best regards,

Christian

border-bug.afphoto

[Old Bruce]

If you do not want the border which you have applied to the group containing the photo then turn it off. It is applied to the group's dimensions and when you merge down the dimensions are changed to the document's size so the border is applied to that.

[Christian Mueller]

I just wanted to adjust the levels of a Pixel Layer inside the layer group. Maye the whole process was not the right way to do it?

[Gnobelix]

Hello @Christian Mueller,

in my opinion it's not a bug, I think that the arrangement of the layers are somewhat unfortunate.

I would do it this way, see attachment.

Cheers

Border.afphoto

[Christian Mueller]

Hi @Gnobelix

Thanks for the answer. I didn't know you could move the layer adjustments there. That might help indeed.

The thing is that the original file has a lot more pixel layers (currently 46). Affinity's performance goes down a lot when I try to change something there. I am using a powerful cpu. So I wonder if the adjustments as kind of live modification would drag down the performance further.

Best regards,

Christian

Edited February 19, 2021 by Christian Mueller