Where is everything

[perfidious]

This program is excellent but your help files constantly leave one thing out. Whatever gizmo it's talking about it NEVER says where it is. There are never any simple instructions like: to do this, click the menu item here and then select the submenu item here.

Instead you go on a long technical discussion about how everything works. This is illuminating but useless.

So my question right now is WHERE IS THE BLEND MODE gizmo. It's supposed to be a pop-up menu item in the "context" menu related to the layer you're selecting. Where would that be, pray tell? I can't find it. I can't find anything. Instructions from Adobe can be painstakingly specific. Why can't you be more like that? This is getting so bad I look to Google and Youtube first because I'm more likely to find a quick answer.

Having said all that I really like the program!

[R C-R]

3 minutes ago, perfidious said:

So my question right now is WHERE IS THE BLEND MODE gizmo.

There is a blend mode popup menu in the Layers panel, & in several other places, depending on which Affinity app you are using, like in the AD Context Toolbar when the Vector Brush tool is selected.

Keep in mind that like its name suggests, the content of the Context toolbar changes depending on the tool context you are working in.

[walt.farrell]

6 hours ago, perfidious said:

Whatever gizmo it's talking about it NEVER says where it is.

Sometimes that can mean that you're looking too deep in the Help. Many of the topics have an introduction, which might say where a function is, and then a detailed topic on how to use it. If you can tell us the complete name of the topic you're looking at, and the application you're using, we can see if that has happened to you this time.

[R C-R]

@perfidious, a couple of things that may help you:

1. Spend a little time learning the names of things -- "gizmo" is such a catch-all that it could be anything from a button to Studio panel to a tool. To help with that, begin by opening the top level help page, like https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html for AD, & browse through the topics in the Introduction, User Interface, & Getting Started categories, paying particular attention to the User Interface topics.
2. Next, go into Preferences > User Interface & reduce the Tooltip delay to close to zero (slider almost all the way to the left) & restart the app.

As a side note, when posting questions to this forum, keep in mind there are 3 different Affinity apps, so it is a very good idea to mention which one(s) you are asking about.