Jerry W. Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Ok, I am very new to Affinity Photo. A very basic question: In Photoshop, I open an image and everything I do or try out is previewed on that image for me. This is not happening with Affinity photo. Help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 36 minutes ago, Jerry W. said: and everything I do or try out is previewed on that image for me. This is not happening with Affinity photo. Without knowing what you're doing, and seeing some screenshots or a video of your work in the application window, we're not likely to be able to help. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry W. Posted July 9, 2022 Author Share Posted July 9, 2022 I dont understand why this is such a hard question to answer. I'll make it as simple as I can. When I want to make a simple adjustment like color or contrast, I go to the slider and move it. Nothing happens on the image I am looking at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 1 minute ago, Jerry W. said: I dont understand why this is such a hard question to answer. I'll make it as simple as I can. When I want to make a simple adjustment like color or contrast, I go to the slider and move it. Nothing happens on the image I am looking at. You may have set the Adjustment layer in the wrong place in the layers. You may have the opacity of the adjustment layer set to 0% opacity. You may have the blending mode set to something other than Normal. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 For completeness here are the three places it will work when set to Normal and 100% opacity. Very subtle horizontal difference, this is more to the right. (it should be highlighted too in order for it to be changed) Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 21 minutes ago, Jerry W. said: I dont understand why this is such a hard question to answer. Because "everything I do won't preview" tells us nothing about what you're doing. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of things you might be doing. And for everyone of them there may be multiple ways of doing it, and some of them are incorrect. If you don't give us any information about what you're doing, we're left to guess. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 @Jerry W. A couple of more things, you may have the checkbox on the Adjustment Layer un ticked or you may have inverted the Adjustment Layer's alpha channel thus masking the adjustment. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 19 hours ago, Jerry W. said: In Photoshop, I open an image and everything I do or try out is previewed on that image for me. This is not happening with Affinity photo. Help? 17 hours ago, Jerry W. said: I dont understand why this is such a hard question to answer. It is hard to answer because Affinity in fact does previews. You don't tell what "everything" means to you. Like in Affinity also in Photoshop there are many user actions which are not previewed before the user applies them. For instance most tasks without options, e.g. various Select commands like "Select All", "Select Reds", "Select Fully Transparency" or the various layer arrange commands like "Flip", "Rotate", "Move to Front", or "Delete", "Undo" etc. Also certain tools don't show a preview in both apps, e.g. the "Flood Fill Tool | Bucket" … Whereas Adjustments for instance are previewed in Affinity. – Since you mention in particular preview only (but not a not working task or tool), I assume, you do get a result when applying the actions and are missing only the preview. Thus it can be helpful or required to see your detailed workflow in a screencast, unless a user has experienced the same before or might be able to guess the reason. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 @Jerry W., Are you referring to not seeing any changes made, ie; preview when applying any of the adjustments? Here's a screenshot showing that they are previewed. If you're not seeing this, please provide a screen capture showing what you're having problems with. 2022-07-10 08-25-36.mp4 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry W. Posted July 10, 2022 Author Share Posted July 10, 2022 Thanks Ron I'm figuring it out. Please everybody excuse my impatience here. 25+ year Photoshop user, and gee I guess I'm going to have to read the instructions. Not a direct copy of Photoshop user functions. Thanks for your demo, figured out why I wasn't getting preview at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 34 minutes ago, Jerry W. said: figured out why I wasn't getting preview at all Is it a secret? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry W. Posted July 11, 2022 Author Share Posted July 11, 2022 Nope just my ignorance...Thanks Ron I'm figuring it out. Please everybody excuse my impatience here. 25+ year Photoshop user, and gee I guess I'm going to have to read the instructions. Not a direct copy of Photoshop user functions. Thanks for your demo, figured out why I wasn't getting preview at all. Ron P. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 8 hours ago, Jerry W. said: figured out why I wasn't getting preview at all. What was causing the issue for you in detail? A clear answer would help the community to understand what exactly went wrong (was done wrong) and thus give easier access for others with a similar issue to solve it. Alfred and R C-R 2 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 On 7/9/2022 at 8:53 PM, Jerry W. said: I dont understand why this is such a hard question to answer. Me too, in particular since you solved it you could be able to tell the answer. 😉 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry W. Posted July 17, 2022 Author Share Posted July 17, 2022 Ok, in detail, it's about an xtra step (for me) in Affinity that I didn't have to make in Photoshop ie in Photoshop you just pull the drop down menu, select adjustment, pick say color, and blaze away. Affinity has the Default, Desaturate,Invert hue boxes which you must have selected to do anything and get a preview. Just old habits and "I dont need no damn instructions". I will learn it folks. Everybody calm down. Thanks to all who offered help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 1 hour ago, Jerry W. said: Affinity has the Default, Desaturate,Invert hue boxes which you must have selected to do anything and get a preview. Or, use the Adjustments icon on the bottom of the Layers panel instead of using the Adjustments panel. Click the icon, select the adjustment you want from the list, and go to work. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 12 hours ago, Jerry W. said: in Photoshop you just pull the drop down menu, select adjustment, pick say color, and blaze away. Affinity has the Default, Desaturate,Invert hue boxes which you must have selected to do anything and get a preview. In Photoshop you also need to make any setting after creating an adjustment layer, by default its adjustments don't change the image, like in Affinity (in both the "Invert" adjustment excepted). So I still don't understand what was your initial problem which made you start this thread, in particular with your idea "I dont understand why this is such a hard question to answer." – With other words, actually I still don't see a real question which could have got answered at all. 12 hours ago, Jerry W. said: "I dont need no damn instructions". Hm? – Nevertheless, the forum community might need them in case of a question. At least I do. Can you give me more clear instructions to reproduce your issue? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 13 hours ago, Jerry W. said: Just old habits and "I dont need no damn instructions". 1 hour ago, thomaso said: Hm? – Nevertheless, the forum community might need them in case of a question. I see Jerry W.'s comment as the typical stereotype of men, at least here in the US. We don't need to read instruction manuals, and we certainly will not ask for directions to our destination, no matter how lost we may be. It's just not manly. FWIW, he has figured out the difference between PS and AP, and what he thought was AP not working. Why press him? Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 2 minutes ago, Ron P. said: he has figured out the difference between PS and AP, and what he thought was AP not working. Why press him? … not pressing but asking because I still would like to understand what in fact made the difference & solved the issue. I even don't know what exactly in your video made it clear to him. To me the workflow in Photoshop & Affinity appear to be the same when choosing an adjustment from the menu: No preview unless I alter a parameter + immediate preview as soon I alter a parameter. (aside the fact that Photoshop first opens an intermediate dialog window to let me name the selected adjustment – which may appear more cumbersome than Affinity) Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 3 hours ago, thomaso said: I even don't know what exactly in your video made it clear to him. The immediate preview of the changes being made. When you move a slider, you see on the image what is changing, without committing it first. Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 33 minutes ago, Ron P. said: The immediate preview of the changes being made. When you move a slider, you see on the image what is changing, without committing it first. To me also Photoshop behaves like this. According to the OP there must be a difference between Photoshop & Affinity concerning adjustment previews. I would like to know this difference. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 6 hours ago, Ron P. said: I see Jerry W.'s comment as the typical stereotype of men, at least here in the US. I think it was intended only as a comment about needing to forget old habits learned in a different app to learn what works in a different one, with or without reading the instructions. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 14 minutes ago, R C-R said: I think it was intended only as a comment about needing to forget old habits learned in a different app to learn what works in a different one But WHAT works different concerning preview? – Definitely not "everything" as literally statet (or intended only?) by the OP's initial post. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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