Seeing it blur the merged layer when merging two layers together

[Chillr2021]

I've seen it happen a few times now, when I cut something out of a layer then try to merge down and it seems to add blur, does same with layer/merge selected. Is there a way to merge without it blurring.

 

Affinity Photo on Desktop windows 10 PC

 

 

[Dan C]

Hi @Chillr2021,

I can confirm there are a few reasons that may cause this in Affinity, which I've previously covered in the below thread -

I hope this clears things up!

[Chillr2021]

Thanks Dan I'll give it a look

[Stokestack]

Yet another independent confirmation of this defect. How many people experience it but never know their work was degraded? Odds are: many. And then whittle those down to the ones who bother to come here and post about it, and the logical conclusion is that many of the people who actually exercise this software encounter it.