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I was watching a video from an Affinity Designer course, where a section of the course touches on the Pixel persona and we are shown how to recolor parts of a photo. I believe the course was shot around version 1.8 or 1.9 of the software.  I am on version 1.10.5.

1. A section of the base layer is copied and pasted onto a second layer. A recolor adjustment is made to the layer (blue).

2. He then adds a second recolor adjustment layer on top of the first one and makes that recolor purple.

While he is adjusting the color of the purple with the sliders, you can see the color change taking place.

Note he has both recolor adjustment layers checked on - see screen cap.

When I am attempting to do this, I cannot see my adjustments to the purple recolor layer unless I uncheck the blue layer below it. Then when I check the blue layer back on, I cannot see the purple layer.

I am on running Mac Monterey 12.6 and using Designer 1.10.5. I tried doing this in Affinity Photo 1.10.5 and cannot do it there either.  I submitted this query to the course instructor but have not gotten a response.

Wondering if this may be because of either updates to the software since the video was shot, or because of changes to the Mac OS, as I believe I was able to follow what he was doing back when I was running Mojave ( and also on version 1.8 or 1.9 of Designer).

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Jim57 said:

I was watching a video from an Affinity Designer course,

Which video from which course? Some of us may also have it.

Also, if it's one you paid for, why not ask the instructor?

-- Walt
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Walt -

Thanks for responding. The course is called  Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Affinity Designer. As my post mentioned, I did inquire with the instructor. I have not heard back yet and decided to post here in the meantime. Old Bruce was able to give me a solution that works.

Thank you for your input.

 

 

 

 
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5 minutes ago, Jim57 said:

The course is called  Affinity Designer: The Complete Guide to Affinity Designer

Who's the instructor, and which lesson?

-- 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

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