Alpha Levels Adjustments no longer nest correctly in Affinity Designer V2

[IncognitoMode]

Alpha Levels Adjustments, no longer apply correctly when nested below a mask in Affinity Designer V2. I'm opening documents in V2 and all my levels adjustments from V1 no longer work. This particular adjustment is designed to remove partial transparency, and remove anti-aliasing. The only way to get them to work is to put them above the layer I want to apply the adjustment to, but this is not possible for masks, as they cannot be grouped without losing the mask effect. Hope this makes sense? Can anyone help or offer a work around?

[walt.farrell]

It would help to have a screenshot including the Layers panel to show your problem. And also to have a .afphoto .afdesign file with the problem.

[IncognitoMode]

Thanks for your reply!

Here's the file:

Test.afdesign

[IncognitoMode]

And here's a brief explanation video of the problem:

Screen Recording 2023-02-18 at 13.55.20.mov

[IncognitoMode]

Anyone have any ideas?

[lepr]

1 hour ago, IncognitoMode said:

Anyone have any ideas?

It's certainly a bug.

A workaround in your example document is to stack the Levels above the Mask instead of inside the Mask.

Test workaround.afdesign

[IncognitoMode]

5 hours ago, ,,, said:

A workaround in your example document is to stack the Levels above the Mask instead of inside the Mask.

Unfortunately this work around isn't very convenient, as when you want to apply multiple masks to the same layer, when stacking the levels adjustment above the mask, you have to apply the same levels adjustment to all of them, and cannot customise the levels adjustment to a particular mask. Can someone from Affinity let me know if they've seen this, as this has pretty much rendered all my past work non-functional. 

[lepr]

2 hours ago, IncognitoMode said:

Unfortunately this work around isn't very convenient, as when you want to apply multiple masks to the same layer, when stacking the levels adjustment above the mask, you have to apply the same levels adjustment to all of them, and cannot customise the levels adjustment to a particular mask.

 

Here's another workaround. Better than nothing until the bug is fixed.

Convert the Mask to a greyscale Pixel object and give it an intensity-to-opacity mapping in Blend Options (see screenshot). That Pixel object will act as a mask when mask-nested in an object. Any adjustment can be nested in the "mask", with the adjustment affecting the "mask's" colour channels instead of directly affecting alpha.

Test workaround 2.afdesign

 

[IncognitoMode]

Thanks for this!

I think I will wait for this bug to be fixed, as doing this to several hundred layers across hundreds of projects will be too complex. Hopefully this bug is addressed soon!

[stokerg]

Hi @IncognitoMode,

Thanks for reporting this.

This issue is already logged with the Dev team to resolve