Why is exposure constrained?

[Northie]

Hello

I can find the exposure adjustment both from tone mapping and develop persona but they are constrained to -2/2 and -5/5 respectively and I can't find where to remove these #"&%¤#%¤&/ constraints. Normally I'd just expect there to be a right click option for any given property to set constraints or some sort of small control icon after the property but I can't find anything like that in AP2.

I have never used affinity photo or even photoshop - and only very little gimp, so the workflow of these types of software is far from intuitive to me. Consider me "paint.net" level user which is both super easy and intuitive to use. The problem is that it's no good for exr file handling so I decided to try AP... (but getting frustrated enough to toss the whole thing...)  

I've spent like two hours trying to figure out how to do that and gone through a few tutorials but unfortunately most of them are video tutorials instead of actually something searchable. I'm not gonna spend 10-20 minutes on multiple videos on the offhand chance one of them might have a solution. 

If someone can point me to a good AP tutorial that is focused on photo and render editing, you know exposure, tone mapping, layer masks AND isn't a goddamn video. Well, I'd appreciate it!

I'd appreciate even more if someone could point out where to change those constraints.

Thank you!

[Northie]

Not exactly answer to the original question (about constraints) but I figured out how to add exposure adjustment layer which is not constrained so yay for workaround.

[lphilpot]

Not an Affinity answer but darktable will go +-18 on exposure. www.darktable.org  IMO, the develop persona is fairly minimal re: raw capabilities.

However, there's a learning cliff, I mean, curve there, too.