How to stop the 'undo' tool from undoing layer visibility? (Affinity photo 2)

[crijoh]

Every time I try to undo actions, the undo tool will not only undo erase/brush/etc actions but will also undo the visibility of a layer. For instance, undoing will make a layer I just hid visible again. How do I turn this feature off?

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, crijoh said:

For instance, undoing will make a layer I just hid visible again. How do I turn this feature off?

As far as I know, you don't. Hiding a layer is a change to the document, just l like painting on al layer or erasing. Therefore it adds a History entry, and can be Undone.

Perhaps there's an alternative to Hiding that layer, such as using Isolation mode? 

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/isolating.html

[v_kyr]

6 minutes ago, crijoh said:

For instance, undoing will make a layer I just hid visible again. How do I turn this feature off?

Depends on the previous commands you've made and what got added to the redo/undo-chain here. - So if the last thing you did was hidding a layer's visibility, then an undo will go to the previous state before that, namely showing the layer as being visible again.

[crijoh]

On 3/20/2023 at 3:39 PM, walt.farrell said:

As far as I know, you don't. Hiding a layer is a change to the document, just l like painting on al layer or erasing. Therefore it adds a History entry, and can be Undone.

Perhaps there's an alternative to Hiding that layer, such as using Isolation mode? 

https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/ObjectControl/isolating.html

Thanks for your time in trying to resolve that. Just one more query, when converting colour profile why does it always stay on 'relative' not allowing 'perceptual' ?

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

33 minutes ago, crijoh said:

Just one more query, when converting colour profile why does it always stay on 'relative' not allowing 'perceptual' ?

Please describe your workflow (how you're converting, what you're converting from and to, etc.). Screenshots and/or a screen recording might also be useful.

[crijoh]

Compiling book of my 60s motor sport slides. Images are from Kodachrome 35mm 2400 dpi scans (high contrast and intense saturation). My new Canon printer prints darker than previous model. On attached chart it looks like ‘perceptual’ would help. Tried ‘Convert’ using RGB/8 and choosing iMac Calibrated as that seems to give colour balance that I’m after but still not quite right so would like to select ‘perceptual’ to match the chart but will not change from ‘relative’.

[walt.farrell]

48 minutes ago, crijoh said:

Tried ‘Convert’ using RGB/8 and choosing iMac Calibrated as that seems to give colour balance that I’m after but still not quite right so would like to select ‘perceptual’ to match the chart but will not change from ‘relative’.

Thanks. I'm not sure what's happening. On Windows, it starts for me on Perceptual, and can be changed to any of the other settings.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, crijoh said:

Tried ‘Convert’ using RGB/8 and choosing iMac Calibrated as that seems to give colour balance that I’m after but still not quite right so would like to select ‘perceptual’ to match the chart but will not change from ‘relative’.

Where dis the iMac Calibrated profile come from? I don't have anything like that on my Mac for RGB/8 but for all the profiles I do have, I can choose among any of the 4 rendering intents.

[crijoh]

Hi, it's on my 2014 iMac, see screenshot        System Prefs/Displays/Colour.