Designer 2.1.0 Masking a group causes different color antialiasing in pixel view than edge of shapes

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

I don't remember this happening before the recent update, but it could be some setting I changed and forgot about, but antialiasing in pixel view has a green or blue tint when it is caused by a mask but the outline of a shape has correct antialiasing. it's in RGB color space, and I tried to see if 16 bit would change it but nope. the screenshot with a glow was previously created and this bug did not show then.

[lepr]

A masked group with Passthrough blend mode is rendered incorrectly where the mask produces semi-opacity.

That bug has been in the Affinity apps, and reported many times, for the 6 years I've used them, so I consider it a forever bug now.

Workaround: switch the group's blend mode to Normal or any except Passthrough and the rendering will be correct.

Edited May 29, 2023 by lepr
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[Dan C]

Hi @RocketPoweredTennisBall,

Thanks for your report.

As above, this issue is logged as a bug with our development team and I will be sure to 'bump' this with your thread now to bring it to their attention once again.

Hopefully you should find the above workaround resolves this issue for you in the meantime

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

ah normal blend mode does seem to fix it

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Masks on groups with Passthrough don't composite correctly" (REF: AF-2951) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2805). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
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If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.