Automatically Merges Layers

[fysmworld]

Windows 10 with Affinity 2.1.1

 

Something weird started happening just today. Whenever I go to edit an adjustment layer (double click on the thumbnail of the layer), it automatically merges with my bottom layer. The bottom layer is a converted raw file as this is for photography, and the other layers are all adjustment layers. But wtf?

[firstdefence]

Could be a corrupt profile or simply a glitch in the matrix, either way, you can clear a few settings by launching the app with the CTRL key held down, a Clear User Data window will pop up, you can try the first entry Clear User Defaults and see if that solves the problem.

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

9 hours ago, fysmworld said:

Something weird started happening just today. Whenever I go to edit an adjustment layer (double click on the thumbnail of the layer), it automatically merges with my bottom layer. The bottom layer is a converted raw file as this is for photography, and the other layers are all adjustment layers. But wtf?

If you can create a screen recording of the complete application window showing this happening, it might help us figure out what's happening.

[Old Bruce]

13 hours ago, fysmworld said:

Something weird started happening just today. Whenever I go to edit an adjustment layer (double click on the thumbnail of the layer),

Why double click? Here on Mac OS I just click on it to open the edit window. Is this double click necessary on Windows?

Regardless, a double click shouldn't merge the Adjustment Layer.

Do you have any third party utilities running? Does the mouse you use require special drivers?

[thomaso]

20 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Why double click? Here on Mac OS I just click on it to open the edit window. Is this double click necessary on Windows?

By the way, in macOS 10.12.6 | Affinity V1 a double click is required to open an adjustment layer's dialog – while a single click does either nothing or reduces a possible current selection of several layers to the layer selection of the adjustment layer only. (… while none causes a layer merge)

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, thomaso said:

By the way, in macOS 10.12.6 | Affinity V1 a double click is required to open an adjustment layer's dialog...

It was changed in V2 to require just a single click, I believe for all supported OS versions for both Macs & Windows. I can't think of any reason why it should require a double click so I guess that is considered to be an improvement in V2 vs. V1.