Apply Adjustment Layer With Paintbrush

[roaming.lens]

I am returning to Affinity Photo after a recent trip to edit some pics. In the past I was able to add an adjustment to a specific part of my photo by creating the adjustment, inverting the layer, and painting white on the adjustment layer over the part of my photo I wanted the adjustment visable. However, now when I use my paint brush to paint white on the adjustment layer, nothing happens at all.

Anyone have any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Maybe something has changed in an update since I was last editing, many months ago.

[smadell]

Your brush itself is set to Soft Light blend mode. It should be set to Normal. (I’m not referring to the Layer blend mode, which you have also set to Soft Light. Rather, you have set the brush to Soft Light in the Context Toolbar.) Note that Soft Light provides a rather muted effect when used on a High Pass layer. This will be compounded when you use a soft light moded brush.

[roaming.lens]

3 hours ago, smadell said:

Your brush itself is set to Soft Light blend mode. It should be set to Normal. (I’m not referring to the Layer blend mode, which you have also set to Soft Light. Rather, you have set the brush to Soft Light in the Context Toolbar.) Note that Soft Light provides a rather muted effect when used on a High Pass layer. This will be compounded when you use a soft light moded brush.

Thank you! This was it! Setting this to normal fixed my issue. Thanks again!

[smadell]

Glad you got it sorted out. Happy to help!