[Photo] I can paint on invisible layer

[FatCatStudio]

When the layer is selected, but its visibility is turned off, I can still paint on it. I can't imagine any kind of situation when I would want to do that.

Affinity Photo 2 v2.41, MacOS Sonoma 14.4.1, last Intel iMac.

[NotMyFault]

This is a feature, not a bug.

9 hours ago, FatCatStud!o said:

I can’t imagine any kind of situation when I would want to do that.

Maybe lack of imagination.

1. If you trace a layer below and don’t want to cover it during painting
2. you can use  linked layers to get the visible result in a copy of the layer

the only point to made is that Affinity lacks a content lock against unwanted changing of certain layers. But this should be independent from layer visibility.

[NotMyFault]

To add an even stronger use case:

you can edit multiple layers in one go (toggle “edit all layers”).

you may have a stack of many layers, to keep things organized. Now imagine you want to add some pixel content in all layers, but need to hide some of the layers during painting to focus on the relevant parts.

Affinity has much more use cases than one single person can imagine, and one of the core advantages is that it doesn’t block some functions to enforce only specific use cases.

E.g. Allowing filters and adjustments for CMYK documents. Unfortunately this leads to many complaints due to unexpected results (as many adjustments are based on additive color model and provide strange results in subtractive CMYK model  (thus technically correct).

[FatCatStudio]

20 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

This is a feature, not a bug.

Maybe lack of imagination.

1. If you trace a layer below and don’t want to cover it during painting
2. you can use  linked layers to get the visible result in a copy of the layer

the only point to made is that Affinity lacks a content lock against unwanted changing of certain layers. But this should be independent from layer visibility.

Ok, you got the point.