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Affinity Photo 2.5.3 not showing images when opening


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Hi,

I have a Surface Pro X and I was able to use Affinity Photo normally.  Recently when opening a photo, the images don't show but you can see it in the preview.  Most cases, you don't see the image on the preview.

What would have caused this?

 

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Welcome to the Affinity forums.

For the future, it's useful to include the complete application window in screenshots. 

But for now, it looks like you are significantly zoomed in. What do you see in the workspace and in the Navigator panel if you decrease the zoom using the Navigator panel? Or using Zoom > View to fit (Ctrl+0)?

Also, how did you create or open this this file?

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I'm seeing similar issues on my Surface Pro 9 5G (ARM64), Win11 23H2 22635.4145.

In one case, I opened a .HEIC iPhone image by dragging a file from Explorer onto Photo. The main image view is grey, the histogram looks like a histogram but for the wrong image content, the thumbnail in Layers looks to be a corrupt buffer, and the Navigator view shows transparency.

In another case, I created a new blank image, then filled the image with a solid blue color, and it behaved similarly incorrectly, showing only grey pixels and what appears to be a corrupt Layers thumbnail, etc..

I also notice that if I click tabs between Histogram and Color, each time the Histogram appears, the graph values are different, and each time the Colors tab appears, the rendering of the swatches and UI control backgrounds show different corrupt content.

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Hi @daveidmx and Welcome to the Forums,

Can you just try clicking Edit>Settings>Performance and untick hardware acceleration at the bottom of this window (if it's enabled) close Settings and you'll be asked to restart Affinity.  Once restarted, try opening an image again and let me know the results.

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