[Designer 2.5.7] Opacity changes when cropping placed Photo file

[LCamachoDesign]

When vector cropping an Affinity Photo file placed inside an Affinity Designer document, with an opacity value different from 100%, the visual opacity will suddenly and unexpectedly drop, but the value on the layer remains unchanged.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create an Affinity Photo file, even a simple file with just a circle will do
2. Create a new Affinity Designer file
3. Place the Affinity Photo in the Affinity Designer document
4. Change the opacity of the placed Photo file, to 30% for example
5. Select the Vector crop tool, and start copping the Photo file
6. Notice the visual opacity of the placed document drops substantially
7. Delete the vector mask, notice the opacity returns to the original

I've also attached a short video demonstrating the issue, and sample files to test this situation.

This seems to only happen with Photo files, any other types of placed files work fine. It also only happens with vector masks, if you create a pixel mask, by using the Eraser too on the Pixel Persona for example, this will not happen. The vector mask does not need to be created by the Vector Crop tool, that is merely the easiest way to trigger this problem, but other vector masks will have the same problem.

Additionally, this is not just a visual bug. If you export the file, for example to a JPEG file, the image will have the incorrect bugged opacity rather than the correct value.

Thanks!

Test Photo File.afphoto Test Designer File.afdesign

[prophet]

I can confirm this on Mac as well (2.5.7 of Photo and Designer, MacOS Ventura 13.7)

[Old Bruce]

Also on Mac OS here.

I think what is happening is that the Vector Crop tool is also applying the opacity change. Until this bug gets fixed what you have to do is restore the .afphoto file layer to 100% and use the Vector crop layer with your change in opacity. I didn't test various blend modes.

[Callum]

Hi LCamachoDesign,

Thank you for your report,

This has now been logged with our developers to be fixed in a future update.

Thanks
C

[lepr]

Logged lol. Future lol.

It's one of many permabugs from the v1 epoch. Reported years ago. Even less chance of getting fixed now than back then.

[Patrick Connor]

21 hours ago, lepr said:

Logged lol. Future lol.

It's one of many permabugs from the v1 epoch. Reported years ago. Even less chance of getting fixed now than back then.

Although this is like one of the very early Designer issues whereby vector cropping a vector object with opacity made it darker, that was fixed back for 1.9. This one when you vector crop an embedded documents, seems similar to the vector crop of pixel layers with some Opacity [AF-3704] . Until we check the code I am not sure if they have the same fix so I have not closed this one as a duplicate.

Thanks @LCamachoDesign for your report.

[lepr]

20 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

Although this is like one of the very early Designer issues whereby vector cropping a vector object with opacity made it darker, that was fixed back for 1.9.

The v2 bug being reported in this thread was carried over from v1.10.8, if not earlier.

Pixel objects and placed documents, but not Image objects, are affected.