Crash or Freeze when using Selections

[seafreak62]

All,

 

  While using Selections the I run into multiple problems which occur after initial selection.

 

1. Trying to drag around the canvas to refine the selection by using the any of the Selections tools and the "marching ants line" disappears and the program will either crash or act like no selection was made.  Sometimes panning around the canvas will bring things back but it is hit-or-miss.

 

2. After refining selection to mask, New Layer with mask or New Layer the a haze appears on the mask layer.  This looks like a blur has been applied with streaks all over the canvas.

 

3.Cannot make selection without first creating a New Pixel Later.  The Selections acts as if there is no information to select until the pixel layer is created and then the layer to make selections out of is chosen.  Again another hit-or-miss issue.

 

4. After trying to add an adjustment layer to a mask, Photo will crash and when I re-open the program the adjustment has been applied in a checker board pattern on the mask and I am unable to undo without again crashing.  At this point I have to start the workflow over for any meaningful recovery.

 

The Selections problems make this program so unstable that I cannot use it for any work on the go.  I do use the desktop version on MacOS but the point of having it on my iPad is to have the flexibility to create anywhere.

[DWright]

Hi seafreak62,

 

Welcome to the forum

 

I have been unable to replicate the issues that you are having when using the selections in Affinity Photo, can you please confirm the model of iPad that you are using and the version number of Affinity Photo that you are running.