Jaffa Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 I have just been working at the very initial stages with a pixel layer and duplicate. I have found often both at home and at our tutoring sessions (where we can have up to eight desktops and two laptops working) that Affinity Photo frequently shows the layers, in the Layers Panel, completely black or completely transparent, when they patently are not! Sometimes this comes right later ................... and sometimes not. Attached is an example from today. My suggestion is to have a refresh option for the layers panel to prompt Affinity to do the job again and fix. Quote Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander (Jim) Windows 11 Affinity Photo 2.4 Lightroom 6 Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz 32 °C Coffee Lake 14nm Technology Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Out of curiosity, does it work more reliably for you if you turn off the "Checkerboard Background" option in the Layers panel options (hamburger menu)? Or perhaps if you decrease the thumbnail size? I seem to recall at least one bug report related to those options. Edit: Also, have you tried the 1.7.2 beta to see if it behaves the same way? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomM1 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I have seen this also with adjustment layer thumbnails. Quote website Mac mini (2018) 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7 64 GB • Radeon Pro 580 8 GB • macOS Monterey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markbowen Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 I get that all the time here but just thought it was a redraw issue as I'm on an much older computer here - Mac Pro (2011). It's worse when I use a Depth Of Field blur adjustment too though that I'm guessing is pretty power hungry anyway. Quote https://www.instagram.com/mbphotomanipulationshttps://www.behance.net/mbphotomanipulations Affinity Photo 1.7.2 Mac OSX 10.12.5 Mac Pro (Mid 2010) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomM1 Posted August 28, 2019 Share Posted August 28, 2019 Here is another example of layer thumbnails and the levels histogram that lasted a minute or so before updating. Quote website Mac mini (2018) 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7 64 GB • Radeon Pro 580 8 GB • macOS Monterey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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