I have an image I'm attempting to darken, more at the top, less at the bottom.

https://preview.redd.it/6f0bwgc6mrge1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&s=c9d761001a4848fbf0776527088276a579c17988

I've applied a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer which gets me to a uniformly darker image. Good first step. Then I want to use a gradient to mask the darkening effect as I get closer to the bottom.

I can accomplish this with a mask layer and a gradient fill. Works great. But I can't edit the gradient after I'm done, because (as I understand it) a mask layer behaves like a pixel layer. So I understand _why_ it behaves this way, the gradient is applied (destructively) to the mask layer after I click away.

How do I do this in a way that I can go back and edit the gradient later? I've tried:

* Applying a gradient overlay effect directly to the Brightness layer itself - doesn't change the result at all, no matter what values I edit.

* Creating a rectangle vector layer under the Brightness layer and using a gradient fill on the rectangle - no matter what values I set, the rectangle _brightens_ the image (presumably muting the darkening effect), but it's doing this whether I have the fill set to 0 or 100%, so I don't understand what's going on here.

What's the right way to use gradient fills in an editable fashion? I'm still new to Affinity (so ELI5) and image editing in general. I've been through a lot of tutorial videos on both the Affinity channel and elsewhere, and can't seem to figure this out. TIA!

So I wanna put this on a t shirt but I have to scan it because there’s no high res version online anywhere, is there a way to size this as a Ratio Aspect 1:1 once I get it scanned up?

I've been saving Affinity Youtube tutorials to a playlist and realize there aren't many on Youtube. They all kind of repeat the same effect or lesson. Like removing background or double exposure. Wish there was more, as I'm not super great with the software yet

Are Photoshop tutorials transferrable?

Been working on something the past few days, on iPad. Was messing with the shapes tool for a star and I touched the convert to curves button. It deleted all of my layers and just left the Group folders. Going back through history doesn’t fix it! Help!

This has been bugging me all day and I'm new to AffinityPhoto but every time I use the eraser brush to erase something in a photo, it doesn't erase anything. The same thing happens for every tool/brush that I use in the app. For example, the paint brush doesn't work when I try to paint. However, this paint brush icon pops up next to a layer every time I make an action using a tool. I just want my eraser brush to work again! If anyone knows how to fix this issue, please let me know!

https://preview.redd.it/fc98ivd2x4ge1.png?width=194&format=png&auto=webp&s=09fb545eaece874fabe532ff55e32eb093baea7f

https://preview.redd.it/ict418q2x4ge1.png?width=246&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f5ba7df9a3f52868a28da36d65fdebbe004a638

Hello and thank you for your time. I am unable to update to the newest version of Affinity Photo.

When I first open AP I am prompted with a popup to download and update to the latest version. When I click confirm it appears to start to download the update, but after a few seconds it disappears, having done nothing. Has anyone else experienced this? When I try to download from Affinity directly it gives me an older version.

https://preview.redd.it/qhiduc8943ge1.jpg?width=1254&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb35c95201ec29952c444ca7226fe14ec58d7c9

https://preview.redd.it/fzmj2d8943ge1.jpg?width=1397&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d017392a1bc8db76627d8779ab8c397d783515b1

Edit: Surface Pro 6 -- Windows 10

I'm taking map I exported from Dungeon Alchemist that looks like this:

Initial export, not much depth

I'm trying to give it the appearance of being _really_ deep, with a final result that looks something like this:

Desired end result, but... better

I created that effect by just overlaying a bunch of freehand polygons on top of the background layer in Foundry VTT. What I'd like to do is just edit the JPG itself to create this, so I can remove all of the polygons I layered on top of it. Note that the bridge needs to stay on top, and ideally will show black in between the slats (which I realize will probably take a lot of detailed editing). I'd like to get a much smoother transition from semi-transparent to fully opaque, but so far my efforts using the gradient fill tool have been a disaster.

Today is my first day using Affinity Photo and I have no idea what I'm doing. I'd appreciate any guidance on how I can get from the first to the second. I don't even know what kind of tutorial to search for to help guide me, because I am a complete newbie to this kind of photo editing. Thanks in advance!

Hey All,

I am new to affinity photo and have made edits in the raw persona. But, after i click on develop the changes disappear and the image looks blur. I have selected RAW embedded when making changes in RAW persona. Please let me know what i am doing wrong.

New user, I want to know if affinity photo has something like adobe bridge or something that lets you view multiple raw images before having them put into the actual app for editing. Like a selection area. I have over 200 pics to edit and I need a way work on all of them. Thanks in advance.

I'm looking into getting an Affinity license, but not sure what the best option is. Will I be using anything other than Affinity Photo? As I read somewhere you can get the cheapest option and it still works to use the license on both mac and windows.

Say l open a RAW file, make changes, click on Develop and then save to AFPhoto.

I assumed that if I had an embedded layer, I could turn that layer on or off and the original photo would still be there, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Is my whole understanding of this wrong?

I'm surprised I can't export in 10bit .avif yet. What is your workflow?

New to using affinity photo 2 on my MacBook and I been scanning Cd booklets preferably the front artwork design but can someone in here let me know how can I edit this album cover to where I can make it fuller without the clocks being cropped out or if anyone has an idea

Is there a way to preview a tiling texture - like make the view 4x4 so I see where's the seam?

I have a simple texture of colored rectangles at 45 degrees but it has a seam when I view it outside of affinity photo

Is it possible to make a new macro on the iPad version?

Hi guys, how can I make this kind of background with two layers ( yellow/coloured and image of monstrance)?. THANKS

The Just Ride graphic is what came with the file. It says to double click on the thumbnail of the "Your design here" layer to edit it but in AP that just zooms in on the graphic. When I import my png and place it above the Shadows overlay layer, the Just Ride graphic masks my png. How do I replace the Just Ride graphic in the "Your design here" layer with my own png? Thanks!

https://preview.redd.it/p7oe4n3gxeee1.png?width=1490&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d48a58540b9e694de6725752b4e7dc853e573c0

This watercolor graphic is on a white background. Because it's watercolor everything is a bit "semi-translucent". How do I remove the white background but preserve the "semi-translucency" effect so the painting can be placed on different color backgrounds without the chunky white background and edges?

https://preview.redd.it/lp1a93il7eee1.png?width=1133&format=png&auto=webp&s=800bd81c0db31acdf6e004c471e069bb546ba322

Most attempts at cutting out the background leave the blocky white in place and don't respect the semi-translucency. Here's a quick "cut out" of the background that shows what I mean.

https://preview.redd.it/t964wdp67eee1.png?width=1060&format=png&auto=webp&s=b38a94fa9cfbd9da021c049eb7bf4d571da14d33

I tried the grayscale mask trick, but that also seems to fail me. But I may be doing it wrong. See below.

https://preview.redd.it/vni4951j7eee1.png?width=1099&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0ea2c61fb8f048083cf7bcf349dc35af4946d4c

Hello and thanks for looking into this for me. Think I'm going crazy here.

I use Affinity Photo 2 to edit Public Domain Comics. Like getting rid of the Text and adding new one. One thing I can't seem to get to work is setting the Size of the Outline on Graphic Text. In the other Verions of Affinity Publisher 2 and Designer 2) I know thet there is a Window to turn on that is called Outline (I guess, it's called "Kontur" in german) and with that You can Change the thickness. I have no Problem getting the Outline, it's way to thin thou and I can't find the settings for the Outline anywhere.

The Screenshot is taken from Designer 2

Thanks in advance

It may be a weird question, but I remember finding this program in the summer during a huge sale, and I forgot to buy it. Instead, I ended up with a 6-month trial. After some time, I started working on my creative projects again and realized I still had it. I used it for about 2 months, but the trial expired. I wish I had the money to buy it at full price, but sadly, that's not an option.

if you guys please perhaps know how often, or even at all, does it go into sale please let me know. I love this program.

I have recently switched to Affinity Photo 2 from Photoshop, and besides from having to switch between gimp constantly to export bmp and ico files, things have been going well... until recently. You see, there appears to be a very interesting incompatibility with Affinity Photo 2 (Photo.exe), and the Microsoft Windows USB 3.0 Hub driver (USBHUB3.SYS), causing my computer to consistently BSOD (the stop code is DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE), meanwhile the screen becomes completely frozen other than my mouse and all audio ceases. Because of this issue, I have had to uninstall Affinity Photo 2, and try to switch to solely gimp, which is not going very well as it cannot open afphoto files and converts psd text layers into pixel layers. Please, can someone, anyone, try to explain what is going on here and how to resolve it?

I am using a ROG laptop, running Windows 11, build 26100, on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10300H @ 2.50GHz. The graphics driver I am using is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650-Ti.

The following is the crash log as analyzed by WinDbg:

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DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f)
A driver has failed to complete a power IRP within a specific time.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000000003, A device object has been blocking an IRP for too long a time
Arg2: ffffad0d25c88780, Physical Device Object of the stack
Arg3: fffffd0cfab07a00, nt!TRIAGE_9F_POWER on Win7 and higher, otherwise the Functional Device Object of the stack
Arg4: ffffad0d30761a50, The blocked IRP

Debugging Details:
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KEY_VALUES_STRING: 1

    Key  : Analysis.CPU.mSec
    Value: 8218

    Key  : Analysis.Elapsed.mSec
    Value: 13037

    Key  : Analysis.IO.Other.Mb
    Value: 0

    Key  : Analysis.IO.Read.Mb
    Value: 0

    Key  : Analysis.IO.Write.Mb
    Value: 0

    Key  : Analysis.Init.CPU.mSec
    Value: 2171

    Key  : Analysis.Init.Elapsed.mSec
    Value: 10911

    Key  : Analysis.Memory.CommitPeak.Mb
    Value: 105

    Key  : Analysis.Version.DbgEng
    Value: 10.0.27704.1001

    Key  : Analysis.Version.Description
    Value: 10.2408.27.01 amd64fre

    Key  : Analysis.Version.Ext
    Value: 1.2408.27.1

    Key  : Bugcheck.Code.LegacyAPI
    Value: 0x9f

    Key  : Bugcheck.Code.TargetModel
    Value: 0x9f

    Key  : Dump.Attributes.AsUlong
    Value: 31808

    Key  : Dump.Attributes.DiagDataWrittenToHeader
    Value: 1

    Key  : Dump.Attributes.ErrorCode
    Value: 0

    Key  : Dump.Attributes.KernelGeneratedTriageDump
    Value: 1

    Key  : Dump.Attributes.LastLine
    Value: Dump completed successfully.

    Key  : Dump.Attributes.ProgressPercentage
    Value: 0

    Key  : Failure.Bucket
    Value: 0x9F_3_IMAGE_UsbHub3.sys

    Key  : Failure.Hash
    Value: {58bbe6fe-0b43-accc-1beb-340d4227ae9c}

    Key  : Hypervisor.Enlightenments.ValueHex
    Value: 7417df84

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.AnyHypervisorPresent
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.ApicEnlightened
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.ApicVirtualizationAvailable
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.AsyncMemoryHint
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.CoreSchedulerRequested
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.CpuManager
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.DeprecateAutoEoi
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.DynamicCpuDisabled
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.Epf
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.ExtendedProcessorMasks
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.HardwareMbecAvailable
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.MaxBankNumber
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.MemoryZeroingControl
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.NoExtendedRangeFlush
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.NoNonArchCoreSharing
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.Phase0InitDone
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.PowerSchedulerQos
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.RootScheduler
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.SynicAvailable
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.UseQpcBias
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.Value
    Value: 55185662

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.ValueHex
    Value: 34a10fe

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.VpAssistPage
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.Flags.VsmAvailable
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.AccessStats
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.CrashdumpEnlightened
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.CreateVirtualProcessor
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.DisableHyperthreading
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.HostTimelineSync
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.HypervisorDebuggingEnabled
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.IsHyperV
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.LivedumpEnlightened
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.MapDeviceInterrupt
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.MceEnlightened
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.Nested
    Value: 0

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.StartLogicalProcessor
    Value: 1

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.Value
    Value: 1015

    Key  : Hypervisor.RootFlags.ValueHex
    Value: 3f7

    Key  : Stack.Pointer
    Value: NMI


BUGCHECK_CODE:  9f

BUGCHECK_P1: 3

BUGCHECK_P2: ffffad0d25c88780

BUGCHECK_P3: fffffd0cfab07a00

BUGCHECK_P4: ffffad0d30761a50

FILE_IN_CAB:  011825-11828-01.dmp

DUMP_FILE_ATTRIBUTES: 0x31808
  Kernel Generated Triage Dump

FAULTING_THREAD:  ffffad0d37d4c080

DRVPOWERSTATE_SUBCODE:  3

DRIVER_OBJECT: ffffad0d234ea4a0

IMAGE_NAME:  UsbHub3.sys

MODULE_NAME: UsbHub3

FAULTING_MODULE: fffff8004b790000 UsbHub3

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

PROCESS_NAME:  Photo.exe

DPC_STACK_BASE:  FFFFFD0CFAB07FB0

STACK_TEXT:  
fffffd0c`fab056b8 00000000`00000000     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KeBugCheckEx


IMAGE_VERSION:  10.0.26100.1882

STACK_COMMAND:  .process /r /p 0xffffad0d42d42080; .thread 0xffffad0d37d4c080 ; kb

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  0x9F_3_IMAGE_UsbHub3.sys

OSPLATFORM_TYPE:  x64

OSNAME:  Windows 10

FAILURE_ID_HASH:  {58bbe6fe-0b43-accc-1beb-340d4227ae9c}

Followup:     MachineOwner
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Thank you in advance.