Hi, years of having "Enter" for deselect is hard to overcome. It is something I do a lot. I can reassign deselect to "Enter". That works fine. However, some day I may want to use the Power Duplicate tool. I can't find it in Settings/Shortcuts to reassign it? Does anyone know where it is?

Thanks.

tryna get the adjustment window up so i can use presets but cannot for the life of me get the window to pop up

ive done the whole select under the window tab ive done the reset nothing.

any advice?

I've been using Affinity Photo 1.10 forever, and recently (in the past year, let's be honest) the paintbrush tool just shows the circle cursor with zero color. Pixel tool works fine, Color Replacement Brush works fine, but I can't use the regular Paintbrush at all. I've looked through YouTube and the official Support channels and nothing. It's entirely possible that I just have something toggled that I don't know about. Help?

I’m not sure how I got these 2 apps but I have Affinity photo 2 (with the purple background) and Affinity (with the green background) both installed on my Mac desktop. Do I need both? If not, which one should I keep on my desktop. I also edit on my iPad and they are both installed there as well

Rookie question here. How do I get back to correct the fringing?

Hey ! I had some negatives lying around and wanted to test my printer's scanner quality, so I tried to turn them to positives in Affinity.

I created an inverted calc, I displayed the scope, and then used curves to better frame red green and blue. On the tuto I followed, he did that and bam, good colors. Whereas I am stuck with that blue tint from the inverted pellicule's color. How can I get rid of it ? Thanks !

PS : on the images, the part of the pellicule is pure blue 'cause I didn't want to show a part of the pellicule with a personal image, but otherwise I can still see the pictures behind the blue tint.

Thanks !

I installed the 2.0 and it’s been nothing but trouble for me. Getting locked out and unable to edit halfway through drawings, opacities getting stuck on the brush tool and not being able to fix it; and much more.

Hi guys,

I am just starting learning affinity and my obj selection tool and magic wand type tool doesn't work.i have watched a lot of tutorials if someone knows how to get rid of this problem please help me

So, whenever I copy and paste multiple images into a document, arrange them, at the end I just want to flatten the whole image, get rid of all layers and just merge them into one document, one image. But when I press Merge Visible or Merge Layers, it never does it. What am I doing wrong?

I can give you the exact scenario it happened in now:

1. I paste multiple pictures into one big canvas (they all have same background color).
   
2. Inevitably, to align them correctly, there's sometimes "checkerboard" gaps between them.
   
3. I want to fill those in by using the paint tool (and sampling the colors of the background in the images).
   
4. I Merge Layers, Merge Visible.
   
5. But then when I go to paint (or bucket to fill in background), it never paints on the checkerboard - I'm somehow still in layer mode and all the layers in the history are visible and I can never fill it in.

What am I doing wrong?

Hola, descargue la ultima version de Affinity alguien me podria explicar por que la presion del pincel no funciona, me refiero al uso normal donde el pincel tiene las mismas capacidades de presion que se utilizan econ un lapiz o cualquier otro medio analogico usado para dibujar o pintar. Gracias de antemano

When implementing visual perception experiments in a browser environment, minor discrepancies in CSS values can completely disrupt cognitive phenomena like Troxler fading and negative afterimages.

We analyzed a digital version of the Lilac Chaser (Pac-Man) illusion where the visual effect failed to trigger. By adjusting the implementation from high-saturation purples to softer pastel values (such as #d8bfd8 with 0.45 alpha transparency), we allowed the stimulus to blend correctly with the background. Additionally, we corrected the script logic so the moving gap functions as a disappearing element matching the background, rather than a color-swapping element.

For those interested in the code adjustments and the underlying visual neuroscience, the full walk-through is available here: https://youtu.be/iQOVVnozkjA

How have you handled precise visual calibration or stimulus presentation in your own browser-based cognitive experiments?

Buongiorno a tutti. Mi sono da poco iscritto a reddit ed a questa community. Sono utente Affinity Photo da un po' di tempo e chiedo la possibilità di postare link a vari tutorial che ho postato su YouTube. Grazie mille

Hi there. My .psd files are opening in Affinity with unexpected colours. I'm familiar with colour profile and display colour profile management, and have spent ages trying to resolve this through info available online. 

Is it not odd that Apple Preview can open a .psd file and display its colours correctly, while Affinity can't display colours correctly?

This is happening with every .psd file I open in Affinity. Crucially... I am hoping to be able to retain the adjustment layers in all my different photo files because grading is an ongoing process, a process which I would not like to have to start-over from scratch for every one of my hundreds of scanned film photographs, which have all been graded in photoshop.  

So I'd like to pose two questions, firstly ~
1) is this occurring due to either  i) a colour profile mismatch,
or ii) incompatibility of .psd adjustment layers with Affinity...?

2) secondly, and primarily ~
Might there be a preset or some other workaround to get colour in Affinity (for PSD-based files) to display correctly?
Could a possible solution be to apply adjustment layer/s in Affinity to a/group of psd-originated adjustment layer/s so that the colour in the file in Affinity becomes correct?
(kind of like applying a pre-set filter to automatically colour-grade certain 35mm film stocks: a pre-set adjustment layer that aligns colour in Affinity with what was seen in PS?)

The screenshots show ~
1) a comparison between the photo's correct colour (a graded .psd file displayed in an Apple Preview window) and the same file open in Affinity.
2) said file's colour profile settings (sRGB was the colour profile used in PS)
3) The original ungraded photograph (displayed in Apple preview window) and the .psd file open in Affinity but with the .psd adjustment layers disabled. 

...already spent spent trying to find a fix this through info online and on chatgpt + gemini. Affinity's AI in-app help bot couldn't provide a solution and eventually advised me to submit a support ticket (at a non-existent web address, so no luck there).
So I'm turning to reddit in the hope of any feedback or suggestions. Any would be appreciated, so thanks in advance.

Hey everyone, I made a redesign of the Google Play Store icon while tinkering around in Affinity Photo by Canva, NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WHATSOEVER.

In Affinity Photo, is it possible to precisely set the dimensions of a rectangle by keying in the width and height in pixels?

If you've been wanting to try this effect, check this out.

Hello all...

I need to create a couple of animated GIF ads with a file size of less than 200 KB. I only have seven frames and need to adjust the pause timing on each frame.

This *was\* easy with Photoshop, where the GIF export saved only the changes between frames.

Every GIF creator I've tried (including Canva) seems more configured to convert videos to GIF, with no frame-by-frame timing tools. Every export attempt is well over 800k.

In 2026, is (cough) Photoshop (or Photoshop Elements) really the only way to have frame-level control, and to optimize so that only the changes between frames are in the GIF?

Thanks.

Note: Long ago, I used PS to create hundreds of file-size-optimized GIFs in PS this way, while working in (cough) advertising.

For context, my workflow has been to cull large numbers of bike racing photos in Adobe Bridge. Then, I'd select a group (sometimes 10 and sometimes several hundred) that I want to edit. Then I open them in Adobe Camera Raw. I'll select all photos and do the lens correction to them. Move to crop and put an 8X10 crop on all of them. Then I go image by image and adjust the crop specific to the photo. After all have been cropped, I do an auto-adjust globally on them all. Then, I go into the individual photos and make adjustments to my liking. Then I'll do a save (without opening) of my edited files. After that, I select Done to save the adjustments for the individual files. I'll often start with 3000 - 7000 frames, get it down to about 10% that I'll edit. Opening them one at a time is prohibitive.

I tried going to Bridge and selecting my photos to edit, right clicking and choosing Open with Affinity, but it just locked things up.

So... is there a way to do a similar workflow in Affinity to large batches of photos? There are some global adjustments, but then I come in and do specific adjustments to individual images.

I have a MAC from ‘08 with CS6 on it, I might use it once every couple of years now, but when I do, I use almost every tool in the arsenal.

I heard Affinity is supposed to be like it. I need something permanent, that will work offline, that will stay on my computer as long as my computer is around, that’s why I still have CS6, it can’t be stolen from me if I lose my internet.

I feel like CS6 is too old for me to scroll through posts and look for similar questions, so I was wondering if anyone could tell me how similar the two are? What do I lose? Like CS6 had those fun artwork filters, which I sometimes needed for blending two different photos of different quality and lighting… does affinity have something like that?

Any answers would help. I’d download it, but without a project in mind I can’t just start using it to figure it out. All my unfinished projects are on my old Mac.

Hi Guys,

If I’m using a third-party pencil that functions similarly to Apple’s, and I’m working on Affinity Photo version one for the iPad, how do I undo a step? I understand you tap two fingers when using your fingers but I’m curious about the process with a pencil?

Working on a book layout. When I go to Export PDF > Advanced... > Current Page, it only lets me export left hand pages, not right hand pages. Doesn't matter which page is active, I can only export the left ones. Last week I could export left or right pages so I suspect that some setting changed somewhere. Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks!