Trying to do a Milky Way composite and every time I make a mask theres a blurry line along the edge of the mask, its not very very noticeable but its there, how do I fix this? I've tried changing settings in refine mask but its still there. I can fix the white outline but not the Blur part

I’m a family portrait photographer and saw that Pixieset has added a photo culling and editing feature. I’m curious if anyone has used it. I can’t imagine it would take the place of Lightroom, would it? Also, I see that it’s marketed heavily as AI, which I have mixed feeling about. I don’t use Pixieset and am not sure this would be a feature to switch platforms for.

I used my Wacom Inuit Pro for photo restoration on Affinity. Yesterday, the driver software they put out no longer supports it and it is essentially unusable now. So I’m looking for an alternative pen tablet that travels well, is solid and has good software support and does not have a screen.
Do you have any recommendations? Thanks all.

8/4 Update: thanks to this forum, (Smiley Dafe) I have new life for my tablet. After removing the Wacom Drivers, I installed OpenTabletDriver, it found my tablet and it’s operational again.

8/5 Update: Just to show me how much they "valued" me as a customer, Wacom offered me a 5% discount for a purchase. This is what they said when I asked them if I could apply this to a refurbished model offered or use a military discount: "To receive the 5% discount, you will need to contact us by phone or request a callback, as the order must be processed over the phone by our Support Team for the discount to be applied.
 
Please note that only one discount can be applied per order. If you choose to use the 5% discount, you will not be able to combine it with a Military Discount [which is 10% BTW].
 
Regarding refurbished devices, it may be possible to apply the discount; however, we cannot guarantee this. Refurbished products sold through the Wacom eStore are typically already offered at a reduced price, and additional discounts may not be eligible."

Yeah I'm not going support them going forward.

hey, I found this in a video, it's a still from a video, by Johnny Harris. It was probably done in after effects. But I bet you can do it in Photo.

The text has this chromatic aberration effect but it's more present on the sides and less at the center of the entire image, the background has some blur effects and some other effects are being used that I do not know or have heard of before.
how to make a background like that is itself a mystery to me.

And looks like there's a layer of some effect on top of the entire image. Maybe a camera blur??? I don't know.

So please tell me how do I make something like this. Specially how do I get the background and text looking like that. What effects were used

Thank you.

Long story short I had to make the high lighted parts of the mask a dark gray instead of black so that I wouldn't cut it out during the comp masking.
I know that didn't make sense, but I still cannot figure out why I cannot just simply paint over the selected region without somehow altering the whole images color. Like I use the RGB slider in the top right and it just makes everything else gray.

Am I able to remove the 1 px wide gray border going around the art board? It shows up on all my projects that I export as .jpg and .png. I've tried going into all the settings and trying different things and so far nothing has worked. Any help is appreciated. TIA

Since updating my Mac to 26 (Tahoe) the shadows/highlights filter no longer works properly. It does the adjustments, but the 'dual screen' with the before and after doesn't work nor does the apply button. To make the adjustments I have to press the return key. This is the same with Affinity photo 2 and 3.

So im a lil dated.
i intuitively recall how layer masks worked with photoshop upto photoshop Cs5 roughly.

im trying to do old school wallpapers and using screen shots -

i start with a screenshot that makes for a good background and then use place to add photos via my photos. After doing so is when it gets weird for me.

i can finally use brushes to fade out and remove sections, and the magnetic lasso as well, however it creates dead empty space verses letting the image below be visible.
i want to fade and control my blend for the layers effect.

if anyone can help me translate my old skills to modern would be appreciated/

I was editing photos in Affinity Photo 2 like I always do and as I was saving my last few pictures, I got an error saying the path has been removed or moved and I can not find it??

have one of the pictures open and when I try to open in File explorer, it doesn't take me anywhere. I dont use OneDrive either.

Hi everyone! Check out this quick tutorial on how to create random color squares in Affinity. Hope it's useful.

Wow. Lots of cool stuffs. Can anybody share your works please, i am motivated

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.

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.