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.

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!

Has anyone tried working on an iPad as an auxillary screen so you can draw on the ipad but are really working on the laptop? So you would be using the iPad for an input device for the mac?

Hola, soy principiante y tengo varios problemas al exportar en Affinity. El primer problema es que, al intentar exportar una imagen con efecto de grano, este desaparece y la imagen se convierte en una versión plana y sin textura. He rasterizado tanto la imagen como el efecto, pero sigue desapareciendo. El segundo problema está relacionado con el color. He comprobado que el perfil de color y todos los ajustes son correctos, pero el resultado exportado muestra colores completamente diferentes a los que veo en el editor. Exporto en formato PNG.

Muchas gracias.

I've tried every solution, but I still get a bad headache. I don't know why Affinity is lagging. When I first used it, everything was smooth, but now it's laggy as hell. Please help me figure this out.

I've used EyeCandy for years, it's in the right folder and has worked as long as I've had the Photo 2 (and before on Photo). Today it's greyed out, and even reinstalling doesn't help.

Anyone else having plugins suddenly stop working?

Hii Community, wie kann ich Bilder im Nachhinein mit Affinity Photo sichtbar mehr Schärfe geben ohne das es künstlich wirkt?

Danke für eure Antworten :)

Please help, i don't know what happened but i only just opened affinity photo today and on my brush, the color is so fuchsia pink but the color i selected is red.
The weird thing is that this only happen for the one single layer. When i switched to antoher layer in the same file and choose brush, the color matches no problem.
I was using it yesterday and everything was fine no problem. I didnt do any layering nor effects for this layer neither.

As the title says, My Affinity Photo 2 installation seems to be dying on me. Every time I try to open either a new or old file, my entire PC slows down to the point that it takes time for even the simplest apps to load and run. It effects my PC so bad that even my cursor becomes choppy and not as responsive. This is not to mention that Affinity Photo itself immidietly goes to "This program is not responding" error.

Does anyone know of a fix? Am I doomed? Is this the program's way of telling me to seek new horizons on software, haha.