how to learn affinity photo

affinity photo keeps half its power behind a persona switch, and that trips people constantly. raw files open into the develop persona, and once you hit develop there is no easy road back, so a reset means starting the file again. mask brushes look like they are painting and nothing happens, usually because the mask layer is not the selected one or you are painting white on white. and a cutout that looked clean on a plain wall falls apart the moment the background is a tree line.

coverage below is built around that workflow. cutouts come first, both removing a background and dropping a new one behind the subject. masking follows, with inverting a mask and diagnosing a brush that refuses to paint. the raw side gets develop basics plus resetting settings you have pushed too far. retouching is covered at two levels: frequency separation for skin, and straightforward object removal. and there is a short piece on moving between personas without losing your place.

have the raw file open when you ask. press the key, say "my mask brush is doing nothing", and HeyBraza checks your screen at that exact moment, explains what the mask is listening to, and a teal dot points at the layer thumbnail and the colour swatch that is working against you. nothing gets clicked on your behalf. you fix it yourself on your own photo, and the layer-plus-mask model finally makes sense instead of being trial and error.

photographers editing raw files, cutouts and skin in affinity photo, blocked by masks or a persona