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🤣 It works! thank you very much! But... but... never in 1000 years I would have thought that an image is not a pixel layer.

I have a picture, that I've imported in Affinity Designer for IPad: It contains a complex shape I switch to Pixel Persona. By using "Flood Select" I'm able to perform a good enough selection. Then I click on Copy. Then I click on Paste. The pasted picture looks just a duplicate of the original. This is not what I wanted. I wanted to end up with a pixel layer having pixels only in the selected areas, and being transparent in the non-selected areas. I've made a video of my problem: P.S. I've read this topic, and it looks very similar to my intention, but I can't reproduce the solution.

Yes. I looked everywhere. For hours. At every little corner. Until desperation. Then I searched for tutorials. And in the forum. And in Youtube. But no. I didn't look in the most obvious places of them all. 😄 Feeling dumb, now.

Hi all, On Affinity designer for Ipad, how would you merge two pixel layers: I started a drawing. I accidentally finished the drawing in a different pixel layer. Now I still want the drawing all in one layer. I've been looking everywhere, and I can't find something where I can merge down one layer into the other. Actually, I think this has been asked before, but they mention a 'Rasterize' action that I can't find (and also, I'm reluctant to rasterize a pixel layer)

Actually, I wonder now if it would be really necessary. I found a satisfying workaround: Create a new empty layer: In layer properties, (...), set it as `Multiply`. Draw many strokes in it. Those strokes won't multiply each other, because they're in the same layer. This will conform your first 'color' layer. Now, create a second layer, on top of the previous: Again, set it as `Multiply´. And draw as many strokes as you want. This will conform your second `color´ layer. I find this method close to what watercolor forces you to do: working in color layers and waiting the previous layer to dry before starting the second.

Me too. It is very annoying because the multiply mode is very nice, and the extra effort removes all the joy.

Well, when I paint in real life everything is more organic. I have only two pencils, a few brushes and 12 colors, so I can recognize them by eyeballing. Still, my brushes have a number on them, so I can order the same size at the shop. The colors have the pigments identified on the side, so I can buy the same shade at the shop. My pencils are graded 4B to 4H, so I can find the exact same at the shop. And my fountain pen tip has its width engraved, so I can find the same sizes everywhere. You see where I’m going? I don’t think it is a user requirement for Affinity Designer to force the user to guess the stroke style, size and color instead of displaying it somewhere. And I find it frustrating because every stroke has a well defined set of properties so the engine can render it. It is just a matter of making this information available.

Thanks for your answer. Indeed, I believe it would be helpful to be able to see all properties of a stroke.

Hi all, Say that I drew a particularly nice stroke in Vector Persona. I used for it just the right balance of transparency, thickness, and a beautiful vector brush. Time passes, I do more strokes in different styles, but now I would like to do more strokes in the same style as this original one. I can still see it in the document, and I can select it. But how can I tell: If it is Pencil, Vector Brush or Pen Tool? What brush is it?