Brian442

This is maddening. I finally was able to paint, after a fashion. Some layers paint, some don't. Some paint only within the boundaries of a selection. But it is always hit or miss.

Yeah, I can't paint, either. I checked everything listed in this thread.

OK I just did that and the color selector did not appear. There are a bazillion choices I can drag over there, but none of them are the color selector. What am I missing? OK, never mind. It appears only after I hit "Done". So weird, but I'm glad it worked.

So I have followed several online tutorials but my copy of Affinity does something quite different. Trying to change the background of a picture. There are different methods of selecting the object/person I want to save (cut out). Then I can cut out the background. Then I can copy and paste to a different background in a different tab - it works, but is cumbersome. HOWEVER, if I open the new background into the same tab as the object/person, then the background fills the person's image (masking over top of the person) and leaving the background transparent. I've tried playing with inverting the image or the mask but that is apparently not the problem. What am I doing wrong? I follow click by click along with tutorials and get different results. I am also having trouble figuring out layers. I am coming straight from Photoshop CS 1 so I am aware I am behind the times. But there I has simple layers with option to add mask which made sense. Apparently nowadays there are four different types of layers and they can get embedded and float and do all types of weird things. It is unnecessarily complex, but where is the tutorial that explains it?