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Thank you! By changing my blend mode to darken, I was able to achieve what I wanted.

Thank you for the quick reply, thomaso. Here are my layer effects --

Hello, I am having trouble making the outer glow show up with a background layer color. I thought if the background layer was all the way at the bottom of the layer chain, it would show up. What should I be doing? Top photo of the glow, and bottom photo of the glow being gone once I have a background layer in.

thank you, for some reason I had trouble getting those tools to work, but I will try again and figure it out.

Hello, I'm still very new at this. I copied one of her fingers to make it look like she was holding something bigger. How do I match the finger to make it look like it's attached? Sometimes I think I'm using tools on the correct layer but then I don't see any changes (particularly the lone finger layer). Also any other advice on how to improve what I've done would be lovely too...

oy vey, yes, that was my problem. Thank you to everyone for your help.

wait, I think I know what's happening. I am able to edit, but only in the section I deleted using the selection brush tool. So... how do I make the trace lines go away and be able to edit off the whole image again? Sorry, I'm new to this.

Yes, I pulled the bar to see more and it is a pixel image. I'm still stuck. I can't figure out why I am able to use tools with another image but not for this one (when I was editing on it a couple days ago -- I was eliminating the background with the selection brush). I'm still able to make my brush bigger with the bracket keys, but I can't do anything (clone, inpainting...). I toggle between this image and the one I am able to edit on and I see no difference in things selected.

Would it work if I made it a pixel layer? I just tried doing the cloning tool and inpainting brush tool to another image and it works fine on that pixel image, but I can't do any of that to the one I want to be working on.

I did think it was an image layer and Right-clicked Rasterize, but nothing changed.

Hello, I am also having this problem. Alt, click, and I get the plus symbol on the part I want to color clone, but then nothing shows up in the circle for me to clone. I take my mouse over to the part I want to apply the clone, click on it and nothing changes. Aligned source is unclicked. Layer is unlocked and I believe I'm on the layer I want to work on. Hardness is 80 (but I feel that's something to toy with once I actually clone something?) Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Thank you! I didn't quite figure it out in Publisher, but I was able to open up Paint 3D and I swear even though I previously tried it, this time I was able to black fill in the transparent background. So then I just dragged that new saved image into the look book I'm creating in Publisher.

Hello! I think I have a similar question -- I dragged a JPEG into Affinity Publisher (Publisher is all I have). I made sure the JPEG had a transparent background because I thought once I pulled it in, the background would fill to match the black rectangle I had created as the bottom layer that everything stacks onto. But I'm still left with a transparent checkerboard background on the image and when I try to fill, it fills everything on the jpeg. I want the main image left as is, but the transparent background on the JPEG to be filled in (black). Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you, carl123. Appreciate the additional tips.

Thank you so much!