Ned Sloane

It's a very simple object - a glass pitcher. As I was selecting it in refine edge I noticed that the 2 mode buttons at the far left had reversed functions - then when the selection was complete the object was red & I knew that hundreds of times in the past it was the background that was red, and no matter how many times I used the INVERT button in the LAYERS menu, I was not able to cut the background. This should be a very simple problem - can't you simply tell me how to solve this ??

I have an object selected but, unlike previously, the object is in red (it used to be the background - so I went to "invert" but the program still deleted the object and left the background' I tried re-inverting many time but the object kept being deleted I had successfully eliminated backgrounds hundreds of times but suddenly it's not working. I reset my password but have not received a reply. please respond.

what kind of file do you want ?? This is impossibly obtuse ! When I drag an image in here everything becomes obscured.

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Dear smadell - thank you so much -I would never have found this in the AffinityPhoto workbook or in the tutorials I watched so far !

Hello smadell - thanx for the effort to explain all that ! Happy new year !

Hello, smadell - Why would I want an adjustment to apply to all layers ?? And how can I prevent this from happening ? sorry, but in my experience with PhotoShop for almost 20 yrs, I have always worked on one layer at a time. I don't do batch processing. all the best to you in 2022 !

sorry - I meant double click

Thank you - but what worked to open the editing window was clicking on the white square of the child (mask) layer. wishing you all the best in the new year !

NED again ! with another question : In the Assistant Manager I turned on the "add adjustment as child layer" which seems to eliminate the need to drag one layer into another (nest), but if I want to return to my layer later to make further adjustments, must I not return to the Layer > new adjustment layer > etc - when yet another adj layer is created ? why can I not simply continue to work with the original adjustment layer ??

I tried again & it doesn't matter whether the adjustment layer is above or below - the entire image changes, not just the layer selected. But your layers and mine look quite different - here are my 2 layers : no downward arrow - & neither of yours is highlighted in slate blue - I need explicit instructions !

Thanks so much, Ron P - the prospect of using child layers gives me hope, but so far the need to "nest" adjustment layers seems unnecessarily complicated and very unwieldy - it makes me want to go back to PhotoShop, which makes adjustments so easy. But tutors & tutorials assume people like me (an 84 year old who began learning computer software at the age of 65) know things like, for example : Where is the ADJUSTMENT MANAGER ?? I've looked at all the menus & can't find it. Again, thanks for your help & I hope you can stick with me as I struggle along with Affinity, which I was first attracted to because of its excellent REFINE EDGE function, which I found to be much superior to PhotoShop.