[Range Pixel Selections]

Well... I have found out the answer to why it didn't work. But, I don't understand why the why existed. Confused? Me too. Let me explain...

 

When I moved on to the next section (Sampled Color Pixel Selections), the Assistant rasterized the photo for me. Now all of the selection tools are working. However, the photo was a JPG. Maybe I am just grossly misinformed, but I understand a rasterized object to be one that is pixel-based. I thought that JPG files were already rasterized by the nature of the file format.

 

That being said, I know that in the future if I have this issue, I can manually rasterize the image and continue with no issues. I just want to understand the reasoning behind this issue.

[Range Pixel Selections]

Hi again! I am still making my way through all of the Help documentation. I have reached the area on range pixel selections. I can't make the Color Range or Tonal Range selections work. I have selected an image (pixel) layer. But, when I try to use the tool, it doesn't work. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

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[Layer clipping vs layer masking]

Oh wow! Thank you so much! That was very helpful. 

 

In fact, now that I've seen it, it seems kind of obvious. I don't know how I didn't get it before! 

 

Thanks again!

[Layer clipping vs layer masking]

Hey guys, 

 

I have just begun to use this software and I am currently reading my way through the Affinity Designer Help articles. However, when I got to the sections on "Layer clipping" and "Layer masking", I got confused. 

 

It seems from the help articles that "Layer clipping" and "Vector masking" are the same thing. 

 

From the "Layer clipping" section:

 

In the Layers panel, drag the object to be clipped on top of the object which is to perform the clipping.

The clipped object is nested within the clipping object in the Layers panel. The clipped object has become a child of the clipping object.

 

From the "Layer masking" section:

 

In the Layers panel, drag the created object entry directly onto the thumbnail of another 'target' object. A thumbnail appears next to the target object indicating that a mask and crop have been applied.

 

 

Am I just dense or are these two things the same thing? If there is a difference, I want to know what it is and what the different use cases are. If not, I just want to know not to get hung up on this. Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided!

 

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