wesking
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Thank you f or your prompt reply. Please try again. The pixel Selection tools is checked. Overlay is default. I press Q and paint with the Paint Selection Tool. I click Q, and no selection (ants) appears. Instead I get brush marks.
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Help! When I have clicked on the Quick Mask as Overlay and then apply the Paint Brush Tool and then press Q, I do not get a selection (no marching ants). How do I get my selection to show?
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Hi wesking
Sorry, your screenshot has not attached. Can you link to an image somewhere?
Does it only happen with a particular file?
If you opened a .jpeg file and accidentally deleted the background Pixel layer (which would show as an empty Layers panel), then saved it (still as the same .jpeg file, using File Save or Ctrl/Cmmd+S) and closed it, that is similar to opening a Word file, deleting all the text, and saving and closing (I almost managed that once with the help of a cat walking on the keyboard).
I just tried it, you cannot recover the deleted Pixel layer after this process (especially once you have closed the .jpeg file).
Do you still have an unedited copy of the original jpeg file?
If you still have the edited file open, you might be able to recover the Pixel layer as MEB suggested, by using enough Undo (Ctrl+Z on Windows, Cmmd+Z on a Mac) or the History feature (an advanced undo manager, using a slider instead of constantly hammering Ctrl/Cmmd+Z and/or Ctrl/Cmmd+Y), possibly sliding right back to the start of the slider.
If you enable the saved history feature (File menu, Save History With Document) then saved as an .afdesign or .afphoto format (rather than just re-saving the file as .jpeg), you can still Undo even after closing and re-opening the .af(something) file.
It is possible to close or move (including off-screen) some of those panels - View menu, Studio, Reset Studio will put them all back in their standard positions.
Thank you so much. Your last sentence solved my problem.
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I am not able to perform what is prescribed by the Moderator below because the (Pixel) suffix is not there. Also the line of titles - Adjustment Layers Effects Style and Stock are not showing. There are no Layers unless I click on History. The clone and other tools do not respond.
Hi bwerne33,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
Assuming you have the correct layer selected, check if it's a Pixel layer type (look at the label in parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel). If it's identified as an Image* layer, right-click on the layer and select Rasterise... to convert it to a Pixel layer. Then you should be able to select and clone as you intended.
I assume my problem lies in not having a complete Laters Panel. Note screenshot. Thank you.
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I do not have an (image) or (pixel) layer type in the Layers Panel to right click and then to Rasterize.
How can I restore this option? A green shot attached
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There is no (pixel) suffix in the layers panel. How do I get it back?
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How can I restore a pixel background layer to a jpeg photo. Affinity worked great for a while and then I did something to screw it up. I have spent countless hours trying to restore it to no avail
Selection Brush Tool
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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When I click on the Selection Brush Tool I get 3 concentric circles, which do nothing. I must have inadvertently modified the tool. How do I get the tool back to selecting? I have tried resetting in Preferences.