hungrydog Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Hi I'm having problems selecting just my black line. I use the wand and un-tick contiguous, but the selection appears to be a scaled down version of the document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted October 25, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 25, 2019 Hi hungrydog, Welcome to Affinity Forums Have you rescaled the document or canvas (Document > Resize Document or Resize Canvas) or cropped the document at any point before creating the selection? Can you attach the .afphoto file in question please? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrydog Posted October 25, 2019 Author Share Posted October 25, 2019 Hi No, I haven't rescaled, or cropped. Doc attached. Thanks! Alex JackandJoni37.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted October 29, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 29, 2019 Hi @hungrydog, Can you attach a screen recording of your workflow? I don't seem to get that issue. Thanks, Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrydog Posted October 29, 2019 Author Share Posted October 29, 2019 Hello @Gabe I had to complete the illustration and send it off, but I'll do that if it happens again! Thanks, Alex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrydog Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 (edited) The weird selection thing is happening again. This time I'm just trying to select the white area within the black line drawing and it selects a ways off, or rotated, depending on which layer I click! Edit: I tried this with selection of just "current layer" and it worked fine. Seems to be a bug with using "all layers". I'm using a new-ish Macbook Pro and had no peripherals plugged in for this test. Thoughts? Alex PS. Apologies for the image - a birthday card for a schoolfriend turning 50 (I turned 50 this week). weird-selection.mov Edited November 20, 2019 by hungrydog Found that problem does not occur if "all layers" is not used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 20, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 20, 2019 Weird indeed. Where is the source file coming from? Is it a scanned image? Can you attach it along with the afphoto file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrydog Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 Yep. Scanned as a tiff and then brought into AP, saved as afphoto file. I was able to colour the file by selecting a single layer (the black line art) and then going into the bottom pixel layer to drop the colour in. Attached. Cheers. 2019-cathy-holy-crap.tiff 2019-cathy-holy-crap.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 21, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 21, 2019 I am unable to replicate this here I'm wondering what could trigger it. I was expecting what @MEB mentioned, that at some point the canvas would had been rotated. Very odd... we'll look into it to see if we can spot anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 21, 2019 Staff Share Posted November 21, 2019 Hi hungrydog, I'm able to replicate a similar behaviour here but i'm still not sure what you have done to trigger the behaviour - seems the selection is being made from cached data rather then the current image. The (scanned) image TIFF you provided has 2933x3893px at 600dpi, the final artwork however (the afphoto file) is 3209x4183px at 600 dpi, so seems there was some scaling/resampling involved at some point. Can you confirm this? I suggest you enable File > Save History With Document when starting a new project so we can check/revert the steps you performed if you stumble across this again. Out of curiosity, are you working with a dual screen config? Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrydog Posted November 21, 2019 Author Share Posted November 21, 2019 Yes, I am working with an external screen, but I replicated the problem with no external screen (or peripherals of any kind). I scaled by converting bitmap to greyscale and then cropping out. But the workaround is okay, so if it is just me, no matter! Thanks for looking at this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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