Terry Hand Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 I am using Mac OS 10.15.3. Whenever I use the the eyedropper tool it selects the colour and then just fills the entire document with the selected colour. When I try to undo this I have to wait several minutes before the Mac wheel stops rotating, effectively freezing the program. On one occasion I had to restart my computer as it also made the curser disappear. Since I installed the latest update of Affinity it seems noticeably slow during most operations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 What kind of a document do you have, Terry, (that is, how did you create it) and what application after you using? And "eyedropper" is ambiguous, as there are several. It almost sounds like you have an (Image) layer (check the Layers panel) rather than a (Pixel) layer. If so, and if you use the Color Picker Tool, and if you select the "Apply to Selection" option on the Context Toolbar, then the color you pick would become the Fill of your (Image) layer. Which sounds like what you're describing. To fix that, either don't select that Context Toolbar option, or Rasterize the layer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Hand Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Hi Walt, On this particular document there are only two layers. Both are pixel layers. The bottom one is a photograph and the upper one is a shape also created in Affinity. I am using the eyedropper tool from the toolbar on the left, similar to the one in Photoshop. I don't believe I have ever used an Image Layer. What is most concerning is the freezing between operations. It is not a particularly large document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 10 minutes ago, Terry Hand said: I am using the eyedropper tool from the toolbar on the left, similar to the one in Photoshop. That is the Color Picker Tool, and it has the Apply to Selection option: You may want to turn that off. I did not think it would affect Pixel layers, and it does not when I use it. I can't comment on the slowdown; sorry. Can you share the document? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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