How Open Layer in edit window? (AP)

[jlav]

I hear people say that if you double click on the canvas, or on the thumbnail in the layers panel I can open an embedded layer in its own editing window. I have done this at times, and now it just won't do it.

Using Affinity Photo on MAC, V1.73, I've tried "placing" and dragging the image into the file, with RAW and jpg images. The layer is not rasterized, but say "image" next to the layer name.

If I double click, it resizes the view to centre on the layer in the canvas.

What am I doing wrong? Is there some hidden setting that disables this?

[Old Bruce]

The picture of the sky is an image, not an embedded document. Note the difference between Name (Image) and Name (Embedded document)

[ashf]

Addition to Old Bruce said, only composition files(non- flat images) can be embedded such as afphoto, psd or pdf.

[jlav]

 

29 minutes ago, ashf said:

Addition to Old Bruce said, only composition files(non- flat images) can be embedded such as afphoto, psd or pdf.

I've made the adjustment as described, and still cannot double click to open the embedded document to make adjustments.

[Move Along People]

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[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, jlav said:

I've made the adjustment as described,

Curious as to what adjustment was done? Going back to the original post, your sky picture, DSC00073 (Image) has been saved as an Affinity Photo Document? The screen shot could well be the opened embedded layer as far as I can tell from looking at it.

Here is a quick recipe, open the DSC00073 image and save it as an affinity document, put an adjustment layer onto it make a pixel layer and draw on that empty pixel layer. Now save that messy document. close it and open a new document place the messy document into it and double click that. It should open in a new window and you will be able to see the adjustment layer and the scribble layer. You can then do what ever else you want to it and then when you close the window you will see the additions in the embedded layer.

[jlav]

13 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Curious as to what adjustment was done? Going back to the original post, your sky picture, DSC00073 (Image) has been saved as an Affinity Photo Document? The screen shot could well be the opened embedded layer as far as I can tell from looking at it.

Here is a quick recipe, open the DSC00073 image and save it as an affinity document, put an adjustment layer onto it make a pixel layer and draw on that empty pixel layer. Now save that messy document. close it and open a new document place the messy document into it and double click that. It should open in a new window and you will be able to see the adjustment layer and the scribble layer. You can then do what ever else you want to it and then when you close the window you will see the additions in the embedded layer.

Thank you so much, that worked as described. It now works that I can double click on the canvas, and I now see a button on the contextual toolbar at the top to "edit document". It does not open the embedded document when double clicking the thumbnail in the layers panel - it still centres on the layer in the canvas. I can also get the same behaviour without the pixel layer, so just having opened the raw file, and saving it as .afphoto I can treat it as an editable document in another afphoto file.