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I'm using Affinity Photo 1.3.4. Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong or if it's a bug. I highlight two layers to merge together, then I go up to the "Layers" menu and the option to "merge selected" is grayed out. Also if I select one layer and go to the menu option to "merge down" is also great out. The only merge option accessible is "merge visible". Any info is greatly appreciated.

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If I had a masked layer, grouped layer, etc. and I selected any other layer with or without masks,groupings, never worked.

 

Yes, you are right. Though the menu item is not grayed out in these cases, merging does not seem to work … obviously we have to rasterise the layers in these cases as well …  :unsure:

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Thank you! I just assumed like in other image editors as long as the images were of a simple format like .png, .jpg etc. when added to a layer that they were were already rasterized. After rasterize in each image I can now merge selections. Basic images added to the other image editors I used just by dragging and dropping the image into the new document allow me to merge selections without having to rasterize first. Again, thank you very much for the reply and help. :)

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50 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Maybe I don´t understand the question:

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Hi Pixelpest, thanks for replying.

Yeah so I'm in AP and its a group of vectors so it's greyed out to merge selected so I select them all and then right click rasterized but for some reason it only turns the top one to pixel layer and leaves the others as curves shapes, is there a way to select a whole group of curves and rasterize them all to make one shape or flatten them all to one pixel layer somehow.

Phil

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24 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Here it doesn´t make any difference wether I select one by one or a group - rasterize will flatten it in one go.

If I have two vectors (say, rectangles) and I Group them, then yes, Rasterize will rasterize both at once.

However, if they are ungrouped, and I merely select both of them, then right-click and choose Rasterize, only one of them is rasterized.

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3 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Here it doesn´t make any difference wether I select one by one or a group - rasterize will flatten it in one go.

It does here. Like Walt said, if I select the group layer Rasterize will flatten the group into a single pixel layer. But if I select two or more vector layers in the group, Rasterize only flattens one of them. 

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