ACPhillips Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 I have a PNG image (attached) that I need to clone the dark background area of the image over the text at the top. How do I do that? I'm sure it's dead simple but I have tried searching all types of terms and looked through the tutorials to no avail. Thanks, ACP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Cloning is a function offered by Photo, but not by Designer. You should be able to go into the Pixel Persona of Designer, make a rectangular marquee selection from the background of an appropriate size to overlay the lettering, then Edit > Copy, then Edit Paste, then use the Move Tool to slide the copied pixel selection over the Letters. That will, however, leave you with two pixel layers, and I'm not sure there's any way to merge them in Designer. Perhaps someone else will have a better answer. 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 17.1.2, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACPhillips Posted May 22, 2020 Author Share Posted May 22, 2020 29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Cloning is a function offered by Photo, but not by Designer. You should be able to go into the Pixel Persona of Designer, make a rectangular marquee selection from the background of an appropriate size to overlay the lettering, then Edit > Copy, then Edit Paste, then use the Move Tool to slide the copied pixel selection over the Letters. That will, however, leave you with two pixel layers, and I'm not sure there's any way to merge them in Designer. Perhaps someone else will have a better answer. Thanks Walt. I actually tried that, which is why I'm still baffled. When I do the Marquee > Edit / Copy > Edit / Paste, the area I select is empty and nothing is Copied. Attached is my Designer file. Mask-erade artwork.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 45 minutes ago, ACPhillips said: Thanks Walt. I actually tried that, which is why I'm still baffled. When I do the Marquee > Edit / Copy > Edit / Paste, the area I select is empty and nothing is Copied. Attached is my Designer file. You will have to go into the Pixel persona and then Rasterize the image first, then you can select and copy paste and finally move the pasted pixels over the top of the letters. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.1 Affinity Designer 2.2.1 | Affinity Photo 2.2.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.2.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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