Copying Background Layer

[ColinRUK]

Hi,

I'm new to Affinity and have a beginner's question.  I've duplicated my background layer in the Photos persona.  I want to select the sky on one layer but apply a vignette on the whole of the second layer.  I use the selection brush to select my sky but this selection then feeds through to the second duplicated layer which prevents me from applying the vignette to the whole layer.  I've tried unselecting the sky on one layer but this loses the selection on the other layer too which I still want to keep.  How can I just select the sky on one layer but not the other ?

Thanks for any help,

Colin

[Old Bruce]

41 minutes ago, ColinRUK said:

I want to select the sky on one layer but apply a vignette on the whole of the second layer.

Do it the other way around. Apply the vignette then select the sky on the second layer. Pixel selections are just areas, they are not on or from any particular layer. They can copy pixels from any layer that is selected or apply filters/adjustments to any selected layer but they are not tied to the original layer.

[carl123]

Make your selection of the sky then Select > Deselect

Make the vignette on the second layer

Then, Select > Reselect which will bring back the selection you did for the sky

[ColinRUK]

Thanks to both of you for your replies - something else I've learned