missy20 Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 (edited) Hi I've been trawling these forums for the solutions but I dont know where to look. Ive just switched over from photoshop to Affinity but still very much a newbie at this. When I started off, it was all grand. But now when I open a recent document that I started off initially, and say I select the tools I require, its not doing anything. Someone mentioned about layers, and every time I edit the document its in current layer so I go to change it to current layer and below and tried using the clone tool. It works but not picking up on the spot I wanted cloned, just some strange lines. Dont know where they came from. For example if I try and select a black area by pressing alt (mac) and click it doesn't show black. Ive also got these strange pixelated lines around the image which i didn't ask for. Ive tried rasterising but it didn't help. Is there a process you have to do before you can edit a document? Could you provide a step by step (as I haven't the foggiest what's what) I tried placing the document as a new document but still comes back to the same issue. The erase tool works fine but not clone tool. I hope you get what im saying. Its mostly when im opening a document in affinity that I've already worked on previously. Ill probably have more questions later :-)nThanks. Edited June 27, 2020 by missy20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 Welcome to the forum missy, is it possible to upload a “worked on” .afphoto file for us to take a look at we might be able to work out what's going on better if we can see first hand. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 10 hours ago, missy20 said: The erase tool works fine but not clone tool. The Clone Brush Tool requires that you first select a cloning source (using the alt or option key) before it will do anything. If you have done that, you should see a small cross somewhere on the canvas that indicates the originating point for cloning. If you see that cross & it still does nothing, make sure the options in the context toolbar are set appropriately & you are using a suitable brush. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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