Carel Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 I try to copy a part of a document into another document with the Patch tool. According to the description of Patching in the Help I have to drop Global in the Layers menu on the second document. What is meant by Global in the layers Menu? I know Global colours, but cannot find Global in the layers Menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 The Help mentions "Global Sources", not anything in the Layers panel. It's explained at the bottom of https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Retouching/retouching_patching.html in the section labeled "To patch from a global source": Quote To patch from a global source: Open the image that you want to copy pixels from and use the Layers panel to select the pixel layer that you wish to copy from. Click the Patch Tool. On the context toolbar, select Selection is source. Drag on the image to define a selection. This will be the global source area. On the context toolbar, click Set Global Source. Open the image that you want to paint the sample into. Use the Layers panel to either select an existing pixel layer to copy to, or to create a new pixel layer. Click the Patch Tool. On the context toolbar: Ensure Selection is source is still selected. Select Global from the layer selection dropdown. Click on the image to place pixels from the source area. (Optional) Drag the nodes of the applied area to modify the scale and rotation. Alternatively, use the Scale and Rotation controls on the context toolbar, or use the up and down arrow keys to control scale and the left and right arrow keys to control rotation. Old Bruce 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carel Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 My Problem is: Select Global from the layer selection dropdown. In the new document I cannot Set Global Source (if that is meant) and what is meant from the layer selection dropdown?Shortly I don't onderstand what one has to do. Sorry for my quote , which was not right, because I wrote it by heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 15 hours ago, Carel said: and what is meant from the layer selection dropdown? This is the Layer Selection Dropdown Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carel Posted October 8, 2020 Author Share Posted October 8, 2020 Thank you both. "the layer selection" was confusing to me. But now it is clear to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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