Lennie M Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Hi, I'm generally new to affinity and had only work with Gimp a little before. I would like to set a layer to a specific size, let's say 300 x 500 pixels and anchor them at specific x ans y coordinates on the canvas. With the Move Tool (V) and the Transform tab on the bottom right, I'm able to do that. But when I then use the brush or other tools I'm able to draw outside of the specified area of the layer. How am I able to fix and lock (I tried the protective lock button for the layer, too) the layer's size, so that when I have this layer selected, I'm only able to draw on that area and not the whole canvas? Thanks and best regards, Lennie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. The answer may depend on the application you're working with, and the kind of layer you're working with, and the exact tool. However, for a (Pixel) layer and a raster brush, try enabling the Protect Alpha option in the Brush Tool's Context Toolbar. 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...
carl123 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Make a selection (marching ants) of the layer then your brush strokes will be restrained within that selection 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...
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