Suzy909090 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I cannot for the life of me get the cloning tool in Affinity Photo to work on my Ipad. I believe I have checked everything - I'm working on a pixel layer, using a basic brush, opacity is up to 100% but still no luck - it doesn't work! When I put my finger on the screen, I try and select an area (I see the circle and the cross hairs) but when I move the selected circle over to the area I want to clone..nothing happens. It's like I didn't do anything. I can't find any tutorials dealing with this specific issue on an Ipad and I'm getting very frustrated. Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 4 hours ago, Suzy909090 said: I cannot for the life of me get the cloning tool in Affinity Photo to work on my Ipad. I believe I have checked everything - I'm working on a pixel layer, using a basic brush, opacity is up to 100% but still no luck - it doesn't work! When I put my finger on the screen, I try and select an area (I see the circle and the cross hairs) but when I move the selected circle over to the area I want to clone..nothing happens. It's like I didn't do anything. I can't find any tutorials dealing with this specific issue on an Ipad and I'm getting very frustrated. Can anyone help? On the context toolbar press the small white triangle and on the next screen make sure source is set to current layer and below, finally make sure you are on a pixel layer in the layers studio. Suzy909090 1 Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 I like to add a pixel layer, select it and set clone tool as Paul suggested, current layer and below. Make sure your Source layer is a pixel layer, not an image layer. If the latter you will need to rasterise the layer before you can clone. You set the clone position by pressing with finger and sliding so crosshair becomes the source. Release and now you pencil/finger will paint the cloned source onto the pixel layer. Note you can’t use your finger for cloning if you have Touch for Gestures Only selected. IMG_5096.MP4 Suzy909090 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzy909090 Posted January 12, 2021 Author Share Posted January 12, 2021 It worked! Thank you both so much! I've been trying to figure that out for days! DM1 and Paul Mudditt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conany Posted August 7, 2021 Share Posted August 7, 2021 Hi there, I’m having the exact same problem. I can’t activate the The clone tool, although the inpainting tool works but I’m also having trouble to activate copy and paste on the iPad. I did everything the same as shown in this little video here but still nothing happens, sometimes the little cross appears, but most of the time not even that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phatman Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 Has to be one of the most unintuitive tools I've ever used. How do you move the crosshair about the screen? Quote flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/s-t-e-v-e/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 50 minutes ago, Phatman said: How do you move the crosshair about the screen? If you're asking about the Clone Source crosshair, @DM1 gave the instructions three posts above yours. 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...
Conany Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 I've figured it out by now, thanks. What I'm now struggling with is the blur brush and the sharpen brush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conany Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 (edited) I think I figured that one out too. The changes seem to be so subtle that I can't hardly make them out at first. Edited August 20, 2021 by Conany Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremblin Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 I appreciate this thread, but had another question. I’m using a Pencil 2 and in trying to select the source the circle appears, but without the crosshairs. They only show if I use my finger to select the source. Has anyone else had this occur and is there a way have the Pencil activate the crosshairs? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 39 minutes ago, Gremblin said: I appreciate this thread, but had another question. I’m using a Pencil 2 and in trying to select the source the circle appears, but without the crosshairs. They only show if I use my finger to select the source. Has anyone else had this occur and is there a way have the Pencil activate the crosshairs? Thanks! That is the way it works. Use a finger to select the source. Use the Pencil to do the cloning. You cannot select the source with the pencil. This is the way it was designed to work. Quote Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on macOS 15.0 Beta Sequoia on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.5 on Windows 10 Pro. (revived !) Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.5 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS beta 18(22A5326f) https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/affinityphotoastrophotography The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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