Merge layers doesn’t work on Affinity Photo iPad (v1.9.2)

[OpticalEmotions]

Hi All

in my last release of Affinity Photo (1.9.2) on iPad Pro 2020, layers merge doesn’t work

it works sometimes with one/two layers, but most of the times, not

any suggestions?

Regards

Mauro

[Callum]

Hi OpticalEmotions,

Welcome to the forums

Please could you provide a screen recording demonstrating this issue?

Thanks

C

[OpticalEmotions]

sure 😊

here is

software is in italian

Edited April 27, 2021 by OpticalEmotions

[DM1]

On 4/24/2021 at 7:37 PM, OpticalEmotions said:

in my last release of Affinity Photo (1.9.2) on iPad Pro 2020, layers merge doesn’t work

Sorry, I don’t speak/read Italian so can’t be sure (Immagine layer). Is this background layer an 'image' layer or a 'pixel' layer? If image layer, use Rasterize to convert to a pixel layer. 

[OpticalEmotions]

Thank you

it works 

after converting image layer using Rasterize to pixel, it works…

but.. one more thing… the original image was a bitmap image (not a vector one), so curious I have to (re)rasterize it

btw thank you again 

Mauro

 

[DM1]

Images that are 'placed' or 'dragged and dropped/copy pasted', all come in as image layers. Image layers differ from pixel layers in that they retain the images original data. The app shows the image in the documents current workspace/colour space which may be different to the image itself. To change this data it is necessary to first convert to pixels.
James Ritson explains it better below: You just need to remember; to edit images make sure they are of the type labeled 'pixel'. If not, rasterise them. 🙂

 

[OpticalEmotions]

thank you so much for the exhaustive explanation (and solution suggested) 

regards

Mauro