How to select and delete a portion of an image?

[William Kalfelz Wusik]

Guys, please, trying to understand the simple thing that I have done directly on Photoplus X4 for ages.

Let's say I have two transparent layers and that I want to select with the square-selection-tool a portion of layer #1 and have it deleted, how should I proceed? Is MASK the only way to do this? On PPX4 I would just select and hit DELETE. But now if I try that it deletes the whole layer. Gahhhh...

Thanks! Cheers.

[walt.farrell]

3 minutes ago, williamkalfelz said:

On PPX4 I would just select and hit DELETE. But now if I try that it deletes the whole layer. Gahhhh...

Check the Layers panel. Make sure that you have a (Pixel) layer, and not an (Image) layer.

If you have an (Image) layer you need to rasterize it using the right-click context menu or the Layer menu.

[William Kalfelz Wusik]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Check the Layers panel. Make sure that you have a (Pixel) layer, and not an (Image) layer.

If you have an (Image) layer you need to rasterize it using the right-click context menu or the Layer menu.

Yes, it's already PIXEL, something I learned from PPX4 already.  

[William Kalfelz Wusik]

WAAIT, now it works. I opened a PNG, another one, copied, pasted, selected and hit DELETE and it works. 😕 WTF?! I'm going mental... I will keep testing and will check for the LOCKED layer and also PIXEL layer, just in case. Maybe I forgot to RAST the layer.... gaaaahhhhhhhh.

Thanks again! <hug>

[Old Bruce]

4 minutes ago, William Kalfelz Wusik said:

Maybe I forgot to RAST the layer.... gaaaahhhhhhhh.

If I had a nickel for every time I did that... I could get the vastly overpriced Mac Pro.

Here is my normal workflow

repeat at least 6 times: 

   [ Undo, select, delete,  gaaaahhhhhhhh]

Ohhh....

[William Kalfelz Wusik]

LOL 😛

[William Kalfelz Wusik]

The next part is how to quickly select and duplicate a portion of an image (pixel). Will try again now, just in case. But on PPX4 I would hold ALT to make a copy of the selection.

[walt.farrell]

6 minutes ago, William Kalfelz Wusik said:

The next part is how to quickly select and duplicate a portion of an image (pixel). Will try again now, just in case. But on PPX4 I would hold ALT to make a copy of the selection.

Ctrl+J will copy the selection as a new pixel layer.