cafindlay Posted November 15, 2021 Posted November 15, 2021 I am a beginner at Affinity photo so please be patient with me. Up until today when I make a selection within a photo the history states "set current selection" and I can copy paste into a new layer and edit just that selection. Now when I make a selection the history states "make current raster selection" I don't see any selected outline and can't create a new layer. Please help me I can not figure out how to get back to "set current selection" I have tried quick mask but the edits aren't being applied to the selection as as I intend them to. Also if anyone would care to explain what rastering is that too would be fun... Quote
Pšenda Posted November 15, 2021 Posted November 15, 2021 7 hours ago, cafindlay said: Now when I make Image layer vs Pixel layer (in Layers panel)? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.5.7.2948 (Retail) Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 24H2, Build 26100.2605. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.
cafindlay Posted November 15, 2021 Author Posted November 15, 2021 I was in pixel layer but I just tried and image layer same thing occurs Quote
Staff Callum Posted November 16, 2021 Staff Posted November 16, 2021 Hi Cafindlay, Welcome to the forums As far as I'm aware "set current selection" occurs when you select an object via the Move Tool and "set current Raster selection" occurs when you use a selection marquee tool to make a pixel selection. I dont think the difference in history names is causing this issue because I think this behaviour has always been the case. Please could you provide a screen recording showing your selection issue? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
cafindlay Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 Thank you for the kind suggestions, In the past I have often used the marquee tool to make a simple regions and copied those region in to a new layer to edit them separately. Now after some playing around when I use the marquee tool I only get regions of a predetermined size that I can not change and the actual region copied is much larger then what I created and as you can see is not a clear region as depicted in the screenshots. I am very confused please help Quote
thomaso Posted November 17, 2021 Posted November 17, 2021 Looks you had set a large feather value with the selection tool active before drawing the selection. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
cafindlay Posted November 17, 2021 Author Posted November 17, 2021 thank you Tomaso yes that did happen, I don't know how but thank you for pointing it out. Removing the Feather definitely helped. And thank you everyone for your suggestions. Slowly I am figuring things out again thomaso 1 Quote
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