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I am trying to use the clone tool to remove halos, following this video 

 

But I usually make my edits on another pixel layer to leave my original "background" layer intact. I set "current and below" for the sampling of the clone tool. I set the mode to "darker colour" as instructed by the video.

This basically does not work at all, nothing is drawn onto the pixel layer.

If I had to guess at the problem, it's that while the cloning sample is taken from both the current layer and the layers below, the sample for "is this pixel actually darker" is only taken from the current layer, and not the layers below.

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10 hours ago, frank26080115 said:

This basically does not work at all, nothing is drawn onto the pixel layer.

I can confirm the problem. And it only affects this one blend mode. I could maybe imagine something unexpected happening on an empty layer with this mode. But, that nothing happens at all amazes me.

By the way, if you use only one layer, it shouldn't matter which of the three possible sources you set. But if you set the source to "layers below", nothing happens - in any of the blend modes. This is also strange.

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I had a look at this problem, and you need to think a different way.

Add an empty pixel layer for cloning, if you need to - but set it to darker colour.
Now just do the cloning with the mode set to normal. Problem solved.

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It is not an affinity bug, as cloning darker colour onto an empty layer does not work in my book, because there is nothing on that layer for it to be darker than.

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13 hours ago, frank26080115 said:

 I set the mode to "darker colour" as instructed by the video.

This basically does not work at all, nothing is drawn onto the pixel layer.

Been here before, what is happening is the pixels from the lower layer are trying to make a darker colour of empty/blank/transparent pixels on the empty blank layer.

Kind of like three (or nineteen or eighty) times zero equals zero.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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13 hours ago, kalee said:

Add an empty pixel layer for cloning, if you need to - but set it to darker colour.
Now just do the cloning with the mode set to normal. Problem solved.

I do not understand. Please show!

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