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Trying to get my head round the flood select tool, where I am trying to select text (Not type) in a layer and change the colour of it, but no matter what I do, Affinity photo keeps changing or filling in the background - then when I try to invert the selection it simply fills in the whole background AGAIN.

So, no matter what I do, or select, the whole layer is selected and the whole of the background of it filled in - which is exactly the opposite of what I am trying to achieve.

All I'm getting is a background fill - how do I get the wand to select ONLY THE LETTERING, so the lettering is filled, not everything else instead?? What am I doing wrong? Thanks

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19 minutes ago, *mark said:

where I am trying to select text

Is it really a text layer or a raster image that has text in it? The Food Select Tool won't work on text layers.

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Hi RCR

Its an image with text, but it's not type/font - It's a layer of heavy hand lettering - black on white - and as I explained, if it can fill the background or area around the letters precisely, (so it must be selecting the lettering to work around it) and by default, I should be able to reverse/invert it and select the lettering in isolation too?  but I cannot. 🤔

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7 hours ago, *mark said:

All I'm getting is a background fill - how do I get the wand to select ONLY THE LETTERING, so the lettering is filled, not everything else instead??

Pixel layer, not Image layer? 

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I tried to invert the selection but no luck, still filling the whole layer - The only way I could part resolve it was to open the layer in a new document, use the flood tool, then crop out the filled background and erase around the letters, then drag it back into my original document. Why can't the flood tool be made a little more precise like the PS magic wand? (Yes, I appreciate it isn't a magic wand, but you get my drift) 

 

@Pšenda Is this a suggestion or an answer?

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1 hour ago, *mark said:

Is this a suggestion or an answer?

It's a question - are you making adjustments to the Pixel layer, not the Image layer?

Since you are selecting whole layer, you are using the Flood Select Tool on the Image layer (you must convert to Pixel layer via Rasterize), or you have a large Tolerance set.

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