Painting on Adjustment layer with selection

[chrisb123]

Hi,

I made a selection on an image then used a HSL adjustment to adjust the color in that selection. Next I would like to use another tool such as clone or brush to edit that selected area. How do I do that? as it seems to edit the HSL adjustment layer and editing the first image doesnt work either

[thomaso]

What layer is highlighted when you use a tool without success? – If you want to paint on the image layer this layer has to be selected (= highlighted). If the adjustment layer is still selected then you will paint on the adjustment mask. If you paint on an image layer then Affinity rasterizes the image first to make it editable. If your adjustment layer is nested inside the image layer then rasterization of the image will also affect its child layer and thus 'bake' the adjustment / merge it with the pixel image.

What exactly does not work / what happens if you use a tool?
Does it work without creating a pixel selection first?

[chrisb123]

It doesn't work with either layer selected, if I paint over the original layer the adjustment layer adjusts the changes which I don't want. What I'm trying to do is paint over the result of the adjusted layer. I have worked out that if I merge the layers it works how I want but I'm not sure this is the correct workflow

[thomaso]

I am afraid I don't understand, respectively it depends on your layer hierarchy. Can you show a screenshot of your work + the Layers panel + that layer selected you want to paint on?