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Hi, so I wanted to edit a Text layer that I turned into a Pixel one. I made the selection, used the move tool and started to drag upward but ran into a issue. Looks like it's in a gradient mode, and not a solid mode like I want to have. Looking around I'm not just seeing what it is to change it to be solid instead of a gradient. Hopefully I explained it well enough haha. There's def some adjustment coming from Photoshop, but I'm liking Affinity Photo so far.

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Hi @yanksno1and Welcome to the Forums,

Is it the text that is showing with a gradient?  As thats been converted to a Pixel Layer, we can't then convert it back to a text layer.  You might have some luck changing it with a HSL Adjustment over the text layer, but that really depends on the gradient.  Other than that, unless another Forum member has a trick they can share, it would likely be easier to delete the Pixel layer with the text on and recreate it making sure its in a solid colour.

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It's not clear to me what you mean by "gradient mode". Possibly you have a pixel selection with soft edges? This can cause the selected black text pixels to gradient from black to white at its edges if moved.

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The move tool does not create a gradient let alone a gradient fill.
I suspect that you had not selected the move tool but the gradient tool.
Screenshots would be helpful. And with the history you can undo individual or all steps.

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So obviously didn't explain it right haha. I don't know if it's a gradient, but it def looks like one. But the part I'm selecting isn't a solid color, so maybe that's what's happening there? What I'm doing is selecting the top pixel of the 4 where you see the selection. Then using the move tool to drag it up. Since it's not a solid color (there's different 1 pixel solid color on the left and right of the middle blue (which I'm selecting too), think that's why it's causing this gradient affect? I just want it to be solid like how Photoshop does it. Not sure if I'm missing a setting or somewhere. Anything I should do from here?

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I have a feeling that what you are doing is selecting a small area and stretching it, rather than moving it.

If this is what you are trying to do then the Affinity applications don’t work the way you might be used to, and there’s no easy way to make them do so, apart from duplicating the stretched area many times.

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6 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I have a feeling that what you are doing is selecting a small area and stretching it, rather than moving it.

But also stretching a pixel selection of black only pixels should not result in gray & white pixels. In particular if the selection is not feathered (as this seems to be not as the sharp corners imply).

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6 minutes ago, thomaso said:

But also stretching a pixel selection of black only pixels should not result in gray & white pixels.

It does in the Affinity applications.

I don’t know the technical terms but the ‘amount of colour’ in each pixel is ‘shared’ between the pixels in the stretched area – hence the ‘gradient’ that was mentioned earlier.

It’s just what happens, and there have been plenty of threads about it asking for it to work differently.

This is, of course, if I am talking about the thing which the OP is asking about.

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13 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I don’t know the technical terms but the ‘amount of colour’ in each pixel is ‘shared’ between the pixels in the stretched area – hence the ‘gradient’ that was mentioned earlier.

I can't reproduce this here, though I do see a lighter edge where the selection starts. @yanksno1, can you show a video doing demonstrating your workflow?

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Ah, I got it: it occurs if a very narrow selection gets stretched, e.g. just one or a few pixel rows. Here the a small stripe from the 4 was horizontally moved and then vertically stretched. Though it is not that gray like in the OP's screenshot.

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