Delete Selection [Affinity Photo]

[Nei]

I have read through trying to understand how to simply delete a selection.  Rasterise, flood select - can't get rid of that selection. Surely it should be a matter of 'delete' button? that would make sense but all is the moving dotted selection lines... any idea?

[Fixx]

1 hour ago, Nei said:

all is the moving dotted selection lines

what does this mean?

[lumaluke]

2 hours ago, Nei said:

how to simply delete a selection... any idea?

the dotted line is easy to win: you need to perform a deselect in the selection persona 

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, lumaluke said:

the dotted line is easy to win: you need to perform a deselect in the selection persona 

This thread is in the ‘Affinity on Desktop Questions’ forum. The Selections Persona is exclusive to Affinity Photo on iPad.

In the desktop app you can deselect a ‘marching ants’ selection by using the keyboard shortcut Cmd+D on Mac or Ctrl+D on Windows, or via the ‘Deselect’ command on the Select menu. There’s also a ‘Deselect’ button on toolbar.

[user_123]

On 1/27/2016 at 2:02 PM, MEB said:

Hi Macoun,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

That's because you are working with an Image layer type. Right-click on it in the Layers panel and select Rasterise... (to convert it to a Pixel layer). You should now be able to delete just the part you selected.

Image layers are considered an object layer type, like Text or Shapes and can only be transformed at a global level (scale/skew/rotate etc). To work at a pixel level you must convert them to a Pixel layer as described above. You can identify the type of layer you are working with looking at the label in parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel.

Photoshop shows a warning*, but Affinity just deletes the layer without  saying anything or giving any warning. Affinity isn't intuitive enough, why do people have to come to this forum to ask such simple questions?....

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[tropilio]

On 9/22/2022 at 12:42 AM, user_123 said:

Photoshop shows a warning*, but Affinity just deletes the layer without  saying anything or giving any warning. Affinity isn't intuitive enough, why do people have to come to this forum to ask such simple questions?....

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Completely agree

[Kiarian]

On 9/21/2022 at 11:42 PM, user_123 said:

why do people have to come to this forum to ask such simple questions?....

It's a forum to ask questions. That's the whole point of it. If anyone has a simple question, ask away.

If you think it's a stupid question, ignore it.

[walt.farrell]

4 minutes ago, Kiarian said:

It's a forum to ask questions. That's the whole point of it. If anyone has a simple question, ask away.

The point behind the comment was the "why do people have to come here" not just "why do people come here". It wasn't about the questions being simple, but about the functions being non-intuitive, such that users can't understand the simple function without asking.

(I don't agree with the comment, by the way. I think too many users just assume it will be like Photoshop, and do not take the time to educate themselves by examining the Help or the Tutorials before they dive in.)

[Kiarian]

37 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

The point behind the comment was the "why do people have to come here" not just "why do people come here". It wasn't about the questions being simple, but about the functions being non-intuitive, such that users can't understand the simple function without asking.

(I don't agree with the comment, by the way. I think too many users just assume it will be like Photoshop, and do not take the time to educate themselves by examining the Help or the Tutorials before they dive in.)

My bad. Just read that totally wrong on the phone 📱 I'll give myself a slap.