johndmoulton Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Apple M1 : Mac 13.0.1 Ventura : AffinityPhoto2 I have been working on this illustration some while now. It has about 30 layers. Suddenly though, all layers are 'fixed' to their position. The lock sign is not on and individual layers have no handles (either 'o' or 'x') as I hope you can see from my selection of the Koalas here. I am able to move layers around in the layers panel and other tools work, like show/hide, opacity and so on - but I cannot more an object from one place to another or even nudge them with the arrow keys. Also, I can create a new layer - as I did here above the 'Tree Fill' layer, but I cannot draw on it or add to any other layer. I have put down and reload Photo2 and even rebooted my computer. but nothing has changed. Thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 What do you have nested within that Koala Mom FILL layer? I wonder if, for this particular layer, that's the source of the issue. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Do you actually have the Move Tool selected on the Tools panel? Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndmoulton Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 Wait.farrel: Just Brightness/Contrast. Carl123: Yes, I have the move tool select. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Can you upload the Affinity document to the forum - it's probably the quickest way to see what may be happening Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndmoulton Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 Here's the file that is somehow 'frozen'. I recall now that the layers 'froze' when I created a duplicate of the tree trunk. The program did that, but then would not let me move it - or any other layer from that moment on. Thankfully I have a backup drive running all the time and learned a long time ago that 'Commannd S' is my friend, so was able to retrieve an earlier, working version and carry on from there - but would still like to know what caused the layer 'freeze'. Thanks for the help - and sorry I did not save the file complete with history - I know that would have really helped you. 1914366473_DNSWAPPg13HKoalas.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 You have a tiny (invisible) pixel selection active Use Select > Deselect (CTRL+D) to get rid of that and the Koala will be free to roam the forests again Chris B and walt.farrell 2 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndmoulton Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 carl123: If you mean the empty pixel layer immediately above the tree layer I just deleted that and it made no difference. Can you see where this pixel is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johndmoulton Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 GOT IT! It was indeed a tiny selection area still live on a vacant pixel layer. I was able to grab what seemed like 'nothing' on a wide sweep with my pen. Dragged what I could not still see to the centre until it highlighted the dead centre horizontal and vertical guides dropped it. Zoomed in REALLY close and there it was! Deleting the pixel layer had no effect because 'selections' are omnipresent of course. So once seen I selected it, selected, 'Select/Deselect' and bingo! As carl123 said, my Koalas are now free once more. Thanks Carl and others, for you input. Hope this stays up here for others like me who do not see 'the invisible' and now know how to find it to perhaps free up there 'frozen' layers too. Attached photo shows the selection are dead where I moved it to dead centre - which is on the trunk close to the baby koala. My bad! John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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