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Affinity Photo v2: Invert Selection not working. Selection disappears.


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10 minutes ago, PaintNut said:

and then invert the selection,

What did you do at about 23 seconds into the video, where the selection disappeared? That is, how did you "invert the selection" at that point?

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He narrates the video, I think he's pressing Delete, that's what he's saying anyway.

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2 hours ago, Ron P. said:

He narrates the video, I think he's pressing Delete, that's what he's saying anyway.

Thanks. I needed to watch without audio. Delete certainly is not Invert Selection.

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Windows 10 pro, v 22H2, using Photo beta 2.0.3 1670 . I can't either reproduce the issue.

In the past, in Photoshop (maybe now fixed), this could happen when the selection was taking partial transparency already in the surroundings, and the inverted result, was so minimal in % of transparency that was below PS's threshold, would result in nothing selected once inverted. But  this has not been the workflow here, it seems. Unless he unknowingly was "adding" to an existing selection?

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Just a hint: please activate the channels panel, at keep the thumbnails visible all the time when recording. The thumbnail „Pixel Selection“ shows the current selection, and more reliable than marching ants.

Similar, keep the following panels active and visible:

  • Channels
  • navigator
  • history
  • info
  • layer stack,
  • histogram
  • more depending on what is relevant.

You can de-touch the panels and place them freely, it is possible to include all. These panels really help to understand, analyze and reproduce any potential issues or bugs.

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I can see you still have the pen tool active. This might cause the issue, as delete has a different function in that tool. Please try move tool or hand tool when working with selections.

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I don't understand... even with the vector pen selected, not grabbing again a selecting tool,  I can invert the selection correctly, and if I hit del, it deletes the pixel content of the inverted selection, as expected...

Why is it different for other people ?

Richard, I don't understand your video... you don't make the shape with the pen tool (maybe was made before?), neither convert the pen vectors to selection, neither go to selection menu/invert pixels selection. Maybe the video was uploaded with a cut, incomplete ?

Probably you meant sth else, but am not getting it...

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On 12/15/2022 at 2:36 PM, Chris B said:

Can you reproduce this on a new document? If not, it might be worth attaching this one with its history saved so we can poke it. I cannot reproduce this on my Windows builds.


As per THIS POST, the issue appears to occur when using an Affinity Designer document that has artboards.

Steps to reproduce:

 

File:

untitled.afphoto

 

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5 minutes ago, - S - said:

As per THIS POST, the issue appears to occur when using an Affinity Designer document that has artboards.

I think it is a Publisher document, see the layers panel.

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For me pixel selections work as expected when pixel layers are present. If you have no pixel layers active, inverting becomes erratic.

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12 hours ago, Anaru said:

I have the same problem in Designer, but it is random. Sometimes, it works as expected, and then other times, a selection I want to invert vanishes. This is so frustrating. 

Sorry this still hasn't been resolved. I have updated the bug report.

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