Affinity Designer v1 - Substract Command Does Not Work

[Mainecoon364]

I want to delete the left part of the image.

 

But substract command deletes all the image.

 

Why? How can I fix It?

[v_kyr]

Look carefully at your Layers panel and you will know!

You are trying to substract from an embedded Image file (which probably [the Image] is some bitmap/pixel data here like JPG/PNG). But those geometric add/subtract/etc. routines do only work/operate on shapes and vectors.

• So for plain vectors you either place a vector shape representation of the bat, as a layer into that document and try to reperform what you did above ...
• ... or in case of bitmap/pixel data and pixel layers, you switch over to the Pixel Persona and cover that left side of the bat with a "white filled" rectangle, so only the right half of the pixel drawing remains red visiable.

All in all you have to make yourself here clear what the difference between vectors- and shapes vs pixel/bitmap data is and also how to overall handle embedded/placed files in documents.

[Mainecoon364]

I missed that point.

 

Thank you very much for the answer.