hawk Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Is there a way to merge two pixel layers without the result being trimmed to the canvas? Quote ♥️Affinity v2; macOS 14; ⌨️🖱; recreational user since 2014. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Group both layers, and use rasterize. hawk 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Please keep in mind to check layer size, position, rotation etc. you should add one extra step and rasterize the lower layer before merging them in case of: fractional position Layer DPI not matching documnet DPI layer rotated or sheared. otherwise result of merge will be blurry. so in general to be safe: rasterize lower layer group both layers rasterize group hawk 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 5 hours ago, NotMyFault said: so in general to be safe: rasterize lower layer I've been curious about that recommendation. Often, the lower layer will be the background layer, and by definition it has the proper DPI and is aligned to the grid. So why would rasterizing it help? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I've been curious about that recommendation. Often, the lower layer will be the background layer, and by definition it has the proper DPI and is aligned to the grid. So why would rasterizing it help? you are safe when opening a file via „open“. In case the layer is created by „place“ or „pasted“ into an exiting document it is often misaligned, or will be enlarged or reduced. hawk, walt.farrell and Old Bruce 1 2 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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