DebSki Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 Hi I've always struggled a bit with layers. Sort of get the concept, it's the using of them that I struggle with. I was watching a video tutorial this morning on making a collage (AP1), & one of the instructions is to drag the "picture down & to the right of the rectangle" in the layers section & then the picture in the video magically appeared inside the rectangle. Doesn't happen for me. I've tried so many times. Really don't know what I'm doing wrong. I have once before done something similar & had the same problem, but at one point, managed to get it to do what it did on the video. Never to be repeated, by me, no matter how hard I try. I'm sure I'm doing/no doing something really stupid, but it's incredibly frustrating! From video Mine Thanks Quote
thomaso Posted March 30, 2024 Posted March 30, 2024 7 minutes ago, DebSki said: I'm sure I'm doing/no doing something really stupid, but it's incredibly frustrating! … I wouldn't say stupid but rather flexible. This thread + tutorial PDF sheds detailed light on the feature which is also described in the Help as "Layer Drop Zones": Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
KarinC Posted March 31, 2024 Posted March 31, 2024 One thing to try is to choose your image then edit>cut. Then choose your rectangle and select edit>paste inside. If that doesn't work then something is wrong with the rectangle. Quote
thomaso Posted March 31, 2024 Posted March 31, 2024 22 hours ago, DebSki said: Mine Your layer thumbnail of "Top" seems to indicate that its nested "…jpg" layer is in the layout at a different x/y position than the clipping "Top" layer. In this case the image won't be visible in the layout. To make it appear select the image layer + move it in the layout window to match the position of the rectangle "Top". An alternative way would be to use a Picture Frame instead of a Rectangle. This layer type offers an extra interface to get its nested image automatically centred inside the parent frame object and to scale it in the layout with a slider below the image. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1
DebSki Posted April 1, 2024 Author Posted April 1, 2024 Thanks everyone, especially Thomaso. The layer drop zones link helped hugely! Now I think I have a better idea of how to work with layers. Just need to practice now Quote
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