CURRENT LAYER AND BELOW BUTTON

[james1962]

Hi new here.

I am watching tutorials and in the upper menu there is supposed to be a button CURRENT LAYER AND BELOW button.

When I use paint brush it is supposed to appear, it appears for no tool.

Can anyone help. 

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, james1962 said:

When I use paint brush it is supposed to appear, it appears for no tool.

It is not an option for the Paint Brush Tool because you can only paint on one layer at a time. But it should appear for the Inpainting Brush or Clone Brush tool.

[lepr]

55 minutes ago, R C-R said:

you can only paint on one layer at a time

not true

[Ron P.]

5 hours ago, lepr said:

not true

Please elaborate on how this is done. Your simple statement is not very useful at all, unless it's purpose is to goad R-C-R into a debate..

 

[thomaso]

11 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

how this is done.

Select multiple Pixel layers, then paint.

P.S.: works also with other 'simple fill'-tools, e.g. Flood Fill, Gradient, Eraser Brush.

[Ron P.]

9 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Select multiple Pixel layers, then paint.

I learned something new, thank you thomaso

[thomaso]

1 minute ago, Ron P. said:

I learned something new

Me too. Thanks to @lepr. (or RCR, without whose misinformation we might never have learned the truth 🤭

[lepr]

36 minutes ago, Ron P. said:

Please elaborate on how this is done. 

I’m surprised at your lack of initiative. Select more than one pixel layer then paint. 

[Ron P.]

1 hour ago, lepr said:

I’m surprised at your lack of initiative. Select more than one pixel layer then paint. 

You're wrong there!!! I had been trying numerous ways, like Group, various blend modes,  except selecting more than one layer. Almost always before I post possible solutions, I try them them first. Don't accuse me of having a lack of initiative.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, Ron P. said:

I learned something new...

I learned something new too, obviously. But regardless of that, as for the OP's question, there is no "Current Layer & Below" source option for the Paint Brush Tool like there is for the Inpainting, Flood Select, Healing, etc. tools.

[R C-R]

Thinking more about the possibilities of using a brush on more than one ayer at a time, I suppose there are uses for this but also several possible "gotchas" to be aware of. For instance, if I did not notice that I accidentally had more than one pixel layer selected when I just wanted to paint on one of them, it would be hard to see that I actually was painting on them all, potentially destroying some pixel content on different layers. Same with the Erase brush or Flood Fill Tool -- very easy to accidentally destroy parts of layers I wanted to leave as is.

So I guess I need to be more careful about what is selected when using these tools.