Bug disappearing arrow on v2.5

[Paul Fürer]

Steps to reproduction
- Level with various adjustments (see image)
- Open tool “Perspective”.
- The arrow has disappeared and the adjustments can no longer be edited.
 

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Paul Fürer

By “arrow” do you mean the arrow-shaped mouse pointer, or something else?

As for not being able to edit the adjustments, between the first screen-grab and the second screen-grab the layer (including all of its child layers) has become rasterised to a Pixel Layer so the adjustments were ‘baked in’ at that point. I don’t know what you did between the two screen-grabs so I can’t really comment on how that happened.

[NotMyFault]

When activating the perspective distortion tool, small nodes are added at the 4 corners of the layer.

now you are in a mode similar to the node tool. Instead of the mouse pointer symbol a small rectangular symbol is shown when the mouse pointer position is inside the canvas.

that is by design.

Edited December 14, 2024 by NotMyFault
memory error.

[carl123]

22 hours ago, Paul Fürer said:

Open tool “Perspective”.
- The arrow has disappeared and the adjustments can no longer be edited.
 

When you select the Perspective Tool your image layer will be automatically rasterised which bakes in all the adjustment layers

To prevent that rasterization from occurring you should use the Live Perspective Filter, found here...

Layer > New Live Filter Layer > Distort > Perspective

Then your adjustment layers will remain intact 

[carl123]

1 hour ago, NotMyFault said:

Instead of the mouse pointer symbol a small rectangular symbol is shown when the mouse pointer position is inside the canvas.

All I see is my mouse pointer. Is it different on a Mac?

[GarryP]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

When you select the Perspective Tool your image layer will be automatically rasterised which bakes in all the adjustment layer

Really? See attached video.

[carl123]

8 minutes ago, GarryP said:

Really? See attached video.

I said image layer, your layer is a pixel layer so no rasterising occurs/needed

[GarryP]

Ah, yes, when you said “image layer” I, wrongly, assumed that you meant any layer that was an ‘image’ rather than a layer specifically of the type “Image”. My mistake.

I think it’s worth noting that this rasterisation can be omitted by setting the Assistant “Applying filters to vector layers” action to “Take no action”. Doing so, in this case, will not rasterise the Image Layer and, as such, the Perspective Tool won’t work properly on it.

[Paul Fürer]

Guten Tag

Wie ihr schon festgestellt habt, bin ich neu auf diesem Forum. Kommt dazu, dass ich vorher Affinity Photo auf Windows 10 genutzt habe. 

Ich versuche, die Schritte nochmals zu beschreiben.

- Wenn ich das Tool "Perspektive" nutze, wird der Pixel Layer durch eine gerastertes Symbol ergänzt.

- Leider verschwindet gleichzeitig das Pfeil Symbol und kommt nicht wieder zurück, auch wenn das Tool "Perspektive" wieder geschlossen ist. Das war unter Windows nicht so.

- Weil das Pfeil Symbol fehlt, können keine Adjustments mehr editiert werden.

- Das Problem ist reproduzierbar.  

- Zwischen Bild 1 und Bild 2 ist kein weiterer Schritt.

Es ist mir nun nicht klar, ob ihr das Problem reproduzieren konntet. 

 

 

2024-12-13_15-20-36.snagx 2024-12-13_15-54-16.snagx

[carl123]

I can't open those 2 attached .snagx files

[Paul Fürer]

Good day

As you have already noticed, I am new to this forum. In addition, I previously used Affinity Photo on Windows 10. 

I'll try to describe the steps again.

- When I use the “Perspective” tool, the pixel layer is supplemented by a rasterized symbol.

- Unfortunately, the arrow symbol disappears at the same time and does not come back, even if the “Perspective” tool is closed again. This was not the case under Windows.

- Because the arrow symbol is missing, adjustments can no longer be edited.

- The problem is reproducible.  

- There is no further step between image 1 and image 2. As soon as I start the tool, the arrow symbol disappears.

It is not entirely clear to me whether you have been able to reproduce the problem. 

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[Brian_J]

The Perspective filter rasterizes the layer it’s applied to — the adjustment layers are applied to the image when it’s rasterized. To keep the adjustment layers, move them outside the image layer prior to applying the Perspective filter.

[carl123]

9 hours ago, Paul Fürer said:

- When I use the “Perspective” tool, the pixel layer is supplemented by a rasterized symbol.

Do NOT use the Perspective Tool

Use the Perspective Filter via the menu, shown below

 

[Paul Fürer]

Goot Morning. Thank you very much.  And yes, I have already been able to try it out. I will no longer use the Perspective tool in future.
Ciao.