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[Taxicab Messiah]

The more I create images the more confused I become.  Pixel layers appear out of nowhere while I'm working that I later manually delete when I notice them (nothing changes when I delete them) and brushes change from 100% flow to 12% for no reason.  Likely I just have no idea what I'm doing but at the moment the settings appear to be changing randomly without my permission.  I finally gave up and left off here.

[GarryP]

44 minutes ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

Pixel layers appear out of nowhere while I'm working that I later manually delete when I notice them (nothing changes when I delete them)

The Assistant will, under certain circumstances, create new Pixel Layers for you depending upon what you are doing at the time, such as using a Brush Tool without having a Pixel Layer already selected.

You might like to check your Assistant settings, or even (temporarily) switch the Assistant OFF if that helps.

[Taxicab Messiah]

Ok but then when I cntrl+Z to remove the brush stroke (that I didn't mean to apply) the new pixel layer remains there.  And so I end up with the cluttered mess in my layers panel for no reason.

[GarryP]

Any Pixel Layer which was added by the Assistant should be removed when you Undo the use of the Brush Tool which caused the layer to be created. If this is not happening then I don’t know why that should be.

Can you record and share a full-screen video so we can see this (not) happening? (Make sure that we can see the History Panel.)

[Taxicab Messiah]

I am also using version 1.1

[GarryP]

16 minutes ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

I am also using version 1.1

I don’t think there was a Photo version 1.1 (I'm assuming you are using Photo), at least one that was commercially available. I think it started with 1.3 or something like that.

In Photo 1.10.6, to remove the Pixel Layer which was added by the Assistant you need to use Undo twice, the first time removes what was drawn and the second time removes the layer itself. (There may be a setting to change this but I haven't seen one.)

I can’t see this changing in the V1 software.

[Taxicab Messiah]

You think Affinity Photo started with version 1.3 but also have advice on how I can remove the pixel layer in version 1.1.  I find that interesting.

[GarryP]

1 minute ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

but also have advice on how I can remove the pixel layer in version 1.1.

No I don’t, read it again.

[Taxicab Messiah]

I did.  Just so I could laugh again.

[GarryP]

Which bit was funny and what was funny about it?

[Taxicab Messiah]

We've already tread this ground

[GarryP]

I said:

12 minutes ago, GarryP said:

In Photo 1.10.6, to remove the Pixel Layer...

And you said:

10 minutes ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

but also have advice on how I can remove the pixel layer in version 1.1.

So you were incorrect because I mentioned 1.10.6 and you read that as 1.1, which are different things.

I don’t know how to explain this any better.

[Taxicab Messiah]

Yeah...I knew your position the whole time.  You don't have to explain what's going on to me, lol.  Still funny.

[GarryP]

I have no idea what you are going on about now, so I think I might leave this strange conversation at this point.

[Komatös]

1 hour ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

Yeah...I knew your position the whole time. 

Would you please take a screenshot of the About... info window and post it here!

You can find this in the Windows Apps under Help > About
In MacOS this can be found by clicking on the programme name in the menu.
 

[Taxicab Messiah]

I don't have to as I know what program I am running and if you have any questions feel free to let me know.

[walt.farrell]

As mentioned above, in version 1 you will need to Undo twice if the Assistant has added a layer. This was improved in V2. 

You are probably using 1.10, not 1.1.

[Taxicab Messiah]

I never said I was using 1.1.

[walt.farrell]

8 minutes ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

I never said I was using 1.1.

Oh?

3 hours ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

I am also using version 1.1

 

[Taxicab Messiah]

1.1. and 1.1 are not the same thing. 

[GarryP]

1 hour ago, Taxicab Messiah said:

1.1. and 1.1 are not the same thing. 

Hopefully this is the last time that I am part of this particular discussion...

Version numbers for the Affinity applications start on the left with a major version number (of one or more digits), and then a point (or dot, or full stop), and then a minor version number (of one or more digits).

There are other points and numbers after those, but they're irrelevant for this explanation.

So, for example:

• Version 1.0 (“one point zero”) means first major version with no minor revisions;
• Version 1.1 (“one point one”) means the first minor revision of the first major version;
• Version 1.2 (“one point two”) means the second minor revision of the first major version;
• Version 1.10 (“one point ten”, not “one point one zero”) means the tenth minor revision of the first major version.

Version numbers, for the first version, go: 1.1 , 1.2 , 1.3 , … , 1.8 , 1.9 , 1.10 , 1.11 , etc.

The Affinity V1 applications never reached 1.11 because version 2.0 came out after version 1.10 so version 1.10 was the last minor revision of version 1. (And, as I said earlier, the first commercial version was 1.3 or thereabouts.)

Writing version 1.1 is the same as writing version 1.1. They are the same version number.

Version 1.1 is not the same as version 1.10.

Other software might use different version numbering systems but this is what the Affinity applications use.

The same numbering system is used for the V2 applications, so version 2.10 (if we get one) will be after 2.9 and before 2.11 because 10 comes after 9 and before 11.

[Taxicab Messiah]

Ah I was kind of wrong then.  I was using 1.1 to mean any variant of 1.1x but yes I have 1.10.6.  I think that's the latest before the changeover to 2.