Confused about AP rasterizing

[jer]

Windows 10 AP:

 

Why is it necessary to rasterize an image before using Flood Selection tool (and probably others also)? Isn't an image copied/placed/opened in AP already raster? It is certainly not vector! As opposed to Designer, doesn't Photo default to images and rasters?

 

Example: I open an image and want to flood-select the background. The Flood Select Tool doesn't work. There is no error message. The Tool Tips in the status bar don't mention it. I can't figure why it doesn't work. Time escapes, frustration sets in. Then I remember various other posts where someone says, "Maybe you didn't rasterize the layer first??"

 

So I rasterize and the Flood Tool works. Why is this step necessary? If it is so important why doesn't the Help file mention it as a requirement? (I certainly did not see it in any of the Flood Tool refs in the Help file.)

 

 

[Alfred]

So I rasterize and the Flood Tool works. Why is this step necessary? If it is so important why doesn't the Help file mention it as a requirement?

 

If it's so important, it should happen automatically wherever applicable. Automatic rasterization of Image layers is apparently already on Serif's radar.

[jer]

If it's so important, it should happen automatically wherever applicable. Automatic rasterization of Image layers is apparently already on Serif's radar.

 

And another thing! How come I didn't guess that Alfred would have long ago already handled this?!?  LOL

:lol:    :o