Scaling Raster Help

[wwvuillemot]

Hi,

I feel like an idiot.  I cannot for the life of me figure out how to select a portion of the raster layer to scale it, and or move it.  This is monsterously trivial with Procreate ... I am into hour two without any luck.  

I also get some nasty changes to the display when I select all. 

First image shows the layer and canvas.  

The second one shows what happens I click “Select All”.  Note how the canvas gets partly inverted.  

And there is nothing I can do to scale the selection.  And nothing under the transform studio will do anything.  

Desperate.  And a little bummed that this is as obtuse as it is.  

Thanks in advance,

Ward

[wwvuillemot]

I noticed I had the wrong layer selected in the screenshots.  But that does not materially change anything.  I cannot scale the selection.  And whenever I select all I get the display artifacts.  

[Wosven]

What happens when you "merge visible layers" and try to scale this new one ?

[wwvuillemot]

I can flip and rotate, but nothing else. And see how the display aberration seems to shrink when I zoom out.  

I cannot tell if the canvas shrunk, or this just some display artifact.  

[Wosven]

And it's the same when you restart the app? (it would be nice if it was so simple)

[toltec]

1 hour ago, wwvuillemot said:

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to select a portion of the raster layer to scale it, and or move it.  This is monsterously trivial with Procreate ... I am into hour two without any luck.  

You are still in the Selection Persona, go back to the Photo Persona after you have made the selection and use the Move Tool.

 

[wwvuillemot]

Thank you -- I just figure that out independently.  I appreciate you taking the time to share!  

I am not as familiar with Photoshop and other desktop apps? Or specific to Affinity?  It just seems unintuitive to me, but that may be not appreciating some complexities.

I still get the weird display issues, but that may be a result of iOS12 Beta R5 ... Note, I tried Affinity Photo from my macOS and do not see the same display issues.

FWIW, I am trying to find a good desktop app as I want to graduate away from iPadPro 12.9" to something larger ... but I find Procreate.app so sexy (easy) to use, that every time I try another app that I could use on the desktop I come into workflow issues.  And I would love to just the same app on iOS and macOS thus why I am test driving Affinity.