RichardF Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 Hello, I'm pretty new to Affinity Photo and whilst I'm getting on OK I think I may be being a bit dim ref "select sampled colour". No matter what image I try "select sampled colour" remains greyed out in the drop down.....?? Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 5, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 5, 2018 Hi RichardF, Welcome to Affinity Forums That's because you are working with an Image layer type (note the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers Panel). Right-click the image layer in the Layer's panel and select Rasterise. You can then select that command from the menu. Image layers are a special layer type that retains all the original image data - you can think of them as embedded images -. They are created when you use the Place Image Tool (in Affinity Designer only), the File ▸ Place command or when you simply drag them from the Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows) to the canvas of an opened document. They can be transformed globally (rotated, skewed etc) without losing quality but they cannot be edited/manipulated at a pixel level. For that they must be rasterised first as explained above. They are then converted to a pixel layer type which you can manipulate at a pixel level. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardF Posted September 7, 2018 Author Share Posted September 7, 2018 Thanks! I knew it was going to be operator error! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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