geleebohne Posted September 15, 2018 Share Posted September 15, 2018 Is there a way to retain the transparent background when I do this? In Photoshop that was standard so I'm a little confused right now... Another Question: Is there a way to apply the Blending Mode layer only to one layer or group? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Hi geleebohne, Welcome to the forums A filled pixel layer will always draw over a transparent background, if you nest the pixel layer inside your image then it should colour the image only. The blend mode drop down in the layers studio will only apply that blend mode to the layer/group/object selected. I'm possibly misunderstanding your second question however, apologies if that's the case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geleebohne Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 19 minutes ago, Dan C said: A filled pixel layer will always draw over a transparent background, if you nest the pixel layer inside your image then it should colour the image only. Already tried that but it makes no difference if thats what you mean... (Sorry for the German UI its annoying to change it for every screenshot, but you should get what it implies) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 Apologies, this is because your image is embedded and not currently a pixel layer. If you right click on the (Image) layer and select rasterise, then the pixel layer nested will work as expected geleebohne 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted September 16, 2018 Share Posted September 16, 2018 What are you trying to achieve? Anything like this? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geleebohne Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 Apologies, this is because your image is embedded and not currently a pixel layer. If you right click on the (Image) layer and select rasterise, then the pixel layer nested will work as expected Oh! That worked, but why? Whats the difference between an image layer and a pixel layer? I thought maybe its similar to Smart Objects in Photoshop but scaling it down and up again doesn't changes anything. One thing I noticed is how the Object ends now right were the visible pixels end and not where the original picture was cropped at. Is that the only difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geleebohne Posted September 16, 2018 Author Share Posted September 16, 2018 9 minutes ago, firstdefence said: What are you trying to achieve? Anything like this? No not at all, I wanted to change the color of the icon just like this but as you see it works now. (I know I could have done it easily in another way but the question was more about how to work with blending mode layers in general for future work) firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 20 hours ago, geleebohne said: Whats the difference between an image layer and a pixel layer? I'd recommend checking out the following thread where one of our devs, MattP explains this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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