Dx2 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 When I open an EPS (logo over white background) I am unable to make a selection with either the Selection Brush or Flood Select. I can make a selection with the Rectangular Marquee tool, but if I select some of the white background to the side of the logo and hit delete, the logo goes away. I only have one layer so I'm not sure what's going on. Additionally, PDF files seem to work the same way. I have tried flattening the images first and that gives some more options, but still not everything works. When I open a PNG screen capture all tools function normally. I am new to Affinity Photo and it seems to be really powerful and I'm sure this is operator error. I have looked at the forum and tutorials and cannot find topics on these particular issues. I would appreciate your help. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted February 8, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 8, 2019 Hi Dx2, Welcome to the forums Please could you try right clicking the layer you are trying to make a selection on and choose rasterise then try making your selection? Thanks Callum Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dx2 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 Callum, I rasterized both a TIFF and EPS and both act the same: I can't brush select, but I can flood select. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dx2 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 Can you give any more insight? I have rasterized the layer and still the behavior is the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 On 2/8/2019 at 12:31 PM, Dx2 said: Callum, I rasterized both a TIFF and EPS and both act the same: I can't brush select, but I can flood select. But, when you marquee select, and press delete, do you still lose everything, or just the part you selected? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dx2 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 If I open an EPS, right click on the pixel layer and rasterize it, the Selection Brush doesn't work. If I select with Flood Select and hit delete, nothing happens. If I select with the Marquee tool and then delete, the selected area turns white. If it's a TIFF file, it seems to work fine except for the Selection Brush tool that doesn't seem to do anything. This is probably all my inexperience with the program. I'm just trying to find where I'm missing a step. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 @Dx2 Make sure you don't have Subtract set in Mode: on the Selection Brush Tool, it's easily done. 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...
Dx2 Posted February 11, 2019 Author Share Posted February 11, 2019 It was set to Subtract. Changing it to Add did the trick. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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