Why Doesn't My Flood Select Work Right?

[Potatobug]

Everything is set correctly, I've watched two tutorials just to make sure I was doing everything right, I've followed all directions but when I left click to make my selection, it selects the entire image JPG -- the whole square rather than any part of the image. I kinda need the select tool to be more, well, selective. Either this or it makes no selection at all -- no tool response whatsoever.

Any ideas what the issue might be or how to resolve it? I really need to get this resolved.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 - Bug

 

Edited March 5, 2019 by Potatobug

[MEB]

Hi Potatobug,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Check if you are working with an Image layer - look at the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel. If so. right-click the layer in the Layers panel and select Rasterise to convert it to a pixel layer. You can then use the Flood Select Tool as usual.

Image layers are considered an object in Affinity apps, not a traditional "raster" layer which you can edit at a pixel level as you're used to from other apps. They retain 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 (Designer and Photo) or when you simply drag them from the Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows) to the canvas of an opened document. You can transform them globally (rotate, skew etc) without losing quality but they cannot be edited/manipulated at a pixel level. For that they must be rasterised first as described above. They are then converted to a Pixel layer type (as you are used to from other programs) which you can then manipulate as you see fit.

[Potatobug]

That appears to have fixed it. Thanks a bunch, MEB!