_fluffy Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 (edited) Hi, I'm moving over to Affinity Photo from Photoshop, which I primarily use for making comics. I was totally sold on the text tool and the quality of the brushes, but now that I'm getting into really using it I'm having trouble finding a couple of equivalents to things I did in Photoshop a lot, specifically being able to clear or fill the pixels which are currently selected. In Photoshop, backspace will delete the pixels that are currently selected (or more precisely set their alpha to 0), and option-backspace will solid-fill the selection with the current foreground color. Both of these are very useful for a bunch of things in drawing. If I could find equivalent commands for this in the menu I'd be able to set my keyboard shortcuts accordingly, but I can't find anything there, and searching on the various phrases I can think of in both the online help and in the forum is turning up nothing. Does Affinity Photo not have these functions? Or are they just called something else that I'm not finding in any of the menus? And, relatedly, is there a way to make the magic wand tool sample from all layers rather than the current layer? The "selection brush" tool does allow that but that doesn't quite serve my needs for doing flat fills in a comic. (Alternately, being able to do a bucket fill that samples all layers would be helpful!) Thanks! Edited May 19, 2019 by _fluffy Add related question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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_fluffy Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share Posted May 19, 2019 5 hours ago, >|< said: Layer > Delete (which deletes pixels when there is a pixel selection, and objects/layers when there is no pixel selection) can have its keyboard shortcut edited in the 1.6 retail and 1.7 beta. Hmm, every time I tried layer>delete it always deleted the layer, rather than the selection. Which made sense to me given the menu it was in. 5 hours ago, >|< said: The beta can be run on a machine with a licensed installation of the retail app. Thanks, I’ll try it out. Sounds like there’s a lot of improvements in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 2 minutes ago, _fluffy said: Hmm, every time I tried layer>delete it always deleted the layer, rather than the selection. Which made sense to me given the menu it was in. The Delete key should work for deleting the selected pixels. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 5 minutes ago, _fluffy said: Hmm, every time I tried layer>delete it always deleted the layer, rather than the selection. Which made sense to me given the menu it was in. You need to working with a pixel layer to delete the selection not an image layer, etc _fluffy 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_fluffy Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share Posted May 19, 2019 1 hour ago, carl123 said: You need to working with a pixel layer to delete the selection not an image layer, etc Ah, that makes sense - I was trying to remove the background from an image I’d imported. Is there a way to convert an image layer to a pixel layer? (Also why does Affinity make a distinction between them?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 In the layers panel right-click the layer and select Rasterise. Or from the menus Layer > Rasterise _fluffy 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 19, 2019 Share Posted May 19, 2019 6 hours ago, _fluffy said: (Also why does Affinity make a distinction between them?) _fluffy 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_fluffy Posted May 19, 2019 Author Share Posted May 19, 2019 31 minutes ago, R C-R said: Ah, so it’s basically like a Smart Object in Photoshop? That makes sense. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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