razorpig Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Is it possible to create a pixel selection from a shape in Publisher? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 12, 2019 Share Posted June 12, 2019 Since pixel selections are a feature of Photo (and the Pixel Persona of Designer) I would imagine that it will be possible in the Photo Persona of Publisher. To use this you will need to own both Publisher and Photo. The personas are due to become active when Publisher is launched on 19th June. Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 How would one create a pixel selection from a shape in Photo (or the Pixel Persona of Designer)? As shapes are vector objects, all I can think of is duplicating the shape, rasterizing the copy, then creating the pixel selection using the rasterized copy. (Though you could, of course, skip copying and rasterize the original shape.) @razorpig: What do you intend to do with the pixel selection? What do you intend to do with the shape afterwards? 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...
razorpig Posted June 13, 2019 Author Share Posted June 13, 2019 Thank you both for your input. I would like to use the shape ( inverted ) as a mask for another layer, but keep the original shape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 With Alt -/Option- click on a geometry button (main window toolbar) you get a compound layer which contains your original shapes. There, you still can toggle the geometry /mask type by clicking the geometry icon in the Layers panel. With right-click on an object or its layer you get 3 options to Rasterize ... This way you don't keep your original object. Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aammppaa Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 6 hours ago, walt.farrell said: How would one create a pixel selection from a shape in Photo (or the Pixel Persona of Designer)? Ctrl + click (on Windows) the thumbnail in layers panel, makes a pixel selection. walt.farrell 1 Quote Win10 Home x64 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X @ 3.7GHz | 48 GB RAM | 1TB SSD | nVidia GTX 1660 | Wacom Intuos Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 9 hours ago, razorpig said: I would like to use the shape ( inverted ) as a mask for another layer, but keep the original shape. Duplicate the shape and drag the copy's entry in the Layers studio over the thumbnail for the other layer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorpig Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 Many thanks for all your suggestions. @thomaso Geometry options weren't available in Publisher Beta but now the Personas are active it's all good. @Aammppaa Your solution also now works :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 5 hours ago, razorpig said: Geometry options weren't available in Publisher Beta Yes they were... and you can still access them in the Publisher persona also. You can either customize the main toolbar to add them there (as I did almost right away after installing the official version), or with the two object selected, right-click on one of them to find a "Geometry" submenu within the context menu... razorpig 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razorpig Posted June 20, 2019 Author Share Posted June 20, 2019 @fde101 Ah so they are ! Thanks fde101 - very much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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