befehr Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 I continue to have difficulty understanding the selection tool in AP. I expect the tool to behave like other software where I can make my selection and immediately copy/paste as a new object, or delete it. It seems that I have to go through the additional step(s) of refining the outputting. Is this the case or am I missing something? I keep going back to Pixelmator Pro for fast selection edits, and I'd rather not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Refining the selection (or not!) shouldn’t make any difference. The main thing is to make sure that you’re working on a ‘Pixel’ layer rather than an ‘Image’ layer; the latter is treated as a single object instead of a collection of pixels, so it isn’t suitable for working with things like pixel selections. Right-click on an Image layer in the Layers panel and choose ‘Rasterize...’ to convert it to a Pixel layer. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Could be you need to rasterize the image, in the layers panel right click>rasterize Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 Interesting. I guess I never noticed or expected that. I figured you have an "image" or you have a vector. So, what is an image if it is not a raster, or what is the benefit of having a difference? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Because "image" retains all the data as an embedded file, and you can resize it more than once, it'll use the original image datas. If you rasterize at a smaller size, you won't be able to enlarge it at its original size and get back the original datas, but enlarged pixels that can look ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 I think I get it, buuuut once you rasterize (so that edits such as this can be made) you have lost that data. So, in order to get around that, I guess you have to make a copy or the "image", which kind of sucks then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
befehr Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 Thanks guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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