codefoster Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I'm pretty new to Affinity Photo, but I've used the Flood Select Tool a lot in the past. It's not working for me, however, on a certain image. If I create a new document and paint a little and then click in my paint with the Flood Select Tool it works, but if I paste an image in and try to use it in the "(image)" layer it doesn't work. If I then merge that image layer down to my pixel layer I'm again able to use the Flood Select Tool to select color areas of the image. Can someone explain what's going on here? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RNKLN Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Right click on the layer - Select 'Rasterize' before you use the Flood Select Tool. Quote Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.2) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.4 versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codefoster Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 Thank you. This is counter-intuitive to me since images are rasterized. What's the advantage to maintaining a (somehow) non-rasterized image layer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 hours ago, codefoster said: Thank you. This is counter-intuitive to me since images are rasterized. What's the advantage to maintaining a (somehow) non-rasterized image layer? Image layer is a single object for manipulation with whole image, which retains the original attributes *), Pixel layer is array of separate pixels for their editing. *) Manipulation with Image layer is non-destructive, rasterization is destructive - image must be recalculated to new size, DPI, ICC,... Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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