Boldlinedesign Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 In Affinity Photo - I lock layers so they won't move or be selected, yet I can still delete things on those layers and when I click on the locked material on the image, it still selects it with blue outlines. When I lock a layer, I want nothing to get selected or for anything to be editable, etc. Am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 That's not what Locking does in the Affinity applications. From the Photo Help, with my emphasis: Quote Locking is useful when you need to prevent a layer from being moved or transformed unintentionally. 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...
Boldlinedesign Posted August 6, 2019 Author Share Posted August 6, 2019 I uploaded a pic of what is happening - if I lock the black background layer and then click on it in the image, it gives me a blue bounding box and takes me to that locked layer. I can't move anything, but I'm now off the layer I was on and it's semi-selected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Right. You can still select the locked layer. All locking does is prevent movement or transformation, as stated in Help. 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...
Boldlinedesign Posted August 6, 2019 Author Share Posted August 6, 2019 ok - What is the purpose of selecting the locked layer? I'd rather it didn't select anything on a locked layer at all. is there a way to set it to not select the bounding box of anything locked? Sometimes you want to lock a layer so you can focus on grabbing things in the layers above without interference from the locked layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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