How to protect transparent areas in APhoto

[walt.farrell]

46 minutes ago, colindun said:

In my case it was some text that I had rasterised. I then wanted to fill the text shape with a gradient, but when I select the gradient tool and set the colours it's filling the entire layer rather than just the rasterised shape on the layer. Is there a preserve alpha alpha control I am overlooking somewhere?

A screenshot, including the document and the Layers panel, might help. If your rasterized text is on its own pixel layer the answer should be simple. But if it's merged with another pixel layer it's harder.

[PixelPest]

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In my case it was some text that I had rasterised

Layer effects->Gradient overlay might work also.

[Lisbon]

5 hours ago, colindun said:

Uh, I'm new here, so where do I find the compost alpha settings? ;0)

On the Channels tab.
If not visible then go to: View > Studio > Channels

After using the gradient tool turn back on Editable.

[colindun]

Thanks ;0)

[Klababa]

On 8/22/2019 at 6:07 PM, Tomeric said:

Thanks Pixel, I didn't notice this Checkbox in the Brush-Context-Toolbar.
It's a little more cumbersome than it should be, but that's acceptable to me.

Why can't there be a "protect alpha" option for the fill tool as well, right?