Question about Affinity Designer and deleting selections in Pixel Persona

[skylamar]

Hi. I have a question about making and deleting selections in Affinity Designer's Pixel Persona.

This is what's happening:

I used the Place Image Tool to add a photo. I then switched to the Pixel Persona. I then chose the Selection Brush Tool to make a selection from the photo. Then I hit delete to remove the selected portion of the photo. However, hitting delete instead removed the whole photo. The selection (marching ants) remained.

So, I don't know how to remove just the selection and not the whole photo.

I have noticed that if the photo is the background layer and I make a selection and hit delete, only the selection is deleted. But I'm confused why it's not working the same with an image that is not the background layer. The selection tool seems to work the same in both cases.

Thanks,

Skylamar

[MEB]

Hi skylamar,
The Place Image command inserts the image as an Image layer (check the layer type between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel) which keeps the original data of the image but can't be manipulated at a pixel level. If you right-click the Image layer in the Layers panel and select Rasterise it's converted to a pixel layer which can then be manipulated at a pixel level. After the conversion you can delete just the selection instead of the entire layer.

[skylamar]

MEB, that works! Thanks! I didn't realize the photo wasn't automatically seen as a raster image.