With the photo we used in the last example, let’s say I first applied a Black & White Adjustment to it, and then made a new Pixel Layer to do my inpainting. By turning this on, the Inpainting Brush Tool will work as expected. I need to turn on Current Layer & Below so Affinity can use the information from the photo layer underneath my blank pixel layer. If I wanted to remove some of these leaves from the photo, I would first make a new Pixel Layer (so I can work non-destructively).īut then, if I start using the Inpainting Brush Tool, nothing happens! That’s because there is no information on this blank Pixel Layer for Affinity to sample from. I can even give my groups names, to be extra organized. Then, press Command G (Mac) or Control G (PC) to group them. To do this, just select a few layers while holding down Command (Mac) or Control (PC). To make my organization even better, I could group my layers. Now I can easily tell what each layer is doing. I could do the same for all the other layers. With my layers looking like this, I would have no idea what each layer is doing.Ī simple fix for this is to double click a layer’s name, and then name it something more useful. This applies the filter as a separate layer that can be turned on and off, or adjusted at any time.Īs an example, say I was working on this photo, saved it, and then came back to it a week later. You could come to the top of the screen, press Filters, then Blur, then apply a Gaussian Blur Filter.īut after you’ve applied the filter, you have no way of changing it!Ī better way to do this is to have your selection, and then come to the Live Filters icon, and apply a blur. Say you have a nice selection of the background of an image, and want to blur it. One common example of this is applying filters directly to a picture. Working destructively is when you apply changes directly to your photo, taking away your ability to go back and make changes later. Selecting the wrong layer is the most common mistake, but luckily, it’s a very simple fix! We need to select the mask, not the photo, and then begin painting. That just puts black paint onto the tiger layer. Now I just need to select the tiger and start painting in black, right? Say I wanted to mask out part of this photo, and I have a mask applied to the tiger. The other common version of this mistake is having an image selected, instead of its mask. Now when you try to make a selection, it doesn’t work quite right.īut if you have the right layer selected, in this case the flower layer, then the selection will work like a charm.Īlternatively, you could check on All Layers from the Context Toolbar, which allows you to make selections from any layer, regardless of which layer you have selected. Let’s say you are trying to select the flowers, but have the car layer selected. Here are two examples of how this might happen to you. By far the most common layer mistake I see with Affinity users is having the wrong layer selected.
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