OMG this is excellent, thank you so much. Now I have to go back and shiver at how much damage I have done to my originals, but at least moving forward shouldn't be a problem :)
You're a great teacher and I really appreciate the way you explain things. I'm a programmer who's learning design, so I appreciate logical explanations :)
Excellent! Your explanation really clarified the difference between image layers and pixel layers. This is one of the two biggest confusions for newbies. (The other big confusion is clipping layers vs. masking layers, which I believe you covered in another video.) An obvious enhancement for a future version of Affinity Photo: For editing an image layer, Assistant Settings should give you the option to have Assistant either automatically create a new pixel layer or automatically rasterize. Right now, it always rasterizes.
Hi Khmer, yes, that is possible. With a pixel layer selected, from the Edit menu, select Copy. From the Edit menu, select Paste Special, then choose Device Independent Bitmap. Hope this helps!
@@TechnicallyTrent I tried it and it worked as what I wanted. Thank you very much. I have always wanted to convert pixel layer to image layer because my work needs to scale the layers multiple times and it is necessary to keep the quality of the layer the same.❤
@@TechnicallyTrent Although it might make an interesting special effect, adding new pixel layers at different scalings of original image layer & rescaling all layers as the project progressed.
There's something I found out accidentaly while watching your live about halftones. As you always have an image at the beginning (and you have it already done when you start) and I had a background marked as pixel even though I didn't do the rasterization by purpose.. I just opened the jpg in Photo and then copied it to my document. I found out that I should do it with 'Place' instead. I had no idea it makes a difference 😮
@@TechnicallyTrent Thanks, I find it not very intuitive if you get different results doing similar steps😕 And have you talked about Fill layers in any tutorial? I would try to use a Pixel layer to make any kind of background (like with rectangle in AD), but I just noticed that I cannot use any other colour on fill layer :o If I use Paint Brush with a different colour on a fill layer, I got just different shades of fill colour.. 🫣 Well, so it probably has a different purpose..
Hi MTM! It seems like this minor release is just some bug fixes. You can find the details here: forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/204016-all-25-release-notes-improvements-and-major-fixes-and-25x-patches/#comment-1270352
OMG this is excellent, thank you so much. Now I have to go back and shiver at how much damage I have done to my originals, but at least moving forward shouldn't be a problem :)
You're a great teacher and I really appreciate the way you explain things. I'm a programmer who's learning design, so I appreciate logical explanations :)
Thanks, @j-ivey, glad it is useful!
Excellent! Your explanation really clarified the difference between image layers and pixel layers. This is one of the two biggest confusions for newbies. (The other big confusion is clipping layers vs. masking layers, which I believe you covered in another video.)
An obvious enhancement for a future version of Affinity Photo: For editing an image layer, Assistant Settings should give you the option to have Assistant either automatically create a new pixel layer or automatically rasterize. Right now, it always rasterizes.
Thanks, very clear explanation! A difficult process, is now crystal clear.
Glad to hear that, @CarolusChess!
This was great, thank you! Concise and clear.
Thanks once again, can't tell you how useful this one is.
Thank you sir!!
You helped me lot in this adventure called Affinity and I hope you will keep helping all of us with your clean and clear tutorials
Another excellent video. Massively useful and very easy to follow. Thanks a lot!
Thank you. All is clear now
Fantastic video, thank you.
Hi, thank you for the tutorial. Is there a way to make pixel layer to image layer?
Thanks❤
Hi Khmer, yes, that is possible.
With a pixel layer selected, from the Edit menu, select Copy.
From the Edit menu, select Paste Special, then choose Device Independent Bitmap.
Hope this helps!
@TechnicallyTrent thank you. I will try. ❤️
@@TechnicallyTrent I tried it and it worked as what I wanted. Thank you very much. I have always wanted to convert pixel layer to image layer because my work needs to scale the layers multiple times and it is necessary to keep the quality of the layer the same.❤
Thanks! Sounds like it would be best to make sure original image layer is full size before creating a new pixel layer above for inpainting or such.
Hoi @jktolford8272, yes, that is the best way to do it in my opinion :)
@@TechnicallyTrent Although it might make an interesting special effect, adding new pixel layers at different scalings of original image layer & rescaling all layers as the project progressed.
There's something I found out accidentaly while watching your live about halftones. As you always have an image at the beginning (and you have it already done when you start) and I had a background marked as pixel even though I didn't do the rasterization by purpose.. I just opened the jpg in Photo and then copied it to my document. I found out that I should do it with 'Place' instead. I had no idea it makes a difference 😮
Hi Joan...yes, whether something is initially "Image" or "Pixel" is one of those quirky Affinity details.
@@TechnicallyTrent Thanks, I find it not very intuitive if you get different results doing similar steps😕
And have you talked about Fill layers in any tutorial? I would try to use a Pixel layer to make any kind of background (like with rectangle in AD), but I just noticed that I cannot use any other colour on fill layer :o If I use Paint Brush with a different colour on a fill layer, I got just different shades of fill colour.. 🫣 Well, so it probably has a different purpose..
Ah! So that's the difference. Thx.
Kind of like Smart Layers in Photoshop, really nice. It's always better to work in an indestructible way.
Yes, Image Layers are almost like a "smart object".
Tremendamente util, muchas gracias!
Danke!
Thanks for the donation, Thomas!
What is new affinity 2.5.5 update?
Hi MTM!
It seems like this minor release is just some bug fixes. You can find the details here:
forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/204016-all-25-release-notes-improvements-and-major-fixes-and-25x-patches/#comment-1270352
I'm going to figure it out for myself, but it would have been nice to see a side-by-side export example of the inpainted section being upscaled