I know I’ve asked this before, but I have a Shape Layer filled with red and selected, but ‘Make Selection from Shape’ isn’t there in the ‘Select’ menu… and cmd-clicking in Layers doesn’t do it and setting the Shape Layer’s blending mode to ‘Mask’ makes the whole image disappear…
What am I doing wrong..???
It’s a simple solution, but kind of non-obvious.
The selection mode in the selection palette is set to “Subtract”. So if you bring up the selection palette (keyboard shortcut ’s’) and change the Mode: to normal, you’ll get the correct action in the Select menu.
Does that make sense?
-gus
Thanks for the reply, Gus… I changed the Selection mode to ‘Normal’ and was able to generate a selection. But then I changed it back to ‘Subtract’ to see what would happen, and I was still able to generate a selection from the shape layer, so I don’t know what I was doing earlier on…
If there’s no selection on the canvas, then the first time you use one of the boolean selection operations (subtract, union, etc), then Acorn will add a regular selection. (The boolean ones don’t work without an existing selection).
