This is my my first day with Acorn. In other programs I have generally made selections using the pen tool, making the selection active, then I would copy and paste the selection onto a new layer. This would be like making a path in Photoshop or a Curve in Affinity Photo.
I cannot seem to find any tutorials online or questions in the forum regarding this. Though it’s a bit old school I’m much better at this method of making selections than masking. Is there a way to do this in Acorn?
What I tried: I opened an image and made a shape with the pen tool of the portion of the image I wanted to silo. With the pen tool shape layer selected, I looked under the select menu and saw an option to make selection from layer. That got me the marching ants. Then, while they were still active I selected the image layer below it and tried to copy/paste, but all I got was a new blank bitmap layer with the marching ants still active.
If this can’t be done, is there a close alternative?
I’m not sure what you mean by skipping the copy+paste. I’m so totally new to this program. Here’s what I did :
I opened an image and made a selection of a single flower petal with the pen tool. That created the Shape layer.
With the Shape layer still selected, from the Selection menu I chose make selection from layer. That created the marching ants.
Now I want to copy that petal selection from the image below it and paste it on to a new layer. I can’t find a way to do it.
With the marching ants still active on the Shape layer, I selected the image layer below it and tried to copy/paste from there, but all I got was a new blank bitmap layer.
I was hoping to supply a screen cap to show you, but don’t have a server to link the image from, and copy / paste directly into this reply didn’t work.
A screen capture would be super helpful, and you can mail it to support@flyingmeat.com. If that doesn’t work for some reason let me know and I’ll setup a spot you can upload it to.
Here’s the steps I use to do this:
Draw my shape layer
Use the Select ▸ Make Selection from Layer menu item.
Switch to the bottom layer using the layer palette.
Cmd-C to copy the selected pixels
Cmd-V to paste those pixels, which creates a new layer. I could also use the File ▸ New from Clipboard menu item to check those out.
It sounds like what you’re doing is correct, but maybe just one thing is different from what I’m doing and I can’t quite spot it. We’ll get it figured out though!