I've got a piece of artwork with several visible layers. When I do a selection, it typically just selects from pixels on the current, or active layer. Is there a way I can do a selection which will select pixels from all the visible layers, as opposed to just the active layer, which is not necessarily (and is usually not) the same visual information?

Thanks!

Gary

There is several "Sample" options for selection tools, check out Tool Options.

Tymond -

Thanks for your reply. I've tried all the selection options I could find - Raster, Vector, Pixel - and none of them select all the visible layers. I don't find any other selection options in the select tool menu. I'm using the rectangular selection tool. Is there an option that I'm missing? It seems like an obvious functionality so I would be surprised if it's not currently available. But at the moment I'm reduced to using the Windows Snipping Tool, which defaults of course to selecting everything that's visible, no matter what layer it's on. But I would much rather do it in Krita,.

Gary

I'm sorry, I was mistaken. I knew I implemented it, but I haven't checked if it's already available in released versions.

For the "Contiguous Selection Tool" (the "magic wand") the options are already there in 4.4.1.

For the "Similar Color Selection Tool" (the next tool in Toolbox, with a icon that looks like a pipette in a rectangular selection) the options are added in 4.4.2. You can download now 4.4.2-beta2 from the website, or wait 1-2 days when we release 4.4.2 officially, which will have those options.

Try Copy Merged (ctrl-shift-c) -- that will copy the merged image, as it is visible, instead of from the current layer.

Great. Thanks for these helpful replies, and good to hear that there is indeed a way to do this, with more options coming. The Control/Shift/C action certainly did the trick just now. I was sure there had to be a way, other than the Snipping Tool workaround. This is something I end up needing to do all the time, so it's an important functionality that now I can utilize.

Gary