gmenasco Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 I'm looking to see if I can lock a layer. Searching the forum or documentation gives me nothing. I want the layer to show still but to not be impacted by tools such as "rectangle select" or "move selected pixels" and just the content pasted over to be impacted. Similar to how you can move items in regular MS Paint without it effecting the background but since .net uses layers vs stationary background it is an issue for me. If no way is possible I will look further into installing W11 Paint on my W10 machine as W11 Paint offers the features I want that W10 doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 Hello @gmenasco and welcome to the forum Just 'uncheck' the layer in the layers window. Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 11 Share Posted July 11 3 hours ago, Pixey said: Just 'uncheck' the layer in the layers window. That hides the layer which OP specifically doesn't want @gmenasco have you tried adding layers? There isn't really a reason to lock a layer when you can just create a new layer and do things there. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null54 Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 7 hours ago, Rick Brewster said: There isn't really a reason to lock a layer when you can just create a new layer and do things there. The OP seems to think that locking a layer would prevent all tools and effects from interacting with the layer, and I may be wrong but I don't think any image editor works that way. Locking layers would be useful for preventing accidental modification to the layer's contents, but it is a somewhat advanced feature. As an example, Adobe Photoshop has the following layer locking modes that can be combined to partially or fully disable editing of the layer contents: Lock Color Channels - prevents the layer color channels from being modified. Lock Transparency - prevents the layer transparency from being modified. Lock Position - prevents the layer pixels from being moved. 1 Quote Plugin Pack | PSFilterPdn | Content Aware Fill | G'MIC | Paint Shop Pro Filetype | RAW Filetype | WebP Filetype The small increase in performance you get coding in C++ over C# is hardly enough to offset the headache of coding in the C++ language. ~BoltBait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 12 Share Posted July 12 Right; from OP's description it seems like what they need is another layer, not the ability to lock anything about the layers. In which case Layers -> Add New Layer is the ticket (there's also a + button over in the Layers window itself) Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted July 13 Share Posted July 13 This link to the Working with Layers page of the documentation might help https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/WorkingWithLayers.html 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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