08-08-2018, 12:18 PM
(08-08-2018, 11:56 AM)Kevin Wrote: Check what colour you have set for the background.
As Rich says, using the eraser on a layer without an alpha channel (such as a layer mask) causes the eraser to paint with the background colour - It's not erasing anything.
The background colour isn't really relevant. If you are familiar with the method that I have been using (as in the youtube vid), what I am saying is that the eraser is currently not working on the mask although it has done for the last five (or maybe more) years since I started using it!
I am pretty au fait with how most things work in Gimp, I've done thousands of edits, I'm just stuck on this as I can't understand why it is happening now after years of using this method. It must be the dementia kicking in.