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Thanks everyone managed to do what I wanted by using BofG's suggestion........

To V-KYR As you have tried to investigate a bit more into images within Train controller (TC).....thank you for that, I will explain more as to what I am trying to use the built in image editor of TC: It is not for images of my locos, for which I am fully conversant at importing Gif, Bmp Jpg files into, but trying to create bespoke button images for my switchboard graphic that actually controls the layout visually, which you will not (I think) be able to look into unless you are a TC user? As to all the other replies........ I'm afraid content is all beyond my level of graphics know-how!!?? but feel free to carry on, some of it may 'stick'

Thanks everyone for the additional ideas, both sound feasible Give me a day or so to experiment a bit more, and will feed back my results asap.

Yes I think you are correct and it is how my app sees the pasted text!! Tried your way of using GIMP to paste the text from Affinity into, and it shows light & dark grey squares behind the text (not white box) which I think means transparency? Unfortunately I have to use my app's image editor to do what I am trying to do, so end of topic it seems? Thanks everyone for the great help

John, Managed to follow what you suggest and Affinity shows a dotted line around just the text and after copying via Ctrl-C and going to my railway app's image editor and pasting it still has a white background? Snipping tool capture of what I am saying attached.

Okay John, replies are coming in thick and fast as I am typing replies to everyone, will try what you say

Yes, other image editor starts with a transparent blank image with which to add coloured pixels, or paste other 'clipboard copied' image onto the transparent blank image, but when I paste Affinity's text it has a white background and I would have to edit out and replace the white pixels with transparent ones within the simple image editor..........which I could do, but as I want to have about a dozen or so words of text on several different images, would take a while and I thought I could use affinity to save time?

Thanks for the response, however cannot use other app as you suggest (which is not a graphic app as such and is only a simple pixel editor that I use within a train control app called Railroad and Co for control of my model railway).So this is why I am trying to use windows copy/paste to 'bring in' the text I want to use with the other's app's simple pixel editor, and canot open a file from within this editor unfortunately.

Hi everyone, This may sound odd but here goes...... I am trying to create text from within Affinity photo app somehow that I can simply copy and then paste into another apps image editor so that it will only paste the text with transparent background. This is what I have tried so far in Affinity photo: - In affinity photo v 1.6.5, created a new transparent pixel image into which I add artistic text required for the other app's built-in image editor. - Use the Copy command from Affinity's main Menu. - go to the other apps image editor, and note that the Paste symbol is now active, so click on it. - result is I have the Affinity's text displayed but it has white background and not the transparent background from Affinity's pixel image. I stress I am new to the graphics world but I am very familiar with computers and Windows Copy/Paste feature