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Thanks Garry it is actually good to shift my mentality from a layer to a group (I'm still new in digital art, couple weeks ago I was still a paper/pen kind of artist 🙂) , I was just thinking that I need them all in one layer but keeping them in different layers under one group is actually more practical. so to wrap up (for anyone having the same issue) we can't paste something inside a layer directly (as what I was trying to do) but we can paste inside a group of layers using "Paste inside" or (Ctrl+Alt+V)

OMG sorry for the confusion, this is embarrassing 😅, those are actually layers I create once I start any new project. and it's not only a problem with text, I can be sometimes painting in the wrong layer and willing to move this paint to the correct layer I'm attaching an example where you can see how I divide my work, and in this example you can see a text says "a weekend day vs..", you can recognize that "a weekend" is in a different layer from the rest of the sentence and I would like it to be back with them in the same layer, how would you do it? (for me I was choosing it, cut and paste, and having all the troubles I talked about above) weekend_morning_Example.afphoto

thanks for your reply Garry! so I have text layer and by mistake I was writing my text in ink layer instead, I cut this text and tried your suggestion to "Paste inside" and I actually have two problems with that: 1- my purpose was just have the text as a part of text layer but now it is still in a separate layer but under the text layer 2- A new problem 😶 : even it's there now I don't see it on the canvas!! it's not locked or hidden it just disappeared from the display but I can see it among layers 😕 now for the merge, I actually use it because I have this problem (sorry maybe I didn't express myself clearly) I'll use text and ink layers as an example: so this text that I wrote mistakenly on ink layer and after cut and paste is now in a new layer alone, I eventually merge this new layer with text layer (because what I originally wanted is to transfer this part from ink layer to text layer and not to create a new layer out of it, it just confuses me to have multiple layer for the same purpose) thanks for asking! 🙂

Hello guys, So happy with my Affinity photo experience for drawing my comics, except while working - and since it's new to me - I mistakenly start to draw on the wrong layer*, and when I try to cut that part and paste it into the correct layer I do the following: in the current layer I select the part I wish to transfer ctrl + x I choose the layer I'm wishing to have this part on instead ctrl + v and what I get is a new layer with this part and the same name as the layer I cut the part from, and then I have to merge and it's really quite frustrating is there any parameter I can adjust to solve that? am I doing anything wrong? *side note: I don't know how I suddenly move from one layer to another without realizing! I'm in my desired layer and all of the sudden I'm on another layer with already half of what I've done in there! I must be doing something stupid somehow 😅 any ideas