Tj Shredder

Finally I found out a very good workflow and created my first very long picture. But at the end AP got really slow. I suspect its related to my memory resources. The resulting .afphoto file has a size of more than 500 MB my canvas has a size of 450.000 * 1000 pixel. Saving the project needed more than half an hour, and the fan of my Macbook Air running on highest speed... On a Mac Pro with 64 GB of memory all went much smoother of course... Thanks for all the help. Switching tools is always an adventure...

Yes, cutting works now, thanks. Basically I want to paste it to a different place now. But that doesn't work as I would expect it. point to the area I want to paste it hit cmd-v and nothing happens. Best would be if I could select a part and move it around. That is really all I need from AF.... ok it did paste into something invisible. I guess I have to deal with all these layers though I don't need them... What is also confusing, is if I select an area, sometimes I can copy them, sometimes copy is greyed out. I have no idea what's the difference... Sorry for those noob questions, I am sure I get along if I get past these first hurdles...

Hello, I am new to Affinity Photo, though its residing for quite a while on my application together with Affinity Designer. I used to do this in GraphicKonverter, where the workflow is intuitive, but for the sizes of images I need to create its unusable slow. This is my task. I need to create a single image of a score, each line of that has to be combined into a single line glued one after another. The original images are png or pdf documents, and contain some handwritten marks. I use the result in a Max patch to create a rolling score for the musicians. Typically the resulting image is 1080 pixels high, but maybe 200.000 or more pixels wide... In GraphicKonverter, I just select an area and paste it, but then I need to adjust the areas, delete small areas (replaced by the white background) and so on... I am pretty stuck with the most simple actions, and it seems 100% of all Youtube instructions deal with photos and none with graphics. I don't know where to start for these simple tasks, as I always expect that it is as intuitive as in GraphicKonverter, which cannot handle big images, sometimes it needs minutes to just move a 20*50 pixel part to another place in the image... So basically I want to select a part of the image and move it to a different part without creating a copy, it should vanish from the place it was and appera on a different place. When selecting a part, and I command x, I expect it to disappear, but it doesn't (not at all intuitive for me). Maybe someone can give me pointers to tutorials of this sort of workflow with a focus on graphics and not on photos. I just want to move pixels around nothing more... Any pointers or hints are welcome... Cheers, Stefan