Dan V

I am having the same problem, too. MacBook Pro running Mojave (10.14.6) and Photo 1.10.4

I think I have figured out what I was doing wrong. I didn't understand that the artboard is an object that contains everything on it. When I move all my layers Into the artboard "container" I get the behavior I expect. I'm still learning and I appreciate all the help that has been offered. Thanks.

More strange behavior. When I just move some objects, they change their layer location to the artboard layer. They don't stay on the layer that I have put them on, they jump to the artboard layer!

Gary and Walt Thanks for the responses. Gary, I don't think the behavior you have shown will help me. I don't want all of the objects I create to be inside another object, except perhaps in the way that Walt says a Layer with a capital L is, in a sense, an object. However, Walt, I don't seem to be doing something correctly as I don't see the behavior you describe. I create a new Layer using the icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and highlight it in the panel. Then I create a new object but it appears under the artboard layer not my newly created layer. This happens even if I lock the artboard layer. I have to move the object in the layers panel to get it in the new Layer. It seems that every new object I create is on the artboard layer by default and I can't change this behavior. Again, I'm sure I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure out what.

I am a new user of the Affinity suite. When I draw new objects they always default to the artboard layer, not the layer I have highlighted. So I have to move every new object to the layer I want it on. I would like to be able to restrict all new work to a highlighted layer rather than having to move objects after creating them. Am I missing something?