rhuxds

Thanks you so much! Also glad Google indexed your answer high up. I do get where the person is coming from you gave this answer to. I bought Affinity about a year ago, and from having used Photoshop for many years but refused to pay subscription fees, I just assumed that most of the operations would more or less follow the same paradigm, since i presume photoshop users are part of affinity's core target market, but maybe not... Anyway, not bitchin, but seriously almost every operation I take a shot at using just by guessing based on tool icons and tool tip descriptions, 9 time out of 10 there's a different operational paradigm and i just don't get it. What you say makes sense re images being considered an object that must be rasterized... and maybe somehow photoshop would handle that automatically when i drag and drop objects onto the image area to create layers. What's impt is now i know, but i cant tell you how many videos i started to watch in Youtube about background removal using flood tool, only to follow their directions but after selecting, and what appears to be an intelligent selection based on pixel color, hitting delete thinking the selection will be deleted only to find the whole layer deleted. it just never occurred to me that i'd have to take an action on an image beforehand... Really appreciate your quick to the point answer which was the secret sauce! thank you much!