hammerpocket

Count me as another user who ended up in this thread after pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn't simply delete a selection from a layer. (Ironically, I had moved my work over to Affinity Photo an hour earlier to get around a frustration with a competing photo editor.) After reading through the thread, I understand the concept of image layers vs. pixel layers, although I agree that it is not at all intuitive to a new user. Might I suggest an "always/never/ask" preference regarding rasterization of drag and drop images? Or perhaps a dialog that asks if you intend to delete the selection rather than the layer and offers to rasterize in the former case? Regardless, there does seem to be a bug involved. Just like user Macoun back on 27 January 2016, after I read the solution here and returned to my document in Affinity Photo, I found that the layer was already indicated to be a pixel layer. Nevertheless, I converted my pixel layer to a pixel layer and that solved it. As a test, I dragged the same image into another file and it indeed showed as an image layer, so something else is going on that sometimes changes the labeling of the layer without actually changing its state.