disco solipsism

Just going to give my two cents and concur wholeheartily with the notion of giving the option to use the default mac key modifiers. I appreciate that this may upset other Affinity-centric key combinations, but dragging and resizing objects is a core, much used operation. I just discovered in another thread that I can recover the default shift behaviour of constraining the object ratio when resizing under preferences > tools > Move tool aspect constrain: Do not constrain by default. It would be great if there was a similiar preference for the option key. Not going to hold my breath though from looking at the initial post date of the above quoted thread.

Ouch. I haven't had to do any vector work lately, but when I do, path operations are usually integral.

Thanks loukash, I did both those transitions as well 🙂 I will take your advice on board and persevere with this new method and hope it will stick. I'm quite liking Affinity otherwise, and glad to be rid of Creative Suite. ds

I am a long time MacOS and Photoshop user and much of my work is creating interface mockups. Using Command + Option + Drag to duplicate a pixel selection within a single layer is essential to my workflow. The suggestions above do not tally with my experience. When I use Affinity Photo, Command + Drag will cut and move a selection (but not duplicate). The option and control modifiers only subtract and add to the selection respectively. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems the only way to achieve what I need is to cut and paste a selection to a new layer, move that layer and then merge it down again - this is a really slow and clunky solution. The thing is, using Command + Option + Drag to duplicate is a long-standing MacOS paradigm and my muscle memory is so ingrained that I think I will have to return to Photoshop to get my work done.