grimjack_28

ok. my despair and confused anger has subsided. thank you for your answers. but something like that one particular idiosyncrasy should be handed out on a very loud yellow explanation card, with respect to the whole rasterizing, containers and how Affinity sees things differently. a popup cheat sheet or something with a tips box.

something as simple as using a magic wand or a selection box to copy from an image to create another or really anything. I have been sent to youtube and all sorts of help pages. I get told to rasterize or something vague and that's not even an option for this file. As you can guess, I am just copying the whole blessed thing over and over again. I want to support Photoshop competitors because I hate Adobe and their abusive practices, but Affinity makes it really hard to do the most simple things. It looks really powerful and it's so god forsaken frustrating. I'm forced to warn people how hard it is to use which makes me feel much less intelligent, but it isn't clear how different Affinity Photo is just by looking at it. Photoshop was the furthest thing from intuitive, and Affinity takes that and adds a number of extra twists. Perfectly logical reasons I'm sure, but I can't even do something that is as simple as a copy and paste. I'm in complete disbelief at how difficult it seems to be.