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Aha!. Thanks. That makes sense. I keep forgetting the mini-well ;0)

If I want to use a colour from one document in another, is there an easy way to ‘remember’ that colour? When I sample the colour using the colour picker in document B, then switch to document A to colour an object there, the colour I sampled has vanished from the swatches primary/secondary colours and reverted to defaults. I eventually had to copy and paste an object of the right colour from document B into A, sample it, colour the object I wanted coloured, then delete the object I had pasted. I suspect that there is a much easier way, but damned if I can find it in Affinity Photo Help.

I've never had problem with the 'duplicate file' option in Photoshop nor Pixelmator Pro, but the process is less transparent in AP. Generally the finder copy option is probably safest (or simply 'save as' from AF), though it does mean some tiresome file clean-up in the finder afterward to jettison duplicates.

Thanks. I shall bear that in mind.

Eureka! It works. Oddly it changes the dimensions of the document, but apart from that it works well. Excellent ;0)

Ah. Now *that's* an interesting alternative that might just do the trick. Ta.

Yeah, I know. But it's a bit of a faff ;0)

I *really* wish Affinity Photo had a 'duplicate document' option. It's so useful when comparing variations of a design. And, yes, I know that you can do this with snapshots, but it's not as quick or easy and requires more forebrain focus and attention on the history timeline. It's especially useful when you have a master file and you simply want to duplicate it, do some minor changes, change it to grayscale for example, crop it, then export or print it and then dump the duplicate by not saving it knowing that your master file is still pristine and safe. Honestly, it's such a time saver.

Doh. It's already there. It's at the bottom of the Document menu instead of the Layers menu. ;0)

No, I'm not using Separated Mode. Here's a wee screen capture showing the steps: open image, select crop tool, select resample, enter width size, tab to move selection to height field and what I get is tab1 = shows crop area width over the photo, tab2 = nothing, tab3 = tools and palettes hidden, tab4 = toggle between tools hidden and tools visible. For me tabbing simply doesn't move the selection from field to field the way I feel it should. Od Screen Recording 2021-07-30 at 10.24.50.mov d.

That certainly makes sense ;0)

I use both ‘merge visible’ and ‘merge selected’ layer options, but is there a simple ‘flatten all layers” option anywhere? It’d be a real time-saver.

I occasionally just want to open a jpeg, do some simple edits, then overwrite the original by simply saving (rather than exporting as a jpeg). I know this is lossy, but sometimes it’s all I need. What controls the level of compression when overwriting a JPEG in this way?

My Photoshop-trained fingers automatically reach for the tab key on my keyboard when entering width and height sizes using the crop tool. I enter the width, hit the tab key and instead of the height field being automatically selected as I expect, the tools vanish. Doh. Obviously the tab key is set to hide tools not move fields. Is there a way to tab from field to field so I don't have to carefully select each field manually using my cursor? Thanks.

No, no arrows. Just V and H lines to demarcate the edges of objects and spacing. I've tried both pixel and vector options and neither is prefect for my needs, though Alfred's suggestion was very useful ;0)

That helps, thanks. Only problem is that if I select the rasterised shape and then alt+drag to copy, the copy is added as a new layer ;0) However, food for thought and thanks for the file.

I've tried both pixel and vector options with the same result, sadly.

What's the difference? Should I be creating the lines with a different tool than the Rectangle? I've tried shapes instead, but that creates as many layers.

I've tried it with both, and as you say it leads to a lot of layers either way. ;0)

I don't think that would work. What I mostlyy use this for is marking up web page designs to pass to my programming colleagues, so they can quickly see widths and heights of objects and gutters on the page design without having to measure them. This requires me to put a lot of v lines and h lines on the design showing spacing between and amongst disparate parts of the layout. I add one V line, locate it, then want to copy and drag the line to the other side of an object. Then repeat fro many other objects in the design. Then add a text comments with the pixel dimensions. In Photoshop I can do all of the mark-up lines on a single layer. With AP I end up with so many layers even when I regularly merge them, that it's very easy to get muddled about which layer I'm working on, and I spend more time looking at the layers palette trying to track this than I do on the design itself. If anyone has got an easier way to accomplish this I'd be delighted to hear it ;0)

Yeah, that's what I've been doing, thanks. Not ideal, but the best I can find at the moment ;0)

Ta. I don't mind losing the distinction. In fact that's what I want. (That's how it works in Photoshop, and I'm comfortable with that) If I create a rectangular selection in AP, fill it with red then drag a rectangular selection over a part of the rectangle and drag it to a different place I want it to remain part of that bitmap layer *not* have it's own layer created. Otherwise if I divide the object a lot and drag the pieces around the layout - as I want to do - I end up with each piece on a different layer. Hmm. Yes, that works but seems a lot more fiddly work than simply having all of the pieces of the object I've working on being on the same layer. I take it that isn't possible in AP?

In Affinity Photo, is it possible to work with several pixel objects on a single layer? If I create a pixel object and try to copy-drag it to reproduce it AF creates a new layer for it. If I have a lot of such objects I end up with a lot of layers and a lot of difficulty finding out which object is on which layer. What I want is a single layer with lots of pixel objects on it that I can drag, move and modify without having to jump from layer to layer. Is this possible?

Thanks. That does the trick. Really hidden away there, though. I'd never have found it. ;0

Thanks. How do I save it as a preset? I've looked everywhere in the crop tool toolbar but can't see this. Thanks.