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Yes, it does. If you cut/paste a transparent png into Affinity, the transparency is lost and the background becomes black. This is not an issue with the copying. I can paste the same transparent png from my clipboard into, say, Jasc Paintshop Pro, or other image editing apps, and it retains its transparency. Only when pasting from the clipboard into Affinity Photo is the transparency lost. It is a significant PITA and cost in time. I have to save transparent PNGs as separate files, then load them into Affinity Photo separately, and then cut and paste them from within Affinity Photo.

Affinity Photo just prompted me to update to version 1.6.1. Which I did. But where can I find the patch notes for the new version? Not here in the support forum. No link in the 'About' screen of the application. No apparent link on the Affinity website. Nothing in the application's Help file. Nothing in the application's Welcome screen. Congrats, I'm stumped.

Thanks. Do I perhaps need to save and re-open Image1 as a PNG - with a set transparency color - before pasting into it? Maybe that will work.

Hi, I recently made the jump across to Affinity Photo from Paintshop Pro. I'd appreciate your advice on how to paste transparent images in Affinity Photo. image1 is a standard (rasterised) image. Image2 is a logo with a transparent background. When I try to past Image2 as a new layer into Image1, the transparent layer of Image2 turns to black. How can I past Image2 as a new layer to Image1, while preserving its transparency? Thanks in anticipation of your advice.

I noticed this bug too.

Is there a Changelog somewhere that goes back over multiple versions?

Me too. Very unintuitive. Please just add an Eyedropper tool on the tool palette. 1. Select Eyedropper tool. 2. Left click it somewhere on the image to set the foreground color. 3. Right click it somewhere on the image to set the background color. Much much much easier.

In Paintshop Pro, I (1) use the marquee tool to select the area of an image I want to copy. (2) Ctrl-C to copy an area, then (3) Ctrl-E to create a floating selection, which will move with my mouse to wherever I want to place it. (4) Click to place it. This is very quick and easy, and I'd love to see it in Affinity Photo. (In Affinity, you need to (1) convert the Image layer to a Raster layer. (2) Use the marquee tool to select the area of the image you want to copy. (3) Hit Ctrl-C. (4) Hit Ctrl-V to place a static copy of the selected pixels over the original. (5) Change to the Move tool. (6) Click and drag andcopy of the selection to the place you want it. (7) Merge down the new layer that was created along the way.) Anyway, just a suggestion from a new user trialing Affinity Photo.

Thanks MEB for the explanation.

Corel Paintshop Pro user here. I like the UI of Affinity Photo, but there's an "inconsistency/annoyance" I encountered today that seems unintuitive and unnecessary. I wanted to blur a section of an image. So I created a marque around part of the image, and tried to use the "Effects->Blur" panel on the right side of the UI to blur make that selected area. However, that blurred the whole image, not just the selected area. After a half hour of hunting for the reason for this strange behavior, I discovered that I had to use the top "Filters->Blur" menu to blur only the selected part of the image. Why...? This is very confusing. Why not just enable the Effects panel to work on selections? I really want to love Affinity Photo. But I come across these head-scratching UI decisions that really slow me down when I try to use it.

This confused the heck out of me for a half hour until I wound up here discovering that I had to convert the image layer to pixel. It seems and odd design decision, and it's not documented in the help files (and least, not under anything that mentions cutting and pasting).

Some potential customer feedback I hope you will find useful. I was about to make the switch from Paintshop Pro to Affinity ... because you have versions for both Mac and Windows, and Corel doesn't. However, the relative complexity of trying to do what should be a simple cut-and-paste turned me off Affinity completely. In Paintshop Pro, I (1) use the marquee tool to select the area of an image I want to copy. (2) Ctrl-C to copy an area, then (3) Ctrl-E to create a floating selection, which will move with my mouse to wherever I want to place it. It couldn't be easier. In Affinity, you want me to (1) convert the Image layer to a Raster layer. (2) Use the marquee tool to select the area of the image I want to copy. (3) Hit Ctrl-C. (4) Hit Ctrl-V, which will place a static copy of the selected pixels over the original. (5) Change to the Move tool. (6) Click and drag and copy of the selection to the place I want it. (7) Merge down the new layer that was created along the way. (And there is nothing in your help files that explains the need to convert an image layer to a raster layer to do that... so I spent a half hour wondering why Affinity Photo kept copying the whole image instead of the part I'd selected with the marquee tool.) So that's a whole lot of extra work just to do what must be the simplest and most common form of image editing. So, sadly, I think I will stick with Paintshop Pro for now.