Catrin Everitt

I am still new to the Affinity suite having previously known PS pretty well. I have images (photos) to which I have made adjustments in Affinity Photo. I want to use those images in Affinity Designer. When I cut and paste or drag and drop the image into an existing Affinity Designer document, Affinity Designer crashes. It does it every time. I have tried with layers and having merged the layers, I have tried having rasterised the image but the same result - Designer just crashes. I am sure this worked earlier today. Can anyone help please - what am I doing wrong?

Thank you MEB - I obviously managed to do the first two by "accident". Much appreciate your help.

Think I may have cracked it! I need to rasterise the layer.

I am very inexperienced in Affinity but used to know photoshop very well. I am trying to take a photo from Aperture (no problem there), Select a central(ish) part of the image - the part I want to keep, Feather the edge around the part that I want to keep, Delete the rest of the image/document (don't mind which) Convert the remaining feather-edged part of the image to greyscale (no problem there) I am; Selecting the central(ish) part of the image that I want to keep, Selecting "inverse pixel selection" - the marching ants look correct Selecting "cut" to remove the inverse selection The whole image is cut leaving a blank canvas. What is really annoying is that I have done this successful (albeit after several retrys) twice today and now I can't get it to work at all. I don't need a non-destructive method for this part and what I have done is what I would have done in Photoshop. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong (or right on some occasions)?