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Hello, I am new to Affinity Photo, though its residing for quite a while on my application together with Affinity Designer. I used to do this in GraphicKonverter, where the workflow is intuitive, but for the sizes of images I need to create its unusable slow. This is my task. I need to create a single image of a score, each line of that has to be combined into a single line glued one after another. The original images are png or pdf documents, and contain some handwritten marks. I use the result in a Max patch to create a rolling score for the musicians. Typically the resulting image is 1080 pixels high, but maybe 200.000 or more pixels wide... In GraphicKonverter, I just select an area and paste it, but then I need to adjust the areas, delete small areas (replaced by the white background) and so on... I am pretty stuck with the most simple actions, and it seems 100% of all Youtube instructions deal with photos and none with graphics. I don't know where to start for these simple tasks, as I always expect that it is as intuitive as in GraphicKonverter, which cannot handle big images, sometimes it needs minutes to just move a 20*50 pixel part to another place in the image... So basically I want to select a part of the image and move it to a different part without creating a copy, it should vanish from the place it was and appera on a different place. When selecting a part, and I command x, I expect it to disappear, but it doesn't (not at all intuitive for me). Maybe someone can give me pointers to tutorials of this sort of workflow with a focus on graphics and not on photos. I just want to move pixels around nothing more... Any pointers or hints are welcome... Cheers, Stefan

Long story short, I'm not sure how to fix my layers clipping through the outside of the canvas. Anybody know how to help? Nevermind, I figured out that my clip to canvas was just off.