paaljoachim Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Hi It would be helpful to be able to drag an existing layer to either group or pixel layer to automatically duplicate a layer. + an additional feature would be to hold down alt and then drag a layer in the layer panel to create a duplicate. Similar to selecting a shape and holding down alt to create a duplicate shape directly on the canvas. Btw Holding down Alt when a shape is selected on the canvas should show a duplicate symbol to show that something is about to be duplicated. Existing methods for duplicating layer Right click layer and select Duplicate or Top menu: Layer -> Duplicate. Ps Ops. Sorry about that. @Dan C Hey Dan this thread has to do with Photo but might just as well have to do with all of them. I noticed I posted in Affinity Designer. This was feedback in relation to Affinity Photo. Please move it to the correct location. Thank you..:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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paaljoachim Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share Posted January 18, 2020 Thanks for the feedback haakoo! Any layer that is dragged to a create new pixel layer/group/etc should automatically duplicate itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Old Bruce Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Hi @paaljoachim, I agree that it seems to be an oversight seeing as we can do it with Designer. paaljoachim 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 On 1/18/2020 at 9:49 PM, paaljoachim said: Thanks for the feedback haakoo! Any layer that is dragged to a create new pixel layer/group/etc should automatically duplicate itself. Absolutely so! This is just so intuitively right that I cannot see any sound reason why this hasn't been implemented right away. The people at Adobe are having this right for so many years now and it shouldn't be a shame learning from them every now and then... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 On 1/18/2020 at 6:33 PM, paaljoachim said: It would be helpful to be able to drag an existing layer to either group or pixel layer to automatically duplicate a layer. + an additional feature would be to hold down alt and then drag a layer in the layer panel to create a duplicate. Similar to selecting a shape and holding down alt to create a duplicate shape directly on the canvas. Btw Holding down Alt when a shape is selected on the canvas should show a duplicate symbol to show that something is about to be duplicated. I totally agree. The way duplication of layers and groups is handled as of today is definitely not ergonomic and there are enough examples of how to do it better (e.g. Photoshop...). It's just so annoying when you finally want to leave Adobe for good and then you feel slowed down in your workflow by such unnecessarily complicated steps. I actually feel that the Affinity apps generally too often make you resort to a menu or a button when some alt/click or -drag or just hitting the "Enter"-key (instead of going to an ”Apply"-button at the other end of the screen) would intuitively feel like the right way to do the job. InigoRotaetxe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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