im140.6 Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 Right-clicking on my background layer, I'm just curious why there isn't the CTRL+J hint for Duplicate (Windows ver). Not a huge deal... just curious... Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 Perhaps because Ctrl+J is not Duplicate. It is Duplicate Selection, as shown by the Layer menu: im140.6 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Old Bruce Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, im140.6 said: Right-clicking on my background layer, I'm just curious why there isn't the CTRL+J hint for Duplicate (Windows ver). Not a huge deal... just curious... Must be the same reason Command + J isn't listed here on Mac. I only checked in Photo. And as Walt rightly pointed out it is Duplicate Selection. At times that can be a distinction without a difference. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 17 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: At times that can be a distinction without a difference. Yes, sometimes it matters, and sometimes not Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Old Bruce Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 It is both the sometimes and the sometimes not that catches me up quite frequently. I should practice what I preach and Stop and Think. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
im140.6 Posted April 7, 2020 Author Posted April 7, 2020 OK so I may have just created more confusion for me than I even realized. 🤦♂️ 😁 Quote
Old Bruce Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, im140.6 said: OK so I may have just created more confusion for me than I even realized. 🤦♂️ 😁 No, you just pointed out that the Right Click on the layer should have (in my opinion) the Duplicate Selection with Command/Control + J in it. I will not be losing any sleep over this omission. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
walt.farrell Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 8 minutes ago, im140.6 said: OK so I may have just created more confusion for me than I even realized. 🤦♂️ 😁 It is important to distinguish among different kinds of selections. Among them, are: Having a vector (really, non-pixel) layer selected in the Layers panel. Having a pixel layer selected in the Layers panel. Having a pixel layer selected in the Layers panel, but also having a pixel selection marquee active. For the first two, Cmd/Ctrl+J (Layer > Duplicate Selection) gives you a copy of the layer. So does Layer > Duplicate or right-clicking and selecting Duplicate. For the third one, Cmd/Ctrl+J gives you a copy of the selected pixels. But Layer > Duplicate or right-clicking and selecting Duplicate give you a copy of the complete layer. Old Bruce and im140.6 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
R C-R Posted April 7, 2020 Posted April 7, 2020 6 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Perhaps because Ctrl+J is not Duplicate. It is Duplicate Selection, as shown by the Layer menu: Just to see what would happen, in AP on my Mac, I assigned a keyboard shortcut of CMD+Shift+J to Duplicate, leaving CMD+J as is for Duplicate Selection. As you might expect, both do exactly the same thing except when there is a 'marching ants' selection and the currently selected layer is a pixel one, where it works as in your third case. However, while the Layer menu shows the two shortcuts next to those two items, right-clicking on the contextual menu in the Layers panel still shows "Duplicate" without any keyboard shortcut, which probably could be considered a minor bug. walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
carl123 Posted April 8, 2020 Posted April 8, 2020 4 hours ago, R C-R said: However, while the Layer menu shows the two shortcuts next to those two items, right-clicking on the contextual menu in the Layers panel still shows "Duplicate" without any keyboard shortcut, which probably could be considered a minor bug. Works fine on Windows so maybe just a MAC specific bug R C-R 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
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