Chiefsub68 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Hello, I feel daft asking this but it is driving me crazy. Basically I want to select part of a picture to cut and paste it elsewhere, ideally on to its own layer. I have made selections with both the brush tool and the lasso but for some reason the selection floats above the picture. If I cut and paste the selection isn't "selected" but I get the whole picture again. In the attached screen snap I want to cut out the raised beds, add a greenhouse and paste the raised beds in front of the greenhouse. All I am getting is the complete picture again. This is probably something embarrassingly simple! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Well, how do you expect this to work? If you select part of an image, cut it out (so it temporarily disappears) and then paste it in again, the result looks the same as before – except this time, Affinity Photo should have created a separate layer from the pasted selection. You need to hide or delete your original image layer in the Layers panel or go File > New From Clipboard in order to get the selected image content only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefsub68 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Thanks -- that's what I usually do and it usually works. As a test, I used the lasso tool to draw a circle on the picture. I then did Cmd-C and Cmd-V which previously would had picked up and pasted only the selection. In this case though, I got the whole picture again. File > New from Clipboard also gives me the whole picture. As mentioned, it is probably something infuriatingly simple ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S. Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 If have an Image inserted and the layer says Filename (Image) instead of Filename (Pixel) you need to rasterize the layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiefsub68 Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Thanks Ray ...That worked. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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