Drag drop between documents

[bigevil]

Love this app and the potential and also can't say enough about the Dev team and support who are so dedicated.

 

I'm a simpleton, a novice so I can't speak to the other features on the roadmap but it's killing me not being able to simple select and drag/drop a photo(and or the selected layers) from one document into another. Additionally doing so by grabbing the title bar would be incredible.

 

Lastly, the shortcut really should be option + intend of cmd. This is the default behavior for OS X and nearly all other apps.

 

Thanks!!

[MEB]

Hi bigevil,

Thanks for your words ^_^ Glad to know you're enjoying the apps. Welcome to Affinity Forums!

 

Currently you can drag layers from one document to another in Separated Mode only (Window ▸ Separated Mode).

I agree it would also be great to copy layers by releasing them over the other document's tab in regular mode.

 

The shortcuts are more complicated. We already changed them a couple times to fit Apple OS X behaviour, other apps (Adobe) and Affinity particular features. One way or another it never pleases everyone. Fortunately there's now Customisable Shortcuts (introduced in the latest Beta - pinned at the top of the respective app section) so everyone can choose whatever they want.

[Stephen_H]

I know we get used to drag and drop, but copy and paste also works.

[anon1]

Yes you can use cmd + c and cmd + v

 

Just make shure to select/ copy the actual layer and not it's name :)

 

Just to add 2cent:

In PS one can shift + drag a layer to another document in separated mode

[VIPStephan]

I’m not sure whether this thread is considered resolved (and this feature is going to be implemented), I just want to add that it would be very nice to be able to drag objects from one window into another (yes, in separated mode).