Select an area, then copy / paste picture duplicates the whole picture

[jmgonet]

I have a picture, that I've imported in Affinity Designer for IPad:

• It contains a complex shape
• I switch to Pixel Persona.
• By using "Flood Select" I'm able to perform a good enough selection.
• Then I click on Copy.
• Then I click on Paste.
• The pasted picture looks just a duplicate of the original.

This is not what I wanted. I wanted to end up with a pixel layer having pixels only in the selected areas, and being transparent in the non-selected areas.

I've made a video of my problem:

 

P.S. I've read this topic, and it looks very similar to my intention, but I can't reproduce the solution.

 

[Move Along People]

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[DM1]

14 minutes ago, jmgonet said:

but I can't reproduce the solution

Haakoo you beat me to it😁

The layer you are trying to select from is an 'Image¡ layer. You need to convert it to a 'pixel' layer by rasterising the layer. Any placed images come into AP and AD as image layers. Always check the layer type.

[jmgonet]

 

🤣

It works! thank you very much!

But... but... never in 1000 years I would have thought that an image is not a pixel layer.