Multiple layers selection alignment to background

[Eldis]

Ok, this is my first post here, and I'm quite new to Affinity Photo, so be easy on me.

15+ years of mastering Photoshop certainly helped alot with getting around in Affinity Photo/Designer interface, and I'm already starting to love this software.

However, there is this ultra-basic thing that's driving me nuts, as I can't seem to get it done (the way I did that in Ps).

So, if I'm designing something, something made out of several layers (logo for example), and I want to position it in center of the frame/background, in Photoshop it's enough to select desired layers in panel, and align them to selection however you want. All selected layers wil stay in locked position in relation to each other and align themselves as a group to background.

In Affinity Photo, if I select multiple layers and try to align them to center+middle of the frame, they all individually align themselves to center, making it a mess of layers stacked upon each other in center of the frame. What I mean is even as a selection all layers align themselves separately, and not act as a group. You can solve this by grouping the layers and then align them as a group, in which case they stay locked in relation to each other and acting as a single object.

Is there any way to align multiple selected layers together, without additional step of creating group each time you need to do that.

[prophet]

Is there a reason not to group the objects together? Otherwise, you could manually drag the selected objects and use snapping to get them to the center.

[Eldis]

Not particular reason aside impracticality of grouping every set of layers I want aligned to something at some point.

Snapping way of doing this is what I obviously missed.

Thanks for quick reply. ❤️

[prophet]

Happy to help