Flipping a second layer flips BOTH?

[Patrick Bell]

I have opened a photo in Photo and duplicated the background layer. I want to "flip" a jetty to point right instead of left.  I have the top layer only selected and the bottom one locked  . Document -> flip horizontal flips BOTH layers. How do I "unlink" them.

[David in Яuislip]

Try Arrange/Flip horizontal

[Patrick Bell]

its greyed out.

 

ftm if I crop an upper layer, the underlying one(s) are also cropped. Why are they linked?

[GarryP]

It might help us a lot if we can see what you can see.
A full-screen screenshot, with the Layers Panel visible and showing the ‘suspect layer’ selected, may be very useful.

[carl123]

21 minutes ago, Patrick Bell said:

its greyed out.

Make sure you have the layer selected in the Layers panel, it's not locked, and you have the Move Tool selected

[Patrick Bell]

does this help?

[Patrick Bell]

It does the same if I use arrange -  flip

[carl123]

19 minutes ago, Patrick Bell said:

It does the same if I use arrange -  flip

Your thumbnails show the top layer is flipped horizontally

Have you solved that issue?

Is there another issue you want help with?

 

[GarryP]

Looking at the Layers Panel thumbnails, it looks like the top layer is different to the bottom layer, to me, so I don’t understand what the problem is.

[GarryP]

8 minutes ago, Hens said:

the OP wants the Jetty point to the right

...which it seems to be doing in the original non-flipped image (bottom layer). Hence the questions about what the problem actually is.

[Patrick Bell]

Here is the same layer after arrange - flip and also the base layer with child layer not selected - same fwiw

 

[Patrick Bell]

Yep, the bottom layer still flips when I flip the top layer.  So NOT FIXED

[GarryP]

I really don’t see what the problems is.
Your earlier screenshot showed two differently-oriented images, which is what it sounded like you wanted to do, and your next two screenshots seem to show the same thing as each other so I don’t know what you are trying to show us.
Is there something I’m not seeing?

[RichardMH]

It works fine for me. Flipping the document does it for the document, i.e. all layers. Using the Move Tool and arrange just does the active layer. Not sure what you are doing. If I have both layers selected they both flip with the Move Tool, even  the locked one. Maybe there is a problem there.

[Alfred]

27 minutes ago, Patrick Bell said:

Here is the same layer after arrange - flip and also the base layer with child layer not selected - same fwiw

Your screenshot doesn’t show any child layers. It shows the original Background layer (which is selected but locked) and a copy of that layer which is unselected and hidden.