Affinity Designer: How to slice/cut a raster image in two halves?

[cadudesun]

Hi. I'd appreciate your help.

I'm trying to achieve in Affinity Designer something similar to what is shown in this screen-recording: https://tinyurl.com/y6ahqato

How to achieve similar output in Affinity Designer, obtaining a raster image cut/sliced in two halves?

Thank you 👍

[v_kyr]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

That's usually easy for a bitmap/raster image.

1. Open/load your image and change in AD to the Pixel Persona
2. Use the marquee selection rect and select the rectangular area to cut out
3. Cut out the selected area via menu "Edit > Cut", or keyboard shortcut Ctrl-/Cmd-X
4. Dismiss the active selection with Ctrl-/Cmd-D and then just paste the cutted out area again in "Edit > Paste" or Ctrl-/Cmd-V
5. Now you have two layers, each with one part of the image. You can move these layers around to your needs

Here's a screencast, note that I had a white background document here where I placed the image in a layer on:

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[cadudesun]

Lesson learned!

Thanks a lot for the prompt replies and comprehensive tutorials.

Very nice of you 👍

[cadudesun]

Just adding to the topic that the for cutting (or any other operation) from a selection the layer needs to be a "pixel" layer.

If you paste an image from the clipboard, it will be considered a "image" layer. 

To convert an image to a pixel layer, right-click the layer and select "rasterize..."