Unable to cut selected areas

[PhilDarb]

Suddenly I find when I use the selection tool to select an area of an uploaded Jpeg I cannot cut the selected area. Despite being able to see the selected area outlined by the dotted line all that happens is the entire image is cut.

The dotted outline of the selected area remains on the blank canvass.

If I paste what I have cut it pastes the entire image.

I have re-booted twice, with no change.

Any thoughts?

[walt.farrell]

This is not a bug.

You have an Image layer, not a Pixel layer, as you can see in the Layers panel. If you want to work on its pixels, you'll first need to Rasterize it. You can do that via the Layer menu, or by right-clicking it in the Layers panel.

[PhilDarb]

Thanks Walt. I appreciate your help. I've never understood "rasterise", but I still can't understand why all my images that I have previously been able to select and cut from are suddenly behaving this way.

[walt.farrell]

If you Open an image (JPG, TIFF, PNG) it will be a Pixel layer.

If you Place it, or drag/drop it onto an existing document (or copy/paste) you'll get an Image layer.

So, if you used to have Pixel layers and now you're getting Image layers then you've probably changed how you're getting them into the application.

[MEB]

23 hours ago, PhilDarb said:

Thanks Walt. I appreciate your help. I've never understood "rasterise", but I still can't understand why all my images that I have previously been able to select and cut from are suddenly behaving this way.

Hi @PhilDarb,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
To copy/paste from Image layers without rasterising the Image layer go to menu Edit > Copy Merged then paste as usual.

[PhilDarb]

Thanks to Walt and Moderator. I'm starting to understand now.