allenbham Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Hi, sorry to be asking a question that probably shouldn't be as difficult as i am making it... I am working on an image in Affinity Photo. Then i made a selection of another lower-resolution image, Cut it, and Pasted that selection into a New Layer of my image. Of course when I pasted my selection, it showed up as smaller because it was from a lower-resolution image. I was hoping to use the Move tool to make my pasted selection larger, rotate it, and position it near the bottom of my image. However, there is what seems like an arbitrary blue-line frame on my pasted layer -- whenever my pasted selection passes outside of that frame, that portion of the selection disappears and does not come back. It's almost as if the size of the layer were smaller than the size of the image itself. I've searched through the help to find out how to resize a layer, but I can't figure out what is going on. I've attached the file; I'm trying to reconstruct the bottom portion of the image by moving the pasted fragment into position.Thanks for any help you can give me! MrMoran4b.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabtrem Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I don't know what's going on. But, I do know that if you flatten the file, paste an image onto it then, it will work like you expect it to. How you got to this point, is beyond my knowledge of the system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Simply choose Select > Deselect (Cmd+D) before attempting to move the small image-within-the-image … this “arbitrary” blue bounding box encloses an active selection around your whole image. After deselecting, you can just grab, move, resize, and rotate the small image to complete your reconstruction (see below). Hope that helps … :) Alex allenbham 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allenbham Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 Thanks so much Alex! That did the trick -- I had been struggling with selecting and deselecting but had never managed to get it quite right. But I followed your advice and it went well. I guess I need to learn about Active Selections now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crabtrem Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Seems so obvious now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Glad we sorted it out … :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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