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How to quickly cut a selection of a image to a new layer?


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Hello! 

I work a lot with screen grabs of social media and sometimes I need to quickly cut an image to replace it with another due to copyrights, 
on the example below I want to grab this selection only and copy to the left to cover the guy's face. 

On photoshop, usually this shortcut is Control + J (Or CMD+J)

But in Affinity Photo is not the case, I've tried to use "Control + C + Control + V" but no dice either, it just copy the whole image. 
the only way I managed to do this is by clicking on the mask icon, but this is far to slow when you need to do this all the time. 


So how I do this simple operation on Affinity? 
Cheers,

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Olá Rafael.

16 minutes ago, RafaelRiva said:

But in Affinity Photo is not the case, I've tried to use "Control + C + Control + V" but no dice either, it just copy the whole image.

Before doing anything convert your layer from (Image) to (Pixel) by going to Layer > Rasterise.
Then, instead of Control+C + Control+V press Ctrl+J. A bit faster.

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5 minutes ago, RafaelRiva said:

I don't know why this method is not working for me...

It works, when your layer is a Pixel layer and not an Image layer, as in your case. So you have to rasterise the Image layer first.

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Thanks for all the replies!

I think @Lisbon have discovered the problem! 
it turns out "IMAGE" and "PIXEL" are different types of data, so this why the copy and paste was not working. 
I've just tested on both programs and it worked on "PIXELS" mode!

Thanks guys!

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11 minutes ago, RafaelRiva said:

But in Affinity Photo is not the case, I've tried to use "Control + C + Control + V" but no dice either, it just copy the whole image

Image is the key word here. I think you have an Image layer and not a Pixel layer. You can use the Command + J on pixel layers. Copy and Paste from a browser window gives me an Image layer as does Drag and Drop from a browser window. Saving the image (right click and choose save or save as from the context window) then opening that PNG or JPEG will give me a Pixel layer. Screenshots depend on how you have that set up, is it saving to the desktop or downloads directory or is it going onto the Clipboard.

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Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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