arcnor Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 This happens all the time and it's HIGHLY annoying. I've managed to "fix" it at times, but I don't even know how, which is not great... Create a new document. From the Windows Explorer, drag and drop an image file on your new document. Select the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" and make a selection with it. Press Control+X or select "Edit/Cut" (or Control+C to Copy, "Edit/Copy"). Instead of doing the expected thing (cutting the selection) it just cuts the while layer (it disappears from the Layers panel). If you copy instead, same thing but the whole layer is again copied. Flattening the image makes this work as expected, but this is not an usable workaround for obvious reasons... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michail Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 2 hours ago, arcnor said: Create a new document. From the Windows Explorer, drag and drop an image file on your new document. Select the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" and make a selection with it. Press Control+X or select "Edit/Cut" (or Control+C to Copy, "Edit/Copy"). The pasted content is an image layer with special properties. Rasterise the layer in question after pasting to convert it into a pixel layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcnor Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 You are right, rasterizing the layer makes it work, which I guess is what I managed to do at some point in the past. However, I'd still say this is unexpected/confusing. I'd rather have Affinity Photo say "Cannot cut/copy/whatever because layer is an image with special properties" rather than doing different things. Thanks for your response! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 5 minutes ago, arcnor said: I'd rather have Affinity Photo say "Cannot cut/copy/whatever because layer is an image with special properties" rather than doing different things. Yes. Or simply internally rasterize the image (i.e., leaving it as an image layer) and copy the selection, the pasting it as a pixel layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michail Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 24 minutes ago, arcnor said: However, I'd still say this is unexpected/confusing. I'd rather have Affinity Photo say "Cannot cut/copy/whatever because layer is an image with special properties" rather than doing different things. What you can do is copy the contents of the selection in a reduced form. To do this, press Ctrl+Shift+C (instead of Ctrl+C), or use the corresponding command in the Edit menu. Then paste the content back from the clipboard (Ctrl+V). This way, the image layer is preserved if necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Teljeur Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Thanks to these replies, I've learned something. Yes, it's frustrating that I've placed an image, and there's no indicator that I can't copy and paste a selection without first rasterising the placed image. I knew (by trial and error) that I could copy a selection by using 'Copy Merged' but that's not intuitive. While I like the Affinity suite, it's irritating that I have to search on the forums a few times and scroll results in order to learn this. I wouldn't see this as an advantage if someone was thinking about switching from Adobe (the help file for this feature was useless - it gives an example of copying an object, with or without styles, and suggests you check the menu to see what copy options are available). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, Kevin Teljeur said: Yes, it's frustrating that I've placed an image, and there's no indicator that I can't copy and paste a selection without first rasterising the placed image There is an indicator: the layer type shows as an Image layer, not as a Pixel layer. It is, though, an indicator that is not helpful until you understand what it means. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 1 hour ago, Kevin Teljeur said: Thanks to these replies, I've learned something. Yes, it's frustrating that I've placed an image, and there's no indicator that I can't copy and paste a selection without first rasterising the placed image. I knew (by trial and error) that I could copy a selection by using 'Copy Merged' but that's not intuitive. While I like the Affinity suite, it's irritating that I have to search on the forums a few times and scroll results in order to learn this. I wouldn't see this as an advantage if someone was thinking about switching from Adobe (the help file for this feature was useless - it gives an example of copying an object, with or without styles, and suggests you check the menu to see what copy options are available). I agree, I was very confused by this when I first started using Affinity. Perhaps there should be some sort of warning when you try to copy and it's not rasterized, even a system beep would be helpful. Kevin Teljeur 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.5 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.5 for macOS Sonoma 14.5, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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