Affinity Designer 2

[Verucktjim]

Hello, Placed image in Affinity Designer. Then I went into Pixel persona and using the free hand selection tool drew a line around part of image.

When I try and cut and paste it the whole image gets deleted. And when I paste it, the whole image gets pasted onto new layer. I am only on the one layer when I do this. Tried this with several selection tools they all do the same thing. 

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you Jimmy

[Verucktjim]

Yes that worked. I assumed that since it was already a png file that it was already a raster based image. 

Can you explain this? 

So many new things to learn with this software. Thank you. 

Jimmy

[v_kyr]

• If you create a new, or open an existing document in APh and then use drag'n'drop or use "File->Place..." to put an bitmap/image into the document, then it is treated as an embedded document. This means in turn that the bitmap/image is then placed inside it's own container aka an "(image)" layer into the document.
  - In order to manipulate that "(image)" layer you would have to double click onto it's thumbnail image in the layers panel (...since that would open and expose that embedded container itself) for manipulations.
  - Or alternatively rasterize the "(image)" layer so it is converted from an embedded "(image)" layer into a "(pixel)" layer, which you can manipulate directly here.
• Another way to deal with pixel/bitmap/photo images is to open them via "File->Open..." in which case the pixel/bitmap/photo will be treated as an pixel document directly with the initial sizes of the photo then. You can immediately alter/manipulate that as it is then directly a pixel layer and no embedded image layer.

[Pšenda]

11 hours ago, Verucktjim said:

Can you explain this? 

https://www.google.com/search?q=image+vs+pixel+layer+site:forum.affinity.serif.com

For example: