Eiskis Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 It seems quite obvious to me that I should be able to duplicate layers by alt + drag & drop in the layers panel in Affinity Designer. This is how it works if you grab on object in the actual canvas and would be the expected behavior also in the layers panel, especially since many other tools work this way as well. Alt doesn't appear to be tied to any other kind of behavior either. lepr and HenrikF 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubily Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Weird no one replied here. I'd really like this also. I copy stuff via the layers the panel all the time in Photoshop. Useful stuff HenrikF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeffdaley Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alfred Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 48 minutes ago, haakoo said: ctrl+j or assign your own shortkey That's fine if you like using keyboard shortcuts (as I do) but a lot of users are 'mouseketeers' who prefer not to lift a hand off the mouse unless they really have to. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 4 minutes ago, Alfred said: That's fine if you like using keyboard shortcuts (as I do) but a lot of users are 'mouseketeers' who prefer not to lift a hand off the mouse unless they really have to. In that case, one can just drag a layer over the "Add Layer" icon. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bri-Toon Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 Just now, haakoo said: @Bri-Toon I can't get that to work in my windows version Huh. Well I am using Mac, so perhaps it wasn't implemented for Windows? Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hifred Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 I also support the wish to drop copies in the layer stack with Alt+Drag. Using Ctrl+J isn't equally powerful as this only spits out a silly duplicate. Alt+Drag combines duplicating and placing the copy exactly where needed. Using that method inside Photoshop one can quickly create any number of copies of layers, masks, adjustment layers as well as layer-fx and place them all in one go. If one has a layer in Photo which has three layer-fx (say colour overlay, drop shadow and outline) – is there currently at all a way to only copy the drop shadow of that layer to another element? As Photoshop shows assigned fx in a stack one can grab each of them like any other element – that's very useful. I have no idea how to do the same thing inside Photo. 3joern 1 Quote [Poll] Do you need a DAM? And what should it be like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bri-Toon Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 14 hours ago, owenr said: Your tip works in Designer on Mac but not Photo which lacks the particular 'Add Layer' button, and you then have to do a second drag to move the duplicate to the desired position in the layer stack. That is understandable since vector layers cannot be duplicated as pixel layers. The duplicate option in Designer only works because vector layers are being dragged on a vector layer icon. Though, it would help if the same was done when pixel layers are dragged on the pixel layer icon. Quote The website is still a work in progress. The "Comics" and "Shop" sections are not yet ready. Feel free to connect with me and let me know what you like or what can be improved. You can contact me here, on my contact page, YouTube channel, or Twitter account. Thanks and have a great day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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3joern Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 I also miss this option with alt to copy an drag a layer for a fluid workflow, any news here? HenrikF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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