wynter57 Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Hi. I'm new to Affinity Designer. When I am copying and pasting and it creates a new layer, it always creates the new layer as a child layer, but I don't want that. I want when I copy and paste a layer for it to be its own separate parent layer. If that's not possible, how does one change a child layer to a parent layer? In doing Google research, someone in this forum asked how to do the same thing and was told that it would be in the Assistant Manager. Well, that became another issue as I searched to find this "Assistant Manager" and every place said it was under View, well, it is not. I finally found it after wasting quite a bit of time and found it is in Edit / Preferences, however, there were no choices about making new layers be parent layers, so that was another total waste of time. There has to be an easy way to do this and I'm just missing it. I tried dragging a child layer to the left but it does not move that way, only up or down to be above or below other layers. Thanks for any help. I appreciate it. Wynter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 28, 2023 Share Posted January 28, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. What are you copying and pasting? Can you provide some screenshots of the complete application window, and including the Layers panel, so we can have more of an idea what you're working with? 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 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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