Copy/Paste Problem in Affinity Photo 2.0.4

[Charles Jenkins]

1. Copy an image from somewhere else, for example the Windows Snip Tool or another art program--anything that will leave a bitmap on the clipboard.
2. Start Affinity Photo and then from the main menu choose File > New from Clipboard.
3. In the new document that appears, use a selection tool to select a small part of the image.
4. Choose Edit > Copy.
5. Choose Edit > Paste. A new layer will appear, and its thumbnail will be generated according to whatever you selected. In other words, everything appears to be normal.
6. Make sure the pasted layer is selected and use the Move tool to move it.
7. Surprise! The entire original image was copied and pasted, not just the part you selected!

After copying a selection from such an image, if you again choose File > New from Clipboard, you will also get a new document containing the full image.

In this circumstance, when I'm working with a document created New from Clipboard, the only way I've found to copy a small part is to choose Edit > Copy Flattened.

I found this because I was never able to get good results with 1.0's Crop Tool, so I built a new workflow around selecting what I don't want, inverting the selection, copying, and then creating a new document from the clipboard. Finding the copy process all busted today was quite a nasty shock!

[Old Bruce]

7 minutes ago, Charles Jenkins said:

In the new document that appears, use a selection tool to select a small part of the image.

And therein lies the problem. It is an Image Layer, not a Pixel layer. Not sure if this is a bug or not. Happens here on Mac as well.

[MikeTO]

Hi Charles, I believe this is as designed and is not a bug. It works the same way in v1.

If you rasterize the image layer then you can copy a portion of it but if you don't rasterize it, Photo will always copy the entire layer.

10 minutes ago, Charles Jenkins said:

1. Choose Edit > Paste. A new layer will appear, and its thumbnail will be generated according to whatever you selected. In other words, everything appears to be normal.

For me the thumbnail is for the entire layer.

[NotMyFault]

39 minutes ago, Charles Jenkins said:

• Choose Edit > Copy.
•  

If you use "Copy Merged" (it might be called copy flattened on Windows), you get what you want.

 

[MikeTO]

4 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

If you use "Copy Merged" (it might be called copy flattened on Windows), you get what you want.

Thanks! I've never noticed that command before.