Completely lost with v2.

[PhilDarb]

I've used Affinity Photo for a few years, but version two has me baffled. So much has changed that I can barely use it. Right now I have a really basic requirement to copy part of an image and paste it into another image.

I've always done that with the select brush, by dragging it over the image and allowing it to find the edges of the element I needed to select, then using the refine tool and then cutting and pasting, which I have done many times either onto another image or onto a new canvass with a transparent background. Right now I'm trying to select black letters on a white background which sounds simple enough, but I seem only to be able to select exactly the area that the brush covers and it doesn't differentiate between the black and the white. 

I can't find a forum topic about it nor a tutorial — all the tutorials explain the method I was using with v1, which don't work at all now.

[GarryP]

Check the Context Toolbar and see if you have Snap to edges switched OFF.

[walt.farrell]

If Garry's guess doesn't solve it for you, it would help to have a screenshot showing the complete application window, and with the Layers panel visible.

Selection like that should work the same in V1 and V2, if used on the same document. But there are a variety of things you could be doing incorrectly, and at least one of them is new in V2, if you're trying it on a different document than you used before.

[PhilDarb]

Thanks to Walt and Garry. I think I'm experiencing issues with some of the commands. They seem to work intermittently. I might re-load the app. I'll let you know here if I need more help.

I appreciate your support.