Drag and Drop between documents in Affinity Photo

[BartonFink]

Drag and Drop of effects or layer between documents in Affinity Photo V2 still does not work.
That is a pity. I work with it very often, for example to transfer an effect to another document.

Also in Version 2 it still doesn't work that you can move a layer via drag and drop into another document. It worked in version 1. It does work in version 2 only with copy-paste; but if the layer to be copied is very large, it takes forever via the clipboard. Despite my Mac Pro 2019, 96 GB, 24 cores. Can you guys please make this work? That would be a big help! Thank you very much.

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[Chris B]

I see what you mean. I will log this with the developers - thank you.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "Cannot drag layers from one document to another in V2" (REF: AFP-6020) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.1.0.1728".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "It's no longer possible to drag and drop layers/objects between documents." (REF: AFP-5685) has been fixed by the developers in internal build "2.1.0.1728".
This fix should soon be available as a customer beta and is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Serif Info Bot to notify us.

[nickbatz]

EDIT: NEVER MIND, SORRY, Barton Fink learned me how to do it.

 

 

As far as I can see there's still no way to drag/drop effects and layers between open files in the latest beta 2.1 (the one I downloaded today, March 16). How is this supposed to work?

Separated Mode isn't in v.2, right? (In other words, I did try to RTFM!)

TIA

 

[walt.farrell]

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[BartonFink]

Thank you very much for Drag and Drop. Seems to work. Great! 

[nickbatz]

39 minutes ago, BartonFink said:

Thank you very much for Drag and Drop. Seems to work. Great! 

It does? In Affinity Photo?

Would you mind explaining - very slowly, for me - how to do it? 

[BartonFink]

I opened 2 images in Affinity Photo. These were open as a tab. Then I detached one document from the main window so I have the main window and the detached window. On the one image in the detached window I applied an effect. I can drag and drop both the effect and a layer of the detached window into the main window. Tried it a few times and it seems to work fine.
Hope it helps.

[nickbatz]

Thanks, but how do you detach a document from the main window?

This is what I meant by explaining it slowly.

By the way, the written manual's search function is as bad as James Ritson's videos are great.

[BartonFink]

On Mac I click in the main window and hold the left mouse button on the desired tab and drag it out of the main window. 

[nickbatz]

Okay, that worked. Thanks, I'm going to remove the bug report ampersand.

It's curious that you need to unclip the window to do that, but okay.

[BartonFink]

Ok you are right. I tried it with non-separated tabs and that didn't work.