Undeletable mask or item screwing up everything I paste and I can't find it anywhere to delete it (Affinity Designer)

[marvingardens]

I used the flood tool(?) to select an area of a drawing I scanned and then pasted in. Now it seems it gets attached to everything else I paste in and I can't find it to remove or delete it. I know I'm not describing this well but I have lost my mind. The selection area can be moved and can be resized but it appears to be attached to anything that gets pasted now and nothing that gets pasted can be moved or resized. I've attached a photo where you can see that the selection has nodes(?) but there's a blue box around thing I've pasted and no nodes(?).  How do I remove this so I can start pasting things in again?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by marvingardens
Needed to remove the screenshot. Problem Solved!

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @marvingardens

Does menu “Select → Deselect” help? This will remove the ‘marching ants’ selection you can see near the centre of your screenshot.

If that doesn’t help, try saving the document, closing the document and re-opening the document. That will remove any selections that exist so that, if the problem still occurs, you know that the selection isn’t part of the problem. Edit: See below.

Edited February 24, 2023 by GarryP
Clarification.

[carl123]

5 minutes ago, GarryP said:

If that doesn’t help, try saving the document, closing the document and re-opening the document. That will remove any selections that exist

Any selections I make are still there when I reopen a document

(Windows 11)

[firstdefence]

Pressing Esc should remove the selection. The thing you call nodes, that is just a bounding box with handles and it's because you have a layer selected and the move tool.

[marvingardens]

The Save/Re-open did it for me on Mac, select -> deselect was not effective in this case. Thanks @GarryP!

[GarryP]

10 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Any selections I make are still there when I reopen a document

Yeah, you’re right. I didn’t expect that to happen. Learn something every day, even with the basic stuff.
I’ve amended my earlier post.