Flipping a selection horizontal

[AndyV]

I feel I should always begin my questions with "I am a thirty year user of Photoshop" either to let people know that I know what I"m doing, or to let people know how easily lost I keep getting in Affinity.

Here's the latest.

I want to flip horizontal a small selection. I select  with the lasso, and then turn on the Move tool, as seen in the first picture.

 

Then I right click on that, and scroll down to "Transform" and then choose  "Flip Horizontal" and the result is:

 

 

Why?

There is only ONE layer to this. And I am placing the cursor IN the selection box.

 

I just tried it a slightly other way. I moved the selection over a little bit and did the same steps. Again I have the cursor WITHIN the selection box when I right click.

 

[RM f/g]

As ‘flip’ always seems to flip the whole layer, the fastest way would be to

– make selection and activate Move Tool

– cmd+J / ctrl+J (duplicate selection to new layer).

– flip

– cmd+E (merge down).

Annoying, I know.

[AndyV]

Wait. I am forever misunderstanding the Move tool. That's the icon with the black arrow, right?

When I click on that, I get a boundary box. That, as I've understood it, is activating the "Move Tool". No?

But yeah, I started to do that, and then realized I really couldn't do what I wanted to do after that in Affinity, at least with any ease.

Just for the record, I took all of the 12 images I needed to edit (besides this one) into Photoshop 6 on my Windows machine (I have Affinity on Mac) and edited them all in the time it took for a response. 

I'm that good.  At least when I know what my tools do! 

I don't know whether I'm just too old to learn new software or whether Affinity has an especially high learning curve, but it just keeps throwing curves at me after three months of use.

[AndyV]

iyiyiyiyiyi  I haven't even bothered to learn about the Patch tool.

 

How much do you charge an hour?