File/new from clipboard has a stumbling block for people new to Affinity

[Mark_A]

Bring an image into Affinity by copying it from somewhere and then use 'File/New from clipboard'... and before various things will work, it's necessary to also use 'Layers/Rasterise'. This is by design, but it trips up people new to Affinity as they attempt to find out why e.g. moving the pixels in a marquee selection doesn't function.

When rasterised, in the layers panel, the label on the layer changes from 'Image' to 'Pixels' but as an alert as to why something might not be working this is a bit subtle. Perhaps Affinity could provide something more here to provide a hint for users new to the software as to how to proceed.

Mark

[MikeTO]

I agree that this is confusing but I don't think it's specific to New from Clipboard.

I wish that when you marquee selected an area of a non-rasterized layer and chose something like Cut or Copy that Affinity would alert you that you didn't cut or copy anything. I've been using Affinity for a couple of years now and I still get tripped up by this. Even a system beep would be a helpful clue.