Ctrl+Click Selection from layer when it's hidden and not selected?

[Casey Whitcher]

This is a common thing I do in photoshop a lot. I will create a cut out from a layer at a specific size that I need.  Then with that layer hidden I will move the the layer that I want to make that exact same selection on.   From that layer I control+click the hidden non-selected layer and the selection is made to that exact size and space that the hidden layer is occupying.

It seems with Affinity 2 I can only do a ctrl+click and select a layer if it's A. visible,   B. currently selected? 

Is there a way to do it when the layer is not selected and hidden?  (I'm brand new to Affinity)

[steday]

Hello

 

If I understand clearly, you can do what you want this way : 

•  CTRL + Clic the initial layer (with the cut-off) : you have the sélection
• Hide this layer
• Select the pixel target layer : the selection is ready to use on that layer.

It is just changing the order of operations from what you have done.

Hope it help.

 

[Casey Whitcher]

Yes, I get I could do it that way, but the thing is, when I'm doing this, I will typically be in some project that I need to make a bunch of layers into the same size shape or square.   Tonight was vertical slices of screenshots to go across a blog featured image. Often it's product shots, circular headshots, or any number of random things where I have to make every layer a specific size that has already been cut out of another layer. 

This reverse method is fine if it's one to one, but would require the same number of extra multiple clicks for every single layer I have to cut, rather than just going to each layer, grabbing the selection, and ctrl+J to create a new layer with the selection cut out. (glad that shortcut is the same)