Unable to move a selection in Affinity Photo 2

[quark67]

Here is a video tutorial: 

But this don't work here.

As show in the video, I take the selection tool, and draw the selection around the object.

As in the video, I copy the selection with command+C (ctrl+C in the video, as it use Windows).

But, if I show the clipboard (menu Edition of the Finder in the Mac), I see this :

 

(it's the screenshot of the YouTube Tutorial used for having a demonstration image, not the pixels under the selection).

Anyway, if I use the moving tool :

it's the entire image which is selected :

On YouTube, the 8 dots are around the selection:

 

What I am missing, please?

Can you show step by step with images how to displace this balloon in this image?

Thanks for the help.

 

[R C-R]

In the video a Pixel layer is selected but you have an Image layer selected. To get the same results as in the video, rasterize your Image layer, for instance by right-clicking on it in the layers panel & choosing "Rasterize" from the popup menu.

[v_kyr]

There is a difference between opening ("File -> Open...") and placing ("File -> Place") aka dragging an image into APh. The first one ("File -> Open...") opens a file as a pixel layer, the second one ("File -> Place" or dragging into) will create an embedded image layer instead. - So in order to make a pixel layer out of an image layer, you have to rasterize the embedded image layer.

Afterwards copy/paste (Cmd-C/Cmd-V) the made selection which will give you another pixel layer of the selected portion. To dismiss the selection use Cmd-D.

 

 

 

[quark67]

A big thanks to R C-R and v_kyr! 

You have spotted the point! It's exactly that!

I need to learn some basics.