How do you move a layer? (NOT change order)

[sabibo]

I cut a piece from one image file and pasted it into another file window.  Now it's a new layer.  How do I move that around?  I'm not talking about reordering the layers - just moving the new small pasted piece around on the canvas...

 

Alternatively, can I specify where my paste goes? Even if I make a selection first, it always sticks my paste in the upper left hand corner and I don't know how to move it from there...

Thanks!

Edited September 25 by sabibo

[JohnZeman]

Use the Move tool, it's a black arrow on the toolbar.

[sabibo]

Thanks - but I tried that and all it does is act like a selection tool. Draws a rubber band box...

[Pšenda]

41 minutes ago, sabibo said:

but I tried that and all it does is act like a selection tool. Draws a rubber band box...

It is always advisable to provide as much information as possible (for example, a full application screenshot, a video recording of what you are doing), on the basis of which it is then possible to provide you with relevant advice on what you are doing wrong/differently.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, sabibo said:

Thanks - but I tried that and all it does is act like a selection tool. Draws a rubber band box...

If you mean a selection box with control handles at the corners & edge midpoints & such, you should be able to drag the object around the workspace window if you start the drag from anywhere inside the box.

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, R C-R said:

If you mean a selection box with control handles at the corners & edge midpoints

When describing "rubber band box", I was thinking more of "marching ants" 🙂

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Pšenda said:

When describing "rubber band box", I was thinking more of "marching ants" 🙂

To me "rubber band box" sounded like the object selection box you get if you drag the Move Tool starting outside a layer, rather than dragging the layer itself.

[sabibo]

In my day we called it a rubber band box, but yeah, marching ants.  Here's a video.  What am I doing wrong?  The rainbow-colored box in the upper left is the part I just pasted, and you can see on the right that it is on a new layer.

 

 

 

[NotMyFault]

Please activate the transform panel and include it in the recording.

i assume the layer is positioned outside the visual canvas. The transform panel will show the actual position and size.

Alternatively, you may have and function key active on keyboard. On Mac, the option key causes this behavior.

So please include the status bar (on bottom of window) into screen recording as it will change according to what modifier are pressed.

[thomaso]

30 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

i assume the layer is positioned outside the visual canvas.

Would its contents be visible there? Also note, right of and below the OP's selection is the transparency background displayed (which is limited to the canvas).

I rather wonder why the OP's selection with Move Tool doesn't show any handles but a blue selection box… like a selection with Colour Picker or Fill Tool for instance?

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, sabibo said:

In my day we called it a rubber band box, but yeah, marching ants.  

A marching ants selection box is so named because it uses an animation effect. Is that really what you are talking about?

[sabibo]

7 minutes ago, R C-R said:

A marching ants selection box is so named because it uses an animation effect. Is that really what you are talking about?

Well now, the effect in my video does not actually have the "maching ants" effect, so perhaps my original description of a "rubber band" box is more accurate
Not sure what people are talking about stuff outside the canvas.  The entire pasted layer is that 11x11 pixel block in the upper left corner, with the rainbow stripes.  

[R C-R]

@sabibo, if possible can you select your "Layer 0" layer, CMD-C copy it, use File > New from Clipboard, save that new AP file, & post it to a reply?

That might help us figure out what the problem is.

[sabibo]

10 minutes ago, R C-R said:

@sabibo, if possible can you select your "Layer 0" layer, CMD-C copy it, use File > New from Clipboard, save that new AP file, & post it to a reply?

That might help us figure out what the problem is.

Here's the layer - but actually, it started working.  Now I cannot get it to reproduce the problem which happened both yesterday and this morning when I made the video.  Very strange! Just some kind of glitch I guess.  Now after I paste, as soon as I select the arrow, it shows a box with handles.  It was not doing that before.
Thanks for all the replies!
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[R C-R]

@sabibo, good to know it is working normally for you now.

Just for future reference what you were calling a rubber band box in Affinity is called a selection marquee.  In the Tools section of Settings (or Preferences, depending on your OS version) there is an option named "Select object when it intersects with the selection marquee" that controls if you can select an object without enclosing all of it.

This is not the same as a 'marching ants' marquee selection made with any of the selection tools like the Flood Select or Elliptical Marquee tools.