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I'm still learning the affinity tools, and this has me really confused. I've been creating a bunch of assets, and copying elements from them to start new ones without trouble, but today for some reason something has changed. I tried to copy an object and when I made changes to the copy it also changed the item I'd copied from. The original was locked and not selected. I tried this multiple times and even pasted the object to a new file to see if it was something with the file settings, and continued to get the same thing. Can you help me understand why this is happening, how to fix it, and if possible, how to change settings so it doesn't continue to happen (assuming there is a setting related to this behavior)?

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2 minutes ago, steamenjenart said:

... I tried to copy an object and when I made changes to the copy it also changed the item I'd copied from. ...

I will assume you are using Designer. This sounds like you are working with a Symbol. That is how they work.

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Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

Posted (edited)
30 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

This sounds like you are working with a Symbol.

... Yes - this is Symbol (orange bar), whose property is that it propagates all modifications to all instances of a given symbol.
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If a symbol was used by mistake, it is better to delete it in the Symbols panel.

Edited by Pšenda

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Ah  thanks so much. I haven't had the symbols window open so I didn't catch that. It surprised me that it was even changing copies in other files too, but this seems to have fixed it. thank you!

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