duplicate a photo

[Refugee]

To start with I am brand new to iMac and affinity, like day one new.

I have used photoshop for a while and the first thing I always do is duplicate the photo and work off the duplicate and save the original.

Is this possible in affinity? If so how is it done? If Hit the copy button it doesn't show up anywhere as a copy. where does it store it and is it shown as a copy? Also how do I get the frame numbers to show on the the photo?

any help would be appreciated.

[LilleG]

Cmd/J will duplicate the selected layer.  If you do Copy instead, you will need to do a Paste to have it applied to a new layer that it will create.  

 

I will have to let someone else answer the frame number question, but I'm sure someone will.

[R C-R]

From within Affinity, you can use "Save as" to save a copy of your document. As long as you do this before saving normally (which will overwrite the original with any changes you have made) this is one way to duplicate it. Another is from the Finder, control-click on the file & choose "Duplicate" from the contextual menu that pops up.

[gdenby]

Here is another Mac thing. Make a folder called "work." Click on the original file in its folder window, and hold option while dragging the file into "work." This creates a duplicate instead of moving the file into a different folder. That way its easy to avoid messing w. the original.