Unnecessary behavior at selections

[MartinK]

Hello,

I've played around with Affinity Photo again and I've encountered a behavior that, in my opinion, interferes with the workflow. An example:

In Photoshop Elements I load an image and create a copy with CTRL-J.

I create a selection with the selection brush, press CTRL-C and CTRL-V to create a new layer with the selected element.

I go back to the copied layer and create with the selection brush another selection, press CTRL-C and CTRL-V to create a new layer with the selected item.

At Photo Affinity I go the same way. Only after the creation of the first selection and the generation of a new layer the selection remains, so that it has to be removed first, which is completely unnecessary and irritating.

[verysame]

In AP you don't need to do CTRL+C then CTRL+V in order to create a new layer with the selected area from the layer underneath.

You just do CTRL + J.

Then, you can simply press CTRL + D to deselect. How can that be irritating?

Unnecessary? It depends on the situations. I might still need that selection, then what is unnecessary for you becomes necessary for someone else.

[MartinK]

Oh, I didn't know the hint with CTRL-J - thanks (also works in Photoshop Elements, as I can see).

[verysame]

Yep,

 

I use it all the time ;)

[Chris_K]

Hi MartinK

 

We keep the selection to allow you to perform other actions to the same selection. Other selection types have a new option whilst the brush only has has add and subtract, so perhaps a new should be added to? Either way this is moreof a feature request than a bug so I;m going to move this into our feature request section