why i must always rasterise

[bigrip]

hi

when i copy and pase a screenshot  to affinity photo , i always have to click on  rasterise before i can cut out a part of the picture .

is there a way that affinity photo make a pixel layer automatic when i paste in something?

it´s very irritating for me ,the first time  it cost me a lot of time to foud that out.

 

[toltec]

By default Photo treats placed images as embedded files. That way they remain independent, you can resize them without having to make them the same resolution as the main image.

 

That is a very flexible way of working but it does require you telling Photo you want to lose that flexibility. Hence rasterising, which doesn't actually rasterise a screenshot as it is already raster data, it just tells Photo you want to treat the file differently.

 

I set a shortcut to rasterise, the = key. So press Ctrl V then = and your pasted image will be rasterised.

 

p.s. to set the shortcut go Edit > Preferences and in Keyboard Shortcuts under Layer find Rasterise (it's almost at the bottom of the list) and in the entry box press the = key (or anything you want) and click on close.