Improve Move Tool to duplicate and move selection

[Sirio]

Hi
I am pretty sure to migrate from photoshop to Affinity Photo for two reasons:
- I can not stand the Adobe policy anymore.
- I can see a very active forum for Affinity product, like a lot of good freewares or Vegas Pro.

Then, I make my first topic:
The Move Tool is not complete: If I drag a complete image holding Crtl, the Move Tool create a duplicate of the image and then I can move it letting the first untouched. Well.
But this feature don't works any more if I do the same thing with a selected part, the Ctrl key do nothing. I must before duplicate the selected part doing Crtl+J or Copy and Past.
I expect that it works wit a portion of the image too. A lot of software can do that. e.g.: Photoshop can do this holding the Alt key and drag and drop. Pressing Alt keu, even the cursor change appearance.

Thank you

[Sched]

Hi, is the same for me, I like Affinity Photo more than Photoshop so I hop it will be possible to change this function that looks more like a bug, for me... 

[MEB]

Hi Sirio, Sched,

Welcome to Affinity Forums

Thanks for your feedback. 

 

@Sched,

Can you be more specific please? Change the size of what exactly? If it's of the selection you can use the control handles (with the Move Tool selected) to scale the selected part. Am i missing something? 

[Sched]

I edit my post, sorry I make a mistake..