Cut out image area in Affinity Photo

[PhoDesPub]

I'm standing on the hose. I come from Photoshop. I have a photo on layer 1 and a photo on layer 2. Now I want to cut an area from the photo on layer 2.
1. select area on layer 2 with (Marquee Tool)
2. reverse selection (ctrl+shift+i)
3. Delete reverse selection. (delete)

Now it always deletes the whole layer and not only the reverse selection!

What am I doing wrong? :-(

[MEB]

Hi PhoDesPub,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
That's because you are working with an Image layer type (look at the label between parenthesis after the layer's name in the Layers panel). You must convert it to a pixel layer type before being able to edit it at a pixel level. To do this right click the image layer in the layers panel and select Rasterise.

Image layers are a special layer type that retains all the original image data - you can think of them as embedded images -. They are created when you use the Place Image Tool (in Affinity Designer only), the File ▸ Place command or when you simply drag them from the Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows) to the canvas of an opened document. They can be transformed globally (rotated, skewed etc) without losing quality but they cannot be edited/manipulated at a pixel level. For that they must be rasterised first as explained above. They are then converted to a pixel layer type which you can manipulate at a pixel level.

[PhoDesPub]

 Thanks a lot. I understand now.