Copy and paste a selection

[Arky]

Hi there,

I'm trying to use Affinity Photo to do a really simple operation: I need to select a small piece of a photo, copy it, and paste it onto a new layer to manipulate.

My current process is as follows

• Paste the photo in from the iOS Photos app
• Select the layer the photo is on
• Go to Selection persona, select lasso tool, making sure that lasso tool is in 'Add to selection' mode so I can refine the selection a little
• Make my selection
• Return to Photo Persona
• Use the Pasteboard to 'Copy'
• The I use the Pasteboard to 'Paste'
• It pastes the entire picture, not the selection

What should have been a 2 minute modification has turned into a multi hour odyssey.

Please help.

Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

By "pasting in" the image rather than Opening it in Affinity Photo, you probably got an (Image) layer rather than a (Pixel) layer. You need to go to the Layers panel, select the layer, and Rasterize it (right-click, choose Rasterize; or use the Layer menu) to make it a (Pixel) layer before you can work with individual pixels as you're trying to do.

[Arky]

Thanks walt.farrell, really appreciate that. Will keep an eye out for that in future.

[Vectorious1]

Thank you so much. This is the answer. I’ve seen a bunch of other posts that tell you how to paste but not why it pasted the whole image rather than just the selection.