Arky Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 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. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arky Posted February 15, 2019 Author Share Posted February 15, 2019 Thanks walt.farrell, really appreciate that. Will keep an eye out for that in future. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vectorious1 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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