Ability to create groups with nothing in them

[Casey Muratori]

At the moment, it would appear that Affinity Photo cannot create a layer group by itself.  You must select (at least one) existing layer or layer group and then ask to have it grouped, thus creating a layer group. This can be annoying when you are trying to set up a structured file, because you may strictly want to add some root groups with nothing in them at the outset, and it isn't immediately clear how you would ever do this without grouping and ungrouping layers for no reason several times.

- Casey

[telemax]

Create empty Group in Layer menu. Button does not create empty group unfortunately.

[fde101]

You can add a custom keyboard shortcut for that in Preferences if that helps.

[telemax]

Custom keyboard shortcut:

[Casey Muratori]

A keyboard shortcut to that option is a good idea, I will try that.  I still think it is probably better, though, if there is a way to create one directly in the layer window using a button, as this is fairly standard practice in most packages.

- Casey