ChloeN Posted June 29, 2019 Posted June 29, 2019 Since I updated to the latest version I'm not able to select a specific part of the picture and copy paste it to a new layer, only the whole picture gets pasted again and again. This never happened with the previous version, where I just selected the area I wanted to copy and then pressed Cmd+J and the area was pasted to another layer. Now nothing of this works anymore, not cmd+J, nor manual copy and paste, nothing. It doesn't recognize the selection I made with the selection tool, nor with the marquee tool, it only copies the entire picture again. This is very annoying, any suggestions? Quote
Staff MEB Posted July 1, 2019 Staff Posted July 1, 2019 Hi ChloeN, Welcome to Affinity Forums This is most likely because you are trying to copy/paste from an Image layer type whereas previously you were copying from a Pixel layer (type). Check the label between parentheses after the layer's name in the Layers panel. If it says Image, right-click the layer and select Rasterise. You can then copy/paste from it to a new layer as usual. Image layers are considered objects (not regular pixel layers as you are used to from other programs). They can be transformed globally (rotated, skewed etc) but can not be edited at a pixel level. For this they must be rasterised as described above first. ChloeN 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software
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