William Fox Talbot Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 As I have come over from PS I can not for the life of me work out how to duplicate a file (image) once open EG: Say you wanted to experiment with a image but don't want to destroy the orig. On the main screen on PS you just right click on the image bar and make a copy. So how do you do it in AP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Right click the item in the Layers panel and choose Duplicate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Fox Talbot Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 Thanks Mark. Yes I know how to duplicate a layer. I want to duplicate the whole file. In PS you can duplicate the whole file on the screen apposed to going back to the orig file location outside of PS, simply by right clicking on the image header and choosing duplicate. There must be a way of doing this easily as it is a very handy thing in PS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted July 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted July 15, 2019 Hi William Fox Talbot, Welcome to the forums Going to File > Save As twice and choosing different file names each time will give you 2 copies of the file. Other than this method there isn't a duplicate feature that works as the one you described. You could also copy the entire files layer contents then go to File > New from Clipboard. Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Or add all layers into a group, and duplicate the group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 2 hours ago, William Fox Talbot said: As I have come over from PS I can not for the life of me work out how to duplicate a file (image) once open EG: Say you wanted to experiment with a image but don't want to destroy the orig. On the main screen on PS you just right click on the image bar and make a copy. So how do you do it in AP? Easiest way is to duplicate it in the Mac OS Finder or Windows OS Explorer before opening. The method you are used to using is unavailable in Affinity Photo. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 As @Callum said, given a single layer, then Copy followed by File > New from Clipboard would seem to be your ideal solution. John Quote Windows 11, Affinity Photo 2.4.2 Designer 2.4.2 and Publisher 2.4.2 (mainly Photo). CPU: Intel Core i5 8500 @ 3.00GHz. RAM: 32.0GB DDR4 @ 1063MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William Fox Talbot Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 Well I would have thought that being able to easily duplicate an on screen image to be fundamental as it is in PS. What a hassle it is in AP then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Ingram Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 1 hour ago, William Fox Talbot said: Well I would have thought that being able to easily duplicate an on screen image to be fundamental as it is in PS. What a hassle it is in AP then. There's a feature request here, that you could add your voice to: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 20 hours ago, John Rostron said: given a single layer, then Copy followed by File > New from Clipboard That even works with multiple layers. Just select them all, Copy, and New from Clipboard. John Rostron 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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