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Have never had a problem with this before.  I have a single base layer, took a selection, then duplicated the selection, Chose "Arrange"  - Flip layer horizontally, however all four options to do vertical, etc,

are greyed out.  At one point I thought the problem was that I had not deselected, but not to be, still did not work.  As an experiment, I duplicated the base layer, because the one I was using had transparency in it, however using a full duplicate layer did not work.  Have shut down Affinity Photo and tried again with the same results.

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I have also tried shutting down the whole desktop and after booting up Windows 10, had another try, but still the same result.

Jafa - Just Another Fantastic Aucklander

(Jim)

Windows 11

Affinity Photo 2.4

Lightroom 6

Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI

Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz    32 °C
Coffee Lake 14nm Technology

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Thanks Hubert, but I have sorted out this particular problem, but not the other two.  I had not rasterized the background layer, which was a 'new' file with a paste.

Appreciate your responding.

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(Jim)

Windows 11

Affinity Photo 2.4

Lightroom 6

Nik Collection and Topaz Denoise AI

Intel Core i7 9700K @ 3.60GHz    32 °C
Coffee Lake 14nm Technology

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16 minutes ago, Eric Mercer said:

I am having the same problem.  The Arrange menu options for Flipping a layer etc are all greyed out.  I am using Affinity 10.5.1342

Please give us a screenshot of the complete application window, including the Layers panel with the affected layer visible and selected in it.

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2 hours ago, Eric Mercer said:

The Arrange menu options for Flipping a layer etc are all greyed out.

If you mean the Arrange menu options in AP, you must have a layer object selected for Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical or the rotate items to operate on. Do you?

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You're using the View Tool, which doesn't allow you to make changes to the document. Try switching to the Move Tool.

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    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.
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You're welcome.

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    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.
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The Arrange menu seems to work in a very odd way! I'm not sure why it matters what tool you have selected (as long as the correct layer is selected) when you choose a command from a menu, but it seems quite random which tools it works with and which it doesn't.

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