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Marquee Selection Tools on MacBook Pro


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New to Affinity.  Using a 2016 MackBook Pro.  Challenged by how to use Marquee selection tools.  Working on a photo editing project of a bronze plaque tarnished by lichens, some of the letters all but illegible.  I want to duplicate letters which are still clear and replace those that are tarnished.  Some letters I will use more than one time; others only one time.  Original photo was a jpeg.  I opened it and saved it as an Affinity photo to be sure I did not destroy the original. 

 

Sometimes when I click on the Marquee icon in the tool bar I get nothing; all choices are greyed out.   Sometime I can select the letter I want, but it does not appear on a separate layer. Other times my selection is surrounded by blue stars.  Do not understand what is happening. I really want to master this cut-and-paste/cut-and-duplicate technique since I used it frequently in PS Elements.  Though I have watched many, many video tutorials, the process is still unclear to me.  Has anyone created a Users Manual?

 

 

 

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Not sure if this is the answer to your question: When you have drawn your marquee around whatever portion of your image that you like, you should then press Cmd-C to copy it followed by Cmd-V to paste it and the selected portion will end up on a new layer.

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