Copying and pasting on the same layer

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Hi there fellow Kritarians :smile:.
I was wondering if there is a way to copy and paste something from say layer A to Layer B without having to create a Layer C. When animating sometimes I want to reuse certain frames but paste them on the same layer but Krita somehow creates a new layer and in order to use the copied drawing I have to scroll all the way back in the timeline and push it forward manually to frame say 498 to finally add a blank frame and merge the new layer with the layer that I’m working with. Have I missed something?
I’d be grateful for all help I can get. // Mack

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Creating a new layer from pasting is a characteristic of doing Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+V.
For frames in an animation, you should use right-click → Copy Keyframes followed by right-click → Paste Keyframes.
That works for a single or selected range of frames being copy-pasted in the same layer or to a different layer that is in the timeline.
If you Paste Keyframes on a static image paint layer, at frame-n, it will be made into an animated paint layer with a blank/empty keyframe at frame-0 (unless n=0 when it gets pasted at frame-0).

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I use that feature too. I found a way to do it, I copy and then go to the edit menu since there’s no shortcut for that menu called “copy into active layer”. It works. Thanks for you help.

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As far as I can tell, Paste Into Active Layer doesn’t work for animated content.
I may have misunderstood exactly what you’re trying to do.

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It does :slight_smile: . I have used it a couple of times now. I should have used different layers for different body parts for this scene which I didn’t . So I basically wanted to copy the characters body partially from one keyframe and paste it onto on to another frame within the same layer. It wasn’t possible to do this by using ctrl c and ctrl v like one would normally do in other software environments. I found a youtube shorts where this older guy shows how to choose paste to active layer and it worked. I wonder if I could create my own hotkey for that… Bu the good thing is that it works for animation as well.

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You can make a keyboard shortcut for it in Settings → Configure Krita → Keyboard Shorcuts.
It can take some effort to find a shortcut that isn’t already in use but you can delete an existing shortcut to use that if you feel you wouldn’t want to use its existing action.

I’ll try some more experimental combinations using Paste Into Active Layer to see what happens.

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