Hello StickyFrog,

Thank you for the feedback and I'm sorry about the export issue.

First, make sure that Affinity Photo is the active window and has focus before right-clicking the BMP icon. If Photo is not the focused application, the export command will do nothing.

Second, please check Windows Task Manager to ensure that Affinity Photo and BMP Export are running at the same privilege level. If Photo is running in admin mode and BMP Export in user mode, exporting will not work. The 'Elevated' column in task manager is what you want to verify:

Please let me know your results/findings. I'd like to resolve this issue for you and incorporate updates to the program as needed.

Thanks!

PS-I appreciate the tip about the AV flag. I'll add a note to the homepage for awareness.

Thanks for the update.

MSI vs MSIX installers should not matter, as far as I know. I use the MSI version myself. The running application should still be Photo.exe.

Other ideas:

1. Did you change the shortcut for the Copy Flattened command to something other than Ctrl+Shift+C? If yes, exports will not work. If you did not change it, please try a manual test by using the shortcut directly and confirm it will paste correctly into MS Paint or some other image tool.

I will need to add flexibility to BMP Export to support custom shortcuts anyway. That's actually something I had not considered yet.

2. Have you tried different images?  Very high res images in particular can sometimes fail export. I'm working on an update to hopefully mitigate this.

3-Are you using a clipboard manager? That might interfere with the export.

Thanks for your patience addressing this. There is an answer somewhere, it is just a matter of identifying the right variable in the situation. If necessary, I'm willing to compile a private debug build of the program for you to test, if that's what it takes to better troubleshoot.