I'm designing images with multiple layers. Some layers have illustrations with text, some layers are just text. After selecting the "Text" tool, my text often does not appear. This *seems* to be happening after I've done the "Lasso Select", and copy-pasted the selection. The selection was a graphic, and included transparent/invisible pixels in the selected area. I noted, oddly, that a bit of the text would appear in the "invisible" portion of the lasso'ed image, but then the rest would be invisible. If I tried to go to another layer (e.g., the text only layer), it would still be invisible. I don't want to create another, third layer.
I've not yet figured it out: I've been forced to save, quit, and re-enter the program. Then I can select the illustration-with-text layer, and entering text works fine. But the lasso-select followed by copy paste seems to tinker with my ability to add text after...? This is a recently downloaded copy of Paint.NET: v3.5.11 (Final Release build 3.511.4977.23443)
A recent post talks about this "disappearing text" too, but the answer doesn't seem to apply to what I'm doing.
What am I doing wrong?