With AR5 I lost some functionality with regard to selection/deforming a portion of a layer. There is no longer any way to select part of my sketch to move/deform it to make corrections. Now I must select, cut, paste (which creates a new layer with the selection in it) move/deform, merge. If I don't discover my need to move/deform something before I have added a color layer beneath the drawing, then I have to do all that twice. AND I had to spend at least an hour just to figure out how to do all that because I could find no information on how to select and deform a portion of a layer.

It would seem the only way to avoid this problem now is to draw each element of the portrait (each eye, the nose, mouth, jawline, each ear, hair, neck, shoulders) on separate layers to begin with. That's up to 10 layers just to make a base sketch O.o

Instead of just changing deformation to function only for whole layers, it should have been added to the selection tool as well so that anything I select could be moved/deformed.

If I've missed something about how to select/deform/move could someone please inform me?