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Wow. This is big.... Is (should be...) a priority as is about selections minimum quality... is not any more a painting specific feature. Selections (and masks) are the absolute base of all in photo retouch and image editing in general.... So, fixing that issue seems would both fix that problem with the brush (and some others), and the selections (and surely other matters).
Well, definitely, I hope it get fixed.
I knew the two (external stabilizers). Obviously never used hejstylus as I'm in Windows since always (she is, too).  I believe there is no free version of Lazy Nezumi, but is too long ago since I tested it.. In my tests internal stabilizers work a bit better than Nezumi (ie, Krita, PS or Clip Studio's). But it indeed can be set to something one can work with after quite some fiddling. While I was having not (or noticing) issues in Photo, since long I mostly paint and draw with Clip Studio, and then export and import into Photo, and do any image editing operation there. Most of the times is for preparing the PDF/X for print, etc. But would love to make Photo my painting tool. It has all the features I as an illustrator, comic artist and etc would need. Is just these fixes in the brush system and related matters what are needed.
Could this bug (or bugs) be related to the matter of producing jagged lines just like these, as in a grid (since long I had been thinking is kind of a mismatch in resolution, and that it uses suddenly a coarser grid or something) when one zooms out, a lot and draw/paint ? (as you have exposed, it's happening with selections, but obviously is related to the cords system or something, and related to the tablet. Because for quite some time, if you want to do a fast sketch, or even final inking work, line art,  in an A4 at 300 dpi, fitting in zoom the canvas to the Photo work space (at a 16% or whatever the zoom is that), it will produce the lines to go vertical and horizontal zig-zag in the lines, producing a stepped jittery line, as if following a coarser grid. This typically was avoided just by using the "smoothing" feature (the stabilizer) in Photo , doing so with my machine and tablet, it eliminated the "grid" irregularities, and allowed producing good lines when zoomed out.. Unless some recent update has changed this behavior... (I'm not checking the betas lately, only the stable releases). 
Native stabilizers I think work better, and these two apps make the thing a bit cumbersome in your everyday workflow ( they are fantastic, anyway)
PS: Nezumi or the other could by a temp solution for some, not for others, but is something.
 
 

I just want to let you know this is logged but it hasn't had a response yet. I believe I saw another post similar to this which reminded me to let you know. 

I've desperately been fighting back against Affinity's choppy/jagged selection marquee (mentioned in a previous post I made), but it's making life and work really difficult. 
 
For some reason Affinity software's freehand selections appear unnecessarily jagged along the edges, which is a nightmare for those of us who sometimes use the selection tools as drawing tools. 
One of my clients have pointed this out all over a piece of artwork I created for them to a point where they said the artwork could not be used and ended up working with another illustrator instead. 
As you can imagine, this is quite a big deal and I've done a deep dive to figure out what the issue is so that this doesn't happen again. 

I've tried my Yiynova MVP22U tablet, my Wacom Cintiq 13HD, as well as my 12.9 iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and the issue is there across the board, which makes me pretty sure that everyone is experiencing this too. 
This is not a feathering issue, and not an aliasing issue - this is just a normal selection, created with the default settings as I do not want a feathered selection.

For some reason the freehand/lasso selection in Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Artstudio Pro, Sketchbook Pro, Krita, and Medibang, all produce perfectly smooth freehand selections, but in Affinity they appear wavey, jagged, jittery and blocky in areas. 
For some reason the selection tools select whole pixel blocks on screen which causes an often jagged and blocky appearances to the selection. 
I've noticed that this is significantly worse when using a stylus/tablet pen to create selections, but for some reason it's not nearly as bad when using a mouse.
Unfortunately this doesn't really help as the majority of my work is digitally hard drawn.
I think this may also be the same thing that causes the raster brushes in Affinity to feel less fluid than those in other drawing applications. 
It's difficult to explain, but it's almost as if the pixel density that the software works at is different to what my monitor is displaying, which almost causes a miscommunication between the tablet input and what's registered by the software.

I'm running out of options here. 
I may even need to revert back to Photoshop until this issue is resolved, and that's the last thing I want to do.

If you would like to see what I'm referring to, here's a link back to my previous post about the issue. 
I've also reattached the file that I created to show what I mean:
 
 
Jagged Edges.afdesign

Hi mintcar,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
You can achieve a similar result with embedded documents in Affinity apps. Just drag an Affinity Designer/Photo file over an open document to embed it. You can transform, apply adjustment's, effects etc to the embedded document while keeping its contents intact. To edit the embedded document, double-click it on canvas or select it in the Layers panel and click Edit Document in the context toolbar (with the Move Tool selected) to open it in a new document tab. Edit it to your hearts content then close the embedded document tab. All changes will be reflected in the original document.

I'm following the reason of JesseHam. I'm a professional designer (with an Adobe CC susbscription) and willing to consider Affinity for professional usage.
A replacement for the Adobe Design Standard would be quite handy to me.
However, Smart Objects are very useful: non destructive and ideal for referencing. Think of mockup design where a reference is made and can be switched instantly with a final object. 
 
As a sidenote and please read this as a kind suggestion...
I'm quite happy with the way Affinity is going to deliver incredible software but I would like to emphasize to be crystal clear what Affinity can en can not do compared to the Adobe counterparts. If you're aiming towards professional clients that might be your early adapters, be sure not to throw them into ignorance.
As long as people know what to expect, we know how to deal with things. psd's for one are not equally the same. Smart Objects for one are not supported and opening files in Affinity Photo and exporting back again, destroys them for later usage in Adobe Photoshop (as already stated by Jesse as well)!
 
Disregarding features from photoshop, and not knowing this can have delicate consequences in ruining your files. Think of people who want to open and work on files from clients when they used Adobe before... Maybe Affinity can run a test while saving and/or opening, letting you know what features will be neglected (and ruined)? In this way the user is completely responsible for further decision making in the right context. This would be a huge timesaver in figuring out where things went wrong. In its current Beta state, this is completely normal, but in a final release, people won't be as forgiving I suppose.
 
Thanks...
 
 
 

Are they in the works?  Without them, I can not see myself moving over from PS.  They are essential to a large portion of my workflow.

Using the Dodge and burn on a mask layer is handy when using to affect only shadows, midtones or highlights. Eg. Dodging a lighter sky through a dark tree.
Tx

I have several paid Photoshop actions that I am trying to manually transfer to Affinity Photo using Affinity's macro format.  The problem is that many of the actions had duplicate document as one of the steps and Affinity does not have this feature.  Unfortunately, I have not found a workaround therefore I am requesting that duplicate document be added.  Thank you.