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apeak

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  1. The crucial thing that the spacebar shortcut allows is for the user to freely adjust both the size and position of the marquee while creating it. This is very handy for easily aligning the top and left edges of the marquee to whatever you are trying to select. As the marquee tool works today, you get one chance to choose the size of the box before you let go of the mouse button. Then you can freely move it around, but you lose the ability to resize it again. If you need to change the size, you have to start again from scratch (or follow some other laborious process like entering quick mask mode, or doing a boolean ADD with a second marquee box). In GIMP, this solved a different way (though slower to use in my opinion): once the selection has been created, you can both move and resize it, similar to placing a dynamic rectangle with the rectangle tool. I definitely agree with kjs and paaljoachim that this is pretty standard interface these days as it's what Photoshop users have come to expect: so much so that it's available across every other tool in Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher, just not the marquee tool in Photo...the one place where it's really needed since marquee boxes aren't freely resizable! Most of these points were made by others above, but I just wanted to summarize and cast my vote for adding this. This is literally the only thing in Affinity Photo which I ever feel is missing compared to Photoshop, and I notice it every time I use the application.
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