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I've searched the forums and can't find the answer on this... it is about two separate issues when I use the 'Rectangular Marquee Tool' selection tool within the Photo Persona. 1. When I click/drag a rectangle on my photo, the selection shown by the marching ants are not in a rectangle but instead the 4 corners become rounded off. This rounded off selection is also smaller than the rectangle I draw. This is shown in the two attached 2 images where I've attempted to select the clock but it's not managed to do it! 2. I can't select small areas of a photo. The 'elliptical marquee' and 'freehand selection' tools allow you to select even the smallest of areas within a photo but the 'rectangular selection tool' doesn't show any selection at all if the area is too small.

Thanks for taking the time to reply and include pics... always easier to follow when it's explained so well. Thank you

Hello, hopefully someone can put me out of my misery here... I just can't seem to get the 'colour replacement brush tool' to paint the colour I have selected. I'm sure there is a simple explanation that I'm just too stupid to have figured out! I've attached a picture to explain what I'm talking about. Running along the bottom of my photo is the roof of a football stadium and it is a dark green colour. Above the stadium is the leg of a crane which is yellow. So for the purposes of asking this question, say I want to change the colour of the crane from yellow to the same shade of green as the football stadium. I used the 'colour picker' tool to select the stadium roof, however, when I began painting the crane leg it instead gave me this neon/light shade of green instead of the dark green that I'd actually selected. Does anyone know why Affinity Photo does not apply the selected colour but instead a different one?

I appreciate I already started another thread on another topic, this will be the last one! I have edited around 100 RAW images using Affinity Photo and they are all saved as JPGs in various different folders. I have now decided that I'd like to add a white border (approx 2cm in width) around the edge of every one of these photos. Is there a way of batch editing so that I can perform the same change to all of the images which would obviously be a HUGE time saver, or am I going to have to open each JPG file individually and add a border to each photo then re-save it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Apologies if this is in the wrong section of the site but was hoping someone with photo editing knowledge could assist...I used a drone to take this RAW photo of a lighthouse and as part of its design you can see the lighthouse has many horizontal 'lines' all the way up. These lines look a bit 'faded' especially down the left hand side of the lighthouse where the sun is hitting it. I am trying to edit the photo so that these lines become more prominent/darker and easier to see but I don't know how.I have selected the lighthouse using the selection tool then experimented by changing different values (e.g. exposure, brightness, contrast, shadows/highlights etc) but with no luck. I have tried in the develop and photo personas too. The closest I got to making these lines more visible unfortunately also turned the entire lighthouse a dark grey but I was wanting to keep the lighthouse white and only darken the lines. Does anyone know how to go about this? Thanks