[Polygonal Lasso Tool]

Great! I wasn't aware of the roadmap. I cannot wait! So excited to be able to dump Adobe. Only need a Dreamweaver substitute now. Nothing on the horizon there.

[Polygonal Lasso Tool]

Hi Kurt Becker,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

The Free Hand Selection Tool in Affinity works similarly to the polygonal lasso tool. You can find it in the same group as the Rectangular Marquee Tool (press and hold the mouse over it to show the rest of the tools). To draw straight segments with it press ⇧ (shift).

Nothing I  have found in Affinity Photo works like the magnetic lasso tool for what I want. The Affinity tools work ok for simpler selections with plain backgrounds, but trying to cut a cyclist out of a pack and take the background and other riders out from between the spokes and parts of the frame would take hours with the Affinity Photo tools, and still give a very ragged result - and be very painful to do!! Photoshops magnetic lasso tool lets you click close together when the background contrast is poor, or hit the option key to use a straight line for a section (cut out bike spokes!!), but in good areas it just grabs the contrast edge and you can move at a fast pace. Most importantly it is very straight forward and simple to use, and excellent at what it does. This is the one thing that I cannot do without, and even though Affinity Photo is getting really good in other areas, I keep having to go back to Photoshop, so I end up doing everything there while I have it open.

[questions concerning cut out techniques]

We will add a 'Magnetic' and 'Polygon' mode to our lasso tool. I just don't like adding separate tools for things like this but hopefully everyone will be happy with the results.

 

Great!!! I am a future customer for sure!! Love the rest of it in general, but needs some other additions of course as others have set out. Would love to give Adobe the flick.

[questions concerning cut out techniques]

I'm with safoster71 on this.

 

I use the magnetic lasso tool in Photoshop all the time. Without something similar I just cannot leave Photoshop. I often do complex selections of things like a cyclist at the head of a pack of others, so you have a huge amount of detail all crammed together, a mix of wheels, jerseys, handlebars, cables, levers, spokes, gears and chains etc. I need to be able to select out one at the front to use independently.

 

I have tried the options suggested above and they are just way too slow and clumsy compared to the magnetic lasso tool, and hand drawing selections means I end up with all the imperfections of my wobbles and also pointed angles instead of smooth curves. I have to have the image well zoomed in to see the detail and then I reach the bottom of the visible area and I cannot keep going down until I stop, and then scroll down, and have to then reselect and add to the already selected area. Just not practical.

 

Hope you can add something like the magnetic lasso tool or even like the Pixelmator lasso tool, which would be better than the options now, but to be honest I still wouldn't switch from Photoshop without a good alternative to the magnetic lasso tool. Perhaps too complex to add soon?

 

I love the potential of this app, I have looked at Pixelmator several times but it just didn't attract me. Photo I fell in love with straight away, and would love to switch from Photoshop. Keep up the good work!!!

[Cropping and Document Size]

At present if you are zoomed into a photo and select the crop tool, I cannot find a way to move the crop area without zooming out again, as the default crop area is the whole image size. 

 

Needs to be a way to crop when zoomed in to a photo.