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I've recently started to use Affinity Photo as an alternative to photoshop but there seems to be a major issue with tool selection. Working in both Developer and Photo Persona various tools seem to default to or be overridden by the View Tool rendering certain tool unusable. For example in Photo Persona the Free Hand Selection Tool is not available as when selected results in the View Tool (with Hand Icon and functionality) rather than the Free Hand Selection Tool actually chosen. However the other selection tools, (Marquee type) are all accessible. The same issue occurs with the clone tool in Developer Persona. This seems like a very basic issue but renders Affinity unusable as it prevents access to standard tools... I'm posting on this forum in the hope someone can offer a solution? Affinity does seem to offer an alternative to photoshop if it can be depended on to work as it should.