raeyo Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 I guess I'm one of the latest Adobe Fireworks users out there (not being proud of). I tried several applications and none of them can replace fully the simpleness of FW allthough AF is nearly there. A feature that I really miss is the Magic wand tool in AF... using this A LOT (and I guess others aswell). For my work I need to make wireframes and often need to copy/paste elements into my artboard which don't fit the design. An example you can find here below (done in Fireworks). My question: any plans to add this feature in AF? If not, how do I need to do this in AF (tip: I used screenpresso to create this video)? Tx in advance Raey magic-wand-tool.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 The magic selection tool is in Affinity Photo, it's called the Flood select tool, There is also a Selection brush tool. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raeyo Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Ok so if I want to do this then I need to open AF photo (testing the trial), make the selection, create mask, and then copy paste in into AF designer? I'm doing this several times a day so may I ask to add this feature in AF designer aswell? This is not handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 the brush selection tool is already in Affinity Designer under the pixel persona. Just a note, the accepted shorthand for each of the Affinity apps are: Affinity Designer: AD Affinity Photo : AP Affinity Publisher: APub It's worth mentioning these as there are differences for each app and referring to affinity generally gets more questions before answers. Patrick Connor 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raeyo Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 @firstdefence - I need the flood select tool (lot quicker) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 19 minutes ago, raeyo said: @firstdefence - I need the flood select tool (lot quicker) Indeed it is, I know this isn't that helpful but you can edit in Affinity Photo from Affinity Designer and back again but by all means suggest the addition of the flood select tool. and visa versa in Affinity Photo Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raeyo Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 Tested this flow: In FW: I select the bg with Magic wand tool and just click delete (to remove only the bg) In AF Designer: - I click on edit Photo - In AF Photo I click on Flood tool, select the bg, then need to go to Select and click on "invert selection" - Add a new mask, save it , then go back to designer to open the file FW: 5 secs, AF: 1 min... The selection brushtool is not handy (see example below) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Big diff on the workflow, I'm sure some bright spark can drop the flood select tool into Affinity Designer if they deem it worthwhile. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 12 hours ago, raeyo said: In AF Designer: - I click on edit Photo - In AF Photo I click on Flood tool, select the bg, then need to go to Select and click on "invert selection" - Add a new mask, save it , then go back to designer to open the file FW: 5 secs, AF: 1 min... Maybe I don't understand what you want to do, but why not delete the selected background in Photo? Why invert the selection? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raeyo Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 Hi C-R, In FW I can just delete the selected background only by pushing the delete button, but when I do this in AF the full image is removed (not only the selected part). Or am I missing something here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 It sounds like you are working with an "(Image)" layer. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raeyo Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 Ok so how can I do this in a quicker way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara72 Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 You need to right click on your image and rasterise it. See this thread for the difference between the two: What are pixel layers and image layers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raeyo Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 Ah.. makes sense! Tx Summersara. Still need to do few steps to get the same result in AF (then in FW)... To AF-TEAM here 3 tips to improve the flow for everyone: - Move flood select tool to AF designer - When clicking on del-button the selected region should be removed (now ctrl-X only works) - After an action deselect automatically - I now have to deselect (ctrl+D), otherwise selection will always be visible (extra clicks) Tx in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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