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Hide Marching Ants (selection) in Designer


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58 minutes ago, GaryRS said:

I can't see an up to date thread for this. I'm in the pixel persona of Designer & I'm trying to hide the marching ants, but keep the selection. I was hoping it would be Ctrl or Alt + H but that doesn't seem top work.

Photo has the function View > Show Pixel Selection that you can turn on or off. Designer doesn't.

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On 2/16/2020 at 6:11 PM, walt.farrell said:

Photo has the function View > Show Pixel Selection that you can turn on or off. Designer doesn't.

I just ran into this again today... It's actually quite a nuisance when you're working/painting within a selected area in a pixel layer in Designer. The "marching ants“ are so obtrusive and they don't let you judge properly what you're doing on the canvas.

In my opinion it is absolutely necessary to be able to temporarily hide any selection borders if you're doing any delicate artwork. This applies to those "marching ants“ with pixel content as well as to borders of selected objects with vector objects. Photoshop has had this very option ("Hide Extras") for a million years (and for good reasons). As it seems so natural a need I cannot quite see why this hasn't been implemented in Designer right from the start.

Even though I definitely enjoy using the Serif apps the wishlist for (sort of) vital additions in version 2 obviously gets ever longer...

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4 hours ago, Lorox said:

It's actually quite a nuisance when you're working/painting within a selected area in a pixel layer in Designer. The "marching ants“ are so obtrusive and they don't let you judge properly what you're doing on the canvas.

For me, it would be the opposite -- if I do not know how much of my pixel layer is selected then I find it very difficult to see what any action would affect on the canvas. In particular, I would not want to add or subtract from the selection without being able to see what I was adding to or subtracting from.

I do not object to that feature being added to AD, but I doubt I would ever use it.

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5 hours ago, Lorox said:

This applies to those "marching ants“ with pixel content

For that situation, you could duplicate the selected pixels to a new layer with Ctrl+J or Cmd+J, then remove the selection. Your painting will be restricted to the new pixel layer, just as it would have been restricted to the selection, and you won't have the marching ants to distract you. When you're done with the painting you could then merge down to get back to one pixel layer.

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6 hours ago, Lorox said:

Photoshop has had this very option

As in the APhoto application (it has been implemented from the beginning), which I would consider adequate to the aforementioned Photoshop. So if you want to do more complex work with a raster image, then there is nothing easier than switching to APhoto using the Edit in Photo... command.

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11 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Your painting will be restricted to the new pixel layer, just as it would have been restricted to the selection

Really? I think a pixel layer auto-extents, so there is no restriction. You would need to check „protect alpha“.

on iPad, duplicate does not respect a selection, but duplicates the complete layer.

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6 hours ago, Lorox said:

This applies to those "marching ants“ with pixel content as well as to borders of selected objects with vector objects.

Actually, the marching ants have no content of their own because they are not part of any layer. They just define an area of the canvas that can be used with the content of pixel layers.

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