David in Яuislip Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Why not use a macro ? This creates a new Pixel layer, opens a dialog for you to adjust width, fills with the primary colour, deselects. Sadly the dialog doesn't allow choice of Alignment dcStrokeSelection.afmacro Quote Microsoft Windows 11 Home, Intel i7-1360P 2.20 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Intel Iris Xe Affinity Photo - 24/05/20, Affinity Publisher - 06/12/20, KTM Superduke - 27/09/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg E Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 I found a way to achieve this effect around any selection (either marquee tools or selection brush, etc). You may find it a bit of a kludge, depends on your goals. First, make your selection. Then copy the selection as a new layer (<CTRL>J in Windows, Command-J on Mac). There is a layer effect called "outline", referenced above. You can get it, with the new layer selected, by clicking on "fx" at the bottom of the layers panel, then selecting the outline effect in the dialog. You can stroke inside, outside, or centered, and control the width, color, blend mode, etc. I hope that helps a little. Harkonen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaswp54 Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 I really do appreciate the few work arounds posted, but at this point it has not made PS obsolete for me. Affinity is a really great program, but not having the very simple ability to "stroke" without having to go through multiple steps slows my work down when I have to do it those ways. Nlbrmn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajahn Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 MEB suggested On 2/5/2018 at 5:13 AM, MEB said: Hi JLGF1, Welcome to Affinity Forums To "stroke" / outline a selection in Affinity Photo go to menu Selection ▸ Outline.... You can pick the alignment you want from the Outline Selection dialog. Affinity doesn't work the same way as Photoshop here - it doesn't stroke the selection directly with the colour you want - it offsets the selection boundary to create an "outlined selection" which you can then fill with colour. I don't see a menu item "Selection". I see "Select", but no "Outline" under it. I'm using v 1.8.0 Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 21, 2020 Staff Share Posted September 21, 2020 Hi @ajahn, Welcome to Affinity Forums The menu is indeed Select (no selection). Original post fixed. Sorry for the mistake. If you are using Affinity Photo the command is indeed in the Select menu (please check again). If you are using Affinity Designer, you must switch to Pixel Persona (the icons after the traffic lights) and check under the application menu Select there. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian020 Posted January 1, 2023 Share Posted January 1, 2023 This would still be a great feature to have! Any word on whether or not this will happen? Just stroke an active selection with a path thickness of your choosing… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMcCoy Posted March 3, 2023 Share Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) On 2/5/2018 at 5:13 AM, MEB said: To "stroke" / outline a selection in Affinity Photo go to menu Select ▸ Outline.... You can pick the alignment you want from the Outline Selection dialog. Affinity doesn't work the same way as Photoshop here - it doesn't stroke the selection directly with the colour you want - it offsets the selection boundary to create an "outlined selection" which you can then fill with colour. How can you fill it? Edit > Fill... is grayed out, and if I change the color the whole image is colored, not just the selection as desired. This is turning out to be yet another occasion when I have to fire up the old Mac and do what I need to do in Photoshop. The procedure for stroking a selection is not adequately presented in the replies on this, and in any event it seems clearly too complicated. P.S. I finally managed to do it after creating a new layer. My impression is that there are several techniques for doing this, which seems unnecessarily confusing, particularly when the techniques themselves are complicated, at least as compared to the good old simple Photoshop command. Edited March 3, 2023 by RoyMcCoy Finally managed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tap quentin Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 I know this is not photoshop, but adding a stroke to a selection has always been important to my work process. After all this time, and number of posts relating to this topic, I am wondering if anyone from Affinity is reading this forum. The earliest post in thread is from 2015... that is 8 years ago. I would think the developers would have added this feature. : ( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 4 minutes ago, tap quentin said: I know this is not photoshop, but adding a stroke to a selection has always been important to my work process. After all this time, and number of posts relating to this topic, I am wondering if anyone from Affinity is reading this forum. The earliest post in thread is from 2015... that is 8 years ago. I would think the developers would have added this feature. : ( This is in the Questions forum. The Developers read the Feature Requests (Feedback) forum for planning purposes, not this one. But in any case, they will provide the functions they want to provide, and they may not do everything the users are asking for. tap quentin 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
true_blue1878 Posted May 7, 2023 Share Posted May 7, 2023 +1 I also think this feature needs to be added. It's really simple and would be super useful. I've found this thread by searching for the same answer myself, and it's beggars belief why it's not in the software as standard. It's not good business to ignore requests like this for 8 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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