Mr. Doodlezz Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Hey there, today I worked with the common rectangular selection and was wondering if there’s a way to move the selection while creating it. Situation was I wanted to select a specific area and missed it by one pixel at the top only … I'm used to hold down the spacebar as a modification key and move/adjusting the its position it while creating it as long as the key is pressed. I mostly used it for rectangular, circular and the column selections. Would be a nice addition, so one would save an additional step in creating the selection by drawing another rectangle over the existing one or even create a new one while zoomed in. What do you guys think? :) Cheers Dennis anon1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted October 19, 2015 Author Share Posted October 19, 2015 No opinion on this one? :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 19, 2015 Share Posted October 19, 2015 Press Q for the quickmask mode Then you can drag, expand, transform the selection with the usual keys (alt, cmd, shift and dragging) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted October 20, 2015 Author Share Posted October 20, 2015 Hmmm … not exactly what I was talking about. Here, let me show you in this video. https://youtu.be/u-AVjjQxMUI By the way it behaves the same without pressing the shift key. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 hm yeah, sorry. So this would be nice to have. But in the meantime its possible to workaround with the quick mask mode, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Doodlezz Posted October 20, 2015 Author Share Posted October 20, 2015 Sure it works as you state, but it’s something different than what I requested. So I wouldn't actually call it a workaround for the feature I described initially and it involves a bit more button-pressing and mode-switching instead of just draw the shape in the right place anew. ;) Also adding and »preview-panning« (or what ever you wanna call this) a selection to an existing one the way Photoshop handles it is not possible with this technique. But thanks, your trick is handy to know anyway! There’s no real »transform selection« option right now, is there? royst0n 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anon1 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 I´d also like the way it works in PS - it´s handy! I think the quick mask mode is supposed to be a sort of that? What I find really annoying though is that I´m not able to change the feathering of a selection in the qm mode. I can do this through the refine selection tool but that really is not comfortable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royst0n Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 I totally agree, Affinity is missing Transform Selection tool. It's impossible to change the rectangular selection once it's made... It is so important that I used to map it to F4 key on Photo$hop. I want: * Transform Selection, * popup dimensions when selecting, * Selection's dimensions shown in Info panel after releasing the mouse button (not just when selecting) * Dimensions in px of the document/artboard shown on the status bar at the bottom of the screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herbert123 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 What I never understood is why Adobe requires the user to enter selection transform mode in the first place. And then that horrible little dialog pops up when switching tools and selection transform mode is active: Or the user is first required to hit the [enter] key to confirm. Terrible, terrible. I think that is a real workflow-breaker. Why not display transform selection handles at all times instead when switching to the selection tools? And when I enter quick mask mode, I cannot move or transform the selection directly without switching to transform mode again, and continuously confirming those transformations. Forget to hit that [enter] key, and the above transformation dialog pops up once again. Sigh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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