Adding to selection on Affinity Photo

[adisjugo]

Hello everyone, we are evaluating Affinity (Photo + Designer) since yesterday, and thinking from switching to it from Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator combo. We are not an agency, or a design shop, it will be used only for internal purposes - hence, we are not design professionals.

Therefore my probably very newbie question: how do you "add to selection" in Affinity Photo (Windows desktop) application? Needed for marquee, freehand and flood selection tools. In Photoshop, it would be Shift + whatever selector. 

I have already found a forum question from 2016 (so I hope this has changed until now) suggesting that some mouse Yoga with holding two mouse buttons together would work - but after repeated attempts, nobody from the team has managed to get this working. One independent web site suggested that it would be a "Ctrl+" combination, but that also didn't work. 

Substracting from the selection works like a charm (Alt + selection tool), but we couldn't manage to add to selection. So if anyone could help us, that would be great

Have a great day everyone,

Adis

Edited December 9, 2020 by adisjugo
typos

[firstdefence]

On Mac it’s Control.

Look at the status bar bottom left of the screen.

[adisjugo]

Status bar for the win - thanks for the tip firstdefence. It works (Ctrl + Alt + Whatever selector)!

Edited December 9, 2020 by adisjugo

[firstdefence]

Just now, adisjugo said:

Status bar for the win - thanks for the tip firstdefence. It works!

you’re welcome.

[slajerek]

This does not work with hand-selection tool (i.e. clicking CTRL does and adding selection via free-hand selection does not add selection)

Edited September 6, 2023 by slajerek