adisjugo Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On Mac it’s Control. Look at the status bar bottom left of the screen. adisjugo 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Add a signature like this so system and app info always seen. Tagging is the gift that keeps on giving. Please consider adding tags to your post, not only does it help searching later on but it helps us, to give focused replies and is greatly appreciated by those that do reply, remember Affinity is for life not just Christmas. (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...
adisjugo Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) Status bar for the win - thanks for the tip firstdefence. It works (Ctrl + Alt + Whatever selector)! Edited December 9, 2020 by adisjugo firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Just now, adisjugo said: Status bar for the win - thanks for the tip firstdefence. It works! you’re welcome. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Ventura 13.6, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 Add a signature like this so system and app info always seen. Tagging is the gift that keeps on giving. Please consider adding tags to your post, not only does it help searching later on but it helps us, to give focused replies and is greatly appreciated by those that do reply, remember Affinity is for life not just Christmas. (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...
slajerek Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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