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How do you easily Stroke a selection?


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I'm totally enjoying my journey of learning about Affinity Photo for Mac. One question I had was, where is the Stroke command? I tried to draw some lines on an image with the freehand tool so I could highlight something for a bug report, but there seems to be no Stroke command at all. I can use a more proper shape and add a stroke and clear fill, but nothing to fit my sloppy freehand style.

Let me know if it's called something else and I just missed it. 

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2 hours ago, PeterinJapan said:

I tried to draw some lines on an image with the freehand tool

If you mean the Freehand Selection Tool (lasso) or any of the other pixel-based selection tools, there is no Stroke function for them. The Pen Tool will work, as Garry suggested.

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Your initial post was a bit vague.
If you show us an example of what you want to create, and give more detail about what you want to do with it (not how you are trying to do it) then we might be able to advise better on how to do it. In other words, the methods given above may not be optimum for your requirements but we can’t tell unless we know what you want to do.

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  • 1 month later...

Thanks @gunda that works well enough! 

@GarryP Sorry my request was vague. Here's a good example: I wanted to draw a circle to highlight something in another bug report. There is no "stroke selection" command but using Gunda's Outline basically did the same thing. May I suggest that the default outline of 0 pts is useless to users, and the default should probably be 1? I hope you consider adding Stroke in the future. 

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If all you want to do is draw a circle to highlight something in an image then I would suggest using either the Circle Tool – with a Stroke – or the Donut Tool, instead of making a selection and then modifying it. Probably a lot easier. (You can also create a Style to make sure that your circles all look the same.)

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1 hour ago, GarryP said:

If all you want to do is draw a circle to highlight something in an image then I would suggest using either the Circle Tool – with a Stroke – or the Donut Tool, instead of making a selection and then modifying it. Probably a lot easier. (You can also create a Style to make sure that your circles all look the same.)

That's probably right and that's what I would probably do in that instance.  My use for "stroke" is putting a thin border around an image, or perhaps around a layer, and IMO that's easiest using stroke rather than one of the shape tools.

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