LesC Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 One of the things I do daily, and even on the Mac’s desktop is: - draw a rectangle around an object on screen, using the marquee (on the Mac’s desktop I use this for screenshots) - selection is not perfect, and can still be resized - but only in Affinity Photo the ‘marching ants’ cannot be moved and repositioned using the spacebar. Hope this is clear? Thanks! Quote CANON cameras (7D, G9), lenses ranging from 10 to 400mm, and Speedlite 580EX II - iMac (24", M1, 2021) running Ventura MacOS 13.4.1(c) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 2 hours ago, LesC said: in Affinity Photo the ‘marching ants’ cannot be moved and repositioned Drag into selection (see Statusbar). Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesC Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Thanks, Psenda! I'll give that a try and will report back if it works (or not)! Quote CANON cameras (7D, G9), lenses ranging from 10 to 400mm, and Speedlite 580EX II - iMac (24", M1, 2021) running Ventura MacOS 13.4.1(c) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LesC Posted February 20, 2021 Author Share Posted February 20, 2021 Do you mean the 'instructions' at the bottom left of the screen (see my illustration)? Indeed I can move the marquee simply by dragging, but cannot find how I can resize it. As soon as you stop holding down the mouse button, the size of the marquee remains unchanged. As I stated in my opening post, the Mac uses the spacebar, that you can hold down while keeping the mouse button pressed, and you simply move the marquee, whilst you can still resize it, as long as you haven't released the mouse button. This works on the Desktop (for instance, to make the appended screenshot) as well as in many other programs, including PS. Quote CANON cameras (7D, G9), lenses ranging from 10 to 400mm, and Speedlite 580EX II - iMac (24", M1, 2021) running Ventura MacOS 13.4.1(c) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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