Selection (marching ants) movable using spacebar

[LesC]

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!

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, LesC said:

in Affinity Photo the ‘marching ants’ cannot be moved and repositioned

Drag into selection (see Statusbar).

[LesC]

Thanks, Psenda! I'll give that a try and will report back if it works (or not)!

[LesC]

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.