Reducing Refine Panel size

[Luddite]

Good morning. I am having difficulty with the refine process in general. I have watched the serif tutorial until I can almost say it by heart! However, this question is about reducing the size of the Refine panel. Wherever I drag it - it is so big that it either obscures what I am trying to refine - or if I drag it far enough to see my illustration, most of it is off the screen so I only get a corner.. I can only see that panel if I have the brush tool selected - so am I missing an option on the toolbar for adjusting the size of the panel. On serif tutorial about refining the panel is proportionate so I guess there must be a way. I would appreciate guidance. Thank you.

[GarryP]

There’s currently no way for users to alter the size of the Refine Selection panel/dialog.
Having said that, in its current configuration, it could certainly be made quite a bit thinner without much trouble, which might help.
If you would like to see a change to that panel/dialog then you can add a Feature Request in the relevant forum section (check first to see if there already is one which you can add to).

[Luddite]

Thank you Garry

[NotMyFault]

Hi Luddite,

my son had a similar issue with his 15" laptop with full HD 1920x1080.

If you use Windows, i would recommend to check the control panel / display settings, Scale & Layout.

Windows will use a scaling factor of 150% to 250% depending on your monitor size & pixel density. This will blow up all Affinity dialog boxes beyond reasonable size.

For work with Affinity Photo, you may need to reduce this to 100% or any suitable value.