Ellipse masque tool

[David Wilcock]

Being new to affinity photo. I tend to find the problems that seem too easy. 

Using the ellipse marque tool, it's limited to the controls. Particularly after making the first selection I cannot redit. 

Eg wanting to make a circle larger or smaller. 

Where as the ellipse tool has these features. 

Or have I missed something.? 

Secondly it would be good to have more info explaining the tools in help eg use of shift bar, alt key etc. 

[Dan C]

Hi @David Wilcock,

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Our apologies for the delayed response here, it appears as though your account has only just been activated, which 'unhid' this post today.

On 5/29/2021 at 2:00 AM, David Wilcock said:

Using the ellipse marque tool, it's limited to the controls. Particularly after making the first selection I cannot redit. 

Eg wanting to make a circle larger or smaller

Unfortunately it's not possible to directly control the size of the ellipse once you've drawn it. You could set the Context Toolbar mode to Add, and then draw a new ellipse over the original to increase the size, however this is essentially the same as drawing a new selection.

On 5/29/2021 at 2:00 AM, David Wilcock said:

Secondly it would be good to have more info explaining the tools in help eg use of shift bar, alt key etc. 

The Status Bar contains this information -

 You can also find more info regarding these modifiers here - https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Tools/tools_marquee.html?title=Marquee Selection Tools

I hope this helps!

[carl123]

On 5/29/2021 at 2:00 AM, David Wilcock said:

Eg wanting to make a circle larger or smaller. 

You can hit the Q key

Then switch to the move tool to resize or move the selection

Then hit the Q key again to exit

But it's really only suitable for minor changes to the size