Blake_S Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 This feature was requested for at least 2 years and was never added in v1, still missing. Does v2 have it? Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 What do you mean by a "fixed ratio mode"? Cropping in Photo certainly supports fixed ratios, but it has done so for as long as the Affinity applications have existed. Misread the question. Sorry. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
Old Bruce Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 The closest we can come to this with the Marquee tool is to hold down the Shift key while dragging to restrict to a square. Otherwise ( Note that this has to be done on an empty pixel layer [otherwise you'll be dragging out a stretched/shrunk pixel selection of the pixels]) you can make a Rectangle (or any shape, ellipse, triangle, etc) of the desired ratio (1:1.25 or whatever) and then use the Select > Selection From Layer (and delete) then switch to the Move tool and drag one of the corners to get a variable (1:1.25 in this case) size selection. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Blake_S Posted December 15, 2022 Author Posted December 15, 2022 31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Cropping Never said anything about it. Talking about Marquee tool, to make selections. Quote
Blake_S Posted December 15, 2022 Author Posted December 15, 2022 35 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: What do you mean by a "fixed ratio mode" You select the relative width and height, but can change the size of the selection while maintaining the same aspect ratio Quote
Old Bruce Posted December 15, 2022 Posted December 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Blake_S said: You select the relative width and height, but can change the size of the selection while maintaining the same aspect ratio Even easier than my earlier post. Make a marquee selection on an empty pixel layer. Change to the move tool (Optional: and adjust the Height and Width to your ratio). Now drag one of the corners with the move tool. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Blake_S Posted December 16, 2022 Author Posted December 16, 2022 12 hours ago, Old Bruce said: Even easier than my earlier post. Make a marquee selection on an empty pixel layer. Change to the move tool (Optional: and adjust the Height and Width to your ratio). Now drag one of the corners with the move tool. While this does work, its a rather convoluted solution, plus still requires drawing a rectangle first to get correct ratio. And no one actually answered the original question - was this functionality (fixed ratio mode for marquee tool) added in V2? Judging by the responses, the answer is no? Quote
GarryP Posted December 16, 2022 Posted December 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Blake_S said: Judging by the responses, the answer is no? Correct – except for square selections as mentioned earlier which were also available in V1. You can however, to add to the alternatives above, in either V1 or V2, use the Quick Mask functionality and the Move Tool together to resize a selection with a fixed ratio (watch out for ‘stretching’ of the selected pixels though). Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 16, 2022 Posted December 16, 2022 17 hours ago, Blake_S said: Never said anything about it. Talking about Marquee tool, to make selections. Sorry; misread the topic. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
Pos E Tive Posted May 21 Posted May 21 Hi, I am switching over from photoshop and wondering if this marquee tool has been implemented to have either a fixed size so when dragging the marquee tool it locks at the fixed size or a a fixed ratio where we can enter the value and then drag out the marquee over an image. This is great for selecting oval sized portions of the original image and then being able to transform it or resize it a fixed soze inn mm. Quote
GarryP Posted May 21 Posted May 21 Welcome to the forums @Pos E Tive You can drag a pixel selection with any of the pixel selection Marquee Tools to re-locate the pixel selection. Also, while you have a pixel selection, you can toggle the Quick Mask ON and then select the Move Tool to modify the size/location of the pixel selection like you would any other layer, e.g. resize via the canvas or the Transform Panel. Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 21 Posted May 21 4 hours ago, GarryP said: You can drag a pixel selection with any of the pixel selection Marquee Tools to re-locate the pixel selection. Don't you also have to be careful that you don't have any Pixel layers selected in the Layers panel when you do that? Otherwise you will also move the pixels, not just the selection marquee. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
GarryP Posted May 21 Posted May 21 37 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Otherwise you will also move the pixels, not just the selection marquee. I’m pretty sure that you need to Ctrl+Drag to move the pixels with the pixel selection, when a Pixel Layer is selected, but I’ve not used that functionality much. Simple dragging – whether with a Pixel Layer selected or not – should, as far as I have seen, just move the pixel selection. walt.farrell 1 Quote
user_0815 Posted May 21 Posted May 21 Moving the selection with the selection tool only moves the selection. You'll have to switch to the move tool in order to move pixels – or alternatively hold cmd (ctrl) and click-drag as a shortcut. walt.farrell 1 Quote
PixZero Posted June 6 Posted June 6 For some time now, it has no longer been possible to move the selection without content using the Marquee tool. I'm pretty sure it used to work. I am using the latest Affinity Photo version 2 2.6.3 with MacOS 15.5 on an Intel iMac. What could be the problem? Quote
user_0815 Posted June 6 Posted June 6 This is how I move just the selecton without the pixels. selection.mp4 PixZero 1 Quote
PixZero Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Yes, that's exactly how it should be, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me. Could it be due to a setting? I think this has been the case since the latest update when the intelligent selection was introduced. Which, by the way, does not work on Intel computers, it is only possible on computers with chips. Quote
NotMyFault Posted June 6 Posted June 6 8 minutes ago, PixZero said: Yes, that's exactly how it should be, but unfortunately it doesn't work for me. Could it be due to a setting? I think this has been the case since the latest update when the intelligent selection was introduced. Which, by the way, does not work on Intel computers, it is only possible on computers with chips. You have „add“ mode chosen. Moving only works in „new“ mode. “Modus“ ganz links oben in deinem Screenshot user_0815 and PixZero 1 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | MBP M3 Windows 11 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 | Dell 27“ 4K iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. I use iPad screenshots and videos even in the Desktop section of the forum when I expect no relevant difference.
PixZero Posted June 6 Posted June 6 10 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: You have „add“ mode chosen. Moving only works in „new“ mode. “Modus“ ganz links oben in deinem Screenshot Super! That's it, thank you. Dankeschön! NotMyFault 1 Quote
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