Does Affinity Photo have a fixed ratio mode for Marquee Tool in v2?

[Blake_S]

This feature was requested for at least 2 years and was never added in v1, still missing.

Does v2 have it?

[walt.farrell]

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.

[Old Bruce]

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.

[Blake_S]

31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Cropping

Never said anything about it. Talking about Marquee tool, to make selections.

[Blake_S]

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

 

[Old Bruce]

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.

[Blake_S]

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?

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[GarryP]

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).

[walt.farrell]

17 hours ago, Blake_S said:

Never said anything about it. Talking about Marquee tool, to make selections.

Sorry; misread the topic.

[Pos E Tive]

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.

[GarryP]

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.

[walt.farrell]

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.

[GarryP]

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.

[user_0815]

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.

[PixZero]

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?

[user_0815]

This is how I move just the selecton without the pixels.

 

[PixZero]

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.

 

[NotMyFault]

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

[PixZero]

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!