Unable to Close Marquee Section

[JeremyHullah]

Hi

Hope someone can help with this...

There must be a really simple (but completely undocumented) feature that is stopping me from being able to close any selection I make with either freehand or magnetic marquee selection tools. I have tried this on a jpg or an afphoto file.

If there is some odd setting that is required before I can do this, it would be really useful if it didn't allow the tools to be used until this was set, as this would save me the odd half an hour of patient spotting to accurately create a path round an object, only to see the whole selection disappear when I click (or double-click) to close it.

Many thanks

Jeremy

[NathanC]

Hi @JeremyHullah welcome to the forums,

As far as i'm aware the double click to close the selection is built into the marquee selection tool and there isn't a way to turn this off. If you're finding that your selection disappear after double clicking it's possible that you have the tool mode set to Subtract or Intersect along the context toolbar, check that this is set to 'New' or 'Add' and then try drawing out your selection again and double click to close.

More info: https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Tools/tools_marquee.html

 

[Circulus]

7 hours ago, JeremyHullah said:

only to see the whole selection disappear when I click (or double-click) to close it.

You don't need to click or double click to confirm the selection, just lift and let go of the mouse button will do.
If you click or double click somewhere outside the selection it will reset the selection.

[JeremyHullah]

Thanks for quick response Nathan

I discovered it was because my 'Feather' was set to a very high figure, so it didn't know what to select (I suppose)....

Many thanks

Jeremy