Selection Brush Tool Frustration!!!

[makingcake101]

This is driving me nuts and I'm sure its an easy solution but I'm new to affinity designer and I cannot find the answer anywhere. 

When you select an area using the selection brush tool, do your thing and then want to select a new area separately or just get those annoying dotted lines to go away, how the heck do you do it? I can't get the selection area to go away unless I CMND Z out of everything I've done. This is so dumb and I'm frustrated!

[MEB]

Hi makingcake101,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Press ⌘ (cmd) + D or go to menu Select ▸ Deselect.

[Nivrams]

I find the "Selection Brush" in Affinity Photo ineffective. I am used to Photoshop's "magic wand." There is no comparison… yet.

In the same spirit, I haven't found anything in Affinity anything that functions like Adobe's eyedropper.

These two tools are a BIG help.

For my purpose Quark express is a good substitute for Indesign. I am looking for Affinity to replace Illustrator and Photoshop (CS6) before they eventually stop working with some upcoming Apple OS upgrade.

I wish there was a list of things Affinity Design & Photo CAN'T do (yet,) so I don't waste so much time looking for them. 

[R C-R]

The Affinity Photo equivalent of the PS "magic wand" tool is the "Flood Select Tool." It has an icon similar to the PS one in the AP tool palette.