How to remove or fill tiny holes in a selection in APho

[Affinity Rat]

Sometimes when making a selection with the flood selection tool there are numerous small holes or islands (completely encircled)  in the selection, my old software had an option to remove holes, how to handle this situation in APho?

Changing tolerance is not an option. 

I’m looking for a way that doesnt require manually painting them out.

Maybe a feature to consider, if no easy way to accomplish.

 

 

 

 

 

[Affinity Rat]

An option could be a selection brush, that would only select holes, maybe hole size could be property of brush.

The real issue is around edges of the main selection, where using a brush is very tedious.

[NotMyFault]

You can use grow/shrink selection for that purpose.

1. first grow selection by a number of pixels larger than the holes. 
2. then shrink the selection by the same number. 

this may leave a small number of holes, but those can be added manually.

alternatively play a bit with outline selection.

[Affinity Rat]

Yeah might work, but issue is really when floaters close to primary selection layer, I most often need this technique when cleaning up pixel backgrounds of artifacts et al. 

Increasing the background would decrease size of floaters and increase the distance between floater and main selection.

Yes I have used the the outline tool in conjunction with smooth selection and an erasure or background coloured brush but find it tedious.

Thanks for suggestion tho will try next time.