Soft Edges Affinity Photo, Help!

[GKN]

Hello,

I'm not very familiar with AFP. I want to ask you something.
After selection with the "Selection Brush Tool", when I copy-paste, it has a soft edge. But this is not possible with the "Flood Selection Tool". How can I copy-paste a soft edge with the "Flood Selection Tool"? Note: I need to use the "Flood Selection Tool" for this.

[markw]

If you activate ‘Antialias’ in the Context toolbar for the Flood Selection tool before making your selection dose that help you get your desired result?

[GKN]

9 minutes ago, markw said:

If you activate ‘Antialias’ in the Context toolbar for the Flood Selection tool before making your selection dose that help you get your desired result?

Yes! That worked.. But I could have sworn I tried that and, it didn't work☹️ I think it was a problem with AFP. There could be a delay or an error.

Thank you so much for helping🙏

[Alfred]

For an existing selection, choose the ‘Feather…’ option on the Select menu.

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, Alfred said:

For an existing selection, choose the ‘Feather…’ option on the Select menu.

Are you sure that works. If I change the Feather setting after creating a selection, the existing selection is not changed.

[Alfred]

13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Are you sure that works. If I change the Feather setting after creating a selection, the existing selection is not changed.

I’ve certainly had it working, but I have to confess that it doesn’t seem to work consistently!

[David in Яuislip]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Are you sure that works.

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't, It's a well established phenomenon that works Norf of Nottingham otherwise you need to set the feather before making the selection.
It always hacked me off in Photoshop as I never developed a feel for how much feather to apply so I took to
making a selection with feather zero
press Q
apply Gaussian blur to get some visual idea
press Q

[Alfred]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Are you sure that works.

 

37 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

I'm pretty sure that it doesn't, you need to set the feather before making the selection.

 

Here's the original image:

 

Here's a flood-selected region, copied and pasted to a new layer before feathering:

 

Here's the same flood-selected region, copied and pasted to a new layer after feathering:

[David in Яuislip]

Alfred 1
Me 0

I can't do it dahn sarf

[Alfred]

26 minutes ago, David in Яuislip said:

Alfred 1
Me 0

I can't do it dahn sarf

Where did you make your 'magic wand' selection, David? I think I clicked near the top of the big pineberry just above the name 'Emmbean', giving me the solid selection shown in the second image. 'Select > Feather...' with a suitable radius (which, of course, I didn't make a note of!) feathered that selection to yield what you see in the third image.

[walt.farrell]

15 minutes ago, Alfred said:

'Select > Feather...' with a suitable radius (which, of course, I didn't make a note of!) feathered that selection to yield what you see in the third image.

That may be the difference. I did not understand you were using the Select menu, vs changing the Feather setting in the Context Toolbar.

[David in Яuislip]

31 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Where did you make your 'magic wand' selection, David?

I was in Яuislip at the time, why do you ask??