gregzimdahl Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 How can I transform a selection? In Adobe Photoshop the action was performed by creating a marquee selection and then hitting "Command-T" This would allow me to stretch an area thus removing an unwanted area. Thanks in advance! Quote Helping people and exercising my faith through business, investing, and law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 25, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 25, 2016 Hi gregzimdahl, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) Press Q to enter Quick Mask, change to the Move Tool and edit it as if it was a vector object using the control handles. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregzimdahl Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Not what I was looking for, that allowed me to change the size of the marquee. Rather I am looking to have the content that is currently selected to be stretched over a larger area. What you described looked like it would have worked but it only change the marquee size. If I would do the same thing in photoshop it would drag and stretch the pixels that are currently selected along for the ride as I adjust the control handles. Maybe to help illustrate what I am looking to do... say I had a jpeg image of a button with text with a gradient from top to bottom on the button as well as text. Say I wanted to erase the text but leave the vertical gradation intact. Hope this make sense. I used the healing brush to accomplish a similar effect but any wrong movements cause the gradation to be messed up slightly. Am I making sense? Quote Helping people and exercising my faith through business, investing, and law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted June 26, 2016 Hi gregzimdahl, I misunderstood your question. sorry. To change the contents of the selection (rather than the selection marquee itself), change to the Move Tool and drag the selection control handles on canvas. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregzimdahl Posted June 27, 2016 Author Share Posted June 27, 2016 Perfect, almost... That was exactly what I was looking for. 1. Is there a setting I can modify slightly? When I transform the Marquee, it creates a transparent area on the opposite side I drag. I found that I can slide it back the others way, though not every design would allow for that. Quote Helping people and exercising my faith through business, investing, and law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barninga Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 you can copy and paste the selection, then edit the pasted copy. or you might want to try the perspective tool. Quote take care, stefano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbalzo Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Perfect, almost... That was exactly what I was looking for. 1. Is there a setting I can modify slightly? When I transform the Marquee, it creates a transparent area on the opposite side I drag. I found that I can slide it back the others way, though not every design would allow for that. Isn´t that transparent line created on the opposite side of the selection when stretched a bug? It forces me to drag from that side too to overlap the stretched selection with the background in order to get rid off that white line. I think this should be a one step operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaneRobinson Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 This doesn't work as expected. In AD when you use the Move Tool on the Column/Row Marquee selection, the resulting "Pixel Stretch" is a transparent gradient of the selected Column/Row. Why doesn't it just work as expected to produce a 100% opaque "Pixel Stretch" of the selected column/row? qendl 1 Quote Shane Robinson Painter | Photographer | Technologist website • shop • pinterest • facebook • google+ • instagram • twitter Voicemail: 808-572-7907 TEDxHonolulu 2015 Artist in Residence: http://rsr.me/tedxhnl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qendl Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 On 4/13/2019 at 11:22 AM, ShaneRobinson said: This doesn't work as expected. In AD when you use the Move Tool on the Column/Row Marquee selection, the resulting "Pixel Stretch" is a transparent gradient of the selected Column/Row. Why doesn't it just work as expected to produce a 100% opaque "Pixel Stretch" of the selected column/row? Was wondering about the exact same issue. Why does it work like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelancer Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 I'm not sure if this helps but I noticed that the layer needs to be unlocked to work like Photoshop. ie use the Marquee tool to select your area, unlock the layer, change to the Move Tool and then drag across. Seems to work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaneRobinson Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 21 hours ago, freelancer said: I'm not sure if this helps but I noticed that the layer needs to be unlocked to work like Photoshop. ie use the Marquee tool to select your area, unlock the layer, change to the Move Tool and then drag across. Seems to work for me. Locking isn't the problem. It doesn't work as expected as explained above. It creates a transparent gradient. It should be a solid "pixel stretch." I've uploaded an image to show the transparent gradient that is created. Quote Shane Robinson Painter | Photographer | Technologist website • shop • pinterest • facebook • google+ • instagram • twitter Voicemail: 808-572-7907 TEDxHonolulu 2015 Artist in Residence: http://rsr.me/tedxhnl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freelancer Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Oh, I see Shane, but that's not happening for me. Here's an image I've uploaded... I'm using AP 1.8.3 on a mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted June 16, 2020 Staff Share Posted June 16, 2020 Hi freelancer, Welcome to Affinity Forums This is a known issue that's already logged to be looked at. You aren't seeing the effect/behaviour because your selection is quite large. Create one with just four or five pixels width, stretch it horizontally quite a bit and check the border. You should see the semi-transparent area. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 On 4/13/2019 at 7:22 PM, ShaneRobinson said: This doesn't work as expected. In AD when you use the Move Tool on the Column/Row Marquee selection, the resulting "Pixel Stretch" is a transparent gradient of the selected Column/Row. If you have AP, and not just AD, then there is a workaround which is better than nothing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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