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New to Photo V2 from PS where I'm used to being able to select the marquee tool and either just click and drag or enter a fixed size in pixels, inches, mm etc... then clicking on the document/photo to position the sized section.

Is there a way to add a fixed size marquee selection area in Photo V2 please?

Thanks fwm2

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You can use the move tool and transform panel to enter absolute position and size for any active selection. Just ensure that an empty pixel layer is active while using this method, otherwise you would destructively modify the content in the selected area.

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7 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

You can use the move tool and transform panel to enter absolute position and size for any active selection. Just ensure that an empty pixel layer is active while using this method, otherwise you would destructively modify the content in the selected area.

I think the OP is talking about the 'marching ants' marquee selection tools. If so, just keep one of those tools selected & the Transform values can be changed without affecting any layer, selected or not. (This works for all these selection tools except the selection brush & flood select tools.)

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Thanks both for the prompt replies. Yes marching ants indeed. My problem is that I have shaky hands and sketching things out to make up in the workshop was easy enough with the fixed sizing, black fill, reduce selection by 2px and back-space to leave me an outline of each piece…

I’ll give your suggestions a try and see where I go from there.

 Cheers fwm2

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2 hours ago, R C-R said:

I think the OP is talking about the 'marching ants' marquee selection tools. If so, just keep one of those tools selected & the Transform values can be changed without affecting any layer, selected or not. (This works for all these selection tools except the selection brush & flood select tools.)

Probably another difference between Desktop and iPad. On iPad you need to activate move tool, otherwise transform panel is locked against input.

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