Chaz Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Hello everyone.Could you please help me in creating a selection using pen tool in affinity designer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Welcome to the Affinity Forums, Chaz. :) The Pen Tool is used for drawing. If you want to create a selection, switch to the Pixel Persona and use the selections tools there. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 The pen tool is often used as a selection tool, at least in Photoshop. I don't know how or if it can used that way in Designer but I would be surprised if it can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted August 11, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hi Jmac, Affinity Designer doesn't support transforming Pen Tool paths into selections as it is a vector drawing application. Our photo editing app Affinity Photo does support converting paths to selections :) Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 11, 2016 Staff Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hi Chaz, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) As Callum said this feature is currently only available in Affinity Photo (convert paths to selections and masks). Here's a tip to work around the problem in Designer: draw your shape with the Pen Tool as usual, fill it with any colour and no stroke, then to "convert" it to a selection press and hold ⌘ (cmd) and click over the object's thumbnail in the Layers panel. Affinity will create a selection from the layer contents. Alfred, Chaz and R C-R 3 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 MEB, The create a selection from the layer's content feature is really useful. However, I keep expecting to find it as an item in the Layer menu because invoking it with a ⌘-click isn't obvious & I don't use it enough to remember that is how it is done. I don't know if others have the same problem -- I am old & my memory is not what it once was -- but I think it would be helpful to add it to the Layer menu, or to the contextual menu in the Layers panel. Anybody else think this is worthy of a feature request? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Thanks Callum for the clarification and MEB for the helpful work-around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaz Posted August 22, 2016 Author Share Posted August 22, 2016 Thank you all for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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