jepho Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 Hello. Having consigned my CC account to the trash can, I am now learning to use Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. My question concerns the addition of a stroke to the selection marquee. I have searched the forums and cannot find any answer and wonder if a more experienced user of Affinity Photo can help me. Photoshop had a very simple method by which a stroke could be applied to any selection marquee. This was a really useful feature and I used it regularly for highlighting salient features of images which I had included in presentations, where the images would be included to illustrate important points in the discussion. I would like to know what sequence of events I should follow in Affinity Photo when applying a coloured stroke to a selection marquee. Thank you for your assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilleG Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 There may be a simpler method and I’m sure someone will chime in with it if there is. The only way I could come up with to do it is to: Select a Rectangle Shape (not a Selection, a Shape) Set Fill to White; Stroke to Black (or whatever color you like) and Width to the desired thickness Place the Rectangle in the general area and go to: Filters > Colors > Erase White Paper Use the Move tool to re-position and/or re-size the now empty but stroked rectangle if needed. For reasons that I don’t understand, once you’ve done this, you can add any number of other Shapes as stroked outlines without having to do the Erase White Paper step. jepho 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 You could go Select>Outline... and you have a selection area which you can fill and have something like stroke around selection. Or you can make new layer of the selection and use layer fx to make a border around selection. jepho 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jepho Posted August 31, 2016 Author Share Posted August 31, 2016 Thank you both. :) I will now see which method I prefer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julz Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Hi, I'm using Designer for Windows and I can't seem to find Selection>Outline. Any other workarounds? Stroke selection is a very useful feature. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
executivesaver Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Hi Guys and Dolls What I wanted to do. I have a frame with a pre-cut matt. I wanted the image to be inside the matt with a 1 cm border and a black stroke around the image. What I did in Affinity Photo. Created a new document at the size of the Matt aperture. Filled with white. With my image open on another tab flattened it, right clicked to copy it. I went back to the new white background image, clicked on the background layer and right clicked to paste my image. I then selected my newly pasted image layer, and with the move tool repositioned it on the background leaving a border. From top menu selected arrange - align middle. With the image layer selected go to layer effects outline and select a radius. Looks OK and is now hanging on my wall firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 On 1/14/2017 at 6:47 AM, julz said: Hi, I'm using Designer for Windows and I can't seem to find Selection>Outline. Any other workarounds? Stroke selection is a very useful feature. Thanks. You need to be in Pixel Persona in Affinity Designer to see Select > Outline... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painty Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Hmmm... I'd like to use the magic wand selection to choose a shape from a photo, give it a stroke and export the outline to designer.... How does one do THAT!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 6 hours ago, Painty said: Hmmm... I'd like to use the magic wand selection to choose a shape from a photo, give it a stroke and export the outline to designer.... How does one do THAT!? Well, as Designer does not have the magic wand selection (Flood Select) tool, that will be difficult. It does have (in the Pixel Persona) a Selection Brush Tool, which you can perhaps use in a similar way to make a selection. You could then use Select > Outline as mentioned above, and flood-fill the outline area. I'm not sure what you mean about exporting the outline to designer. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peg Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 On 8/23/2016 at 1:51 AM, Fixx said: You could go Select>Outline... and you have a selection area which you can fill and have something like stroke around selection. Or you can make new layer of the selection and use layer fx to make a border around selection. What am I missing? I've tried your second option above, to make a new layer of the selection and use layer fx to make a border around the selection. Here is a video of what I'm doing. Is there an "Apply" button that I'm missing? Thanks. Putting_outline_on_marquee.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Why don't you just use a shape (Blue square icon) with a stroke and no fill? If you want to select an area of an image, you can make a selection then copy/paste to a new layer and apply the fx outline to it. Making a selection of an empty area will not let you apply a stroke, there has to be substance, pixels, a fill of some sort. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowmason Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Simple and Disappointed. Can't Stroke a selection like in Photoshop Can't do it in Photo or Designer... Hope Affinity will address this in the next upgrade. Paul_Hol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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