Pete Molinero Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 Hi, Loving Affinity Designer so far! It's sleek, fast, and does a great job at everything it does. I am curious about one aspect of selection, though. Let's say I have 2 vector shapes. I do the following steps: Select on one shape Hold shift and drag a select box around the shapes As expected, it inverts the selection of all objects I drag over. If the object wasn't selected, it is now selected. If the object was previously selected, the dragged box deselects it. That works great, and is desirable sometimes. But there are also times when it's super important to be able to hold shift and only add objects. For example, if you have a bunch of overlapping shapes you need to select, but they're also arranged around another set of shapes you don't want to select, there's currently no good way to combine selections. For example: What if I want to select all of the red and yellow objects, but not the blue objects? Is there currently any way to easily do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 What I would do for something like that is to group the blue objects together & temporarily lock the group. I tend to group things into logical groups anyway, so for me each of the three sets of colored objects would probably be in three separate groups to begin with, making it easier to do this. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.2 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...
Staff DWright Posted August 4, 2017 Staff Share Posted August 4, 2017 As R C-R suggested use the layers tab to group the different coloured objects into their own groups Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Molinero Posted August 10, 2017 Author Share Posted August 10, 2017 Thanks for the answers, folks! Grouping and locking works great if I created the file in the first place, and can plan ahead like that. But when I'm using a file that a more careless individual created, creating and locking that group can turn into a lot of work itself. Additive and Subtractive select hotkeys are just a quick and easy way of handling that. But thanks for the info nonetheless! The old version of Illustrator that I used to use didn't have it either (though the new versions do), so I'm used to working around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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