chapolote Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 Hi, in Photoshop there is a function, in german called "ähnliches auswählen". In english it's called "Similar" in selection-menu. The function automatically select a similar color. So for example if I select a area with red color and I run "Similar", photoshop selects all areas with a similar red color. How can I do that with affinity photo? Is there a similar function? Thanks for any hints, chapolote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 27, 2017 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2017 Hi chapolote, Welcome to Affinity Forums No, currently there's no similar function in Affinity Photo. If you are selecting the colour on a single layer you can try to use the Flood Select Tool, set the Tolerance as you see fit to pick just the colour you want, untick the Contiguous checkbox and It should select the same colour from the whole layer. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapolote Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 Ok, I understand. It seems to work similar like that, I'll test it in my future work. By the way: is This feature planned for the future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted November 27, 2017 Staff Share Posted November 27, 2017 As far as i know, no. I'm moving this thread to the Feature Requests section. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapolote Posted November 27, 2017 Author Share Posted November 27, 2017 Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tart Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 hello everyone! Is there any update maybe with selecting similar/same colours in Affinity Photo? "Flood Select Tool_set Tolerance_untick the Contiguous checkbox" is a good trick, thank you! , but not precise enough. Here we exported Material ID photo where all colours are different, but is not possible to select them fully. With low tolerance (if we check the selected green grass) not whole colour is selected, but with just a bit higher tolerancy, there is another green colour selected together. Any tips on how to fully select colours on Material ID photo? :) low tolerance: higher tolerance: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Besides flood selection tool, we have select sampled color. https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Selections/selections_sampled.html in your case it might be best to combine multiple selection methods: first sample by color the set mode to subtract or intersect and use rectangle or lasse to remove unwanted areas other Tipps: use RGB/16 instead of RGB/8 check „continuous“ and add all areas sequentially, Select „too much“ first with large tolerance value, then subtract unwanted colors after reducing tolerance create a temporary „merge visible“ layer used only to create selections try live hue mask, live luminosity masks, and compound masks. if you are able to exactly specify the RGB color ranges, i can provide a procedural texture filter creating a view which can be converted to mask or selection. in your image, some green tones in the building windows / frame edges are identical to those of the plants. So no chance to select only by color. Tart 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tart Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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