pjwaixingren Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 HI,I don`t know how to Stroke ... I use the Marquee Tool,but how to "stroke" ? Thank you : )! Quote
toltec Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 34 minutes ago, pjwaixingren said: HI,I don`t know how to Stroke ... I use the Marquee Tool,but how to "stroke" ? Thank you : )! Go Select > Outline and decide how much and where you want the stroke to be aligned, Inside, outside or centred Then Edit > Fill for the colour of choice. Mithferion 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.
firstdefence Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 You can make a macro with adjustable settings. Stroke Selection.afmacro You can edit the macro to add different Stroke widths and different fills Bear in mind afmacros aren't as sophisticated as adobe PS actions... yet Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
R C-R Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 All the Affinity marquee tools & the freehand selection tool do is just to create raster selections, not vector shapes, so they do not have built-in editable stroke or fill properties like vector objects do. You can use the methods mentioned by @toltec or @firstdefence to fill a raster selection with colored pixels, but for all except freehand selections, it is much simpler & more straightforward to use the Rectangle or Ellipse vector shape tools, which also means you can edit their fill & stoke properties at any time. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
firstdefence Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 I suppose the follow-on question is what is the selection to be used for? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), 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
toltec Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 10 minutes ago, firstdefence said: I suppose the follow-on question is what is the selection to be used for? Not much use with a rectangle perhaps, but I often make a selection around an object, then use the stroke (or outline) option to adjust the edges. Maybe blur, lighten, HSL or something like that. Very handy sometimes I can also paint inside the selection outline with varying brushes for a bit of selective edge control, the brushes being constrained inside the outline. Not something you can always do by any other method. It works quite well with green-screen photography to remove the green show-through. Roger C and firstdefence 1 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.
Roger C Posted October 27, 2018 Posted October 27, 2018 53 minutes ago, toltec said: then use the stroke (or outline) option to adjust the edges. Maybe.............. Aha! Those suggestions are going to be useful for a problem I've been stuck on for some time. Thanks (yet again) Toltec for helping me think outside the [marquee] box! Quote Affinity Designer & Photo : Win 10
Minus44 Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 On 10/27/2018 at 12:47 AM, toltec said: Go Select > Outline and decide how much and where you want the stroke to be aligned, Inside, outside or centred Then Edit > Fill for the colour of choice. Is there an equivalent method to stroke a selection on the iPad version? Thanks Quote
toltec Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 28 minutes ago, Ulysses said: Is there an equivalent method to stroke a selection on the iPad version? Thanks Sure. In the Selection Persona, make a selection, choose the Outline Tool and apply the width and alignment settings on the Context Toolbar Dont forget to tap the tick. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.
Minus44 Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 7 hours ago, toltec said: Sure. In the Selection Persona, make a selection, choose the Outline Tool and apply the width and alignment settings on the Context Toolbar Dont forget to tap the tick. Thank you, @toltec! That helps get me started. And so sorry... after doing a search, I didn't realize I was in the DESKTOP group. I've got reasonable experience with Affinity Photo. So I'm embarrassed to say that I'm still missing something really simple here, because it's still not working for me. I go to the Selections Persona I use the Rectangular Marquee Tool to make my selection (alternately the Elliptical Marquee tool) I then choose the Outline Selection Tool to apply the Radius and position I want I tap the check/tick to accept it. But no stroke is made. (It should be red according to the active color I've selected earlier). Also sometimes the marquee is visible and sometimes not, depending upon how much I've zoomed in (a bug that hopefully the developers will fix). I know I need to fill this double marquee with a color, but how do I now do this?? This particular operation seems uncharacteristically UN-intuitive in Affinity Photo for both the desktop as well as on the iPad, whereas it's pretty straightforward in Photoshop. Quote
toltec Posted November 8, 2018 Posted November 8, 2018 Hi @Ulysses It only makes a selection, it won’t fill it. Once you make an outline selection, you have a choice. Go back to the Pixel Persona and in the Layers Studio, tap the + and create a new Fill layer. It will be confined to the selection area only (your outline) Set it to any colour you want. Adjust the Opacity, add noise etc. Because it is a Fill Layer, you can adjust it at any time. Alternatively, for a cruder option, back in the Pixel Persona, select the Flood Fill tool, set the tolerance quite high and flood the inside of the outline. Do make sure it is a pixel layer, not an image layer if you use the Flood Fill Tool, or it fills the whole layer. Minus44 1 Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions.
Minus44 Posted November 11, 2018 Posted November 11, 2018 On 11/8/2018 at 10:15 AM, toltec said: It only makes a selection, it won’t fill it. Once you make an outline selection, you have a choice. Very helpful, @toltec. Thank you! As often happens, sometimes the answer is right under the nose. Still, I wish this simple operation was more intuitive and more Affinity-like. Quote
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