Affinity Photo how to accurately remove pixels

[Elluvon]

So here's my question. 

The inpaint tool can be spotty if you're trying to do something accurate. For instance, attached is an image of a new doc I'm working on. I want to remove half of the subject, but if I use the inpaint tool I can't get too "exact" if you know what I mean. Is there a virtual ruler or something I could use? 

[Elluvon]

Nevermind, I found the solution. Sorry, such a noob. 

[IanSG]

45 minutes ago, Elluvon said:

Nevermind, I found the solution. Sorry, such a noob. 

What was the solution?  It's rare for there to be only one way of fixing things like this - it's good to share!

[Elluvon]

8 hours ago, IanSG said:

What was the solution?  It's rare for there to be only one way of fixing things like this - it's good to share!

The rectangular marquee lets you inpaint without going past the box lines. 

I don't know if this makes sense. 

[IanSG]

19 hours ago, Elluvon said:

The rectangular marquee lets you inpaint without going past the box lines. 

I don't know if this makes sense. 

It makes perfect sense - thanks!  But does anyone know a way of rotating the selection marquees - not everything that needs selecting is on a horizontal or vertical.

[Alfred]

13 minutes ago, IanSG said:

It makes perfect sense - thanks!  But does anyone know a way of rotating the selection marquees - not everything that needs selecting is on a horizontal or vertical.

For a rotated rectangular selection, create a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool, rotate it and then convert the rotated rectangle (via the ‘Selection’ button on the Context toolbar, I think — I don’t have APh in front of me to check) to a ‘marching ants’ selection.

[toltec]

20 minutes ago, IanSG said:

It makes perfect sense - thanks!  But does anyone know a way of rotating the selection marquees - not everything that needs selecting is on a horizontal or vertical.

If you are talking about Photo, you enter Quick Mask mode (Q), select the Move Tool and rotate and adjust the selection marquee how you want.

[IanSG]

On 11/17/2018 at 12:59 PM, toltec said:

If you are talking about Photo, you enter Quick Mask mode (Q), select the Move Tool and rotate and adjust the selection marquee how you want.

That's exactly what I was looking for - thanks!

On 11/17/2018 at 12:53 PM, αℓƒяє∂ said:

For a rotated rectangular selection, create a rectangle with the Rectangle Tool, rotate it and then convert the rotated rectangle (via the ‘Selection’ button on the Context toolbar, I think — I don’t have APh in front of me to check) to a ‘marching ants’ selection.

Thanks for that! It's more involved than the Quick Mask approach, but it can be used with any of the shapes.