John-B Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 How can I shrink a rectangular (or other) selection to an irregularly-shaped object? In Photoshop I can draw a rectangular marquee around some shape, then nudge the selection (cmd-arrow), and the selection shrinks to only include the filled pixels in that layer, edges and holes are excluded from the selection. Is there a way to select just the filled pixels, maybe a different selection tool or selection options, within a given area without selecting the empty space? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Select > Grow / Shrink or Cmd + B (ctrl + B on win) Orbek 1 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...
HVDB Photography Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 If that shape is on a separate layer, just CTRL-click the layers thumbnail. You can also group different shapes, and CTRL-Click the Group thumbnail to select them all at once. Quote Affinity Photo 2.3.1 Laptop MSI Prestige PS42 Windows 11 Home 23H2 (Build 22631.3007) - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.00 GHz - RAM 16,0 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-B Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 8 hours ago, firstdefence said: Select > Grow / Shrink or Cmd + B (ctrl + B on win) That just changes the size of the selection area. A rectangular marquee just gets bigger or smaller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-B Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 7 hours ago, HVDB Photography said: If that shape is on a separate layer, just CTRL-click the layers thumbnail. You can also group different shapes, and CTRL-Click the Group thumbnail to select them all at once. That works (cmd-click on Mac), but it selects all the pixels in the layer. I'd like to just select the pixels within the original selection, but this is a limitation I can adjust to. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 1 hour ago, John-B said: I'd like to just select the pixels within the original selection, Cmd+J should duplicate the selection onto a new layer. 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...
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