ianrb Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 will the rectangle marquee tool snap to the grid? I cannot get the tool to start/stop on the line as happens when moving images --- great part of Affinity photo btw (yes; I have forced alinement off ) Any tricks or tips would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 No, the rectangular marquee tool won't snap to the grid (or to objects). As a workaround, you could place guides, which will snap, and then use them to align your selection. Or you could draw a rectangle with the Rectangle tool, which will snap, and use that to align the selection. Easiest, in the 1.6 version of Photo, may be to draw a rectangle, then use the menu Select > Selection from Layer. Once you have the selection you can delete the rectangle from the Layers panel. In the 1.7 beta it's a bit easier, as you can draw the rectangle and then use Select > Selection from Layer and Delete, which deletes the rectangle after the selection is made. Alfred 1 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...
ianrb Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 Thank you @walt.farrell; I would have saved myself so much time if I asked earlier will keep your thoughts mind for next time So much for ticking "notify me of replies" Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 or this work around New layer >select all (click the icon) >have grid on >snapping on >grab the move tool >drag the marching ants to suit >>select/outline >form outline thickness + position to suit > fill with color ( I use the flood fill tool (bucket icon) Somewhere in there it would pay to ''save selection'' I'm sure there are other ways to do much of it; but the above worked for me --- worked spot on actually I can go to bed tonight knowing I have learnt something new today ------ whether I remember it tomorrow or next week is the unknown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 was fiddling with this -- actually re-editing to get the strokes better 2nd image the raw image questions welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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