How To Make Learning Affinity Photo Easier 

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Thank you. I'm fairly confident the new release won't have changed anything. Most of these features have been in there since the early days of version 1. I suspect they will be around for a while.

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It's difficult to know everything. I've been trying for years but my wife still tells me I don't know everything.

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Thnkas. Yes, that's a good tip about the keyboard shortcuts. I suspect quite a few people get into a mess that way.

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Try watching this, it may answer some of your questions ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zc3lbiIhFMo.html

I had never stopped to think about this but I agree 100%. I hardly ever use the other Personas these days and they feel a little like a design hangover from an earlier period in time.

Some big changes like compound masks and the range selections masks as well as a lot of interface changes and small improvements. If you know how to use the bulk of the features in V1 you will still understand how to use V2. The best place to find out the differences is on the Affinity Photo website. Here's a link to the version 2 changes affinity.serif.com/en-gb/whats-new/

After you draw a selection using the rectangle marquee tool and then move the mouse pointer over the selection, it changes to show the Move icon. This allows you to move the position of the selection but without affecting the area that's selected. This behaviour only happens when you have one of the Marquee tools selected in the Affinity Photo Tools Palette. When you have the Move The Move Tool seelcted in the Tools Palette and then try to reposition the selection, you can't. Instead it moves the area of the image that's selected. You might also find that you can't move the area and that there are small blue crosses in the corners of the blue bounding box rather than circles. This indicates the layer you are working with is locked from editing. You can see a small padlock icon to the right of it in the Layers Studio Panel and clicking the icon unlocks it. What's confusing about this example for a lot of people is that the mouse pointer changes to show the same icon as when you have the Move Tool selected. You can only move the selection when you have one of the Marquee Tools active and you can only move the area of the image when the Move Tool is active. I hope this helps you. As a shameless plug, I cover this (and all the selection tools) in my new book "How To Select It": lenscraft.co.uk/project/how-to-select-it-book/

@@RobinWhalley But this is not the way it has been working for me in the past couple of years, that I've been using AP. Previously, I could make my box, then click the Move tool. My box would then have handles. I could resize the box. Move it around. Move it to a different location, and I would not affect the layer under it. If I were to hit cut, or copy, it would cut or copy what was under the box. Since day one, I've been using this to move the box around and trim items... I can't get AF to do this at all anymore. Based on what you say, maybe it was not supposed to work the way I've been using it. Very confusing...

@@hurleymediatv I can only explain how I understand it works and how it works for me. Without watching an example of your editing where it goes wrong I won't be able to identify the problem. Try following what I've said to see if it works. If it still doesn't work, email me through my Lenscraft website.

@@RobinWhalley Robin, I really appreciate your suggestions. I've spent the last day learning a new work flow, so I'll just move on. I also watched your video "Selection with Rectangular Marquee in Affinity Photo" and learned a lot from that one. But I wanted to mention, in that video you say you're using the alt key when using the freehand polygonal tool. I couldn't get this to work, until I used the ctrl key. All good now though.. Cheers!