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Creating basic pixel selections

Creating basic pixel selections - Affinity Designer Tutorial

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Creating basic pixel selections

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- [Narrator] In the previous videos we spent a lot of time in the Draw persona. And now, I'd like to turn your attention over to the Pixel persona. So if you go over to the top left hand side and you click the pixel persona icon, you'll notice that all the tools have changed over here on the left hand side. So, let's take a look at some of the basic selection tools that you'll use to manipulate pixels in an image. On the left hand side we have the rectangular, circle, row, and column marquee tools. And you can cycle through those by hitting the "M" key on your keyboard, so just hit "M" and you'll notice you can cycle through that. Then we have these two tools here, the L key for the lasso tool, and the W key for the selection brush. Now, let me show you how some of these tools work. The marquee tool, if you click on that, or click M on your keyboard, you click and you drag, you make a selection. You can keep adding to that selection, just by clicking and dragging. Now, if you look up…

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