Magic Wand Tool

[LaurenLPoole]

Hi!  I am a professional designer that has always loved Adobe Illustrator and primarily work in vector.  However, I detest Adobe's new subscription model and am very attracted to the price and reviews of Affinity Designer.  I downloaded the trial version last night and tried watching You Tube & Vimeo tutorials, but could not find anything like the Magic Wand Tool.  I use this tool every single day and cannot live without it.  

Am I missing something?  Is there not a way to select all of one color?  The color selection abilities seemed very elementary and more similar to Photoshop which I'm not digging.  I was also having trouble dragging over a group of elements to select and Group.  They would not select.  In my AI files, they were already grouped, but for some reason became UnGrouped when imported into Affinity.  It will take me FOREVER to go in and manually click each little vector detail.  Help!

 

-Lauren

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Lauren. :)

 

Re the Magic Wand Tool: Affinity Photo has one but Affinity Designer does not. The closest you'll get in AD is the Selection Brush Tool in the Pixel Persona.

 

Re selection of multiple elements: By default you need to completely enclose the elements with the selection marquee, but there is a setting in Preferences to include elements in the selection when the marquee merely intersects with them. Go to the Tools section of the Preferences dialog and put a tick in the checkbox labelled 'Select object when intersects with selection marquee'.

[R C-R]

Affinity's color selection tools (like Affinity Photo's "Flood Select tool" that is equivalent to PS's "Magic Wand" & the Selection Brush tools in both apps) only work on pixel layers, so they are useless for vector objects. There is also no provision to select every pixel or object of the same color.

[Alfred]

The Flood Select Tool will select every pixel of the same colour, but there is no 'Select Similar' function to select vector objects which are similar in type, fill, opacity, etc.