To use the Selection Brush Tool, position it over the area of the image that you want to select. The good news is that you can still make excellent selections in Affinity Photo without using it. This is such an important and powerful tool that we cover it in a separate tutorial of its own.

The Refine button opens the Refine Selections dialog.We will look at each of these in more detail in a moment. This section has three options you can use to improve the selections automatically as you paint.When this happens, we can use the Subtract mode to paint over these, removing them from the selection. After painting the selection, we may find we have selected areas that we don’t want to include. Initially we use the Add mode to create the selection. The mode buttons allow you to add to or subtract from a selection.These controls are important to creating a good selection: After selecting this you will see the controls for the Selection Brush displayed in the Context Sensitive Toolbar along the top of the screen. The icon for the Selection Brush Tool looks like a paintbrush with a dotted line around the tip.

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