Affinity Pen Tool: The Secret To Drawing Perfect Selections

bici · May 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM

"One of the most accurate selection methods in photo editing is the Affinity Pen Tool. While many people think the Pen Tool is just for drawing lines, its value for photo editing is irreplaceable. Despite this, many photographers avoid using it because drawing accurately with the Pen Tool isn’t intuitive."

Learn how to use the Affinity Pen Tool to make accurate selections. Step-by-step guide for Affinity Photo, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity 3.

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R C-R · May 18, 2026 at 8:10 PM

FWIW, while it was always possible to use the Pen Tool to make selections or masks in Affinity Photo 2 via the Pen Tool's context toolbar's buttons, annoyingly that was not possible in Affinity Designer 2 because its Pen Tool lacked those context toolbar buttons.

What is really nice about V3 is the Pencil tool, which is not available in Photo 2, can also be used to draw or modify the vector outline so you can use that tool's sculpt mode, curve fitting smoothness, and/or Stabilizer settings as well as the Pen Tool for this.

Affinity Pen Tool: The Secret To Drawing Perfect Selections

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