I'm now going to drag to select that missing piece of the ring on her thumb. Let's carry on dragging, to select the microphone, the back of her dress, and her shoulder. If you drag close to the interface, it ducks out of the way, so that you can see what you're doing. Because the mode is set to add, you can keep on dragging to add new areas into your selection. To use this tool, you simply drag it over the area that you want to select. There's a better way of working with this image, and that's to use the smart selection brush. In this case, it's clearly inappropriate for this task. And you just tap in the area you want to select. We could also use the flood selection tool, the Affinity equivalent of the magic wand. Tap on that, and we can also choose the elliptical marquee tool, which draws an ellipse, or again, if you hold a second finger down, it'll draw a perfect circle. If you hold a second finger down, it constrains that to a perfect square.

The marquee tool draws from corner to corner. So let's use the command button, and deselect. In this case, it's going to give us a very inaccurate selection, and it's no good here. You use this to simply draw around the edge of the object that you want to select. The easiest tool to use is the polygon selection tool, which you might know better as the lasso tool. And we'll go on to look at what these all do.

We've got the view tool, smart selection brush tool, and so on. If you want to know what they all do, then tap the question mark icon, in the bottom right, and you can see the tool tips popping up. And the tool set changes to show the full range of selection tools. We can do that by tapping on the selection persona icon, here at the top. To use the selection tools, we need to switch to the selection persona. Now previously, we've been working with the painting tools. I'll go into my Cloud import, into my Affinity folder, and choose Zeeteah. In this tutorial, we're going to make a jazz poster featuring the singer, Zeeteah Massiah.

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