When using the Freehand selection tool, is there a setting on this tool to allow you to lift your pen from the surface while drawing your selection, then it automatically connects to the end of your selection line when resuming? Here is a video showing what I mean. Not sure what drawing app this is.
An impressive feature that, if it is included in Krita, has managed to hide itself from me until now.
Michelist
Pressing SHIFT? You can add selections AFAIK.
Pressing ALT subtracts.
(but it’s not what you asked as in the video…)
@Elixiah I’ve noticed that if you start to select freehand and - keeping the pen on the tablet - you press and keep pressed CTRL, the selection is not closed and you can continue. As said @postmax after this message I think.
On the Mac I can press CMD (and keep it pressed) when using the freehand selection and lift the pen I can draw straight lines or continue to draw freehand. Releasing the CMD key will finalize the selection. I am guessing the modifier on Windows is CTRL? I hope this helps?
It seems I should spend more time on selections.
Michelist
@Skess01 I will try it! Thanks 
@postmax I’ll see if CTRL or SHIFT makes a difference
CTRL does work. That is so cool and useful! Thanks 
@TheInkedKnight I tried using CTRL but I couldn’t get it to work like in the video 
oh no, snap.
For me it work i select the freehand selection tool then start trace with it and then press and hold ctrl then put your pen out of the screen. For me in that order it works perfectly.
For me, when I hold CTRL and lift my pen off the screen, the selection line just continues in a straight line in the direction of my pen. 
I think it is this maybe the difference is that in the video it could be a vector layer so when he jump with the stylus the software understand that it is on the same line and continue the pixels.
Where krita will only make a straight line to complete the jump i think.
@TheInkedKnight Yes, the action is built into the software. I was just wondering if I was missing a setting in Krita’s selection tools that would behave this way.
Maybe we can try with the magic wand (the contiguous selection tool) to select black pixels for example and shift to select different lines. With this method you should get something similar and maybe even faster.
I’ve used the magic wand… which is a time saver, but I just thought it would be nice to draw my own smooth lines all connected.
I feel like there’s a contradiction here. Let’s dive a bit deeper…
Which part of the eleven-minute video best showcases the outcome you are trying to achieve?
There’s a distincion between pressing ctrl before and after starting to draw selection.
Do it before to temporarily switch selection mode to replace
Do it after and the selection will not end until you release both the pen and ctrl
Thanks for the manual but i still don’t get what “replace” mean
Replace what? The selection? because it does it automatically without pressing ctrl if you just drop your pen elsewhere.
Replace is the default mode but you can switch it to any other with the buttons in tool options.
If you select an add button, then each selection will be added to the current one. Pressing ctrl then temporarily switch it to replace.
Oh i see ! Smart.
Also about that.
I see in the freehand tool option there is two mode one for pixel selection and one for vector why in both mode the video stuff does not work and make a straight line instead of following the drawing line for selection?