Elida

Hey everyone. I'm designing a chess board as a floor. I'm probably not using a standard method but for my goal: I'm using the pen tool to draw vertical and horizontal lines (they are distorted purposely.) The lines intersect giving the impression that they are forming squares but obviously they're not in terms of color filling. How can I tell affinity to make shapes out of these lines to be able to color? I couldn't imagine when I purchased that it would be this inconvenient to do something that seems relatively simple. I just spent hours designing characters using the pen tool and can't color any of it lol. Sorry for the novel, I'm new to this. Thanks again.

I know it's not as nice as yours Carl but let me know what you think. It took me about two hours (30 minutes lost because my program crashed and I didn't save.) I really appreciate you introducing me to the 'skew' tool. I used about . . . 7 layers all together lol. I haven't attempted to fix discoloration yet but it's at least pretty symmetrical I think and that was my main concern. I can't figure out how to utilize 'dodge and burn' yet, still studying up on it. I had to use clone brush tool a lot for areas I couldn't stretch and skew very well. Many imperfections and I won't use this for my website but I think I at least get the concept and little by little I'll get better. Thank you so much for teaching me how to fish. Take care. ps: how do you add a picture like you did. I only seem to be able to add affinity files. Even tried a URL but that didn't work either. reug_removal_test.afphoto

Yea . . . You lost me at "basically". Thanks. I'll give it a go anyway, it's my first week of photography and editing in my life so I'm sure I'll fail magnificently. I'll post my results. Or just go back to that house and move the damn rug. I really appreciate it. I'm stubborn, so I'll be up all night trying . . . I'm sure I'll at least learn some good stuff along the way. Take care Carl and Callum!!!

Carl, 1. I hate you 2. . . . I love you 3. Can you please tell me how you did this? At least the tools and then I'll have to beat my brains in to figure it out. Thanks a lot. It looks amazing.

Yea, no worries Callum. I really appreciate you going out of your way to try it yourself. I have one more question if you have time. I have photos where windows are blown out and over exposed but the rest of the photo is fine. Exposure, highlights, and brighten tools sometimes affect the whole photo. I know bracketing multiple exposures and layering works. But is there a way to manipulate exposure with a brush so I can target areas without layers and affecting the entire photo? So I can touch up certain areas like the window and the surface where the light lands and over exposes. Thanks again.

Hey Callum, Thanks for getting back to me. I should have just moved the stupid rug lol. I guess it's a good learning experience. IMG_0517.afphoto Sorry for the large affinity file, jpg's keep failing. Error message: ("there was a problem processing the uploaded file.-200") Thanks again.

Hello everyone. I'm a complete beginner. I understand cloning and inpainting for the most part. I'm trying to remove a rug from a tile floor. The tiles change dimensions as the depth gets farther making it hard to align the cloned or inpainting tiles. Is there a way to resize the clone to better adjust it to fit the area where the rug was to match the surrounding tile or is there a better method altogether? Thanks.