[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

3 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

That would be easy. Just create a new layer below the masked one and fill it with a colour by using the "Flood Fill Tool" (the eighth one in the toolbar). Or if you want a gradient, use the "Gradient Tool" (below the Flood Fill Tool).

And then drag the New Layer to the Masked Layer ?

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

2 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

It's not really clear to me what want you want to do. As far as I understood, you wanted to replace the background of one image with another image, Or do you want to set only a colour as background?

That would be easy. Just create a new image below the masked one and fill it with a colour by using the "Flood Fill Tool" (the eighth one in the toolbar). Or if you want a gradient, use the "Gradient Tool" (below the Flood Fill Tool).

I want to remove the background from my image and fill it with Plain Grey Colour Wallpaper.

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

14 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

The "Alpha Channel Colour" is transparency. Channels are somehow like coloured, dimmable spotlights that are focused on the same point. You have a red, a green and a blue one. If all three spotlights are set to zero, you have true black. If all three spotlights are pushed to the may, you have white. If only the red one is pushed to the max, you have pure red. If red and green are pushed to the max, you have yellow. And so on. You can mix all colours with it. The Alpha Channel is only an additional channel for mixing transparencies to it all. So you could also call this channel the "Opacity channel".

But how do I apply these colours to the background of my image ? :-)

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

2 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

Yes. If there is no Alpha Channel, instead of transparency the space will be filled with the background colour that is defined in the colour picker.

Actuall that also works for me as I do not have my own Image to use as a background even the system colour using the colour picker would work for me. so how do I apply the Alpha Channel colour to the background ?

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

3 minutes ago, iconoclast said:

There are different ways. To see how the image looked like in the beginning, you can open the source image. By the way, you should never overwite the source image, even nearly everything you do in Affinity Photo is nondestructive.

You could also create a duplicate of the image when you start working, and make it invisible. In that case you can always make it visible again and then you can see how it looked in the beginning.

You can also go back to the start in the History panel. But be careful, because if you do that and you only click on the image, all working steps you did will be lost.

Ok so work on Duplicate and Hide Original and then again when I want to see from where I started again Make the Original Visible ? That way ?

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

1 hour ago, iconoclast said:

 

Edit: There is one thing I forgot to mention. Images need a so called Alpha Channel for transparencies. Normally they only have three channels: red, green and blue (RGB). For transparencies they need the additional fourth channel (RGBA). If you didn't choose Transparent Background as you created the new document, you have to open the menu Document and click on Transparent Background to get this Alpha Channel.

This is before starting the entire process of removing the background right ? Like the First Step when you import a Photo from your Library or wherever 

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

1 hour ago, iconoclast said:

The layers are stacked over each other in the Layers Panel. You just need to drag the layer you want to have as background with the mouse down, so that it is placed under the layer with the mask.

And how do I see the before and after of my Image as in what it was originally when I started and what it is right now.

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

3 hours ago, iconoclast said:

The Selection Brush is the fourth tool in the Tool bar on the left of the interface. The one with a brush symbol and a dashed circle. If you have created the selection, just click on the button Mask Layer at the bottom of the Layers Panel. It is the button with a circle in a rectangle. After doing so, all of the layer outside the selection should become invisble. Because th background of the layer is invisible now, you can place any image you want on a layer below the masked layer as a background.

Here are some Videos on Youtube:

How to use the Selection Brush

Mask Layers

Mask Layers2

Ok I think I have found out how to Mask a Layer but now whenever I import a Plain Background Picture on my Photo the one I import overlaps the Photo and hides it. How do I bring it to the background ?

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

2 hours ago, iconoclast said:

 just click on the button Mask Layer at the bottom of the Layers Panel. It is the button with a circle in a rectangle.

Can you please post a screenshot of the location of this. I cant seem to be able to locate it.

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

You know without actually seeing what you have explained is a theory difficult to fathom. 🙂 But I appreciate you trying to help me here.

So a question How do you create a layer mask fun the selection ?

What I have learnt so far is using the paint brush tool and then doing the smart selection I can select the subject and then tap invert the selection helps me seperate the subject from the background, but I don't know the steps thereafter as in how do I pick the subject and then place it on front of a plain colour background. A visual thing would be very useful in learning.

[Remove Background from an image using Affinity Photo ? How ?]

I have some pictures like where the subject is standing in front of a car, building etc…I want to remove the background from that image and put the subject in front of a plain colour wallpaper like a grey or a white colour ! How can I do that ?

 How can I remove a background from an image and place a plain colour wallpaper in that place?

 Using Affinity Photo ?

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Hey Guys a New User of Affinity Photo on the iPad. So I am totally new till date to start using Affinity Photo. I am looking forward to See and learn Some Video Tutorials on how to start using Affinity Photo on the iPad basically Learning Affinity Photo for Beginners on the iPad. I bumped into this 2017 Video on YouTube but a lot of functions and buttons have changed since then.

Can anyone please help me with a similar Video for the Latest Version of Affinity Photo ?

Thanks in Advance !