[Windows 11 Color Folder Icons]

Thanks a lot!

[How to make smooth edges when deleting background]

12 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

If the object was on a pure white background, I would use Erase White Paper.

WOuld there be any way for this to work with the green background?

[How to make smooth edges when deleting background]

51 minutes ago, loukash said:

Rather than attempting to "push pixels", I would simply rebuild the pictogram using a vector rectangle and a few strokes. It takes just a few minutes:

Just make sure you're aligning everything to integer pixels.
Except for the 3 px wide strokes which must be aligned to x.5 coordinates so that the stroke doesn't antialias.
You can also further manipulate the antialiasing value via Blend Options → Coverage Map

Thanks, in this case it doesn't look to hard to rebuild as you did but I have quite a few icons like that I'd like to modify and my skills are simply too limited to rebuild some of them so I was hoping for an easier solution, that's if there is one.

[How to make smooth edges when deleting background]

Hi,

I have a bit of a specific question, I have a bunch of icons in small png format that I would like to modify.

There are only a few pixels large. Most of these icons have a an icon and a colored background, I want to make that background transparent. With the flood erage tool I can do that easily but the edges of the icon stay colored and it makes the transition look unnatural.

Is there a way to make the transition "fade out" like in the original icon while removing the background?

Here are two screeshots to see the original png (with the dark green background) and the one with the background removed and problematic edges.

[Inpainting Brush not working in macros]

I have the latest V2 and I also have this problem, was this supposed to be fixed?

[Replace initial Background picture]

9 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Any painting you did directly to the background layer is part of that layer. It's usually better to paint onto a new pixel layer. Also, all those adjustments you made directly to that layer will be lost if they weren't separate layers. Photo editors like Affinity are so much better than the tools we had decades ago. We can do so much work without permanently changing the source image so that changes can be rolled back. We just have to remember to use them. 🙂 Good luck.

Cheers

I have not been in the habit of creating a pixel layer to do my inpainting, I will investigate this for sure.

Thanks a lot everyone.

[Replace initial Background picture]

5 hours ago, firstdefence said:

Which RAW editor did you use, a lot of them have sidecar files with the edits you did, so, you can reopen the RAW file and tweak any changes you made then export again as a TIFF

I use Photo Ninja and Capture One. I can effectively reopen the RAW with the original settings I had.

[Replace initial Background picture]

Thanks Mike!

Could you guide me on what I would need to do to replace it?

Also, if there has been inpainting on the first "background" layer, this will be lost, right? Or is there a way to prevent that?

Have a good one.

[Replace initial Background picture]

Hi, 

I'm new to the forum but have been using Affinity Photo for several years, but I'm not an expert at all.

I`ve always wondered, but never got to figure it out, if it's possible to swap the Background layer for another picture.

For example, let's say I developped a RAW photo, I then exported it to a Tiff file and opened that Tiff in Affinity Photo, then did a bunch of edits to in, inpainting, color adjustments, frequency seperation, stuff like that.

Then after I'm done with my edits in Affinity Photo I realize that I should've been less agressive with my Noise Reduction (just an example) with my RAW converter.

Is there a way I can go back to my RAW converter, re-export a new Tiff and then point Affinity Photo to that new Tiff so that all my work is applied to that new Tiff instead of the original one?

Thanks in advance!