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@Wosven Ok, thanks! Yeah, I am compering several methods to have some not so bad results. How nice is to have bold men :), right? Now, I have suitable and I would say quick enough result of cutting out the body from white background. Hair is another issue but that was not my original request, and we can leave it for long winter nights (or someone else to go through). Now, I am not so disappointed anymore, so for that ... Thanks you all for helping me getting better! SOLUTION For someone who just read the title and skipped here for solution. It goes like this: 1. base layer - applied Erase white paper filter 2. second layer (the body selection) quick selection with Refine edge - play with the Border, Smooth and Ramp settings (e.g. in this case Border 2%, Smooth 10px, Ramp -22%), touch hair with the Refine brush. After applying Refine edge, clear the background pieces brought back by smoothing. 3. next layers are for hair (you want find the solution for complex hair here) This should take you about 10 minutes to have nice cut of body (and in some cases of head too) on this I would say middle size images with these simple portraits. Jiri

Hi @Wosven! I check the file, and I have a question - have you touch the mask after the Refine edge? Because I was not able to get similar result like yours. But I found one way how to get better than good result with your idea: I just take head and body separately. So then when refining the body edge, I can be quite aggressive with smoothing - I went up to 10px, and then I fixed just few curved areas - fixing itself is like 3-4minutes, and the result is I would say almost perfect. The Erase white paper give the space for quick solving (does not need to be super precise). Also if this is kept for head then with some few edits it help to remove the semitransparent ears (etc.) and so the focus can be just on hair. So after all this image is then really like 8-10 minutes, and that's gigasuper Thank you a lot! And if I may, do you have any thought about that more complex hair? Jiri

Hi! @HVDB Photography Does it work on a black color? Mine hair cut :) works great on light colors too, but not so nice on dark ones. @RNKLN Thanks for your input. Sure hand masking is an option for that (but in this case it would be almost same time as masking it with paint brush on the beginning ;)

Hi carl123! Thanks to pointing this out. I tried it with this last image. The result is quick but worthless - there are even same issues I/we are trying to solve here (look at edge all over the body). The result is much worst but much faster. It would be super if it works perfectly I would immediately sign in. Jiri

Hi! And sure, probably some will expect this question - once I have the body part done, then comes the hair. The simple one as in previous examples are simple (to fix if necessary). But what about more complex hair? Messing with Refine tool (Border 0 - 10%, Ramp 0 to -30%) I got this as a best result. It really works on light backgrounds but more darker more disgusting it get (and sure it looks nice on transparent background as in any tutorial). If you would like to play with it, the original file is here - https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0JxVwmzKOeCP1pKu7pcaCg0nA#_PP_1476 Please, any ideas in this final step? Jiri

Hi firstdefence! Turning off Matte edges makes the edge "saw like" and thats a thing I would like to solve here (or one of things). I give it a several try - add new layer, shrink it, smooth it. Everything resulted in a need to go around whole body and still fix the semi transparent area (now is smaller) + fix some white area after smoothing (if applied). It is quick way to remove some of the semitransparent areas but it is not quick(er) solution. But worth to mention it, it can save some time for sure. Jiri

And this is what I mean by inner semitransparent areas. Jiri

Hi Wosven! The files cannot be opened - they both ends with an error: " The file appears to be truncated (shorter than expected)." But as you wrote, the messing with Ramp parameter helped with the "glow". But I have quite a lot semitransparent spots around the inner edge, so I would love to see the files and what you have done (and I missed) - and I still do not have similar or same questions. Do you think that this could work also on some long and messy hair (same picture set I mean)? (not everyone has such clean one) Jiri

Hi Wosven! I tried your steps. However once I open the Refine selection dialog (and after its first analyses) the "glow" around lots of area on the body appears - did you remove them in the mask manually? Without Refine the edge wont be smooth (tried that). So looking forward to your files/words... the result look promising and time as well Jiri

Hi HVDB Photography! Thanks! For this type images (dark dress) its very nice, smooth and quick. I would add to your process (for case someone is reading it): This process leaves a white rim around the body so it can be easily fixed: separate the head, and shrink the selection/mask of rest with -1% (if you apply it to whole, you will loose some hair). For the second image it cannot be applied (white jersey). However much lifetime saved with this on similar images. Big Thanks! Jiri

Hi, 2 start point images are here: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0tazN43yzoWUc1g5GTU8ly5rQ#_PP_1233 https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0dg_Zqal5dSmoOHXKTziEH85A#_PP_1254 Go from this to white background, I do quick selection and then enhance whites on the background (little loss of hair but thats fine). Jiri

Hi stokeg! Thank you! Yes, that is the only way I can do it now. I would like to have something like connected image frames so when I move/change/resize image on one, it is automatically updated on second (like working with text). Jiri

Hi, I am little bit frustrated with masking the white background in affinity photo, so I came to ask for help here. I have an image(s) 18mpx with model (hips and above) and I am trying removing the white background (I have pure white background). I found the best way for the body shape to use the pen tool but it is way too slow (ok I have about 40 images I need to remove the background from). So I tried thinks like background removal, color range selection, flood tool with lots of settings... and everything resulted in lost of background bud the shape was saw like (not smooth at all). When I smoothed and shrinked the selection it helped a little but nothing close to the pen cut. And then - the Refine selection for head and hair. I do not mind that at the end it has some whitish semitransparent rims/area around hair ends, but fighting the semitransparent areas with foreground and background is nightmare - you edit one place with background and it add automatically something new to it behind the edge etc. (sure i can do some of it later with editing mask, but the edges with hair and hairs I do not want to do pixel by pixel). I can fix the hair itself by darkening it, using Clone ets. but the areas of the glow will be there and also look unnatural (I can cut some of it with masking for sure). I am adding several image to see what I mean - 100% crops: 1 - original, 2 - saw like cut, 3 and 4 - background taken, smooth, shrinked, 5 - semitransparent within refine selection, 6 - results of refine selection. Probably I do everything wrong, but I have not found any tutorial that works this way (or better say - showing, how to fix it). So please, do you have any help to poor myself? Currenty I have some reasonable result within 40-60 minutes per image, so if there could be something that speeds the process Any helpful help is payed saves me to get old too soon. Regards Jiri

Hi, I would like to make a hardback catalog, and sometimes place the picture over 2 pages. I can place Picture frame over both pages, I know that, but my question is - is it possible to make some inner margins for this image so it is matches once opened in the book? There are just spread margins but I doubt it would be useful in this case. I haven't make any tests yet (no machine to make the hardback at my place). Thanks you for any help/topics I have not found/tricks etc. Princatko