DDW

You guys are AMAZING!!! Thank you so much! What a great community. I figured out my problem. Correct me if I am wrong. 1st grader comes up to the teacher: "Mrs. Jones, I want you to teach me math please." "Well . . . that is great DDW! Math covers a lot of areas." "Calculus or Trigonometry. Either would be fine!" "But DDW, you cannot count to 20 yet. How about we work on that first?!" BIG GRIN!

^^^ Dean has another question -- where does it EXPORT TO? And how can you control the pathway? I'm going to start watching the suggested videos that are in this thread! Thanks. You all are great! What an amazing and supportive tool. Speaks volumes to how well the program is! I’ve attached a ZIP file with an .afphoto file enclosed. The “background” layer is your original picture. There are a bunch of other layers, all of which are turned off (the check box on the right side of each layer in the Layers panel). You should start at the bottom and turn on each of the layers to see the progression of things. The first 5 layers (the 5 above the background) involve taking pieces of the picture OUT. For the most part, this was done either with Inpainting or with Cloning. Mostly, cloning. For any inpainting or cloning operation, I chose “Current Layer and Below” and made multiple passes to get rid of the offending element(s). The hardness of the cloning brush was generally set really low, so as to blend the layers. The hardness of the Inpainting brush was usually set to 100%, since that’s how I’ve found it works best. After that, it was a matter of recreating the missing parts of your daughter. Once the cheerleader in front of her is removed, there are large chunks of her legs, waist, and left arm missing. To do this, I copied generously from the other girls in the picture. First, I grabbed the left chest wall border from the girl on the right side of the picture. Copied and pasted into a new layer. Masked out everything but the border of the shirt. Used the Move tool to stretch it a bit horizontally. Blurred the edges to make it blend in. Also copied the left thigh, hip, and inner legs from the girl at the left. Pasted into 2 new layers and masked out everything I didn’t want. Blurred the borders. Used the Move tool to stretch the layers to the proper curvature. The Left Arm was the hardest. I copied the upper arm from the girl at the lower left corner of the picture, and copied the forearm from the girl at the right. I pasted both into new layers, and flipped the forearm horizontally to make sure it was facing the right direction. Rotated both and stretched them to fit. Blurred the edges. Masked as needed. Did a merge selected to make the arm into a single pixel layer. Still very rough, as you can see. Cheerleaders.afphoto.zip

Yeah! That's my girl!!! Thanks and AWESOME!!!

WHOOPS!!! The undamaged one . . . coming up now. Sorry about that. Ghez.

Well, thank you all on all accounts. Much appreciated. Early today I wrote: I'll attach one of the images I was working on with NO SUCCESS. I was making multiple people (cloning I guess - although I never remember using that tool). I will attach the pic. If any one wants to have a go at it and if you are successful, could you jot down the steps you used for your success. My daughter is a cheerleader. I was trying to single her out. I wanted to remove the orange pylon directly behind her. I wanted to remove the dark line on the turf. I wanted to remove the other two cheerleaders. And finally, I wanted to remove the white lines off of the track the ladies were standing on. When I tried it . . . it was an ugly/blurry mix. I think my photos will fit now. With the one where my poor daughter's head is cloned liked 7 times, that is me . . . trying to use the imprinting brush. The other pic is untouched by me (other than the down sizing). It is the same or similar pic to the one I mangled. Boo hoo . . . The only thing that has been done to it - is I have resized it, to fix this forum. Here is what I was wanting to do: 1.) Remove the orange pylon from behind her head. 2.) Remove the dark line down the side of the green turf. 3.) Remove the white lines from off of the track and finally 4.) Remove any other cheerleaders in the picture (I just want my firstborn!). After over 2 hours of working on the photo . . . all I could do is create a creepy seven-headed beast. But . . . all was not lost. I quickly got an email from my daughter (she never emails me - I'm not 'cool' enough). "Please take that off of Facebook . . . I am so embarrassed." Not exactly the hugs and kisses I was hoping for when I bought Affinity. NOTE: I don't blame them. After watching 'Mrs. Giles' in the youtube clip, I figured . . . piece of cake! 'This will be EASY! Look at how quickly she removed poles, lines painted on the highway, telephone cables, etc...' If any of you can do it, could you please jot down . . . step by step how you did it? I'd be most appreciate! Thank you very much. Finally, if you have any insights into what I might have been doing wrong to create my seven headed beauty queen, I'd appreciative if you would share those insight with me. Thanks again! Time for medicine and rest again. PS: Yeah! It looks like the picture thing worked! I got it done for free at http://picresize.com/ . It was quick and easy. Idiot proof. Just like I thought inpainting would be. So . . . there. I finally contribute something to this community. To my new friends!

Amen. Thank you. I am disabled so I have plenty of time to get better. No job to go to. Trying to make a hobby out of using Affinity to help pass time. I'm working on that! How does one compress a jpg small enough to fit for this forum?! Again, the clip above. The lady was removing telephone poles that were in the FORREST! Along with a dozen other different things all in about 5 minutes. Of course she is a trainer and has been one for many years. I am a former tennis player. I am completely aware of the fact that highly skilled people can make things like very simple. But I was no where in the ballpark. If only she TAUGHT, as well as she used the software. Heck, there where not even comments at the end of it. I was hoping that would clear up all the foggy places . . . Agreed. Easy enough. What about the 'More' button that appears after adjusting brush width and those few other things? It looks like that is NOT a place for a rookie like me to go to? Besides, Ms. Expert on the youtube video did not go there. That is my assumption anyway. I never saw/heard her go there. Some more questions after watching the ten minutes of her clip again: Note: the numbers before the questions represent the time that the comment/question comes up on the clip abve. · 31.14 she pulls up a new image out of ‘thin air’. HOW? · 31.47 – ‘what I am going to do to make sure it is non-destructive is to add a layer, that is just a blank pixel layer’ HOW DO YOU ADD ANOTHER LAYER? And is it necessary? Would the image/edits be destructive if you didn’t do this step? · 29.59 ‘make sure you have selected current layer and below’ (although she is not consistent with this in her practice) – WHY? · 32.20 she makes a white line disappear and calls it ‘perfect’ and it is!!! I try something similar and it leaves on obvious, blurry path. UGH. · 32.34 Talks about the zoom key (but is speaking ‘Apple’). What is the Widows command? Let me guess. Z? And she mentions how it toggles back and forth. ‘Push ZED (? Apple?) again, it takes me back to the previous tool’ · 33.23 ‘Sometimes it is better to do it with a smaller brush and do it little by little.’ Agree? However, I watched her on this clip take out many things with a bigger brush and a bigger area all in one move. IE. Telephone poles, trees, etc · 33.30 “I can actually show you the before and after.” Are there other ways to show the 'before'/'afters'? · 35.10 – Again breaks one of her own ‘rules’ by painting with a VERY LARGE BRUSH over a VERY LARGE AREA – ALL AT ONCE. IE. Taking out a whole telephone pole. · 35.30 Getting rid of the telephone cables with a much bigger than necessary brush. And again, it shows at the top – ‘current layer’. · 36.20 ‘Try not to veer off – try to keep it in a straight as line as possible’ said when she was taking out a large telephone pole. Would you agree that that is important? It seems like it would appear on the context of the image. · 37.00 she gets rid of telephone cables with a brush much bigger than what she needs, but it still looks good. And again, she is in ‘current layer’. · 37.13 she ‘paints’ a large area as she gets rid of telephone cables – seeming to break one of her on rules again. · 37.25 'Staying on the cables because the intelligence of the software gets it better to stay in one area/thing at a time.' · 38.38 – There were three long cables. She took them out one at a time, and with a smaller brush that what she was using on them previously. · 39.45 Takes out a telephone pole that was partially covered by trees at the bottom. She did it in two stages and it looks great. Mine would most likely be a blurry mess. · 40.55 there was a dip on the horizon from here take something out. She used the same tool to fix the dip. She just painted from one side of the dip to the other and it was gone. That was a trip. I tried it. It didn't work for me. Thanks.

Hello, DDW wants to know, what version of Affinity that Toltec has. I have read on the net, that the inpainting tool with my version (1.5.2.69) is buggy. Anybody else hear or believe that? Sick boy is writing from his sick bed. And, anybody know of ways to compress jpegs so that I can put my attempts to inpaint on this forum? One way I tried was to have Affinity export my photo in its lowest quality. That didn't work. It was still a little too big. Thank you.

Please let me know if you can see the pics above. If not, I'll see about compressing them into smaller files and/or using dropbox. Any other suggestions? Thank you.

Toltec, thank you show much for your help. I have some more questions. However, I am ill today and will probably get back with you tomorrow on them. The way you can insert an image, highlight certain parts of it . . . is amazing and helpful. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do that. I'll attach one of the images I was working on with NO SUCCESS. I was making multiple people (cloning I guess - although I never remember using that tool). I will attach the pic. If any one wants to have a go at it and if you are successful, could you jot down the steps you used for your success. My daughter is a cheerleader. I was trying to single her out. I wanted to remove the orange pylon directly behind her. I wanted to remove the dark line on the turf. I wanted to remove the other two cheerleaders. And finally, I wanted to remove the white lines off of the track the ladies were standing on. When I tried it . . . it was an ugly/blurry mix. Can shortcuts be uploaded? I'll try. Reason being, it stated that my photo was too big 16.4mb. Thank you very much. DSC00004 - Shortcut.lnk DSC00002 - Shortcut.lnk

@Ve2 -- I printed the first 100 pages. No page numbers? Did I do something wrong? How can this problem be fix. Sorry about the whine. And thank you very much for putting together a guide.

Hello, I run Windows 10. And my version of Affinity is 1.5.269. I have never processed a pic with it yet. Intimated by it. I was going to print the guide out, put I ran out of toner. I am trying to do what the lady on this video is doing with the imprinting brush. I cannot do it. What she is doing is using it to 'paint' over an object, and then she releases the mouse and the painted over object is gone. She talks about how easy it is. When I do it, I get a thin line to 'paint' with. The line I paint with in the size of a the print of a normal pen. The one she uses is large and she can quickly paint over a telephone pole for example. There are no comments after her video is over, so I am left without any help. Could those of you that know how to use the imprinting brush teach me how to do it? Please? The time window for what I am interested below is from the 31:19 min mark to the 40:22 mark. How does she make her brush bigger? What is the deal about the two layers (ie. Current layer and Below, Current layer) Also, how come I do not see a red-eye icon on my screen? Would you please which the short clip above and teach me how to do it? Is her version the same as mine? You don't have to watch the whole video.