Poohbear

Thank you all for your valuable advice. I have resolved the problem. Kind regards, Ken

The background was not removed with Affinity and while I can open it it Affinity the ususal Affinity screen showing layers etc does not appear. Thank you for your help

I have a photo that is quite detailed and my ageing fingers are not accurate enough to outline the subject. I used imglarger to remove the background and it did a great job. However, I now want to replace the background with affinity photo 2 but cannot see how to do it. Is it possible to achieve this with affinity please? Kind regards, Ken

Thank you MEB but I did as you suggested but got a drop down advising it could not be done the file could not be found. any other advice please? Ken

Thank you

All my images - hundreds of them - are in Adobe Bridge and I want to transfer them to XnView to enable me to edit in Affinity. Is there a way do this en mass without having to do it one by one? Thank you

Thank you so much for your advice. I have loaded XnView with the intention of using it instead Bridge but iam am having so many problems with it since I upgraded to Catalina. Kind regards

I was using Bridge with PS but have found a work around where I can save Affinity images in Bridge and still see the thumbnail. However, I cannot save as Aphoto but must save as jpg. Is this a problem please? Is there a serious disadvantage with jpg files. Thank you

Thank you all for your invaluable help. kind regards

I have a jpg file and when I save as afphoto the file size diminishes from 2272X1704 to 512X364 Wgy is this please and how can I save to afphoto and retain original size. Thank you

thank you so much for your response and settings info. I will download XnViewMP and go from there

As a 'Photoshop Refugee' I retained Bridge when I changed to Affinity. However, I can only use SAVE and not SAVE AS with Affininy as when selecting save as I cannot see the image in Bridge. As I understand the situation it is better to save with afphoto rather than jpeg but I cannot do this and still see the images. I would be grateful if someone would suggest an alternative to Bridge that will allow save as and still see the image.

Thank you. I am using 1.6 . I have tried blurring after inverting but the blur is in the wrong place - the subject rather than the background. I did rasterise but it had no effect and still the subject is blurred. Any other ideas please? Pooh

I have checked the forum and am doing what everyone says but select inverse does no work from either toolbar or the shortcut. I am trying to blur background. I use the quick selection tool first then refine edge for the hair and click apply. When I use select inverse no ants appear so I can proceed no further. I am sure I am doing something silly but don't know what it is! Thank you

I am continually getting locked out of the forum even though I use the correct password. I have reset the password but still cannot get access. What do yoyiu suggest please?