TomHu
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Hi, I'm new to Affinity Photo, so I need to use Help a lot right now. I am accessing it from the Help menu, then choosing the "Affinity Photo Help" option in that menu.
However, the search option in the Help window turns up nothing useful when I search for obvious terms like guides, ruler, grid, etc. Instead I see help topics for other applications. For example, I searched for "guides" in the Help window and got this:
And when I click on the one result it found, I get this:
Basically, nothing. The only way I can find any help topics is to manually find a related topic in the table of contents, which is slow.
Why does the search function in the Help file for Affinity Photo not work? Is this a bug in macOS or the AP help file?
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Whenever I do something like changing the canvas size, the view reverts to "Fit" instead of maintaining the view I was currently using for the screen, which requires me to change the view again each time back to 100%.
Is there a way to turn this off, or set a default view size that is used so I don't have to keep switching it back while working on a file?
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12 hours ago, Callum said:
Hi TomHu,
Welcome to the forums
Could you provide the file in question so I can try and recreate this behaviour?
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Hi Callum, thanks for the welcome!
I just sent you a private message with a link to the photo. Thanks!
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In Photoshop the Fill option has a checkbox that allows you to preserve the transparency of the layer you're filling.
I can't figure out how to do this in Affinity Photo, and haven't been able to find anything in the Help files either. If this kind of thing is possible in Affinity Photo, can you tell me how it's done or point me to a web page that explains it? Thanks!
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I followed this tutorial I found on the Affinity Photo Vimeo page, and did it pretty much exactly like this:
I use the selection brush tool first as well, then use the Refine option to go around the edge to make the selection more accurate and clean it up as much as I can. Although I'm finding Refine very sloppy, see this post from today for more details:
Your method sounds fairly manual, which I'm not adverse to, I've been doing this for many years in Photoshop. But it would take me so much longer to cut out images the way you describe, especially for some of the photos I work on where I need to remove a person from a busy background. I was hoping Affinity Photo had good, or better, tools for cutting out parts of a photo than Photoshop has, but so far I'm finding the opposite. It takes a lot of time to get a good selection, and it's not terribly clean requiring a lot of manual touch-up. But I think for me it's the Refine option in AP that isn't working very well for me, it doesn't seem to find edges very well at all and bleeds the selection over edges into parts of the image I don't want to select. I notice you don't use it in your process, is that why?
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Yikes! Not sure why that video I added to my message above is so big, the original is a lot smaller.
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Hi, I'm pretty new to Affinity Photo after having used Photoshop for nearly 20 years. One thing I'm having a big problem with is getting clean cut-outs. I do this often to remove a person from a background. I watched several tutorials on the Affinity Photo Vimeo page on how to do this. It seemed straightforward until I started doing it myself. I used the Selection Brush to select the area to be cut out, then clicked on Refine. Using the Matte adjustment brush, I go around the edge of the image carefully with a fairly small brush. But even so, the selection always bleeds into the actual photo, so I then have to go back and redo it several times to get a fairly clean line.
Here's an example of what I mean. This short screen capture video shows me tracing around the edge of an image. When I let go, the edge gets closer to where it should be, but then you can see red spilling into the darker areas which requires I go in and remove it.
It takes me so much more time to cut an image out of Affinity Photo than it does in Photoshop. I know this is probably due to learning a new way of doing this, but I spend an hour on an image yesterday and the result was not at all satisfactory. I had to clean up all the edges manually using a brush to carefully go around the edges to clean them all up.
What am I doing wrong? These are the settings I'm using when refining and edge:
I try to use a fairly small brush and go slow to avoid the selection running through edges, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. I don't understand why Photo is just ignoring the obvious edges in the photo and spilling over beyond the edge so much when I stay away from the edge when drawing around it. I followed the Affinity video tutorials, but can't get a clean edge.
Any suggestions or other tutorials that might shed some light on this would be very helpful. I do a LOT of cutting out in Photoshop and would need to do the same in Affinity Photo, but right now it's taking way too long and the results are not nearly as good. I really want to make this work if possible!
Thanks.
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11 hours ago, toltec said:
Was, Matte edges unticked in Refine Selection?
No, "Matte edges" was checked. The image is higher resolution as well. I tried another image yesterday and got the exact same results. This is kind of a big problem for me because I do a lot of this kind of photo work.
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I packed in it with Adobe yesterday! But I was still using Photoshop CS6, never upgraded to their Creative Cloud because their contract was awful. While I was hugely relieved to see that CS6 still worked with macOS Mojave, I know that eventually it won't. So I decided to make the jump to Affinity Photo. I used Adobe Photoshop since Version 2, so it's not an understatement to say that using it is second nature to me. So a bit of a learning curve with Affinity Photo, but I was pleased to see how the app has many of the same keyboard shortcuts and uses similar terminology to PS.
Now I just have to figure out how to get clean cutouts when I remove something from a background, so far I haven't been able to get close to what I can with Photoshop, either because I'm not doing it correctly in Affinity Photo, or I've hit some kind of bug.
Other than that, I've been super impressed with Affinity Photo so far! Will probably get Designer, too.
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Hi, I'm new here and to Affinity Photo!
My first time cutting out a person from the background didn't go so great. I made the background disappear by using a mask. But when I turn the mask off, I see this mess all around the edges of the person I cut out...
Why is this happening, is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I followed this tutorial on Affinity's Vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/channels/affinityphoto/134729670
I'm using an iMac 27 (Late 2012) running macOS Mojave.
How do I turn off borders around layer objects?
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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In Affinity Photo, there are purple borders around all of the objects on each layer. Is there a way to turn them off?
It's kind of hard to design a layout with all those purple boxes all over the screen. I only want to see the borders if I hover over the object, or even better, only if I click on it.
Hope there's a way! Thanks.