Dave_bass5 Posted April 8, 2020 Posted April 8, 2020 Is this possible? I just want to cut the moon out of an image and place it on a background image. Easy to do with the pen tool, but my circles aren't great, so I wanted to do it with the ellipse tool. So far I’ve been on this for well over a hour, getting nowhere. I can create a mask in the Selections persona with the Elliptical tool, but that’s not what I wanted to use. Very new to all this. Can’t find any tutorials on line for what be one of the simplest of tasks. Quote
DM1 Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 Just draw the elipse (hold finger on screen for circle). I forgot to rasterise my image so had to include that step. Move the elipse to where your want it. Tap refine. Select output to new layer. Reposition new layer. Done. IMG_3668.MP4 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
Dave_bass5 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Posted April 9, 2020 Thanks very much, again. That’s not quite what I’m asking. I’m fine with using the Elliptical tool as in your video. What I’m looking to do is use the Ellipse tool in the Photo persona to make the selection first. It seems to be easier to fine tune with the Node tool compared to the refine selection tool. Quote
Dave_bass5 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Posted April 9, 2020 Ok, I think I’ve figured out the first past. Use the Ellipse tool to draw the circle, adjust to fit using the handles. Click on the Pen tool and that lets me convert to a selection. Switch to the Selection persona and finish off as you did in the video.for some reason there is a covert to mask option as well but it doesn’t seem to do anything useful in this instance. This seems quite long winded though. With the Pen tool it’s so much faster. Quote
Dave_bass5 Posted April 9, 2020 Author Posted April 9, 2020 Sorry, last post. I figured it out. I can do it all in the photo persona. I didn’t bother fine tuning this, just wanted to post how I ended up doing it IMG_0099.MP4 Quote
DM1 Posted April 9, 2020 Posted April 9, 2020 On 4/9/2020 at 2:35 AM, Dave_bass5 said: I figured it out. I can do it all in the photo persona Useful to know. Thanks.🙂 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/
David Varley Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 Hi, I’m new to Affinity 2 and I am working through turning colour photos into black and white. I have added an ellipse layer and chose Gaussian Blur 300 pix. Now I have a circle around the subject, and I don’t know how I get rid of the circle? Quote
Staff NathanC Posted January 18 Staff Posted January 18 Hi @David Varley welcome to the forums, Is 'Preserve Alpha' perhaps checked on the Gaussian Blur FX applied to the ellipse shape? If it is enabled try toggling this off and then confirm if the shape is blurred. If not, can you share a copy of the .afphoto document? Quote
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