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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. 
 

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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.

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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. 

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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. 
 

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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.🙂

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Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

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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?

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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?

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