Inpaining brush tool

[Graphix_Guy82]

I have a few questions I was wondering if someone could help me with.  I've been having some trouble with affinity photo and can't figure out the answer to this.

1.  As you can see in the video below, when I am using the inpaintng brush tool inside a selection, when painting over the section that I want to covered, it fills in the area with another area of the picture that's nowhere near the area I want to. I can't figure out why this is happening. All my settings are reset.  

2.  My second question is, in the selected area in the photo provided, on the edge of the photo, the inpainting brush took out what I wanted and replaced it with sky, but left part of it translucent so you can see the checkered board behind it.  This is happened before when using tools like the eraser for me. 

If anybody could help me in any of these questions that would be awesome thank you. 

 

[jmwellborn]

@Graphix_Guy82 welcome!   I am most definitely not an expert at Photo, but  I have found that if I use a very large brush, when using the Inpainting Brush Tool, in areas such as the edge between the sky and the building in your image, since the brush picks up the colors of the pixels under the brush I also get some undesired results.  So for your question 1, have you tried using a smaller brush, inpainting first over the sky portion you wish to clean up, then changing to a smaller size brush and working along the edge of the building?  

Regarding question 2, I couldn’t see anything in your video to show the problem?

Hopefully, others will come to your rescue!

[PaulEC]

Basically the inpainting brush samples from the surrounding area. As jmwellborn says, it is usually better to only inpaint a small area at a time, otherwise you will probably get an unwanted part of the image.

If you try to inpaint near the edge of the image it may well produce a transparent area, as there is nothing for it to sample.

Depending on what you are trying to do, it maybe better to use the healing/patch tools, or the clone brush.

[Graphix_Guy82]

1 hour ago, jmwellborn said:

@Graphix_Guy82 welcome!   I am most definitely not an expert at Photo, but  I have found that if I use a very large brush, when using the Inpainting Brush Tool, in areas such as the edge between the sky and the building in your image, since the brush picks up the colors of the pixels under the brush I also get some undesired results.  So for your question 1, have you tried using a smaller brush, inpainting first over the sky portion you wish to clean up, then changing to a smaller size brush and working along the edge of the building?  

Regarding question 2, I couldn’t see anything in your video to show the problem?

Hopefully, others will come to your rescue!

Thank you for replying to me. I have tried what you said, by decreasing the brush size, but it still copies parts of the building that is outside my selection area. Kind a like what the clone brush tool is supposed to do. 

As for question two of my post, it's kind of hard to see by the photo, but if you zoom in to the top corner of it. You can see the checkerboard background coming through the blue portion. It's like my brush is set to a lower opacity. 

[Graphix_Guy82]

1 hour ago, PaulEC said:

Basically the inpainting brush samples from the surrounding area. As jmwellborn says, it is usually better to only inpaint a small area at a time, otherwise you will probably get an unwanted part of the image.

If you try to inpaint near the edge of the image it may well produce a transparent area, as there is nothing for it to sample.

Depending on what you are trying to do, it maybe better to use the healing/patch tools, or the clone brush.

Thanks I will try the other tools. 

[carl123]

6 minutes ago, Graphix_Guy82 said:

but it still copies parts of the building that is outside my selection area

That is normal.

Your selection area only defines/confines where new pixels will be painted not where they are sampled/copied from

The sampling area can be outside your selected area

[Graphix_Guy82]

Did not know that.

Thank you Carl123

[firstdefence]

Sometimes it’s better to replace a sky than use inpainting.

[Graphix_Guy82]

Thanks, I thought about that, but I had other things in the sky that were kind of tricky to selected for example trees. 

[Cecil]

3 hours ago, carl123 said:

That is normal.

Your selection area only defines/confines where new pixels will be painted not where they are sampled/copied from

The sampling area can be outside your selected area

Is it possible in future to enable sampling area to be confined within selection or beyond programmers or program capabilities.  

[PaulEC]

11 hours ago, Cecil said:

Is it possible in future to enable sampling area to be confined within selection or beyond programmers or program capabilities.  

If you need to define the sampling area it's probably better to use the patch tool instead of inpainting.

[Graphix_Guy82]

19 hours ago, Cecil said:

Is it possible in future to enable sampling area to be confined within selection or beyond programmers or program capabilities.  

I don't even know what that is much less how do you it. Can you explain or are there tutorials to explain this?

[Cecil]

18 minutes ago, Graphix_Guy82 said:

I don't even know what that is much less how do you it. Can you explain or are there tutorials to explain this?

I was replying to carl123 reply “The sampling area can be outside your selected area” to your post.  I wanted to know if they could program sampling area to to be confined within the selected area, in future update.

[Graphix_Guy82]

omg duh, thanks