Dave_bass5 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 I’ve created a simple composite in Designer on my iPad. A photo of a person wearing glasses. I selected the lens part of the glasses with the pen tool, and have inserted new images to replace the lenses by doing a ‘insert behind’. Simple. I can’t figure out how to do this in Photo. I can do the selection with the pen tool, and even convert it to a selection on a new layer if that’s what I need to do, but then what? Although the Designer version is fine, I was hoping the app that’s supposed to be a competitor to Photoshop would be more cut out to do this. Im sure I’m missing something, but can’t figure it out. Thanks for any tips/help. I’m still very new to these apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 9 hours ago, Dave_bass5 said: I can’t figure out how to do this in Photo. Simple method. Load both photos. (Open and place). Make selection shape on first image (mine is pretty rough, just wanted to show method, but you could refine the selection before outputting). Select reflected image, the second (pixel) layer. Selection shape now relates to selected image. Duplicate selection. Place copied layer above initial image layer. Hide unwanted reflected image layer. Note selections work on pixel layers in photo. So you may need to Rasterize the image. You can play with blend mode too to get a nice reflected effect. IMG_3741.MP4 Dave_bass5 1 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_bass5 Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 Thanks again, as always very helpful. You can also just create a mask from the selection without needing to duplicate and rasterise the layer. The only issue I would have with this method is It’s harder to move the second (top) image around within the selection. I can see how to move the whole selection, and can see how to move just the selection area around the image, so I can reposition it in within the selection, but I then have to move the whole thing back in to pace. With Designer I can scroll the top image around inside the selection without the selection moving if that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_bass5 Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 Just a quick follow up. I’ve found that I can do the same thing in Photo, it’s just the menus are a bit different. Draw selection on background image, set to insert behind, and then place image. Full control over the selection path and contents as with Designer. . DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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