Problem with pixel to vector see pic attached

[Paul240z]

I’m new to the forum so hi everyone, hope you are safe and well.

I’m a complete newbie to the affinity designer software which I’ll be using to try and create tee shirt designs, so usually designs with a transparent BG. 

I've been watching lots of tutorial videos and came across one for Image to vector conversion that used “ online-converting “ website.

I uploaded a JPEG image of a sofa to the site and converted it to SVG.

When I open the SVG to my affinity doc ( I’d created a new transparent BG document ) I get large black, page like border around the new vector image and I don’t know how to get rid of it.

See attached pic.

I can drag the SVG image around and I can see the sofa part of the image is transparent and looks fine,  it’s the black border that I don’t want.

if I can get this to work it’ll be a great fix for me as the curves and nodes method of tracing around an image to make vectors I find very difficult.

If anyone can point me in the right direction, it will be very much appreciated.

Many Thanks

Paul

[wonderings]

you cannot select the black box/frame part and just hit delete? Or are you saying it is grouped with the Sofa? If grouped you can go to Layer>ungroup and see if it lets you then delete that. You could also try double clicking on the part you want to remove, sometimes that goes into the grouped element and lets you remove things as well. 

[Wosven]

Hi,

You've embedded the document, try to open if directly in designer to select the nodes of the black part you want to delete.

[Paul240z]

Hi yes it does say embedded in brackets in the layer title.

I tried what you suggested, used the move tool to select it, but as soon as I click again on the screen to drag and highlight the nodes on the black surround of the image, it becomes unselected?

I’ve tried just using the move tool to drag and capture where the left side of the black nodes would be and that doesn’t work either?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Paul

[Paul240z]

No joy with that either wonderings

cheers

[PixelPest]

3 minutes ago, Paul240z said:

 used the move tool to select it,

Try the "Node"-tool (shortcut "A") instead.

[Move Along People]

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[Paul240z]

Thank you Haakoo, that’s done the trick. 

Thanks to Wosven too, I’m not sure why that didn’t work first time from your suggestion, I’ll put it down to my newbieness.

Much appreciated guys, like a weights been lifted from my shoulders.

Cheers Paul