Hinkypunk illustrations Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Hello, I'll be grateful for any help I really struggle to get to grip with a very simple set of editing requirements... I've done a set of watercolour illustrations that I need to digitally cut out and separate from their watercolour paper background, and then save to send of to the printers. I've worked out from YouTube how to use the lasso tool to isolate the image and put in a transparent background but then I'm stuck. I tried pressing 'save as' but that just saved the whole thing including the editing suit??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Hi, if you already isolated the image and removed the paper background, so the Affinity document background is now transparent and you want to save the resulting image with transparency, then use the " File -> Export" menu to export the document as a JPG/PNG bitmap/raster file. In order to preserve the transparency (shine through background) use PNG file format. jmwellborn 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinkypunk illustrations Posted June 23, 2020 Author Share Posted June 23, 2020 I've isolated the image but how do I get a transparent background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaDE Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 CTRL+J will copy the selection to a new layer. Then deselect the original one... Quote Greetings from Germany Micha Please excuse my bad english. I learned it at school over thirty years ago. If you don't use it (regularly), you'll loose it. Windows 10 & iPadOS: Affinity Suite (v1 and v2), all Workbooks (v1, german language), some content-packages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Or invert the selection ctrl>shift>i and hit DEL Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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