Copy selection - how does it work?

[crealively]

Hello,

I have the following problem because I want to do something in APhoto like in Photoshop and that doesn't work at all.

I have a photo where another photo in a photo album is obscuring the image I scanned. First, I rotated the scanned photo. Then I selected the white area using the selection brush. Now I can't do anything with the selection, I can't move it, etc. The rotated image is still displayed there, but I don't need that (see pic)

In Photoshop it went like this: The selection covers the entire white area, in APhoto the selection on the left and below is missing. Then I moved the selection to the area (fence, see pics) that I want to copy. With Ctrl and Alt pressed you could copy the "fence" and move it to the white area at the same time. There are no layers needed. Of course, you then have to retouch the edges that have arisen, but that is secondary.

In the attach you see some pics about all. The little ones show the steps in Photoshop.

How can I do this in APhoto?

Best wishes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[lepr]

42 minutes ago, crealively said:

How can I do this in APhoto?

Looks like the Patch Tool will do what you need. It's in the group of healing tools that you'll access by long-pressing the Inpainting Brush Tool icon in the vertical Tools bar.

[MEB]

Hi crealively,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Another thing you can try (the output depends on the image but it's worth checking it here) is selecting the yellow part then go to menu Edit > Inpaint. It should fill that area with data from the surrounding areas.

[crealively]

Hello anon2,

thanks for your answer.

The Patch Tool would be really great if the area didn't get too bright, see photo

I've already tried to set something else in the top bar, but it remains so bright.

Of course you can re-expose, but that's not the purpose of the exercise.

Best wishes

[crealively]

Hi MEB,

Wouldn't be bad either, but it fills too randomly. You can't change anything about it. Moving is not possible.

[smadell]

If you simply want to move the selection, you can (i) make the selection; (ii) press Q to invoke the Quick Mask; (iii) choose the Move Tool (or just press V); (iv) move the selection where you want it; (v) press Q again to leave the Quick Mask.

[MEB]

Hi crealively,
In that case try to use the Inpainting Tool directly (no selection required) in an empty layer. Set it to sample from Current Layer & Below. See attached animated gif. Should give you a good start.

[lepr]

25 minutes ago, crealively said:

The Patch Tool would be really great if the area didn't get too bright, see photo

Oops, I forgot the Patch Tool has no option to disable that blending.

[crealively]

@smadell yes its a way to move the selection, but I found another way. Make the selection, click in the lasso tool, move the cursor over the selection. The cursor should turn into a wide cross, then you can move the selection with the left mouse button pressed.

@MEB That works really well.

Anon2's solution wouldn't be bad either, but why is that getting so bright?