How can I select this object accurately

[Birdy]

hi there.

I can't seem to select this item accurately in Affinity. The Flood select tool cannot workout the edges, and the refinement options don't seem to improve the selection either.
Is there some way I can do this or maybe it's not possible because its difficult for the software to indentify the image edges from the background?

Thanks

Edited November 22, 2020 by Birdy

[carl123]

Use the Selection Brush Tool

A small brush around the inner edges then larger brush to select the rest

[thatGuy]

I'd use flood select on the background, then invert, mask and refine a bit

 

[Birdy]

Thanks for the replies. Thanks @thatguy for the great video.
This is proving to be not as easy as I thought it might be, it's both a science and an art - even something like selecting an image!
I will try to do with with the raw file and follow this video,  maybe with the raw file I can get the edges a bit sharper and defined.




 

[thatGuy]

you can also use the pen tool, for this case with straight edges only it's rather quick as well - however I don't think 100% sharp edges looks very good without more tweaking.

[Chris26]

12 minutes ago, Birdy said:

Thanks for the replies. Thanks @thatguy for the great video.
This is proving to be not as easy as I thought it might be, it's both a science and an art - even something like selecting an image!
I will try to do with with the raw file and follow this video,  maybe with the raw file I can get the edges a bit sharper and defined.




 

I would have thought it would have been much easier to select the pen tool due to its very easy shape, then refine the edges?

[Petar Petrenko]

Have you tried "Fllod Select Tool > Tolerance:"  with small values like 1%, 2%...?

[Birdy]

This is a large part of the problem, not understanding what all these terms mean, and are supposed to do,  like 'tolerance' and 'feather' etc etc the Help section in Affinity is not really that helpful in my opinion of course.