When I move pictures it leaves blurry residue behind

[Bynah]

In Affinity Photo I am working on a hand lettered menu. When I lasso words and move them it leaves behind a dirty residue. I have to erase that and then the words I move lose some of their fullness. So I have to select them and fill them in again with a paintbrush. This has only been happening recently and is very time consuming and disturbing. Any ideas?

[NotMyFault]

Hi,

when the selection tool is active,  check your "feather" settings, and reduce them as far as possible. Feather uses transparency at the edge pixels, which might explain the issue.

 

[Bynah]

Hi there, I did notice it was turned up to 20 so I reduced it all the way down but it didn't change anything!

[Ron P.]

Have you tried using the Selection Brush instead of the lasso or a selection marquis? I played around and found the Selection Brush to work better, especially since the color and contrast between your letters and background is good.

1. Use the Selection Brush to select each letter or word, by clicking inside them. It starts out with New, then after the first selection automatically changes to Add.
2. Then go to the Refine Selection. I unchecked the Matte box. You can make any adjustments if needed.
3. At the bottom, the drop-down menu, set it to either one of the 2 last choices, New Layer or New Layer with Mask. I just used New Layer. Why? Because those two options use Color Decontamination, where the others do not.
4. Now you can move them around without the smearing and smudging.