augustya Posted November 15, 2021 Posted November 15, 2021 Hey Guys, Ever since I have started using Affinity Photo on my Desktop and iPad I have never really delved or looked into this. I am talking about the options that you get when you click on refine things like Border Width, Smooth, Ramp, Feather and even yet know what are these and how does it help ? And they can be used ? If anyone kind soul can help me understand this. Guidance would be highly appreciated ? Quote
Ron P. Posted November 15, 2021 Posted November 15, 2021 From Affinity Photo Help for Refine Selections: Quote Settings The following settings can be adjusted from the dialog: Preview—sets the way your selection and page display. Select from the pop-up menu. Matte Edges—when selected (default), the selection area closely follows image edges. If this option is off, selection doesn't follow image edges which is useful for more accurately refining straight selection edges. Border width—expands the selection by adjusting the width of its border. Drag the slider to set the value. Smooth—determines the curvature of the selection's edge. Drag the slider to set the value. Feather—determines the softness (opacity) of the transition at the edge of the selection. Drag the slider to set the value. Ramp—In areas where there is a gradual transition from opaque to transparent pixels it makes the transition sharper and moves the selection in or out, depending on which direction you drag the slider. Fully opaque and fully transparent pixels are unaffected. https://affinity.help/photo/en-US.lproj/pages/Selections/selections_refine.html This is one of the few explanations in the help file that does explain what's going on. Not really another way to say it. The best way to understand it, create a selection, go into the refine, and start playing with the various adjustments. In the Preview drop-down, change it to one of the other previews, like Black and White. It really allows you to see what each one does. A search of YouTube videos on Refine Selection Affinity Photo Refine Selection Tutorials A tip that I learned for when you are wanting the cleanest possible selection, is to select New Layer or New Layer with Mask from the Output. It does Color Decontamination, where the others do not. jmwellborn 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.5..; Affinity Designer 2.5..; Affinity Publisher 2.5..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD
carl123 Posted November 15, 2021 Posted November 15, 2021 All options explained here.. augustya 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
Granddaddy Posted November 15, 2021 Posted November 15, 2021 Here are some more free tutorials that explain the refine selection process Affinity official tutorial about selection refinementhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M32ieZPHoo ______________ Olivio Sarikas As referenced in the post above, Olivio Sarikas explains the details athttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djED0ni_THg __________ Lenscrafthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qnxSityDyw with a PDF version of the tutorial athttps://lenscraft.co.uk/photo-editing-tutorials/affinity-photo-refine-selection/ _________ InAffinity Refining a selectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPirXgYqqs8 Fixing the Refine Problem (extra white stuff)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-fOz3DzKY0 Improving a refined selectionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtQI2D4PhOo _______ Kris LK Cutting out hair with refine edgeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U05y4Hr7LFk ______________________ Bethany Acorn (iPad) Since you also use an iPad, see Bethany Acorn's "Refine Selection Tool"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xeE87UKG-M ___________________ Affinity Revolution If you really get involved with selecting and extracting, Affinity Revolution has a comprehensive course on making "pixel perfect selections." As they say, making selections is the most difficult thing you can do in photo editing. https://courses.affinityrevolution.com/p/pixel-perfect-selections The course may sound a bit pricey at $40, but it includes some 85 video tutorials. Over the years I've spent that much on several different books about photo editing using a competing product. In that context, the price for the AR course seemed quite reasonable, so I bought it. I downloaded all the videos so I'll have them available, just like the $40 photo-editing books I bought 10 to 20 years ago are still available on my bookshelves, and I still consult them (as when I answered your question about backgrounds yesterday). Quote Affinity Photo 2.5.5 (MSI) and 1.10.6; Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 (MSI) and 1.10.6. Windows 10 Home x64 version 22H2. Dell XPS 8940, 64 GB Ram, Intel Core i7-11700K @ 3.60 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
augustya Posted November 16, 2021 Author Posted November 16, 2021 On 11/15/2021 at 4:40 PM, carl123 said: All options explained here.. @carl123 @Ron P. Hey Guys ! I went through this above Video and it does give an idea on what the Particular Functionality does. But he does not give examples which I would have liked to listen to, in order to understand more correctly. So what he is saying is, Border Width : It basically sets the Border on the Image from where which Affinity Photo will consider it as a Border to make a selection so the key is to keep it as low as possible, so best is to leave it at default which is 10 Smooth : This gives rounded Edges/smooth edges but loses some details. A lot of times I have noticed because of the Small Ears that I have and they are curving inside, I have noticed a lot of time when I make my own selection, I generally face a problem when making selection around the edges, either it, the selection eats in my ear edges or it keeps too much background area in the picture.It often makes it difficult to have a clean selection there in that area, maybe this would help ot there incase if I miss some selection increasing this may give it a kind of rounding effect and hence may not look too obvious. Feather : If it is a Pixelated image where the edges of the image have blocks, steps kind of pixels which have fragmented pixels this can come handy in lower resolution images if Border looks fragmented Ramp : is basically if you have bright borders it can reduce that bright border and help you make the selection of that image ? But I still do not understand when to use it ? This is all my Understanding but I am still looking forward for some examples, if anyone can give me examples that will help me understand better. Quote
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