AdamStanislav Posted November 23, 2021 Posted November 23, 2021 I have been playing with Affinity Photo that I bought yesterday, and produced a mask of the foreground of an image but wanted to be able to refine it more, so I saved the selection to a channel (whatever that means). I reversed the selection, deleted the background, added a layer below the image and flooded it with a color. Instantly I noticed there were a few leaks, so I clicked on the selection menu but saw no option to load the selection from whatever the channel it was saved to before. So, how do I load a selection from a channel? I should add that I was able to get back with a bunch of Ctrl-Z presses and then saved the selection to a file. But if I had not, I would be very frustrated right now, so I would like to know how to load it from a channel for future reference. Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 23, 2021 Posted November 23, 2021 20 minutes ago, AdamStanislav said: So, how do I load a selection from a channel? Right click on the Spare Channel you made. Choose Load to selection. Edit to make clear: Use the Channels Panel, it is by default at the bottom of the Right Studio. AdamStanislav 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
AdamStanislav Posted November 24, 2021 Author Posted November 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: Right click on the Spare Channel you made. Choose Load to selection. Edit to make clear: Use the Channels Panel, it is by default at the bottom of the Right Studio. Thank you so much. Now that I have done so, I can see the mask itself, and I can see some gray areas in it. Is there a way to make them white? I mean, without having to paint over them, as in just applying some effect that would turn everything above a certain level of gray into white? Quote
AdamStanislav Posted November 25, 2021 Author Posted November 25, 2021 Now I have a new problem. When I click on refine (talking about a selection), I carefully paint to select sections of the image that need to be selected. I do it with the image zoomed in. When I am satisfied, I scroll to a different part of the image (e.g., to the left or up) and paint overt areas that need to be selected. Then I scroll back to where I started originally and all that work is gone! Everything I painted over to be in the foreground is now in the background, and even something that was in the foreground to start with has been turned into the background. How do I prevent this? I have been trying this for two days now, and the software does whatever it wants. Once I have told it to make something the foreground, I want it to stay in the foreground! Quote
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