How do I add image dotted lines from photo

[Marie Kihm]

Hello, first time using Affinity Photo which was great fun! And I got the sister inserted into the family photo, however I am pretty much done with the photo edits and I see a dotted edge line from layer right down middle of man in suit. I can't seem to remove it or make it transparent as I am ready to save the photo as a jpeg.

Can anyone assist with the removal of the top to bottom dotted lines? It was many steps and saves ago today and I can't seem to get them to be removed.

Thanks in advance. Marie

DeLammers_Family21.afphoto

[Pšenda]

The dashed line is a consequence of the "girl" layer. If this layer is turned off, the line disappears.
Your mask needs to be expanded (for example by Flood Fill Tool).

Before/After.

 

Edited December 4, 2021 by Pšenda

[Pšenda]

2 hours ago, Marie Kihm said:

And I got the sister inserted into the family photo

I recommend adjusting the color saturation of her skin to make it more consistency with everyone else in the picture.

Edited December 4, 2021 by Pšenda

[carl123]

An alternative method is just to select the girl layer, then use the Erase Brush to delete the line

[Marie Kihm]

Thank you Psenda and Carl123, that erase tool worked great! This is for a friend of mine. There are 12 children in the family and the one daughter was not in the photo that day so I tried to insert her as best I can. The mother just had her 95th birthday! And this is photo will be a Christmas gift for her. 

One more question, can you provide the steps to make the inserted girl's skin tone lighten up? I'm a newbe and almost finished with this! Thanks again. Both are life savers and will make a family very happy this holiday as all these people in photo live scattered. ~Marie

[Pšenda]

20 hours ago, Marie Kihm said:

that erase tool worked great!

I just want to point out that the Flood Fill Tool works with one click, while when erasing with the Erase Tool you have to laboriously erase the entire edge of the mask - even in an area, that is not clearly visible but could be visible when printed.

[Pšenda]

20 hours ago, Marie Kihm said:

One more question, can you provide the steps to make the inserted girl's skin tone lighten up? I'm a newbe and almost finished with this! Thanks again. Both are life savers and will make a family very happy this holiday as all these people in photo live scattered. ~Marie

Group layer "girl" (it is necessary that the subsequent adjustment be applied only to the selected layer and not to the rest of the photo), insert Adjustments (bottom Layers panel) HSL Shift, and Saturation Shift set to -35/-40 (for example).

Before\After.

 

More could be adjusted, but the colors of the whole layer of "girl" (trousers) are beginning to be affected, so the adjustment would only have to be masked on the face/skin.

Edited December 5, 2021 by Pšenda

[Lisbon]

Not sure what is happening, but I don't see any dashed lines.
Zoom in, zoom out and everything is fine.
I'm using windows 10.

[carl123]

3 minutes ago, Lisbon said:

Not sure what is happening, but I don't see any dashed lines.

Are you using Nearest Neighbor for the View Quality in Edit > Preferences > Performance?

[Lisbon]

2 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Are you using Nearest Neighbor for the View Quality in Edit > Preferences > Performance?

Yes.

[carl123]

25 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

More could be adjusted, but the colors of the whole layer of "girl" (trousers) are beginning to be affected, so the adjustment would only have to be masked on the face/skin.

You can use the Colour Picker to sample the face, then just adjust the saturation for that colour range

[carl123]

3 minutes ago, Lisbon said:

Yes.

Do you see the dashed lines if you set it to Bilinear?

[Lisbon]

1 minute ago, carl123 said:

Do you see the dashed lines if you set it to Bilinear?

Hmmmmmm... yes. Now i see.

[Marie Kihm]

Thank you all for the help on this project! Happy Holidays! ~Marie

[Pšenda]

17 hours ago, carl123 said:

You can use the Colour Picker to sample the face, then just adjust the saturation for that colour range

If the HSL shift is intentionally exaggerated, it is clear - that the "girl" layer is not masked correctly, and that it also affects neighboring characters (including their skin, so limiting the color range of HSL will not help).

Therefore, I tried to warn not to overdo it with adjustments, otherwise it would require mask adjustments (which would still like the same for a better result).

[carl123]

38 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

so limiting the color range of HSL will not help).

Sorry, but I have no idea of what you are showing me, why you are showing it to me or how you think what you are showing me is relevant. I am well aware the mask is technically "incorrect" but sampling the face (i.e. limiting the colour range of HSL) and reducing the saturation will have the desired effect

This is what I get when I just sample the face and reduce the saturation a little

 

[Pšenda]

20 minutes ago, carl123 said:

This is what I get when I just sample the face and reduce the saturation a little

Yes, but you also damaged the skin of neighbors persons.

  

But if that was exactly what you wanted to achieve, then I apologize, and my previous post is really completely irrelevant - sorry.