Angelos58 Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 How can I change the sharpness of edges of a selection? And how to blending the edges of a selection with new background? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 When you choose one of the selection tools, you should have a Context menu at the bottom of the screen with a Feathering option. Set that before making your selection. Angelos58 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 12 hours ago, Angelos58 said: And how to blending the edges of a selection with new background? There are two filters that can help remove the dark or light aura that sometimes shows around the selection when a new background layer is added. These are the Remove Black Matte and Remove White Matte filters. It helps blend the image to new background by reducing the darker (or lighter) pixels around the edges of the selection. Angelos58 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 5 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Unfortunately these filters work by reducing opacity globally, not only at edges. This could lead to issues when you don’t have a fully opaque backfill layer. Are you sure? The help file states that it identifies semi transparent pixels around the edges of a selection but I’ve never really checked to see if other areas are effected. Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 30 minutes ago, DM1 said: Are you sure? The help file states that it identifies semi transparent pixels around the edges of a selection but I’ve never really checked to see if other areas are effected. Seems you are correct. I mixed this up with "erase white paper". Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelos58 Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 8 hours ago, DM1 said: There are two filters that can help remove the dark or light aura that sometimes shows around the selection when a new background layer is added. These are the Remove Black Matte and Remove White Matte filters. It helps blend the image to new background by reducing the darker (or lighter) pixels around the edges of the selection. Thank you, very very much. DM1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelos58 Posted December 19, 2021 Author Share Posted December 19, 2021 12 hours ago, DM1 said: There are two filters that can help remove the dark or light aura that sometimes shows around the selection when a new background layer is added. These are the Remove Black Matte and Remove White Matte filters. It helps blend the image to new background by reducing the darker (or lighter) pixels around the edges of the selection. I’m very very sorry but don’t understand how to use the two filters. I created a mask and under the masl level i put a new fill color layer, but when i apply filter remove, doesn’t happen. Or if it happens then i lose my level with mask and i have only a single raster level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 18 hours ago, Angelos58 said: I’m very very sorry but don’t understand how to use the two filters The filters work on 'Selection' edges in pixel layers not mask layers. Try outputting your selection as a 'new' layer, ( no mask), then apply the filter to that new pixel layer. The effect should then be evident. If still having an issue, do you have a sample project that you could attach? Angelos58 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelos58 Posted December 20, 2021 Author Share Posted December 20, 2021 3 hours ago, DM1 said: The filters work on 'Selection' edges in pixel layers not mask layers. Try outputting your selection as a 'new' layer, ( no mask), then apply the filter to that new pixel layer. The effect should then be evident. If still having an issue, do you have a sample project that you could attach? Thank you. After applying the filter is it live or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted December 20, 2021 Share Posted December 20, 2021 17 minutes ago, Angelos58 said: Thank you. After applying the filter is it live or not? Not live, but you can simply undo if you don’t like the effect. Angelos58 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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