How to change background on a stock vector image

[Glenn Cheney]

I want to buy a drawing from Shutterstock. It's black scribbles on a white background. I don't want the white background. I want to either color the background or remove the drawing itself and place it elsewhere. Is this possible? How? Or where do I go to get the explanation? I don't even know what this process is called. The drawing is attached. 

[MEB]

Hi @Glenn Cheney,
What's the formats available for that file? If it's all vectors - like PDF, EPS etc- (the lines do look quite clean) they should be independent objects and thus the background can be simply selected and deleted. If it's a raster format (an image) you can use the Erase White Paper filter is Photo to remove the background for example.

[v_kyr]

8 minutes ago, MEB said:

What's the formats available for that file? If it's all vectors - like PDF, EPS etc- (the lines do look quite clean) they should be independent objects and thus the background can be simply selected and deleted.

Well the OP didn't downloaded that the right way, instead just saved a watermarked bigger preview of that file.

• https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/kiss-74736016

That file should be (as indicated on the site) available as EPS too when downloaded via a shutterstock subscription try out (aka Download 10 FREE images now with a risk-free trial ... blabla).

[MEB]

Hi @v_kyr,
I'm aware the image above is just a preview and I believe the OP is also aware of it. She said he wants to buy it, not that already did it.
In any case as said, if available as EPS it should be easy to remove/delete the background.
 

[Glenn Cheney]

Thank you, MEB and v_kyr. After I downloaded a proper EPS, it worked as you said. 

[v_kyr]

2 hours ago, Glenn Cheney said:

Or where do I go to get the explanation? I don't even know what this process is called. The drawing is attached. 

It's easy, you can open the vector representation of that image and then copy/place/size/rearrange it over to another Affinity doc the way you want. - For example let's say you want to place it over onto another ADe doc with a yellow rectangle as a background (or whatever).

NOTE: for the above shown screencapture, I've just vectorized your above shown bitmap image, thus as a result having all vectors here together in just one vector curves layer. - In your case, for the original downloaded EPS vector file, it might instead possibly contain more (a bunch of) curve layers then, which all in all depends on how the author there on shutterstock provides the vector representation of his drawing.