Ideal Flow and Hardness of Paint Brush when you have to Paint Back something in ?

[augustya]

I always get confused between How much Flow ? and How much Hardness to be kept while using the Paint Brush and when you are trying to paint in something which has been deleted while masking or making a selection.. Especially it is something like for e.g. Parts of a Subject which are missed out after you have made a cut out from a selection and that has not come out to be Razor Sharped Edges. (And there is no Mask to it)

So How much Flow and How much Hardness should normally kept for such a scenario when I have to paint back in something.

For e.g. This is a cut out from one of the selection that I made on one the Photos that I clicked and when I made the selection and cut out the final cut out has this blurry areas on the Hand. So If I have to Paint with the Hand color back on to the hand what is considered a good and safe Flow and Hardness ? which would not make the Hand having patches and straps of colour layers if I were to Paint in the Hand colour ?

I dont have the .afphoto file of it and I have not saved the project with a Mask. (Before someone asks me that) I made the cut out and saved the Picture as PNG so now even this image is permanently like this without a mask. I will add another background to it. So in this case there is no white reveals and black conceals situation in this case. The Mask is gone. Hence I am asking How much Flow and How much Hardness should normally kept  ? for such a scenario when I have to paint back in something.

 

[cgidesign]

Sorry, I don't have a rule of thumbs value for hardness and flow but your arm case might benefit from using the mask / selection refine feature of Affinity Photo. It is a bit complicated to understand first but once understood it is one of the really good features.

This answer is just in case you have not yet discovered that refine exists.

Maybe check this video:

 

[augustya]

4 minutes ago, cgidesign said:

Sorry, I don't have a rule of thumbs value for hardness and flow but your arm case might benefit from using the mask / selection refine feature of Affinity Photo. It is a bit complicated to understand first but once understood it is one of the really good features.

This answer is just in case you have not yet discovered that refine exists.

Maybe check this video:

 

I am not asking that. My question is after the selection has been done and the mask has been added and refined. I have deleted the Mask after the Cut Out. Now what can I do ?

What you are saying is the first step, which would have helped had I kept the Mask intact. Did you read properly ? I am saying I did the selection refined it and then only saved the picture after removing the background. What you have suggested is not applicable in the question I have asked.

Please read first !!

[Callum]

On 11/14/2022 at 3:07 PM, augustya said:

I am not asking that. My question is after the selection has been done and the mask has been added and refined. I have deleted the Mask after the Cut Out. Now what can I do ?

What you are saying is the first step, which would have helped had I kept the Mask intact. Did you read properly ? I am saying I did the selection refined it and then only saved the picture after removing the background. What you have suggested is not applicable in the question I have asked.

Please read first !!

Without the mask its pretty much impossible to paint any of your image back in as that data is no longer available in the file. In regards the hardness and flow values you would typically want to use the same values you used when painting areas of the mask out.

Thanks
C