yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Hi, I was wondering what the best way to change black background to white in Affinity Photo 2? The image itself I'm working with is pretty busy, but the background is solid black if that helps. My google searching failed me here haha. Any help would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 Hi @yanksno1 and welcome to the forums. Fastes way is in APhoto Filters -> Color -> Remove Black Matte Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Hmm, trying that and nothing seems to be happening. It's in a pixel layer (I think). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 It depends on the actual image, how the transition from black background to the subject is defined. Can you upload it? 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Yup, here it is. The second time I tried it did seem to be doing something, but not what I wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 8 minutes ago, yanksno1 said: It's in a pixel layer (I think). It's important to know. The Layers panel will tell you. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 not so easy. flood selection tool set tolerance to low value, 5% set „continuous“ set „anti-alias“ click on black background set mode to add click on smaller background areas Invert selection create mask select brush in white, 8px, 80% hardness paint in missing areas 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 5 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: It's important to know. The Layers panel will tell you. Where does show you? Not seeing anything obvious. Sorry for the dumb questions, still learning Affinity Photo coming from Photoshop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 16 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: not so easy. flood selection tool set tolerance to low value, 0-5% set „continuous“ set „anti-alias“ click on black background Invert selection create mask Almost there. I'm at No. 6 and can't find where to Invert selection. The rest is looking good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 CMD-shift-I or context menu 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 25 minutes ago, yanksno1 said: Where does show you? Not seeing anything obvious. Sorry for the dumb questions, still learning Affinity Photo coming from Photoshop. No 'dumb questions'. It is the little icon next to the thumbnail of the layer. The checkerboard pattern means Pixel. Spend some time making different layer types and try to figure out what the little icons mean. Takes for ever. yanksno1 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 minute ago, Old Bruce said: Spend some time making different layer types and try to figure out what the little icons mean. Takes for ever. While learning, the Tooltip you get when hovering over the icon should help. R C-R and yanksno1 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Thanks guys. Think I got to your suggestions, just didn't turn out the way I wanted. Thought it might have been easier since it was a full black background but guess not. At least I learned a few things today. Appreciate your help! walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 What bothers me visually are the missing legs and feet, which are covered by the fillings in the font. The little monk in me wants to build the missing limbs as soon as possible. yanksno1 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 9, 2023 Author Share Posted February 9, 2023 Yeah, I didn't care for that either. Decided to make my own. Simple, but I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 I know you've already worked around the problem, but you can kinda achieve the desired effect quickly by adding the Invert adjustment and then setting the blend range so that only the pure black is affected. It's not perfect, although you could make the "Police Academy" text smoother by making a copy of the layer with the blend range a little less sharp, and masking everything except the text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yanksno1 Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 15 hours ago, Corgi said: I know you've already worked around the problem, but you can kinda achieve the desired effect quickly by adding the Invert adjustment and then setting the blend range so that only the pure black is affected. It's not perfect, although you could make the "Police Academy" text smoother by making a copy of the layer with the blend range a little less sharp, and masking everything except the text. Did you do the edit there? The other things I tired I just didn't like looked the same as your screenshot there. Around the gang, the sharpness around the edges still had some black to it and was kinda rough. Once I found the white background poster, that was obviously the way to go there. I'm def gonna have to go into a more deeper dive with the mask features. Thanks for the suggestion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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