Remove background

[gwilensky]

It seems to me Affinity Photo has one glaring omission, and that is background removal. The background erase brush is inadequate when what you want to do is extract a subject from the background. Doing it by creating a selection by hand is possible but unacceptable at a time when this feature is available in many other phot editors already.

[Catshill]

I’d take a look at the Affinity Revolution and Olivio Serakis videos on YouTube 

[RNKLN]

On 5/23/2023 at 7:05 PM, gwilensky said:

at a time when this feature is available in many other phot editors already.

Yes, it is available in many other editors. Here's an example of the results of such a tool. The problem is that very often it removes too much without the option to 'paint back' those parts (it doesn't create a mask). Pretty useless to me.

[MEB]

Hi @gwilensky,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Have you tried to use the Refine Selection button (context toolbar) to help refining the selection? It's a semi-automated (Refine Selection) process that generates a mask (or a new layer with or without mask) which you can later edit if required.

Here's a couple tutorials that may help (note these tuts are for V1 but the process is the same):
- https://player.vimeo.com/video/130974710/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djED0ni_THg