Masking, Clipping, I'm confused

[TinPianoMan]

After trying to find the solution among the tutorials and getting even more confused, I thought I'd ask here instead.

 

I have an illustration of a dog. It's on a white ground. I would like to create a solid black or white silhouette from this on a transparent ground.

 

I'm sure this is straightforward once I know how, but as I'm not used to working with masks and clipping layers, I'm missing some obvious fundamental and now my brain is mush. :wacko:

 

Hope someone can help. Thanks.

[Affinity Jack]

Good morning TinPianoMan,

 

huuuaaaaa, 06.30 h in Berlin..... :blink:.

It's difficult to answer, because I don't know, what do you do exactly with which software.

So I will answer for Affinity Photo, but Affinity Designer works similar.

 

If the dog is colored and you want it black & white:

Adjustment layer "HSL", and then reduce the saturation to 0

 

If you need more an Illustration effect instead of a photo:

Adjustment layer "threshold"

 

To erase the white background:

activate the original layer

take the color picker and drag it onto the white until the color is chosen

activate this color

go to "selection-select the chosen color"

then "backspace" or for more control click on mask and the whites will be erased and change to transparent

 

Export as a png-file!

Otherwise the tranparent will Change to white.

 

 

Ciao Jack