How To Remove/Replace Sections In An Image

[2112st]

I recently acquired an M3 MacBook Pro and I've been teaching myself Affinity Photo; I was using Photoshop CS6 on an older Mac. Check out the image below. In Photoshop, I would use the pen tool to select the light blue sections and replace them with the background colors by using the Paste Into function. I've been having difficulty trying to figure out how to do this in Affinity Photo and so far, I haven't come across anything in the video tutorials that can show me how to do this type of clean-up. Can you folks help? Thanks. 🙂

[nickbatz]

Does Select Sampled Color (under the Select menu) work for you?

[2112st]

Just now, nickbatz said:

Does Select Sampled Color (under the Select menu) work for you?

I haven't tried that yet, but I can give it a go. How can I select a section of the background from a similar document and paste it into a selected section? I would prefer something like that, if possible.

[thomaso]

55 minutes ago, 2112st said:

How can I select a section of the background from a similar document and paste it into a selected section?

The workflow to create a selection depends on the image content. If its more or less one colour you can use the mentioned menu command or the Flood Select Tool for instance. Once you created the selection you can turn this into a mask (click on the 'mask' icon at the Layers Panel's bottom) and use this mask layer to limit the new content to the selection borders.

[carl123]

1 hour ago, 2112st said:

I would use the pen tool to select the light blue sections and replace them with the background colors by using the Paste Into function.

In Affinity, after using the Pen tool use the "Paste Inside" function under the Edit menu

[2112st]

9 minutes ago, carl123 said:

In Affinity, after using the Pen tool use the "Paste Inside" function under the Edit menu

...except that when I do that, I can't move the section I pasted into the position I want.

[2112st]

carl123, here's the section I pasted, indicated by the square. Again, in Photoshop, I was able to move the segment I pasted into the postion I wanted in the selection I made. I can't do it here.

[carl123]

If you used the Pen tool to make a selection you should be seeing a new curve layer which is what you have/need selected when you paste inside

I am not seeing a curve layer in your layers panel

You appear to have pasted inside your Brightness/ Contrast Adjustment Layer

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, 2112st said:

here's the section I pasted, indicated by the square. Again, in Photoshop, I was able to move the segment I pasted into the postion I wanted in the selection I made. I can't do it here.

In addition to the missing curve layer (vector) and the odd position in the layers hierarchy: You have a small pixel selection marquee (running ants) activated AND the "square" background layer selected. If you now move the current selection then only the part inside the selection marquee (= active bounding box in portrait format) gets moved, not the entire "square" (not highlighted bounding box in slightly landscape format). To move the entire "square" you need to deselect the pixel selection (Cmd-D) and get the entire "square" bounding box activated (= with handles).