Photo - Select Subject

[Bob Sanders]

I was hoping for much better functionality with the 'Select Subject' capability.  I've just tested it on a few images and I've had very poor results on each one.

Apart from being very slow even with the simplest subject I can find the resulting selection is inaccurate to say the least.  I'm sure it's only expected to get you to a starting point but even so I would expect experienced users to despair and go back to the manual process they're already familiar with.

The object selection tool seems better - more accurate and quicker.

Do others have a different experience and I getting something wrong?

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[EmT]

Hi @Bob Sanders

Do you have any examples of your issue?

[Bob Sanders]

Here's a screenshot of the result of waiting five minutes for AP to 'Select Subject'.  I'm running Windows 11 with 16 Gb RAM and plenty of hard drive space.  As you can see the selection is far from perfect and could have been done in seconds with the pen tool.

[carl123]

Can you upload that NEF file to the forum? So we can test to see if it's just your PC or others have the same issue

[Bob Sanders]

Here's another one - a simple jpeg file

[Bob Sanders]

17 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Can you upload that NEF file to the forum? So we can test to see if it's just your PC or others have the same issue

Both the jpeg and the NEF file here.

DSC_0008.NEF

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("App hangs when making a large selection using Object Selection tool or Select Subject on a large image size") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-5182). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[Affinity Info Bot]

An issue raised in this thread ("Select Subject can select the wrong areas when using a Black and White image") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-5265). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.

[EmT]

Hi @Bob Sanders

I have been able to reproduce your issues and have passed them along to the devs for investigation. 

[Bob Sanders]

2 hours ago, EmT said:

Hi @Bob Sanders

I have been able to reproduce your issues and have passed them along to the devs for investigation. 

Good.  I'm pleased if this will help improve the software.  I've been using Affinity Photo for some years now and it's a great editor.

[Affinity Info Bot]

The issue "App hangs when making a large selection using Object Selection tool or Select Subject on a large image size" (REF: AF-5182) has been fixed by the developers in the latest beta build (2.6.0.2984). The fix is planned for inclusion in the next customer release.
Customer beta builds are announced here and you can participate by following these instructions.
If you still experience this problem once you are using that build version (or later) please reply to this thread including @Affinity Info Bot to notify us.