Trouble Removing Background in Affinity Photo 2

[Foodie Design]

I am struggling to understand what I am doing wrong here. I am trying to remove the white background from this photo. I'm using the flood select tool, and everything works properly until I hit "delete" to remove the background, and it removes the photo instead of the background. What am I doing wrong? 

[Komatös]

Hello @Foodie Design and welcome to the forums.

Go to Menu -> Select -> Invert pixel selection. Delete should now work as expected.

[Foodie Design]

@Komatös All that does is delete the photo again. 

 

[Ldina]

I suggest you upload your original AfPhoto file to the forum so people can see your full document, layer structure and what's happening.

[Pšenda]

17 minutes ago, Foodie Design said:

All that does is delete the photo again. 

Pixel layer, not Image layer? If Image layer, then Rasterize. 

[Foodie Design]

@Ldina here it is. I didn't use any extra pixel layers at all. Maybe that doesn't make a difference?

Picture Background.afphoto

[Pšenda]

It is Image layer.

Rastrerize it (right click on item in Layers Panel - Raster and Trim command), Flood Select Tool - select and delete.

Don't forget to set the document background to transparent (Document\Transparent background menu).

P.S. Version 2.6 already performs rasterization automatically.

Edited May 5 by Pšenda

[Foodie Design]

@Pšenda Thank you! That worked wonderfully! I appreciate it!