ORJ Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 When using clipart and designs it is often essential that the background of an image is transparent. In Affinity Photo there is a stick to make backgrouds transparent, but for this to be really useful one would like to apply it on carefully made selections. I have not found any entry in the help files to assist in this. I hope that some o you experienced users may give me a tip on how to achieve transparent backgrounds of cliparts etc. Thanking you in advance, Örjan Widegren, Sweden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JokeRat Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 Hi Örjan, I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. Do you mean when you export the image/clipart? (you have to be sure to export in the right filetype. PNG works fine if you wanna use it in the web) Or do you mean you have an existing vectorfile that has a background you don't wanna include? In that case you should be able to delete the unwanted background by selecting it and then hit 'delete'. Do you perhabs have an example for a clipart you want to have without background? It would be easier to help you along. :) Cheers, Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ORJ Posted December 23, 2016 Author Share Posted December 23, 2016 Hi Örjan, I'm not sure if I understand your question correctly. Do you mean when you export the image/clipart? (you have to be sure to export in the right filetype. PNG works fine if you wanna use it in the web) Or do you mean you have an existing vectorfile that has a background you don't wanna include? In that case you should be able to delete the unwanted background by selecting it and then hit 'delete'. Do you perhabs have an example for a clipart you want to have without background? It would be easier to help you along. :) Cheers, Jay Thank you so much for replying. Having had a deeper look in the help files I do feel embarrassed for making such a stupid question. I realize that the simplest way to create a transrparent background around a clip art is to use the flood erase. If you have a more complicated selection you can inverse the selection and make a mask. Örjan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JokeRat Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Hej Örjan, there are no stupid questions. But I'm glad you could help yourself, that's always the best help. :) Keep up the creative flow! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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