klumme Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Hi! Affinity Photo has some nice tools for automatically selecting stuff, which can be used to remove a background from a photo of an object, for example. However, in many cases, backgrounds aren't as clearly separated as in the nice tutorials ;) . Grabbing a random example from Google I found this: http://www.schmittfurniture.com/css/1422/SlideShows/Home%20Page/2%20KH%20Casbah%20Sectional.jpg– say I wanted to remove the background and keep only the sofa. I'm just wondering what you usually do in these cases? So far, I've tended to resort to manually drawing a vector path around the object and using that for a selection. Do you think it's worth persisting with the Selection Brush and refinements etc. even for "less-than-optimal" backgrounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 That is a tricky one indeed -- the wood & pillow colors are so similar that the selection brush, even carefully refined, required some manual tweaking. What I did was use the brush, refined as best as I could, & then added back a little of the wood & other tricky areas before deleting the background. Then I used a small, softened erase brush to clean up the excess. Not perfect, but it took about 5 minutes to get something like the attached, a jpeg compressed version with a background fill replacing the wall & cabinetry. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klumme Posted January 22, 2017 Author Share Posted January 22, 2017 Thank you for taking the time to try your hand at the image! While it's a random example from Google, it's quite representative of images that come my way every now and then. Using my usual technique of drawing a vector path for the selection manually, I got the attached result in a bit less than 10 minutes (not even bothering with curves, just lots of straight segments). There are a couple of weird areas due to the example chosen... Anyway, I suspect some practice with the selection brush could get me better results quicker. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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