JEREMY BRISTOW Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Please help me. I am new to Affinity and to adjusting photographs. I would like to isolate faces of friends of mine from the the backgrounds in their photos. The isolated faces will then be given to a ceramic screen printer so that they can be made into transfers an put onto mugs and a teapot. I guess I need to select a layer and choose a tool that will paint over the person's face and then press something to just isolate just the face. I would then like to hand of a 8cm by 8cm size file with the face on. This is for someone's birthday. Thank you. Jeremy Bristow I will attach a picture of one of my friends. I just need his face. The second attachment shows the end result that I am looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted March 2, 2017 Staff Share Posted March 2, 2017 Hi Jeremy, Welcome to the forums. You can use the selection tools to select your subject, then invert the selection and press delete to remove the background or create a Mask. Take a look at these videos we have on these tools. Making a Selection Cutting Out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEREMY BRISTOW Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 Thank you Lee D, I can only guess at what inverting means but am sure I will learn soon. I will watch the videos and then let you know how I got on. Jeremy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEREMY BRISTOW Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 I am still having real trouble. I have watched both videos that Lee D recommended and have several problems. 1 I am having difficulty stopping the selection tool spreading all over the rest of the photograph (the one that I sent earlier) 2 Even when I think I have got it I dont have the same mask icon on the right hand side of my screen, as is shown in the "cutting out' video. I try to use a similar looking button in the top middle, but nothing happens. 3 The cutting out video suggests i export the end result as a png or a tiff. The people who I am trying to send the results to, have asked for a jpeg. ARRRRHHHHGGGHHHHH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEREMY BRISTOW Posted March 2, 2017 Author Share Posted March 2, 2017 If you can see this photograph. I don't have these on the right hand side of my Infinity screen. How do I find them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 No photo showing so it is hard to know what is & isn't showing for you. The mask icon button in the video is at the bottom of the Layers panel, which is one of the "Studio" panels. If you do not see a Layers panel, go to the View menu > Studio & from the pop-out submenu enable it. If you export to JPEG (easily done by selecting that tab from the Export window) you will end up with a background, probably white, because the JPEG format does not support transparency. That is why in the video the file exported to PNG or TIFF. Those formats support transparency so the background can be clear. christovw66 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 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...
JEREMY BRISTOW Posted March 3, 2017 Author Share Posted March 3, 2017 Thank R C-R and Lee D, With your encouragement and advice I preserved and learnt how to do it. All the best Jeremy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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