Bishan Singh Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 how to remove background in affinity designer? or Can we use pen tool for selection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 3, 2017 Staff Share Posted March 3, 2017 Hi Bishan Singh, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) You didn't specify what type of background you are dealing with: it's a photographic background or a solid colour you want to make transparent? I'm assuming it's a photographic one from the tags of this thread. If so switch to Pixel Persona - menu Affinity Designer ▸ Pixel Persona (mac) or File ▸ Personas ▸ Pixel (windows) - and follow this video tutorial. Although the video is for Affinity Photo the tools and process is the same in Affinity Designer. It helps you create a mask to hide the background. You can then export the image without background as a PNG or TIFF as explained in the video or "merge" the image layer and the mask so they become just a single layer. To do this right-click the image layer (which contains the mask) in the Layers panel and select Rasterise.... Although you can use the Pen Tool to create a path that can be converted to a selection in Affinity Photo (pressing the Selection button in the context toolbar), this option/button is not available in Affinity Designer. SerpentEagle 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christovw66 Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 Another informative response MEB. How would I go about (in AD, on a Mac) getting rid of a background by making it 'invisible' as you said above? Thanks in advance MEB. -Christo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 ... and follow this video tutorial. It looks as though you forgot to include the link, Miguel! ;) Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted March 5, 2017 Staff Share Posted March 5, 2017 :ph34r: I did forget the link... I'm sorry. Post corrected. Thanks Alfred. Alfred 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bell Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 link still broken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hi Patrick Bell, That post and video are from more than two years ago. There was quite a few changes to the program since then and so any outdated videos were removed from Vimeo. There are various tutorials on YouTube explaining how to remove backgrounds in Affinity. If you give us more details on the type of image you are working with (solid background/photographic background etc) we may be able to help you better. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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