luisafer15 Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 I am trying out Affinity Photo intensely to make up my mind before I pay for another year of Photoshop. One thing that I'm not quite liking is the selection tools. Though on the tutorials they look amazing but I find that my selections have jagged edges. After fiddling with refining for a good while and then going to the trusty pen tool I had to manually delete white pixels... while in Photoshop the same selection is perfect with the magic wand. In photoshop I expand my selection by 1px.. I tried the same thing here but my jagged edges remain. I'm attaching the original image, then a zoom of the section after I selected with the pen tool and lastly a zoomed out with my image on a black background where you can see the nasty edges... What am I doing wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted March 13, 2017 Share Posted March 13, 2017 Use the Selection Brush Tool to make your selections Decrease the brush size for tricky areas, where you may select too much of the background On the Selection Brush context toolbar there is a subtract button to remove pixels you accidently select (remember to switch back to add when you want to add to the selection) Once your selection is completed, hit the Refine Button and set the Feather to about 0.5px Export the output as a Mask, then add a black Fill Layer below your layer and see if that looks better Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisafer15 Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 I did my selection like that, but didn't output as a mask.. I'll try the refine and feather. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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