Cleaning bad image shots

[Budriel]

Hi,

 

i have a lot (about 150) product shots of acryl boxes and stuff. All of the are poor photographed with lots of dust an scratches and ugly bottom/background.

One is attached. Is there a way to clean this up with a function of AP? With PS i used the magicwand and a filter lens blur (i hope its correct translated).

 

If there is no way to do this with AP, i have to do this with PS but i like Affinity and want switch.

Maybe there is a cool feature or more that do this job.

 

Thanks for any idea!

 

Budriel

[smadell]

Hi, Budriel...

 

The most obvious choice would be to use the Dust and Scratches filter (from the Filter menu, or as a Live Filter layer). I tried this and found it got rid of the dust and scratches (obviously) but didn't deal with the "ugly bottom" problem.

 

 

The second choice would be to use a method similar to what you did. I chose "Select Sampled Color..." from the Select menu, and played with the slider until the blue was completely selected, but the white-ish areas were not. I then applied a Gaussian blur (which blurred ONLY the blue areas, since the un-selected areas were masked).

 

[Budriel]

Hi smadell,

 

thank you for your tip. Unfortunately the Gaussian blur makes an unsightly conrona effect. I´ll do now this. I duplicate the layer and erase the object on background. Vise versa on forground. I can use the background on all other images.

Normaly i would do this fast in PS but i think this is a good excercise to get better in AP.

 

Cheers!