InPainting Object Move

[Planz]

I am new to Affinity Photo and still learning.

Could someone explain how move an object and have the area it was moved from inpainted.  I'm looking to do something like the content aware move in photoshop.

I know that tool is not available in Affinity, but I saw references that it could be done.  I just don't know how.

Thanks for any help

 

[stokerg]

Hi Planz and Welcome to the Forums,

 

I can think of a couple of ways i can think to do this:

You could select the object you want to move using the Selection brush and then copy and paste into the new location and use the Inpainting brush to remove the original object.

 

Or you could use the Clone tool, to clone the object in the new location and then use the inpainting to remove the original object.

 

[toltec]

Pretty much what stokerg said but

 

I would make a selection, press Ctrl + J to place that selection on a new, independent layer. Hide it momentarily so you can see what you are doing.

 

Select the base layer again (the selection area is already made), then go Edit > Inpaint (the shortcut is Alt + Backspace) to inpaint it.

 

Will probably need a bit of local retouching, depending on the subject.

[Planz]

Thank you.  I've tried both methods and got them to work. 

Not sure why I didn't think of that myself.