lettergothic Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I have a simple operation that I can do all day long in Photoshop but I cannot ferret out how to do it in AD or AP. The help file is, sadly, of absolutely no help, as usual. :-( I have a jpg image of a raggedy-edge piece of antique paper. I want the white bg. gone so I have the irregular paper edges on a transparent bg.. In Phshp, I would select the white bg with the (tolerance-adjusted) magic wand, delete it and save the image as a transparent PNG (or TIF). But, there's no wand in AD or AF (that I can find) and the help file doesn't describe how to do this simple operation with another tool (that I can find/figure out). Can anyone help? Thanks! lettergothic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Affinity Designer does not have one but in Affinity Photo look for the Flood Select Tool in the Photo Persona. It's icon looks like a wand & the default shortcut for it is W (for wand), like in Photoshop. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 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...
lettergothic Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 Thanks for responding! I tried that tool but no matter how I adjusted the tolerance (down to 1%) it didn't make any diff. in what it selected. It selected way too much. This is an antique, very beige, yellowed piece of paper, very different from the white jpg bg. Yet, the tool still selected lots of the interior of the "yellow" document—which has nothing close to white in it. I'm just frustrated; it's so easy with the wand. Any ideas? Thanks! lettergothic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do, but if you have an image of yellowed paper on a white background, and you want to erase the background, you could try Filters->Colors->Erase White Paper. If that doesn't work, can you attach a copy of it here for us to look at? Edit: Also, make sure you have Document->Transparent Background selected. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 Impossible to tell really, without seeing the image but if it selected lots of the interior, make sure Contiguous is ticked. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 2 hours ago, toltec said: make sure Contiguous is ticked. Not ticked, perhaps? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Not ticked, perhaps? Yes ticked. That way it won't select the similar colours inside the image. The OP said "the tool still selected lots of the interior of the "yellow" document" With Contiguous ticked, it only selects pixels (of a similar colour) that touch Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 9, 2018 Share Posted June 9, 2018 Ah. Sorry, toltec; must be time to go to bed. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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