spaggi Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Hi, I'm completely new to Affinity Designer taking my first steps. Apology that this is a very basic question Using AD and the select brush, I did a cutout of some image which had a black background. Now, the edges of the cutout are very pixelated and uneven. What would be your approaches to get these edges as crisp as possible? Thanks a lot, your help is much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted February 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 13, 2019 Hi spaggi and Welcome to the Forums, With the Selection Brush selected, once you've made your selection, along the top toolbar is an option to Refine. Click this and you'll be able to refine the selection and tidy up the edges. I'd suggest watching this video for information on Refine https://vimeo.com/130974710 The video is for Affinity Photo but it works the same as the refine option in Designer spaggi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Hi, spaggi, I did try and make the selection smoother, but wasn't very happy w. the results. So I made a vector object, and placed the bitmap in that to give a smooth edge. Then remade the backgroun and shadow. spaggi and Alfred 1 1 Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaggi Posted February 13, 2019 Author Share Posted February 13, 2019 Wow, these are some great responses. @gdenby this looks amazing. I'll try to replicate this based on what you wrote. Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.