Selection question

[Teri Frenette]

I tried to select a flower with pedals. No matter how often I inverted the selection, it was never clean and precisely followed the edges of the pedals. I must be missing something.

[DM1]

Can you post a screen recording of your workflow. If others see what you are doing they may be able to offers suggestions for improvements. 

[Callum]

Hi Teri Frenette,

Welcome to the forums

Please could you try refining your selection by following the below tutorial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXKEqOMK-bo

Thanks

 

Callum

[Teri Frenette]

Thank you for your response. I hope I am doing this right. This is a screenshot from my struggle with my selection. I am doing it without problems in Photoshop elements. There must be an easy solution in Affinity photo on my iPad.

[DM1]

You could zoom in  reduce brush size and use add/subtract to push/pull selection to edges. Then use the refine Selection tool. 

[Teri Frenette]

Thank you so much, it sounds like a good idea. Will try it!

[Teri Frenette]

Zooming in made it easier but it still took a lot of inverting in and out and refining. I wasn ‘t able to do a very accurate selection. There must be a better way. All the selection tutorials show very easy selections. 

[PaulEC]

19 minutes ago, Teri Frenette said:

All the selection tutorials show very easy selections. 

I'm sure most people who make tutorials choose examples which make it look easy!

[DM1]

Sometimes it helps to increase contrast or even make selection on a colour channel that offers higher contrast such as red channel.  Attach your original image and see if anyway can make a decent selection and can then show how it was done.