Daniel Finch Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Hello, I'd like to mask out this image so that the yellow, orange and red icons are only showing--no background. Please watch this video and help me as I'm a newbie. ScreenFlow.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Hi, Mark, I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to A Photo, but here are 2 things to try. Make the selection brush smaller, and turn on snap to edges. That should grab contiguous areas of the flat colors. Alternatively, use the flood selection tool, set it to a small tolerance, maybe 2%, and turn off contiguous. That should pick out any area in the image w. the sampled colors. Daniel Finch 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...
AffinityJules Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Select CHANNELS and view the COMPOSITE RED/GREEN/BLUE CHANNELS. Select the channel which gives the best contrast - in this example I used RED CHANNEL. I used the FLOOD SELECT TOOL and dragged it to the right (which increases tolerance) until I had a reasonable selection. You will see marching ants on all parts selected. I then switched to the SELECTION BRUSH TOOL, made the brush size small and selected all the parts the FLOOD FILL missed. Copy & paste the selection to a new layer (this will happen automatically). Note: You will see that there are spaces between the coloured parts where the font was ( your example didn't have them so you will have to worry about that). Daniel Finch 1 Quote Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. These are not my own words but I sure like this quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 To select all the darker orange colors at once, "Selection > Colorarea > Red tones" should detect just those. Daniel Finch 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutchshader Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 only used the flood select tool set to add 20190425_141104.mp4 Daniel Finch 1 Quote intel core i5, 16GB 128Gb ssd win10 Pro Huion new 1060plus. philips 272p 2560x1440px on intel HD2500 onboard graphics Razer Tartarus Chroma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Finch Posted April 25, 2019 Author Share Posted April 25, 2019 Managed to do it with your help! Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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