#Affinity photo erase background how to#

Now you can also easily add and remove sections. So you can kind of brush over this like that and you can see it does a much better job. So one thing you can do is make the circle fairly large and with the mat selected here if you simply highlight in an area it's going to kind of reassess that area and try to bring more subject in and get rid of more background. Let's move this over here and now I can go in and use a variety of tools to refine things even further. It's going to tint it red and I can really clearly see what it is I have selected. Then what's going to happen is it's going to change the background to this red color. Once this is pretty good I can go to the next stage which is Refine. Here's another area that I can bring into the subject. Then I want to check the entire outline of the subject here to see how well I'm doing. If I want to remove an area I hold the Option key down and then click and drag in an area. I can make the circle a lot smaller for grabbing areas like this or along the rim of the glasses like that. So I'm going to shrink the circle here quite a bit and anywhere I click and drag it's going to try to add that, snapping to the edges like before. You can see here where it needs adjustment. You can use Command + or you can use two fingers on the trackpad to zoom in. Now the first level of adjustments you can do using the same tool. There's a lot that needs to be adjusted but it's a good start. In a fraction of the time I have the whole subject selected. I don't have to mess with the larger area of the background. So I'm just going to just click and drag here to select the subject and you can see it quickly selects the subject. I think it's easier to cut the background out by selecting the subject first. It's easy to invert the selection on just about any graphics tool. Now I'm going to use Command D to deselect and actually do the opposite. Then you can do the same thing on this side and with Snapping On it quickly snaps and gives you a rough approximation of where the subject is against the background. You can see it's taking a lot of the arm right there and that's fine because we'll refine it later. Now you want to make sure you have Snap to Edges turned on so that as you get close to the subject it snaps to the edge of the subject.

It's easier if you use the right and left square bracket keys on your keyboard to quickly make the brush larger.

What you want to do is head to something larger and then you can see the circle get larger. So if I actually draw with it it's going to be hard to select the whole background. So select that and then make sure you have the mode set to Add and then the width is going to be the size of this little circle here where you're selecting. One is to try to remove the background using this brush tool right here. So say you want to remove the background from a photo and the tool you want to use is Affinity Photo to do this. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters.

#Affinity photo erase background how to#

Let me show you how to remove the background from a photo using Affinity Photo. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.