Overlooked Selection Technique in Affinity Photo
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- Опубліковано 15 гру 2021
- Let me show you how to use the simple selection tools in Affinity Photo to create complex selections. By understanding how to use Affinity Photo’s selection tools and their features, you can create amazingly detailed and accurate selections.
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Robin Whalley is the best affinity photo tutor on UA-cam. ❤❤❤
We love you Robin!
Thank you. That's much appreciated.
*I agree totally*
Robin you are so good at this you should probably do it for A living there’s not many people on UA-cam who can explain something so clearly and so easy to follow I truly appreciate your time as I am a bit of a numpty when it come to tech thank you very much
Thanks Andy. To clear up one point though, this is what I do for a living so I'm pleased you think it's what I should be doing. I make my money through my photography, and the books and courses that I sell.
Less that 5 minutes and you've elegantly solved the most vexing problem in all photo editing. A zillion thanks!!
Glad it helped! Thank you.
I've just switched from Adobe to Affinity products after more than 30 years, so your tutorials are a godsend!
Great. I'm about to do the same but am not yet entirely decided.I just downloaded the trial version and check.
Thank you. At the risk of sounding a little pushy, you might want to take a look at my Affinity Photo books. I think they will help you. I noticed you commented on a couple of selection based videos so if you have a specific interest in that my latest book is How To Select It lenscraft.co.uk/project/how-to-select-it-book/
@@RobinWhalley Thanks. I do a *lot* of cutouts of figures from their background, and in later versions of Photoshop “Select subject” was a very useful tool to speed up starting the jobs, but of course Affinity doesn’t have that, so I’m having to remind myself of what I used to do!
@@RobinWhalley I just bought and downloaded the Kindle version. Looks good 👍
This man has the uncanny ability to make me believe in myself after watching one of his videos. Robin, thank you for existing.
Thank you so much. If I can help people achieve more with their software, I've met my goal.
Splendid, succinct and incredibly useful. You are so good at synthesising everything into a concise nugget of excellence.
Glad you think so! Thank you. Now I just need to work out how to let everyone know 😀
Excellent!! Clear, concise and very useful - many thanks.
Thank you. It's always good to know that I'm helping.
Superb tutorial. Thank you for your time in making this and other software so easy to understand.
You're very welcome! Thank you.
Very helpful hints and easily followed. You have improved your presentation over the years and are now at the top of your game, in my opinion, and I watch a LOT of videos. Thanks again for allowing free access to some of your teachings.
Thank you. I'm glad you like the video but I wouldn't say that I'm at the top of my game. I have so many ideas that I want to try to improve the videos. It is reassuring to know that you think I've improved though.
Thanks Robin, some really useful insight into improving selection using tools in ways that I was not aware of
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Excellent tutorial. You have just saved me so much time when making selections. Thank you.
That's great to hear. Thank you.
Very well explained
Thanks. I’m pleased you liked it.
Robin, I'm a new Affinity Photo user, and have just found your channel - pure gold! Subscribed instantly. Thanks a million!
Thank you. I'm glad that you found me and like my videos.
There are so many different videos on this, but mad respect to you for making this with so many details - it really sets a different standard for editing quality
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Robin, the continuous tick option is a game changer for me.
Thank you so much for another great video and have a very Merry Christmas.
Best wishes.
Paul
That's great to hear. It's suprising how easy it is to overlook something so simple but which can change everything. I wish you a Merry Christmas also.
Great and simple technique. This is what I have been looking for so long. Thanks. 👍👍👍. I appreciate all the selfless tutors like you.
Glad it was helpful and you're very welcome. It's nice to know you appreciate the effort.
@@RobinWhalley My pleasure.
Great demonstration , thanks Robin
Thank you. I'm pleased you liked it.
I have been using Affinity Photo for a couple of years now and I had yet to discover many of the unique steps your videos cover. Thank you for helping me make my photos what I always hoped they would be.
You are very welcome. Thank you.
Far & away the best discussion I've EVER come across, in relation to ANY software program, for dealing with "problem skies", Robin. Thanks a million. It might amuse you to know that I got talked into trialling literally dozens of different programs, a while back. So when I "dis" other software programs like that, I'm not just talking about PhotoShop!
Thank you. It's good to know that my efforts are appreciated.
Brilliant!! Cleared up a lot of questions for me. Thank You!
Glad it was helpful. Thank you.
Great tutorial as always Robin. Thanks
My pleasure! Thank you.
youve made wonderful videos, they've inspired me to pick up skills in photo editing that ive been sitting on for years,
Thank you. That's wonderful to hear. I hope you're enjoying your editing.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.
Great work. Top notch explanations. Thanks.👍
Thanks. It's great to hear you liked it.
Thankyou this is incredibly useful info, I was getting frustrated and thinking I was at fault when trying to make the selection using one tool. Now I know it's not that straight forward and other options help finish the job. Cheers Robin, most helpful.
I'm so glad to hear that it helped you. Thank you.
A very good clearly described tutorial, it has show me how to improve my selections, thank you
You are welcome. I’m pleased it’s helped.
Very informative. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you
Great Video Robin, lots of great ideas, thanks for sharing.
You are welcome and I'm glad you liked it! Thank you.
Thank you so much. Your video just what I needed!
That's great to hear. Thank you.
Learned quite a lot from this....thank you very much!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
What a fantastic tutorial!
Glad you think so. Thank you.
Brilliant. Thanks Robin
You're very welcome.
You have just solved one of major problems thank you
You are very welcome. I’m pleased to have helped.
Absolutely excellent! Really appreciate this video. Just when I thought it couldn't do something PS does, I discover it probably does it better.
Thanks. There's a lot that Affinity Photo can do that's often hidden away.
Great video - nice approach and very helpful
Many thanks.
There is always something I didn't know or have forgotten --- thanks again.
You're welcome. Thank you.
You are so good!! Thank you!!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Amazing video. Thank you, sir!
My pleasure. Thank you
This took my knowledge of selection tools to the next level. Extremely valuable!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
@@RobinWhalley I've used Affinity and all it's fiddly buttons for about 5 years, and have watched nearly all of the serif tutorials. Despite this history, your video illuminated features I did not know about and helped me with a difficult selection. I'm about to watch more of your videos!
Richard Blada
Thank you. I hope that they help.
amazing!
great tips!
Thanks. Great to hear.
Exactly what I needed.
Thank you
Robin too many videos show how to select a simple object against a simple background. This video is such a help. THANK YOU!
I'm glad that it's helped you. Thank you
Fantastic tutorial
Glad you think so. Thanks
Excellent, thanks so much!
You're very welcome!
brilliant, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Amazing lesson. As per your usual quality..
Glad you liked it. Thank you
🤯🤯🤯❤ thank you greatly for this tutorial!!!!!!
You're welcome! Glad it helped.
Easy to follow, subscribed!
That's great to hear and I'm glad you found the video easy to follow. I hope you like some of my others as well.
I do, thank you very much. & it's great that you use both Affinity & DxO, as I recently switched over from Lightroom, Photoshop & Illustrator @@RobinWhalley
Jesus, I've been looking how to do this F.O.R.E.V.E.R. and no one mentioned the need to combine different tools to achieve this effect!!!!!
This is probably how people felt when the telegraph was introduced as a faster way to communicate with people.
So grateful you made this video!
Great to know the video helped you. Thank you.
Thanks for this.
My pleasure!
Can't believe that you only have 25k subscribers. Most of yours videos are top notch.
Glad you like them and thanks for the compliment.
Thanks for the tutorial. I used to have a standalone program called Vertus for selections.. it was okay at the time but now Affinity is much more sophisticated and never use Vertus anymore
The tools in Affinity Photo are extremely effective once you have mastered them.
Merci beaucoup, belle vidéo
Merci. je suis content que ça te plaise.
Good work mate! keep it up this helps me a lot, I'm still learning as I transition from CS5.
Thanks. There are a lot of Affinity Photo videos on my channel. I hope you find some of the others useful as well.
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Great tips, and very clearly presented!!!
Thank you. That’s great feedback.
@@RobinWhalley every bit as valuable and well presented at James Ritson, maybe better
wow, thank you
@@RobinWhalley very welcome. Thank you for the content. I've been using Affinity for 4 years, but nevertheless always learn something from your videos.
Thank you 😊
Great informative video, thank you for sharing. Looks like the trees in the scene have had a hard life in the wind!
Thank you. Yes, I wouldn’t want to be a tree up there.
great reminders I should re-explore that you have explained very well . More like the "old way" and often far better than using the "refine" tool IMO -- it's good but most companies make their "tools" look far then they really are . In fact the refine tool can be frustratingly poor at times .
Saving selections: a keyboard shortcut makes that so easy; something I use for most selections and even part selections as work progresses .
Tip for the less experience if I may : the most important tool is often your patience and it's never as easy as many show it be .
Thanks. The simplest solution is often the best. It just needs a little bit of planning and as you say, patience. The key is knowing the strengths and weaknesses of each tool.
Tqvm sir ❤️
You're welcome
Absolutely Amazing... Thank you Robin.. Your friend.... Batman!
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks
Master at work
Thank you 😊
@@RobinWhalley sir please bring videos about Pen tool in affinity and selections via it like in Photoshop, thumbnails for youtube and typography videos in affinity
There are very few good vids on utube
Thanks
Typography is not really my thing. When I’ve done that type of video in the past it’s not done well as my usual viewers aren’t that interested. As for the Pen Tool, it’s in the pipeline.
Excellent! would love to learn how to replace the sky using this method .. thank you
Thanks. I'll add it to my list of possible future videos.
Perfect overview of the selection tools. Is it possible to make a selection based on pre-selected color?
Thank you. Yes you can seelct based on colour but not using this tool. It's better to use the new Hue Range selection layer in Affinity Photo 2. I mention it in this video: ua-cam.com/video/0lZij7fA_2s/v-deo.html
Wow, Robin, how long did it take you to fathom all that out??? I would never have managed it so thank you SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge!
About 25 years 😂.
Glad you liked it.
All of your videos are great thanks for taking the time to educate us dinosaurs 😂
Do you have a video on how to cut out an hairy spider and change the background please 👍
Thanks. To answer your question, this may not be a hairy spider but if you use your imagination you should be able to use it ua-cam.com/video/QJHsOsFn5-k/v-deo.html
Excellent video for Affinity Photo and a classic "job" for pixel editors. Might be interesting to use the same image in Capture One with the Magic Brush. My guess is it will be at leats as easy to select the Sky etc while remaining in raw. Would also illustrate why most people have moved from Photoshop to LR for the bulk of their raw photo processing.
Personally, I haven't found the Magic Brush as accurate or controlable as the tools in Affinity. I wasn't able to create the same selection as well as the calculation taking a log time to complete. As for remaining in RAW, it would depend on what you intend to do with the selection but I understand where you're coming from with the suggestion. I think most of the RAW processors need to evolve further before they can really challenge the likes of Affinity and Photoshop selection tools.
@@RobinWhalley Interesting, I have found the Magic Brush to be very good in the type of image you used in your example. You can vary the sensitivity of the colour/luma selection for each brush stroke if necessary and then you have the normal C1 feather and refine sliders to fine tune the mask. Instead of deselecting areas that have been selected you just use the erase brush. You can even apply a luma selection to the final mask if needed. C1 also gives you the ability to reuse the mask and even invert it. So although C1 isn't as powerful as a pixel editor it now goes a long way for me in limiting the need for a round trip.
@@ianyorke2617 Yes, I tested it with different sensitivities but I still couldn't create as good a selection. It also took a long time to calculate which makes me wonder if it was hitting a problem.
@@RobinWhalley Possibly could have been a problem it's fast on my Windows desktop. The first time you use the Magic Brush on an image it creates a bitmap reference image which can take a moment or two, so that future brush strokes are fast. I see the Magic Brush as something like NIK U-Point. The pixels you include under the brush stroke determining the colour/luma range of the selected pixels but additive to the selection each time you add a brush stroke. Unlike the selection tool in Affinity the Magic Brush does give you control over the range of colour/luma selected so that is an advantage? You can click on some fall leaves and maybe most are selected, click on the ones that aren't and only the ones that match the clicked area are added to your selection. Want to include the sky as well click on the blue sky and you get the blue sky selected without the white clouds. So leaves and sky in one selection in a few clicks. Feather and refine selection to taste. Personally I find the Magic Brush very good on C1 22. Might be worth a second look?
Great work, does this work on the ipad version of affinity 🤔
Thanks.
I don't think the iPad version of Affinity has the same selection tools.
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Thank you
To show how precise the selection was - you should have used it to replace the sky - with a demonstration of the refinement tools available to make the small branches merge seamlessly into a new background color.
Ah yes, but then I have another video planned in the pipeline to explain the sky replacement element of the process.
@@RobinWhalley Sounds good ;O)
i'v been sitting here for hours trying to find back to a video i watched a year ago on how to blur the background image without the halo, and i remember u had to press the inpaint button in the edit menu after you used the brush tool but i don't remember the rest, it was really easy aswell, anyone know what im talking about ? Other videos i've found just seem to make it very complicated
You may be looking for the wrong thing. I used the technique you mention in this video for Photoshop (ua-cam.com/video/dmHhpB0VZ08/v-deo.html). Just use the inpainting command or Brush on the background copy to remove the subject. You can then blur the background layer without causing a halo. I'll add it to my list of videos to do one for blurring a background in Affinity Photo.
@@RobinWhalley thank you so much!! I edit allot of my screenshots and it have become a fun hobby of mine, you helped me out allot. Very kind of you to respond to my comment.
Hello. Why is there no midtone in split toning in develop persona? Is there a specific reason? Thanks.
Split toning is a traditional dark room technique using different colours for the highlights and shadows. It’s always been implemented like that until recently when colour grading caught on and tools began being adapted for that purpose. The result seems to be some companies changed split toning tools to include midtones.
Just can't get the flood selection tool to single click and define the sky. It either takes just part of the sky or extends into the foreground. And then if I switch to the selection brush tool and try to correct, it just messes things up even worse. Haven't changed the defaults: Mode: New; Source: Current Layer; Tolerance 20%; Contiguous is checked. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
The Flood Select tool is a bit of a blunt instrument. It works great when there is say a clearly defined blue sky set against a hard horizon. Most of the time creating good selections is about know which tool to use and how to start. I would suggest if you are going to use the Selection Brush, start with that. Then make sure you set the controls correctly for the brush. You need to resize the brush and also change the magnification as you work. This video may help ua-cam.com/video/lgP1HP5fLkc/v-deo.html
@@RobinWhalley Thanks Robin, I'll follow your suggestions and keep practicing. Will watch your other videos as well. Keep up the great work, much appreciated!
@@davidweesner5997 You're welcome. Thank you.
Hi Robin, is there a way to hide the marching ants?
In the View menu you can hide them with the "Show Pixel Selection" option. There is also a shortcut but I can't remember of the top of my head.
@@RobinWhalley Thank you! If I find the short hand I will let you know, In PS it was ctrl+h I believe.
may i know which version of affinity photo is this tutorial based upon?
It's the latest version (1.10.1) on the Mac. It should also work with earlier versions as well.
@@RobinWhalley thank you :)
At about 0:40 where the "Masked area" is indicated by the ruby overlay - can one Inverse the mask area and selection area? Many times it is simpler (for me anyway) to view the "selected area" indicated by a red (or any color I choose) overlay as opposed the other way round. A feature that I rely heavily on when working in PS. I have never been a big fan of the Magic Wand Tool in PS and rarely use it. It's too unreliable. Although by early standards in the photo/graphics industry the red (or rubylith area) always denoted a "Mask", I prefer to think of the red overlay as the "Selection" area. (Can the mask/selection overlay be changed to any color of ones choice? (E.g. When making a selection of a red car. Can One change the color of the overlay to green?) Great tutorials, BTW. You are obviously very knowledgeable of the subject and quite thorough in your explanations.
I'm sorry I don't know of a way to invert the mask overlay like you can with Photoshop. That's not to say that it isn't possible it's just that I don't know how. It's probably a good question to ask on the Affinity forum (forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/50-affinity-support-questions/). The team at Affinity spend time answering users questions so if anyone will know they will.
@@RobinWhalley Thank you. I will not trouble you anymore. I understand that your fine tutorial videos are intended for "everyone" - not just me. As suggested, I will attempt to get my question(s) answered through Affinity Support. You videos are excellent, especially being that you have good knowledge of both, Adobe Photoshop and Affinity Photo. Cheers
Thank you. I’m always happy to answer questions but when I don’t know something I say. If I can make suggestions of where to find an answer I will do that too.
I know it's a subjective preference, but it's driving me bananas that I cannot (as far as I can tell) invert the display of the quick mask so that it shows selected areas like you can in Photoshop. I also cannot change the color or opacity of the quick mask. If you're masking off a red object it becomes difficult to tell what you're doing. When I look at this example in my mind the trees are what's selected with the transparent red color, not the sky.
As far as I know, only thing you can change with the mask colour is making it Black, White or Transparent. That's in the dropdown to the immediate right of the Quick Mask icon in the toolbar. Using Black may make it more obvious but it makes it more difficult to edit at times.
@@RobinWhalley Mmm, I was afraid of that. If I buy it I will have to suggest that as a feature.
And everyone told me that Affinity Photo doesn't have good selection tools like Photoshop!
This convinced me to leave Adobe. Thanks!
You can do a lot with the Affinity Tools and they are very good. What I've found is that the people who criticise them compared to Photoshop are looking for features that automate the selection. Affinity can't yet compete with Adobe in that space although I hope that they do develop something.
Consider compressing your VO a little less. It is quite annoying hearing the exaggerated attack of every consonant.
Thanks for the tip. It was done with this video to remove the echo. I was having to record in an empty office for quite a few months and trying to remove the echo was a nightmare. It's been gradually improving new furnishings arrived.
get to the point to much talk
Learn some manners
hi, thanks for the sharing of this video, very useful. May I know where to download the image used in the video so I can practice the selections ?
I'm sorry, you can't download this image. You are better using your own photography to practice with though.