This tutorial originally appeared in N-Photo, the monthly newsstand magazine for Nikon photographers. If the tool manages to accidentally pick up unwanted areas in the selection, click the subtract button at top left (or hold Alt) and paint to remove areas until it’s perfect. This makes it easy to snap the selection to the edges of complex objects like the bird we have here. But the clever part is the way it seeks out edges and changes in colour or tone as you paint. It works very similarly to any other brush, allowing you to paint a selection over your image. The Selection Brush is one of the most powerful tools available in Affinity Photo. Here, we set the tool opacity to 30% then Alt-click to sample a nearby source and clone away any remaining messy pixels. The Clone tool is useful for blending rough pixels when used at a low opacity. To finish off, we hit Cmd/Ctrl+D to deselect then zoom in and check all the edges for blurriness or mess. But when the object we’re attempting to remove intersects with something we want to preserve – like where the bars meet the body of the bird here – the result can be a blotchy mess.
AFFINITY PHOTO INPAINTING SKIN
It works brilliantly for removing imperfections against otherwise clean areas, like a pimple on skin or a sensor mark in a sky.
Of course, like all automated tools it’s not infallible. Here it means we can add extra waves to cover the bars. We simply paint over parts of the image and the tool intelligently analyses the area, determines what we’d like to remove, then replaces the offending pixels by sampling and replicating those nearby. It’s a clever feature that’s conveniently easy to use, even for a complete beginner. One of the most powerful is the Inpainting tool. But if we like we can remove distractions like this with simple retouching tools in Affinity Photo. Here, the metal bars intrude on the composition rather than enhance it. Sometimes a photo-worthy moment happens so quickly that it’s near impossible to compose the frame properly, like when a great white pelican suddenly appears next to your boat.Īt moments like this, a messy, distracting backdrop is often hard to avoid.
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