Amazing Selections Using Refine Selection in Affinity Photo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2020
- Affinity Photo selection tools are good, but sometimes you need something more powerful. That’s where the Affinity Refine Selection tools can help.
In this video, I demonstrate how to use Affinity’s Refine Selection to improve the accuracy of a complex selection. Using these tools, you can quickly and easily make complex selections with a high degree of precision. And if you’re a Photoshop user, it’s still worth watching the video because Photoshop has the same tools.
This video is a follow on from my previous video, where I demonstrate using Affinity Quick Mask to refine selections: • Quick Mask Selections ...
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You deserve the highest praise for your clarity and usefulness. It is an approach that I wished others would copy.
Thank you. Please spread the word 😀
That is the best tutorial on the refine selection process that I have seen. Now I know what I have been doing wrong.....
Great to hear the tutorial has helped.
Great - many thanks. I was previously unclear about how to use the Matte adjustment - it's really very useful seeing it in action - all clear now! Look forward to your Affinity book being published!
You're very welcome! It's good to know it helped you.
Your tutorials are a pleasure to watch. Very easy to understand and without digressing! I'm already looking forward to the new book, the current one has helped a lot. Thanks a lot for this!
Thank you very much and thank you for purchasing my book.
great video... and learning about spare channels was a huge bonus!
Glad you think so! Thank you.
Good stuff. Looking forward to the new book!
Thank you. I'm also looking forward to finishing and publishing the book.
Very good video Robin. I’ve struggled in the past with this and your clear explanation really helps!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks.
That was excellent, thank you!
You're very welcome.
Thank-you so much I have been trying to find a good explanation of the various selection modes in Affinity for ages. This explanation was by far the best I have seen.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you. Hopefully you will find value in some of my other Affinity Photo videos as well.
The way you explain things is so calm, clear, and complete. I needed these videos. Thank you so much for the time you put in for making videos for us to learn from !!
You are very welcome.
Finally. A guide to 'Refine Selection' that is comprehensive and easy to follow. I now have the results I needed by simply applying tips shared in this video.
Thank you Robin :)
Glad it helped! Thank you.
Excellent vid. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! Thank you.
You are the best Affinity instructor on the internet. Great job! And thanks.
If only that were true but I'm very greatful for you saying it. Thank you
It’s the second time I watch it and I found it extremely useful. Thank you very much, it takes me some extra time because I have to read subtitles,
Glad it was helpful! It's great to hear you use the subtitles. I always take time to go through and correct them so it's nice to know someone finds them helpful.
Hey Robin, a wonderful lesson that was needed badly....thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Saved very useful thanks
Glad it helped. Thank you
Nice clear explanation....
Glad you liked it
Wow! Thank you so much! this is going to help me immensely. Your tutorial is clear and concise. I am looking forward to watching all your videos.
Glad it was helpful. Thank you.
This was excellent. I'm just starting with Affinity and was worried how masks would perform after coming from PS, but it looks like I wont have any problems now I have seen your tutorial. Thank you
Thanks. I have found quite a bit in common between the two packages, having worked with Photoshop since 2000 and Affinity Photo since its launch. If you have a lot of experience with Photoshop, you should be okay, but don't assume everything works in the same way. There are some differences, and I've found them annoying at times in the past. If you hit problems using the selection tools, see my Affinity Photo book "How To Select It." It should help.
@@RobinWhalley thanks Robin.
wow!
Thanks
Very good tutorial! Thank you so much!!
Glad it was helpful! Thank you.
Not one single thumbs down.... you must be doing something right Robin!! It's videos like this that make life with Affinity more enjoyable and make relatives think you're GOOD....... HA!!!
Thanks. It's interesting you mention the thumbs up and down. A friend has a theory that TH-cam doesn't really push your videos unless you have some thumbs down. Looking over his videos and well as mine, it seems to hold true. But then it may be that more popular videos will attract more feedback with a greater chance of a thumbs down. I guess I just need to keep producing interesting videos.
this video helped but when I have the selection with Refine and I use the selection brush with the refine open, when I brush over the edges to refine the selection I just see a darker brush line but I do not see an improvement in the selection. What could I be doing wrong?
That's extremely difficult to say without watching your screen as you work. It's often something simple that you haven't spotted.
As a guess, remember when you are working with the Refine tools, you aren't working with a single selection brush. The brush you see and paint with is one of four that you select from the Refine Selection dialog. They are Matte, Foreground, Background and Feather. With Matte you paint over the edge and Affinity will try to refine the selection based on what it finds in the area you paint over. Be sure to work in small sections. With Foreground, you paint over areas where you want to remove the red mask (including them in the selection). Here you paint up to an edge and not over it. The Background brush is the same but you will see those areas turn red, removing them from the selection. Feather doesn't look to do much but it softens the selection. Try switching between and painting with these different brushes,
When I put a layer with a circle shape in-between the mask layer and the background copy layer the edges turn all fuzzy and there are semi transparent parts of the mask layer that do not show up when the layer with the circle is not in between the mask and background layer.
What could I be doing wrong?
I'm sorry, I can't really understand what you are trying to do and what you're expecting to see in order to say what you are "doing wrong". Unfortunately I think I would need to watch a screen recording to understand this better.
I'm trying to do this with text, and I can't seem to make it so it doesn't show a white border around the text, even when refining. Any suggestions? Never had this issue in PS.
i wouldn’t use this method for selecting text. if the te t is on a separate text layer you could load that in the channels panel. if not, try using the selection brush whilst magnified.
tell me this at the top of the workspace is personas and other tools but the modes panel has dissapeared , somehow it is turned off , it is very important for things in selection , without it working is very difficult , it is turned off easily by accident , so far there is no help about this , I need to know the terminology , is it called the modes panel , there is no reference to this in customize tools or manual . Can you figure out what i must do
I'm really not sure what you mean by "Modes panel" but that area of the interface is a toolbar. You can customise it to show different icons by right clicking it with your mouse. If you do this you might recognise what you are looking for in the options.
Robin, thank you so much for providing these tutorials. You obviously have a great knowledge of Affinity Photo. However, in these videos, you do FAR TOO MUCH of clicking and operating without explaining what you are doing. You should make it a rule to NEVER do a single thing on the screen without narrating exactly what you are doing, and in many cases, WHY you are doing it. Yes, there will be some of your viewers who don't need that much explaining, but there are also a big contingent of viewers who will get totally lost and left behind if you don't explain. Just a suggestion from a professional educator for many decades.
Thanks for the advice. As someone with many decades of educational experience you will also recognise that each lesson (or video in this case) has an objective. In the case of my videos, you may find that the objective is not what you seem to be assuming it is. I also have the advantage of being able to see the metrics of the video and have spent a lot of time working on ways to maintain the viewers’ attention. Something I have learned over the years is that what works well on TH-cam doesn't necessarily transfer well to other situations and vice versa.
@@RobinWhalley Absolutely correct. A tutorial on TH-cam has to be a one-way street, with no immediate feedback from the viewers, such as facial expressions telling you "I got that" or "Huh? What'd you say?" The only feedback is these comments and the metrics. Not the best, but better than nothing. Additionally, you will have viewers with widely varied starting knowledge, which means you will be teaching "down" to the advanced viewers or else you will leave behind the less experienced ones. They key, as you mentioned, is to make the sessions engaging (read: entertaining) enough to keep the interest of people who know much of it already while still giving enough detail so the new people aren't left behind. It's definitely a dilemma for all teachers on TH-cam. Thanks again, and keep up the good work.