Hi everyone! Thank you for watching! I hope you enjoy learning how you can easily remove the backgrounds from your scanned artwork, textures, motifs and more using Affinity Photo. I share some steps you can take to get a more successful outcome. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask below!
Thank you so much for taking your time to make this tutorial. I've only just bought the Affinity suite and I'm a total beginner. This was so clear and easy to understand. Great delivery and so simply to digest. Thank you again.😀
You are so welcome Valeria! I am so happy to hear it helped! Designer doesn't have the same tool, unfortunately, however, if you watch my latest tutorial on Blend Ranges in Affinity Designer, you can use them to try to accomplish the same thing. It depends on what texture you're working with but I use it to remove white from textures and make them transparent. It takes a little more adjusting than this tool but it's very effective all the same! Thank you for watching and don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions about the above!
I don't have affinity photo and was hoping to transfer ideas from this to designer, but as you say it doesn't have the same tool - i'll patiently wait for your next video. I can't wait!
This is fantastic! I want to try this on my watercolor illustrations. I have a textured background(watercolor paper) do you think this will work o the too?
I'm so glad you liked it, thank you for watching Karin! Yes, I do! The paper I used in this one was also watercolor paper (though the texture didn't show much on the video) and it worked beautifully. Definitely try it out! Thank you again!
Hi! They're just rectangles that I pulled in and moved to the bottom of the layer stack once the white paper was removed. Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for watching!
If you're on the iPad version of Photo, it is automatically in the tool side of the app, towards the bottom. (if you have your display on your iPad set to zoom it might be hidden. Just put your finger on the toolbar and start dragging up) On the iPad, you can tap the question mark at the bottom, and it will show you which icons are which. On the desktop version, it's also towards the bottom of the tools at the side. If you can't see it, you may need to add it by customizing your tools. Go to View > Customize Tools, then find the rectangle (it actually looks like a square) and drag it on to your toolbar. Once you save it, it should always be there.
Hi Tracey. Thankyou for this video. I have watched soooo many videos on how to remove the background in A. Photo 2! I can’t believe how many different alternatives there are to do this one thing! So, your first step, I get, and I love! Thankyou. But when it comes to the second step I have a problem, as my artwork is basically many scattered multi coloured flowers, so I can’t trace around them all individually, because I’d have about 10 flowers to trace around, which you can’t do with this method…. Also, with how you bumped up the black and lowered the white, - can I do that with multi coloured flowers, with no black? Do you know of any ways around this for me. I’d love quick and easy…. In photoshop it’s just the magic wand and it’s done in 2 seconds, but there is no magic wand in affinity photo….. One video I watched used the erase background tool, which great, but I had trouble with it…. Thinking about it now, maybe I didn’t click on the layer first. - I’m a complete newbie at this…. It was also hard to rub out the white background to make it transparent… Which is why I really like the idea of having the orange layer you have! That makes everything obvious. What I’m actually trying to do is make the background transparent, clean up the edges of the scan of my painting, and add a background of coloured stripes and get it photo ready for printing. Do you have any suggestions of what I need to do?
You are very welcome, @reefprayerresin! Let me give your questions some thought and I'll update this ASAP. I'm working on getting a class published today but didn't want you to think I was ignoring your questions. 😊 I'll give all of the above some thought and see if I can come up with some alternatives for you ASAP. Thanks so much for watching!
PS - Today I used the background eraser tol to erase around the edges of my flowers. - Hard to do with a white background, so I somehow worked out how to create another layer, made it orange like yours, and put it below my scan I’ve been working on, so that when I erased the background, the orange background underneath showed through worked brilliantly! Then, as in a tutorial I saw, I used the Floor Erase Tool, which filled in the big spaces brilliantly! Now all the edges need to be cleaned up/sharpened, and the paint ‘healed’ here and there. It’s taken hours, and there’s probably a better and faster way (this took hours!). I look forward to hearing from you. All the best with you class. Is it Skillshare?
@@reefprayerresin thank you for the well wishes on the class. Yes, it's up on Skillshare. :) Have you tried making selections of your work and then using the Refine feature to clean up the selections? I would start with the Erase Paper to get the majority out of the way. From there, if you look up tutorials on making hair selections in Photo, the same concepts can be applied to selecting yours. Unfortunately, when it comes to trying to clean up analog work and isolate it, because it, by nature, doesn't have clean edges, it can take time, and a few different tools, to get it just right. That said, I would approach it going from the inside out, in making selections of the motifs and the refine tool to capture all of the edges I could. From there, you can invert the selection and just delete anything you don't want. I hope this makes sense.
@@Tracey-CreatorCollage - Oh, that was quick!… I’ve done one of your courses (Marquee), well started it but was new to Designer and couldn’t make it do what it was supposed to do. Lol… I should revisit these courses that I stalled in. I have saved about 4 of your classes, but yet to do them. - So much to do, so little time etc. No, I haven’t worked on selections in my work, but I feel that that is what I need to do… Refine feature? Where is that in the tool section? By ‘erase paper’ do you mean using the background eraser tool, to make it transparent? Or do I go into the top bar and click on something up there? I managed to erase the background last night. Successfully ! - It took about 3 hours, but I got rid of every little thing that was out of place in the background. So now I’m ready to do inside the flowers. I understand the difference between cleaning up vector and pixels. I don’t mind having to use different tools or it taking time, while I’m still learning. I’ll get faster at it the more I do it, and I’ll research the refine tool and consider all the info you’ve given me. Very slowly….. Thankyou so much Tracey. Noni x
OMG you keep talking and talking and never get to the point :( :( :( How do you JUST erase the white paper and end up with your signature with a transparent background??? arrrghhhhh :( :(
I'm sorry that you're frustrated by my starting the video explaining what it's about, and who it's for, but, within the first minute, specifically 00:59, I clearly show to go to Filters and Erase White Paper and I'm left with a transparency, which seems to be what you're looking for. The rest of the tutorial explains how to fine tune it if necessary. Thanks!
Hi everyone! Thank you for watching! I hope you enjoy learning how you can easily remove the backgrounds from your scanned artwork, textures, motifs and more using Affinity Photo. I share some steps you can take to get a more successful outcome. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask below!
Really crisp and to the point tutorial! Thanks a lot!
@@ytskt I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you, and thank you for watching!
Thank you so much for taking your time to make this tutorial. I've only just bought the Affinity suite and I'm a total beginner. This was so clear and easy to understand. Great delivery and so simply to digest. Thank you again.😀
I'm so happy to hear that Ren, thank you! Welcome to the Affinity suite! I hope you enjoy learning it :)
Thanks so much for watching!
Thankyou very much for this, I never knew about the Erase White Paper option. Appreciated.
I'm so happy to hear you found it useful, thank you for watching Chris!
OMGGG OMGGG!! You change my life with this, I have been erasen in the wrong way the white from some textures... omg, Tracey, THANK YOU!!
BTW, how can you this on Affinity Designer?
You are so welcome Valeria! I am so happy to hear it helped!
Designer doesn't have the same tool, unfortunately, however, if you watch my latest tutorial on Blend Ranges in Affinity Designer, you can use them to try to accomplish the same thing. It depends on what texture you're working with but I use it to remove white from textures and make them transparent. It takes a little more adjusting than this tool but it's very effective all the same!
Thank you for watching and don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions about the above!
This video was AMAZIIIIINNNGGG!
Thank you Bianca! For watching, and the compliment! :)
OHHHH that is sick! Thank you, holy crap one click haha. So good,
You are very welcome! Glad you liked it. Totally agree, Affinity Photo is awesome.
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this Tracey, this should make things so much easier.
You are very welcome Mandy! I hope you find it very useful :) Thanks for watching!
Excellent!
Thank you! And thank you for watching Tax!
I don't have affinity photo and was hoping to transfer ideas from this to designer, but as you say it doesn't have the same tool - i'll patiently wait for your next video. I can't wait!
Hi Lydia! I wish it did, as I use Designer more than Photo but sadly it doesn't. My Designer version is coming soon! Thank you for following!! :)
amazing thank you so much..!!
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching!
Thank you Tracey. It helped a lot.
You’re welcome Chanchal! I’m so happy to hear that. Thank you for watching!
This is really helpful. Thank you so much.
I'm so happy to hear that, thank you for watching!
This is fantastic! I want to try this on my watercolor illustrations. I have a textured background(watercolor paper) do you think this will work o the too?
I'm so glad you liked it, thank you for watching Karin! Yes, I do! The paper I used in this one was also watercolor paper (though the texture didn't show much on the video) and it worked beautifully. Definitely try it out!
Thank you again!
Thanks :D
You are very welcome! Thank you for watching!
how did you make both the orange and fuchsia rectangle splash?
is it underneath your art drawings?
Hi! They're just rectangles that I pulled in and moved to the bottom of the layer stack once the white paper was removed. Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks for watching!
@@Tracey-CreatorCollage where can i find the rectangle icon on the side is it at the bottom or on the top?
If you're on the iPad version of Photo, it is automatically in the tool side of the app, towards the bottom. (if you have your display on your iPad set to zoom it might be hidden. Just put your finger on the toolbar and start dragging up) On the iPad, you can tap the question mark at the bottom, and it will show you which icons are which.
On the desktop version, it's also towards the bottom of the tools at the side. If you can't see it, you may need to add it by customizing your tools. Go to View > Customize Tools, then find the rectangle (it actually looks like a square) and drag it on to your toolbar. Once you save it, it should always be there.
@@Tracey-CreatorCollage thanks for letting me know! :)
@@iemwill9429 you're very welcome!
🙏👍👍👍
Thank you!
Hi Tracey. Thankyou for this video. I have watched soooo many videos on how to remove the background in A. Photo 2! I can’t believe how many different alternatives there are to do this one thing! So, your first step, I get, and I love! Thankyou. But when it comes to the second step I have a problem, as my artwork is basically many scattered multi coloured flowers, so I can’t trace around them all individually, because I’d have about 10 flowers to trace around, which you can’t do with this method…. Also, with how you bumped up the black and lowered the white, - can I do that with multi coloured flowers, with no black? Do you know of any ways around this for me. I’d love quick and easy…. In photoshop it’s just the magic wand and it’s done in 2 seconds, but there is no magic wand in affinity photo…..
One video I watched used the erase background tool, which great, but I had trouble with it…. Thinking about it now, maybe I didn’t click on the layer first. - I’m a complete newbie at this…. It was also hard to rub out the white background to make it transparent… Which is why I really like the idea of having the orange layer you have! That makes everything obvious. What I’m actually trying to do is make the background transparent, clean up the edges of the scan of my painting, and add a background of coloured stripes and get it photo ready for printing. Do you have any suggestions of what I need to do?
You are very welcome, @reefprayerresin! Let me give your questions some thought and I'll update this ASAP. I'm working on getting a class published today but didn't want you to think I was ignoring your questions. 😊 I'll give all of the above some thought and see if I can come up with some alternatives for you ASAP. Thanks so much for watching!
@@Tracey-CreatorCollage - Aw, thanks Tracey! Much appreciated. x
PS - Today I used the background eraser tol to erase around the edges of my flowers. - Hard to do with a white background, so I somehow worked out how to create another layer, made it orange like yours, and put it below my scan I’ve been working on, so that when I erased the background, the orange background underneath showed through worked brilliantly! Then, as in a tutorial I saw, I used the Floor Erase Tool, which filled in the big spaces brilliantly! Now all the edges need to be cleaned up/sharpened, and the paint ‘healed’ here and there. It’s taken hours, and there’s probably a better and faster way (this took hours!). I look forward to hearing from you. All the best with you class. Is it Skillshare?
@@reefprayerresin thank you for the well wishes on the class. Yes, it's up on Skillshare. :)
Have you tried making selections of your work and then using the Refine feature to clean up the selections? I would start with the Erase Paper to get the majority out of the way. From there, if you look up tutorials on making hair selections in Photo, the same concepts can be applied to selecting yours. Unfortunately, when it comes to trying to clean up analog work and isolate it, because it, by nature, doesn't have clean edges, it can take time, and a few different tools, to get it just right. That said, I would approach it going from the inside out, in making selections of the motifs and the refine tool to capture all of the edges I could. From there, you can invert the selection and just delete anything you don't want. I hope this makes sense.
@@Tracey-CreatorCollage - Oh, that was quick!… I’ve done one of your courses (Marquee), well started it but was new to Designer and couldn’t make it do what it was supposed to do. Lol… I should revisit these courses that I stalled in. I have saved about 4 of your classes, but yet to do them. - So much to do, so little time etc.
No, I haven’t worked on selections in my work, but I feel that that is what I need to do… Refine feature? Where is that in the tool section? By ‘erase paper’ do you mean using the background eraser tool, to make it transparent? Or do I go into the top bar and click on something up there? I managed to erase the background last night. Successfully ! - It took about 3 hours, but I got rid of every little thing that was out of place in the background. So now I’m ready to do inside the flowers. I understand the difference between cleaning up vector and pixels. I don’t mind having to use different tools or it taking time, while I’m still learning. I’ll get faster at it the more I do it, and I’ll research the refine tool and consider all the info you’ve given me. Very slowly….. Thankyou so much Tracey. Noni x
OMG you keep talking and talking and never get to the point :( :( :( How do you JUST erase the white paper and end up with your signature with a transparent background??? arrrghhhhh :( :(
I'm sorry that you're frustrated by my starting the video explaining what it's about, and who it's for, but, within the first minute, specifically 00:59, I clearly show to go to Filters and Erase White Paper and I'm left with a transparency, which seems to be what you're looking for. The rest of the tutorial explains how to fine tune it if necessary. Thanks!