How to Blur a Photo's Background in Affinity Photo

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Here is an easy three-step process to blur the background in a photo using Affinity Photo.
- Step 1: Select the thing in the photo that you don’t want to blur.
- Step 2: Separate this from the background.
- Step 3: Blur the background.
In this short video, I walk you through these steps to blur the background in a photo of two people.
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@user-ry8im9qb8k 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for getting back to me Robin. I totally agree with you. If you keep it simple people do not get confused. I make a lot of videos myself but not for KZfaq. Keep up the good work.

@RobinWhalley 4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@ndon85 5 ай бұрын

Wow Robin how did you even figure this method out? It is amazing, Affinity was driving me crazy with that horrible halo ! thank you

@RobinWhalley 5 ай бұрын

I’m glad that it helped you.

@javiervvgarcia9650 6 ай бұрын

A must see video to push your results step ahead!!! many thanks.

@RobinWhalley 6 ай бұрын

You are welcome. Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

@stevejacob4375 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Robin, very useful tutorial and one to keep. well worth watching a couple of times.

@RobinWhalley 7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Thank you.

@ajamumutumwa7343 7 ай бұрын

Brilliant and for me well timed. I've seen a number of other tutorials, but I decided to start to learn from yours as the explanation, while challenging, I found once I broke it all down (and used the right version of Affinity Photo) it made sense. Thank you once again.

@RobinWhalley 7 ай бұрын

You're very welcome. It's nice to know you managed to achieve what you wanted.

@Dexter101x 5 ай бұрын

Oops, almost missed this one. Great video, Robin

@RobinWhalley 5 ай бұрын

Thanks. I'm pleased you don't want to miss any.

@Bill1844 5 ай бұрын

Confusing because both layers are named background.

@ianbrowne9304 7 ай бұрын

Thanks mate ; I know most of it but as always you showed a couple different new/forgotten tricks . Question for you ; is there a reason you , and other educators don't have or don't use the "select all/delete selection/invert selection" icons in the toolbar ? I'm guessing you use the shortcut mostly although find it just as easy to click the box so to speak . It's just many don't mention the icons . Tips for the less experienced : try using one click at a time instead of drawing in/removing the selection . This seems to work better if there is not a strong contrast line to follow ; like you might find in nature photos why I find the refine tool not as handy . The ALT key will invert the selection tools

@RobinWhalley 7 ай бұрын

I have three reasons for preferring to demonstrate with menus. 1. Menus are the best for people to lear when they first start using a software package. 2. People pay more attention to the video. When I'm clicking an icon it can be missed more easily. 3. There is less chance of the menu having been modified than the Toolbar.

@user-ry8im9qb8k 5 ай бұрын

Hi Robin with all due respect the blur layer will be too smooth and 1 or 2 pixels of noise should be added to create texture to match the noise of the image. Never seen anybody do it yet on KZfaq. Great videos nevertheless. You got me started many moths ago.

@RobinWhalley 5 ай бұрын

I totally agree with you. I neglected the blur aspect of the video because by far the biggest difficulty most people have is trying to select the background in order to blur it. I should really have called the video how to select the background in a photo.

@geraldreynolds9650 7 ай бұрын

Hello Robin good video as always.But i have a problem and maybe you can advise me.I get as far as saving my selection as a spare channel.Then I right click on the background layer and click on duplicate.I get a duplicate layer but it only shows transparency with no image showing over the transparency.Then if I try and complete everything I end up with a final image with a hole where the subject should be.Any idea why ? (By the way I'm using Version 2.3)

@RobinWhalley 7 ай бұрын

Don't worry about the version. What I did has worked since the early days of Affinity Photo version 1. It will probably be down to you not selecting something or doing somethng in the wrong order. I can't tell what that might be from your description unfortunately and I don't have any ideas. I would really need to watch you doing the editing to be able to say. Sorry.

@mikeleech4421 4 ай бұрын

whats the difference between copying your selection to a channel or copying it to a new mask layer when you refine it ?

@RobinWhalley 4 ай бұрын

It’s good practice to save selections as channels in case you want to use them again. Masks can be changed, edited and worked on which means they aren’t a good way to save selections.

@maxmusterman9525 Ай бұрын

just got an ad of adobe XD

@RobinWhalley 29 күн бұрын

???

@xzenor-art 7 ай бұрын

It's smarter to remove the background using a mask than actually deleting it. In case your selection wasn't as perfect and you find out you chopped off a small finger by accident

@RobinWhalley 7 ай бұрын

I agree that it's better to remove the background with a mask. The reason I didn't do this is that masks cause a lot of new users to panic and becoem confused. That's why I chose to delete the background. More experienced users will know they can use a mask to do the same thing.

@xzenor-art 7 ай бұрын

@@RobinWhalley fair point 👍