You are my hero today! Mwaaahh. I work in designer and have watched a host of videos on background removal and yours simplifies things beautifully. Appreciated.

Thank you. I was not using the refine button. The explanation of the matte, foreground and background buttons was very helpful.

This was very helpful. I like your clear explanations. I hadn't understood the function of "refine" prior to this, and didn't know about selecting " New Layer" as a quick way to make the selected image into an object. Learned other things as well. Thank you!

short and sweet and I love how you actually took the time to create a second short video to explain what you forgot - I only wish other Creators would do this! Great job please keep it up!

Nice! Glad that I found another Affinity channel!

Thank you for showing!

YEHH BUDDY! This is what I'm talkin about! Another eye opener DM! Thanks for this! Particularly for touching on the Foreground & Background options. And the 'Black and White' preview is a Game Changer in my opinion. Aaand... Once I master 'the right touch' with using 'Matte', I'll be just fine. That's where I struggle right now. Great Share Sir! And I'll share a shortcut that I tripped across a couple of weeks ago to adjust the size of the Selection Brush - for those that will come here after me. Hold down CTRL & ALT and click drag to the left or right. It's a lot faster to using the brackets, once you get used to it. I have no doubts that you already knew this though DM. It's not like you're able to share everything in an 11 minute video. LOL.

This is really helpful thanks - as below, learned a lot and very easy to follow - it works! 😁

Thanks so much, I found this really helpful and easy to follow

well explained and handy enough to get newbies started and easy enough to do images with clearly defined edges on solid colour background . However it is so much harder/more difficult when the edges are not well defined , or even a bit blurry , or bordering colours are similar . I'm thinking outdoor bush/woodland/nature/flora photography I normally do where the selection brush tends to wonder off the line a lot more . In these cases the refine brush often makes it worse . Personally; I feel Affinity needs to improve the select process greatly to keep up with some others . In cases like this I have learnt not to drag the brush along the edge . Instead ; place the (smallish) cursor close to the edge > left click >drag away a little from edge > move along and repeat . If the marching ants jump off line , hold Alt to correct . There are times the Lasso tool comes in handy also Note: not sure if it's left or right click as I have the mouse in left hand and a pen in the other 😁 and I have no idea how I set it up for myself . I just use it . I also have your normal right side panels on the left and a smaller tool panel floating --- just to be different 😀 but it works for me .

Great tutorial. Thank you.

Very helpful tutorial, thanks!

Very helpful; thanks!

Best selection instructional video on how to use the selection brush tool. Affinity's guide is really difficult to follow because it requires reading through their from or help text...

Nice video bruv. Going to take a look at your channel👍

well done

Excellent video! But in the second example in the layers panel you begin with 3 layers so you can superimpose the model onto/into the brick wall. How do you gret the other 2 layers there so you can use them in the finished product?

I actually want to extract white letters from balck background..How do i do that? can we do Selection by colour?

I was using ACDSEE and it is amazing at selecting the object, but the program doesn't have a smooth option, so every mask is slightly rough and there is no way to actually make it smooth. Therefore, I am considering buying Affinity. Problem with Affinity is that it lags while running on my computer and I don't know how to solve that performance issue.

Love this learned alot some reason when i open my affinity 2 i dont have the number on the top or left side how did you get them there on the border

Is there any way of isolating the shadow from the original photo? PS has the color select > Shadows and it lets you select the shadow as well.

Could you do a more complex example of removing the background.. A lot of the tutorials have plain backgrounds which is easy to remove... Id like one with a complex background... something difficult to do.. Thanks

Before you do anything, you need to be in "Pixel Persona"!

Select a leaf on a white background.....pffff put the leaf on grass and select ....