Remove A White Background with Affinity Designer

In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating how you can easily remove a white background with Affinity Designer. Considering that Affinity Designer is a vector-based application, you would naturally assume that it wouldn’t be the best tool for removing backgrounds from photos. However, Designer comes equipped with a powerful pixel editor that allows you to make basic edits to photos, one of which would be the Selection Brush Tool, which we’ll be using for this tutorial.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:17 Open your document
00:30 Open the Pixel Persona
00:51 Remove lock from the layer
01:03 Use Selection Brush Tool to outline subject
02:45 Tweak the selection further
04:24 Make refinements
05:31 Delete the selection
05:45 Export your work
06:40 Conclusion

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