Affinity Photo. Blur background with no halos

[@sudhiracharekar]

Thanks for the videos clearly explaining all necessary basic steps for the expected output. Till now I was struggling for blurring the backgrounds for birds photography. Very short & sweet video but effective.

[@Vintage35MM]

Useful tips. I’d like to add my recent experience following along with you today. I did really well up til the inpainting. I spent 5hrs looking for the inpainting brush in Affinity 2. Couldn’t find it so went to Affinity still couldn’t find it. I eventually found it as a sub menu under the Healing brush. My first attempt with the healing brush totally painting out my subject resulted in a big black space. 2nd attempt I just split the perimeter of my subject with a big brush. Affinity then replaced that brush stroke with synthesized background and the subject in the foreground had its edges moved inward. Combining the two layers and adding Gaussian blur now did not have the halo effect per the focus of your video.

[@Pir8Pete99]

BRILLIANT start to working with AF Skyler. You are the best internet instructor I have come across. Thank you...Pete

[@skylerewingphotography]

Wow, thanks!

[@xhanbene1242]

Thanks for your great tutorial. I'm new to affinity, and your video really help. Hope to see more in the future.

[@skylerewingphotography]

Glad it was helpful!

[@michaelpegg8966]

Great your doing Affinity as well as Neo. I too have both together with Capture One 20. Thank you

[@skylerewingphotography]

Thank you, Michael.

[@apark3796]

I have those 3 as well. Would love to see a workflow video on using all 3 apps on a single image edit.

[@Lysander-Spooner]

Thanks for adding Affinity Photo to your video rotation. For around $50 it does 90% at least of what most people use Photoshop for and has no subscription.

[@skylerewingphotography]

Yes, great alternative.

[@Lysander-Spooner]

@@skylerewingphotography Funny thing, KZbin Channel "Affinity Revolution" (175,000 subs) did the same video topic today. I guess they saw your video and decided it was a good topic.

[@phlotographer]

@@Lysander-Spooner yes indeed. I just viewed both and had to chuckle!

[@behramcooper3691]

Very instructive tutorial. What were those sliders above the buttons in the refine selection dialogue box? What do you do with those? Do you have a detailed tutorial on how to make very precise selections in Affinity Photo, especially when subjects have a complicated background?

[@roycejohnson929]

Affinity Photo does have content aware fill. Go to the freehand selection tool and draw around the object, go to edit fill with primary color. A dialog box will appear bottom right, go down to inpainting, apply. Then deselect. Cheers

[@MostlyDrones]

So happy that you take up Affinity Photo, thank you. Will you do a video about how you make your thumbnails or at least tell me how?

[@skylerewingphotography]

Yes, of course

[@edm8581]

can you make an moon blurry

[@rexleong433]

Can you share how you learn Affinity Photo?

[@skylerewingphotography]

Hi Rex. I am new to affinity photo but been using Photoshop for 5+ years. They are very similar so it’s really easy for me to understand it. I will be making lots of tutorials teaching the program and all its tools . If you have any requests, please don’t hesitate to ask

[@rexleong433]

@@skylerewingphotography Many thanks.

[@wildpatagoniafilms16]

I herd lots of good things about Affinity. thinking of getting it. Do you find that is does slections like this, (fur...), better and cleaner than PS...? or just the same... thanks!

[@skylerewingphotography]

Honestly, I think they are just about the same. In photoshop I like that you can refine mask using color or subject aware, in Affinity I like to foreground background toggle