How to Extend Backgrounds in Affinity Photo

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[@macrobionic]

I lost count of the number of times I thought to myself: "I didn't know you could do that". Thank you for sharing another glimpse of your digital sorcery.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Haha you're welcome! 😊

[@geethakaimal9674]

I have seen tutorials for photoshop about extending, but never seen one for affinity. It was really helpful. Thanks😁

[@AffinityRevolution]

You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊

[@daniiel1495]

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[@AffinityRevolution]

Wow, thank you so much! 😊

[@AuthorMelodyLoomis]

I was hoping Affinity Photo could extend the background! I'll be using this tool a lot for my book covers. Got to have a space for the title. :-) Thanks for showing me how!

[@AffinityRevolution]

I hope your cover turns out great! 😊

[@AlbertoRiveraCEO]

These tutorials are always a life saver. I love it when I need to come back!

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Thank you Alberto! 😊

[@sdhpCH]

2:47 > Try stretching to the left by pulling the RIGHT handle (aka the one INWARD to the original photo). The pixels at the boundaries are the same, so they match perfectly. As you have to then do less stretching overall, it becomes much less noticeable. Sometimes you need to push the stretched piece by one pixel towards the original to join the gap. Hope that was not too complicated explained. Thank you very much for your tutorials, I was quite good at Photoshop and had enough of their subscription model. You help me very much with the transition.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Good tip! Thanks for sharing.

[@FreeRadical09]

Ok, I don't know what kind of voodoo or dark magic you guys do but how the blazes did you know I actually needed to know how to do THIS in order to finish a project yesterday??? I love you, guys. You always save my skin with your videos.

[@AffinityRevolution]

That's awesome! Glad this video helped you out. 😄

[@TheOverlordOfProcrastination]

Been waiting for this one. Thanks for being continually great.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@mellifluous479]

Sincere thanks for demonstrating the clone tool. All the Affinity video tutors and their tutorials make the Affinity experience understandable, enjoyable and inspire experimentation and creativity.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊

[@AlbertoRiveraCEO]

Ahhh..., your tutorials are spot on - making tasks like these a breeze. Thrilled to admit, that other than my browser and email client, Affinity Photo is the one application I use every day.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Wow, good work practicing Affinity so much! 😊

[@clydeugene]

Another great tutorial Ally and Ezra. The value you two pack into each video is really amazing

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you Clyde! Glad you liked it. 😊

[@thehouseofwil]

You guys are really helping me. I switched from Corel to Affinity. This is a great learning tool.

[@AffinityRevolution]

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[@jamesthomson7047]

Love your tutorials. There always nice and easy to follow. I've used Photoshop for about a year and couldn't get into it properly as it seemed really complex. Moving to Affinity has made editing my work really enjoyable. Your tutorials have made it a joy to learn how to get the most from Affinity. Many thanks and keep up the good work.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thanks so much James! I'm glad you're enjoying Affinity. 😊

[@ArtsyLadyCrafter]

Thank you for these great tips on extending backgrounds.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊

[@IdahoSAM.]

Thanks. I've had a lot of photos over the years that I needed to do this with. Now I know how to do it.

[@AffinityRevolution]

It's always nice to have a new skill in your photo editing tool belt. 😊

[@alantuttphotography]

Didn't know that the crop tool could ADD to an image.

[@AffinityRevolution]

I guess it's one of those hidden tricks. 😊

[@MrFree-vj8qj]

I figured it by instinct somehow, must be the experience of clicking everything randomly

[@stephenstevenson1900]

Excellent tutorial Ally! Thank you for sharing.

[@AffinityRevolution]

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Thank you - your tutorials are always so helpful

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Great information. Always the best from Affinity Revolution!

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! 😊

[@KathleenRenninger]

Very helpful tutorial! Thanks.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thanks Kathleen! :)

[@elenacastuera6]

Thank you! Great tutorial, very well explained :-)

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊

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This is the best channel on KZbin

[@AffinityRevolution]

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@@AffinityRevolution thank you I downloaded it yesterday and I've just been binging every video lol im learning more than I did in school 😄🤣😂

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@@art_by_adrian2913 Haha that's awesome! 😆

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[@simonethoth3371]

That's good, Ally!

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Thank you Simone! 😊

[@elizabethrussell4858]

Really brilliant and so useful.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you so much Elizabeth! 😊

[@mrMinstrel]

Super! Nifty ways to claim more real estate! Many thanks...

[@AffinityRevolution]

Glad you liked it! 😊

[@theandersonfamily6094]

Great tutorial!

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thanks for watching! 😊

[@bluescreen79]

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Thank you! That's so nice. 😊

[@danielleclerc4812]

Excellent comme d'habitude.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Merci! 😊

[@SoumalyaMukherjee-rh7ny]

Thanks for sharing. You are awesome

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! 🤗

[@markorafferty876]

On the level 3 example when using the clone tool, how did you get the sample point to stay at the starting point and not move to the left with the tool (but then move with the tool as you paint in). I'm using the Windows version, so there may be additional things you can do on the Mac. Any help will be great - thanks

[@markorafferty876]

Just worked it out. For some reason the "Scale" was set to 256% so set it to 100%, and also needed to turn off Stabilization. Reading the on-line help didn't really help so I had to play around with the context options until it worked for me.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Glad you got it figured out. 🙂

[@ChrisB257]

Thanks Ally, as always. Really appreciate your presentations. (Clone tool has been my friend for a long time) :) Hoping very much Ezra is still improving.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you Chris! 😊

[@Enrique-the-photographer]

This was really helpful. Thank you very much.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊

[@MrFree-vj8qj]

I like your voice, the notes have a lot of musicality

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! 🤗

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Thanks a lot for your great videos and your amazing job 😀

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying the videos! 😊

[@PauloSampaioNeves]

Great tools. But what about using the Impaint tool under the Edit menu to expand sections of a picture and thus also usefull to extend backgrounds? I though you were going to use that one in method 3

[@AffinityRevolution]

That's another great technique, but I've found it it to be less predicable than the other tools I showed in this video. For certain situations though, it does a great job! 😊

[@PauloSampaioNeves]

@@AffinityRevolution surely less predictable, no doubt. Useful with washed out creamy bokeh where no details are perceivable. Otherwise it and miss, yeah. Great. Tks

[@PauloSampaioNeves]

@@AffinityRevolution *hit and miss

[@dennishumbla5431]

Great video!

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you Dennis! 😊

[@re210]

Thanks :)

[@AffinityRevolution]

You're welcome! 😊

[@ClintLoweTube]

Nice use of the clone brush.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! 😊

[@anatoliytovarnytskyy1336]

Thank you for sharing!👌😁

[@AffinityRevolution]

You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊

[@carmenlopez702]

Excellent video like always. My husband is a great fan of your singing. :-)

[@AffinityRevolution]

Haha thank you! 🤗

[@OrdinaryOneOfficial]

Super handy, Thank you!

[@AffinityRevolution]

You're welcome! 😊

[@barbhagger6569]

Great tips, thanks again

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊

[@MK-ni6gs]

Thank you for this excellent vid.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Glad you liked it! 😊

[@WaldirBorbaJunior]

Amazing... super easy.

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[@StefanoBallad]

Thank you so much!

[@AffinityRevolution]

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[@abhayjoshi52]

Yes now i can do . thanks mam

[@AffinityRevolution]

Yay! I'm glad you can do it now. 😊

[@cezicase]

very well done! thank you

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! 😊

[@blazkoncan9477]

I started with level one. In the beginning, when you chose the crop tool I only have an option for a vector crop tool. When I make the image larger, there is no commands in the context toolbar. It is empty. What am I doing wrong?

[@AffinityRevolution]

The Vector Crop Tool is in Affinity Designer - this video is for Affinity Photo. Sorry for the confusion!

[@leonard187]

@AffinityRevolution is it at all possible to revise this video tutorial in PHOTO V2

[@AffinityRevolution]

I'll probably remake this tutorial someday, but the tools taught in this video work the same in V2. If something isn't working for you, it's possible that your photo was not rasterized. To solve this, right click on the photo's layer in the Layers Panel, and press "Rasterize". Then everything should work as expected. 🙂

[@leonard187]

@@AffinityRevolution thanks for responding I appreciate that.

[@juanlash]

for some strange reason, when I try to duplicate what's selected on the Marque tool, it duplicates the entire layer instead, is there an option that's preventing me only duplicating what I've selected?

[@AffinityRevolution]

That happens if your layer is not rasterized. Right click on your layer in the Layers Panel, and select "Rasterize and trim". Then make your selection and duplicate it.

[@juanlash]

@@AffinityRevolution I see, I’ll try it out, thank you very much, you are awesome 😁

[@alainadamski7703]

Thank you for this important tutorial, it is also the open door to another kind of creation... ;-)

[@AffinityRevolution]

You're welcome! 😊

[@rgrun1]

Another great one. Also the patch tool can be your friend here too

[@AffinityRevolution]

True. I'm personally not a big patch tool user, but it would work well for this. 😊

[@gabequezada2066]

That cats face is my face when I started learning how to edit pics..

[@WarStorm]

For some reason when I Ctrl+J it just duplicates the entire image and not the selection... Any ideas?

[@AffinityRevolution]

My guess is that you have an "Image" layer, instead of a "pixel layer". Right click on your photo's layer in the layers panel, and then rasterize it. Then you should be able to follow along with this video. This video covers "Image" layers" vs "pixel layers" in depth : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIDYfnWlfN2UpJY

[@WarStorm]

@@AffinityRevolution Yep that was it I didn't even think of that. Thank you!!

[@karambirsingh914]

Thnxxxx 😀👍🏻

[@AffinityRevolution]

My pleasure! 😊

[@corsegerspwnd]

I love making photos of my cat when he goes all derpy with his tongue

[@AffinityRevolution]

Haha cats are so cute and funny... 😊

[@simonpayne7994]

In some cases I suppose mirroring parts of the background could also be an option.

[@AffinityRevolution]

True true!

[@midierror]

great video, thanks this is really useful. I also enjoyed your accent :D

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thank you! 😊

[@ricomarques]

Great Tutorial, but how to do this on the Ipad Version? Please comeback with the Ipad version tutorials too, pleaseee!! :)))

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thanks for the feedback! 😊

[@ricomarques]

@@AffinityRevolution thank you for the awesome content and tutorials, you help a lot of us that wants to get better 😊🌹

[@MichelMayerle]

Content aware fill would be highly appreciated in Affinity Photo. In this regard Photoshop clearly has an edge right now. Hopefully Serif will be able to close the gaps in the future.

[@AffinityRevolution]

Affinity has content aware fill. You can use the Inpainting Brush, or make a selection and then fill it in by going to Edit --> Fill --> Inpainting. What Affinity DOESN'T have is Content Aware Scale, which would certainly be a welcome addition!

[@MichelMayerle]

@@AffinityRevolution I am sorry, that’s what I meant :-)

[@markorafferty876]

Affinity Photo does have content aware fill, it's called the Inpainting Brush tool. This is part of the "Healing, Patch, Blemish, Inpainting and Red Eye removal tools" tools. Having said that I used another approach on the Level 2 example, and I just extended above the trees. After extending and adding Gaussian Blur I didn't crop. I then merged the visible layers into a new layer and used the menu commands "Select | Alpha Range | Select Partially Transparent" and then press the keys ALT+Backspace to fill in the marching ants area. I then extended the bottom and again used "Select | Alpha Range | Select Partially Transparent" and then press the keys ALT+Backspace to fill in the marching ants area. This does duplicate the trees well as a starter for 10, and then you can clone out the repeating patterns. I hope that helps

[@phlotographer]

@@markorafferty876 great to see the sharing of info in this topic and hopefully in others. I have edited my saved link to add to look at your comment when I review this topic in the future. TYVM

[@StevePotgieter]

ctrl + j brings up my brush for some reason

[@AffinityRevolution]

Try opening a new photo (File > Open), and then see if Ctrl + J duplicates the photo. Maybe something just went wrong in the photo you were working on.

[@lightingdesignerpro5747]

hola mundo

[@AffinityRevolution]

Hola! 😊

[@maxivy3299]

For option 3, I thought you could use the Patch tool as well to maintain the lines. But still a good lesson.

[@AffinityRevolution]

The Patch Tool is another great option. 😊

[@kabobz]

Affinity needs to add content aware fill like photoshop.

[@markorafferty876]

Affinity Photo does have content aware fill, it's called the Inpainting Brush tool. This is part of the "Healing, Patch, Blemish, Inpainting and Red Eye removal tools" tools. Having said that I used another approach on the Level 2 example, and I just extended above the trees. After extending and adding Gaussian Blur I didn't crop. I then merged the visible layers into a new layer and used the menu commands "Select | Alpha Range | Select Partially Transparent" and then press the keys ALT+Backspace to fill in the marching ants area. I then extended the bottom and again used "Select | Alpha Range | Select Partially Transparent" and then press the keys ALT+Backspace to fill in the marching ants area. This does duplicate the trees well as a starter for 10, and then you can clone out the repeating patterns. I hope that helps

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thanks for sharing your technique Mark! :)

[@lonniehardesty6227]

Hi your videos are well done, however my (up to date version ) consistently does not do what you demonstrate seemingly ever act like you show. Almost everything from layers to this video never work. The commands are different and results are different. Is it perhaps because you are using older version?

[@ArchievaldQuiambao]

I am expecting content aware, but isn't :(

[@AffinityRevolution]

Affinity has content aware fill, but does not have content aware scale (like Photoshop).

[@sidyk]

Affinity is soooooo bad software when you need inpaint background :/

[@MentosCubing]

It worked flawlessly in all three of these examples, and I've never had a problem with it. Can you explain why you believe it to be bad?

[@sidyk]

@@MentosCubing try to expand more detailed bg

[@AffinityRevolution]

Affinity's inpainting works well for simple backgrounds, but if have a complex background you will need to do some manual cloning.

[@markorafferty876]

Great video - thanks for showing

[@AffinityRevolution]

Thanks Mark!