How To Quickly Remove A Background In Affinity Photo 

This tutorial is absolutely perfect for what I need! I just wish Affinity didn't try and reinvent the wheel. I feel like I'm fighting this app more than anything. Almost 20 years of working in digital art and I should not be having this much trouble jumping into a new program! Anyway, big kudos to you for making such a frustrating program a little bit easier to work with!

Nick this is a great find. For years I enjoyed your Gimp and Inkscape tutorials. Few teachers are as fantastic as you are. The instruction quality is just unmatched; plain and simple! I discovered the Affinity suite in 2020 during the initial lockdowns. Imagine my surprise and excitement today when I realize you actually have Affinity tutorials too... You are the definition of "no fluff, no bs quality content"... now I am smiling all the way to the bank 😍😎👌👍🎉🎉😍

Probably the best video for removing background, and its short and straight to the point!! THANKS!

So helpful - thank you. Other tutorials make this so complicated, but you really stripped it back to the essential information to get started.

Short, simple, and super helpful as usual. You have no clue how much I've learned with your videos, thank you so so much!!

Thanks for your short and super helpful. You balance the right mix of getting the point while still commenting on essential things like the key commands to make life with affinity sooooo much better. This a great example of how a 'how to' clip should be. I rarely subscribe to channels, I subscribed to yours. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for this video! I have watched many beginner videos on the actual affinity program and yours are user friendly! Thank you

Thanks, as always your videos are easy to follow and help me out every time :)

your affinity videos are the best out there! please post more!

yes! i just installed affinity photo and i spent 1 hour trying to delete the background of a photo, thing is , i was not selecting "rasterize and trim" . Why is that an option ?? is there any reason to not straight open a photo and start cropping before selecting that option in the layer?

The Mac does have a Delete key, and I don't think that was a very good selection and mask.

Easy to follow, brilliant. Now to practice

very well explained

Oh my god !! lol I have been watching remove background videos and none of them helped me with too detailed background, most of the background of their pictures was blurred so it was easy for them. This video helped a thousand times better. Thank you.

Great video!! What format do I export as so I can use it later with a different background?

Ya había visto otros canales y probado la selección con REFINE pero no me salía y de algún modo Logos by Nick siempre logra hacerlo mejor que los demás.

This was soooo helpful! Thank you!

Great tutorial, when I unlock layers the whole canvas shows a transparent image i.e photo completely disappears? Is something set incorrectly?

Thank you, that really helped

Thank you for making this video. It was exactly what I needed and very helpful!

Thank you SO MUCH!

A great pill of concrete knowledge :) Great and I keep my fingers crossed for the rest of the materials. I will ask you again on the topic of "how to paste in the place of the cut background, another background downloaded from the stock room, for example in the Affinity Photo program? Regards

Precise and clear. Thank you!

hello my af photo doesnt have the refine button, so i can't move past 2:43.

Awesome! Quick and simple! Thank you!

What if you have an image, say of a pet, and you want to keep their whiskers that extend over into the background you are removing? And, in your image, if you wanted to keep the tall grasses that were deleted with the background?

Great tutorial, thank you!

Fabulous teacher. Thank you.

thank you so much! this saved me a ton of time.

I understood it all. You are awesome.

great and easy to follow

Very useful! Concise and clear. Thank you. :)

Thank you so much for this video!

This was very helpful 🔥

what does rasterize and print do?

Excellent tutorial, Thank you

You sir, are a life saver!

Thank you for the in depth video ❤!

Perfect. Thank you! Subscribed.

Thanks so much for this tutorial. I could not hear well when you explained how to change the brush size; you mentioned something left and right and I heard you clicking but on what? I'm on Imac. Thanks!

Nick: I do everything you describe, but don't get the red overlay. How do I fix that?

Thank you ,well done

Great move Nick! I subscribed here, although I do not use Affinity, but I really like your tutorials. Tried Affinity photo a while back but preferred using Gimp, as I am more familiar with it. I learned Gimp from watching your channel and Davies media designs. Btw, Michael Davies, credited you, when he received his RU-vid 100 subs award, for inspiring him to make better videos. Although, he mentioned you guys had a falling out some time in the past. I also watched your channel to learn Inkscape, I tried it but it was not appealing to me. I do these things for a hobby, not really any design client work. There are many new Affinity users, and surely many more to come, as more people will move away from Adobe's subscription model. I think you are making a very wise move, to teach these new users about affinity software. Best wishes to you in your future endeavors

Hey Nick, great video. I'm really frustrated though. I get to the part where I need to delete but nothing happens. What am I missing?

Thanks so much for the video! How would you deal with something like the bike spokes on the back wheel where there’s so much space in between such narrow metal spokes? Thanks

didn't work when I hit edit cut, it just deleted the whole thing, not the specific background

!Thank you so much! :)

I'm having issues with the program crashing

When i press delete the whole layer gets deleted not just the selection :)

when are you going to upload on main channel ?? Love your tutorials

Great instruction and it worked. However, for some reason it removed some of the hair inside the area even though it was painted red. So it looks really patchy and weird. Clearly I've done something wrong. But I really wish these software creators would make things much more easy to use.🤦🏼‍♀

Lol, Mac (at least MacBook Pro) HAS a Delete Key, on R below the Power button, the big one that says: "delete"! Speaking of Mac, in Affinity Photo I've found [W] for BOTH "Selection Brush Tool [W]" AND "Flood Select Tool [W]"?

You can't seem to convert a path to selection, one hell of lot faster. This is insane

This is really helpful but seems very rudimental compared with photoshop which I'm trying to leave.

isn't there some ai additive that can do this in a split second?

There is no selection brush! Why would they remove one of the most important tools of any graphic program?!!

These much too quick demonstrations often represent a hasty murder on annoying details. All the fine plants in front of the sky in this image are wiped out, and not even mentioned, as it would be too difficult or to time consuming to explain how they could be preserved. The well known result without mentioning any specific editor is typical. What really could make a pleasant difference would be the engaging demonstration of how we are left with the fine details in the foreground when the sky - the whole sky - and nothing but the sky - has been removed. Then help me ...

Love alwase❤️❤️

This is still very primitive tool that requires lots time. Fun if you have lots of time. We should have AI built in background remover. The edges are jagged and not smooth straight

Uses an inverted logic on background without explanation. Very confusing

I own all three Affinity tools, but lets be honest, the ability to do background removal in Affinity is poor and faffy. It struggles to acurately recognise an object against a pure white background in a well lit studio setting. Adobe photshop has free online tools that get the job done instantly.

not neat