today I'm sharing three techniques for removing unwanted people from an image using Affinity
photo not only that but each of these methods is extremely quick and easy to use with three
simple tools you can quite literally make everyone vanish from your photos if you've
ever had problems trying to do this and most people have it's probably because you were
using the wrong tool not every method I'm going to show you will work with every image so you
need to learn to use all three but that shouldn't be a problem because they are easy and take only
seconds to use in this first example let's remove the dog walkers from the left side
of the frame I've already opened the image in the Affinity photo Persona we can then zoom in
using the Navigator Studio panel so we can see clearly when making the repair for this fix I'm
going to use the lasso tool which you'll find in the tools palette we can set this to make
different types of selection in the toolbar I want to use the freehand option for this it
allows me to draw around the first dog walker to make a rough selection I click with the mouse
button at the start and then draw around the area whilst continuing to hold down the button
when I release the button it creates a selection indicated by the dotted line or marching hands
then to remove the area inside the selection I choose the in painting option from the edit menu
I can then repeat the process with this second dog walker
the repair isn't perfect but it's good enough with this image that most people wouldn't spot it using
the impainting method is fast and easy but it is a destructive edit this means that it's made changes
to the actual pixels of the image and I can't remove them without using the undo command or
the history tools let's look at a second example of using this but this time with a street scene
in Bruges we'll use it to remove the two people you see on the right side of the frame as before
I'll zoom in so that I can see clearly whilst making the repair but before I make the selection
I'll duplicate the image layer I'm then working on a copy of the image in case something goes
wrong no using the lasso tool I can select the first person and apply the in painting command
I can then repeat step with the second person
the results look reasonable at first glance but you can probably spot them so let's try our second
technique this time we'll use the in painting brush tool from the tools palette after selecting
the tool set the drop down in the toolbar to be current layering below this tells the Affinity
photo to use the selected layer in the layers panel and any layers below it when making the
repair I'll then add a new empty layer to the image from the layers menu to make the repair too
to make the repair I can click on the first person and then paint over them whilst holding down the
mouse Button as I paint you can see the red mask appear over the area then when I release the mouse
button Affinity photo removes The Unwanted person then I can repeat this with the second person
and because I made my repair to a separate layer I can hide the layer to show the people again
now let's look at a third Technique we can use with a new image this time there are people on the right side
and left side of the frame that I want to remove as before I'll add a new layer to make the repair
tube which avoids changing the original image to remove the people from the left of the frame
I'll magnify the area and use the impainting brush tool I can change the size of the brush using the
square bracket keys on my keyboard this helps me to paint accurately and avoid affecting the pier
when it comes to the people on the right side of the frame I'll start by removing the small
child with the impacting brush but the other person I want to remove is larger and may be
too large for the brush to handle when this happens try our third technique which is
using the patch tool you'll find it in the tools palette on the left in the same group
as the impacting brush tool I can then click and whilst holding down the mouse button draw
around the person to remove when I release the mouse button it completes a selection
as with the impacting brush set then repair to use the current layering Below in the toolbar now I
can move my mouse pointer over the image to find an area I want to make the repair with as I move
the mouse pointer you can see the area below the mouse is superimposed in the repair when I can see
that I've lined up a sample with the surrounding area I can click to apply the change now if you
find the patch repair hasn't Blended perfectly you can touch it up with the in painting brush foreign
I can also use the in painting brush to remove the Shadows of the people from the beach the
tools and examples we've looked at in this video have all been quite easy but what do you do when
you're faced with a much more complex repair to find out how to make a repair like this you need
to watch this video next it explains how you can remove anything from an image using only Affinity
photo thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe I'll see you soon for another video