Hello and welcome to the computer labs YouTube channel so today we are looking
at that powerful inbuilt tool called inpainting for removing unwanted items
out of photographs in this video i'll be showing you how to use the in painting
brush tool that's built into affinity photo and also how to use the freehand
selection tool both of these allow you to remove items from photographs really
quickly and easily
okay to start off we will use the brush tool the in painting brush tool that's
built into affinity photo so first thing we obviously need to do is open affinity
photo up I'll just click on my icon on there
I'll get affinity photo opened up okay so I just starting off with the start
up panel I have got a couple of images already just saved just to keep
this video nice and quick so I'm left on my desktop and I start off like
say using the in painting brush tool so I'm just going to drag this picture of
this picture it's all flags yes I picture some stones from rock it's got
the peg that's just sat on the picture here so the aim is to quickly just
remove this item out to the photograph so it always works better these tools
when it has a lot of the background you're trying to keep in the frame of
the picture so you can see on this picture there's lots of color with the
flags that can work off so we'll just look at trying to remove the peg to
see what it looks like once it's got rid of it okay so on the left hand side you
should have your toolbar menu as you can see here and about 3/4 of the way down
is the one that we want and if we just click on the little icon here you can
see we are presented with a number submenu and the one that we want if
you're not already showing is the in painting brush tool so what just like
that you'll be then presented with a circle and depending on how big your
item is on the picture or how small it is you can change the width of the
circle so you can see here I'm calling it 75 points I'll make it bigger then
obviously it changes the size of the circle and again if you go down out to back
down to one pixel you can work very minuscule sort of detail within the
picture I will leave mine at 75px because affinity photo box it's really powerful this tool
and as long as it's got a in a background to work off it will work
really well we will set mine at 75% again make sure you've got the tool selected
the inpainting brush tool make sure your still on that and if you left click
on the mouse and drag around the item on the photograph you will see a red box to
let go of it at this point you can just click and let go which I'll show you in
a second but if I left click drag you see it shows a red marker overlay
around the item that we are trying to remove so I'll just highlight only peg
as you can see as I'm just going round it now once you've got the item selected
to let go affinity photo (depending on how powerful
machine is) just does its magic as you can see disappears straight away
really nice really powerful tool really quick and easy way to get something out
of a photograph remove people say on a beach or something like that makes it as
long as it's got a lot of foreground to work from really quick easy powerful and
then you can zoom in so you can see there, you might want to keep that
photograph or go for it is but I'll just zoom in on the photograph and you can see these
sort of white chalk marks in the picture I could left click and just drag on
these and just watch them disappear but I can also just left click and just one
click so if I just travel pick pick that off for example and I'll just make that
touch bigger let's just see what it looks like if I make my width of my
circle on it once and you'll see it just disappears so I'm not left clicking
dragging and clicking on the items I want to remove so as I go around the
picture just left clicking once on the item I want to remove and again I might
want to try remove these down here and it's always using this same tool this in
painting brush tool I left click and drag and you can see it removes all
these items out to the picture and as you go along. OK so as I zoom back out
you see so it's starting to look nice and tidy really quick easy powerful tool
a really nice way to tidy photographs up ok so the next tool I'm
going to show you how to use is this same type of technology that uses to
remove items out of a photograph but this one's using the free hand selection
tool or you can use the marquee tool or this basically shape tool to highlight a
certain area trying to remove so I'll just close this window down don't want
to save that for now and we'll drag this picture here in okay so this is purely, I
took this purely just so I could show you exactly how it works so you can see
this sky and the foreground here and this left-hand section where the tree is just
interfering with my skyline and I want to remove that now I could use the same
tool which I've just shown you there but the best one to really use when you're
selecting around a certain item is do it sort of freehand so in the tools panel
again we need to find the freehand selection tool so if you go across to
the left hand menu left click its about a quarter of the way down and
you see the different shapes so I will show you in a second but the one that we
want is the one looks like a lasso freehand selection tool so again select
this make sure it's highlighted that we know we have it selected and now we just
left-click on the mouse and dragging around the item just making sure you get
all around it and like I said all I'm doing is just dragging around the item
that I want to cut out, so that it's like did the item of highlighted and you got
the marching ants going round the that you've selected make sure that you've
got obviously the 1 nothing that should be in there he's not removing, so
again like so this is the same tool that we're using before and then we need to
go up to the Edit menu on the top toolbar click on edit and then as we go
down your lot is along this as in paint click on in paint let affinity photo do
its magic and we should see the tree removed and that's it you can see it's
filled the sky in but again I'm really powerful to a really good way of
removing stuff out of photographs stuff unwanted items and I'll just undo that
I'll just bring that back in again of what I will do I'll just show you the
other way that you can do it so if you've got say something in the middle
of photograph a bird or something in the frame you can use different tools so
again about the quarter way down click on the selection tool and you can pick
one of these up so say for example I wanted to use the rectangular marquee
tool and you can use that too draw a shape around the item you want to
remove so it's easy on this because there's nothing else interfering with my
photograph and so for example if there was a tree cutting in here I'd have to
use a free hand but all I am telling affinity photos I want to infill at this
section so really good if you're doing sort of circular shape around the bird
or something like that but it has that one the rectangle one again up to the
Edit menu down to in paint click on in pain let affinity photo or do its magic
do its thing let it move out of the photograph and again out depending on how
powerful your machine is will take depending how long it will take but as you can see
removes it from the photograph and then we're left with a nice clean image the
between them manipulator as we want okay so that's how to use the in painting
tools built in to a Affinity photo I hope you enjoyed the video if you did please
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