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how to remove background in affinity photo
HeyBraza points at the selection brush, the refine button, and the add-mask icon so the cutout is a few clicks, not an hour of tracing.
removing a background in affinity used to mean slow tracing - now it's a brush, a refine pass, and a mask. the trick is masking the selection instead of deleting it, so you can fix the edges after. here's the clean, non-destructive way in the current app.
or do it yourself
- 1make sure you're in the photo studio (the pixel-editing mode), not the develop studio.
- 2pick the selection brush tool and paint over your subject until the whole thing is selected.
- 3click 'refine' on the context toolbar and brush over hair or fuzzy edges to tidy the selection.
- 4with the selection active, click the 'mask layer' button at the bottom of the layers panel - the background hides instead of being deleted.
- 5to fix any spots, click the mask thumbnail and paint with a black brush to hide or white to bring back.
let HeyBraza do this with you
HeyBraza is a tiny on-screen guide that points at the right buttons and talks you through it, on windows and mac.
downloadcommon questions
is there a one-click background remover in affinity?
the newest affinity adds an ai 'remove background' under the canva ai studio, but it's a paid canva feature - the selection-brush-plus-mask method above is built in and free.
why use a mask instead of deleting the background?
a mask is non-destructive - you can paint the edges back with a brush, while deleting throws the pixels away for good.