This is looking good, so exit from the Dialog Box. Press on the Ambient light color, and change it to a light orange to warm up the image. Our picture looks a bit too dark now, but we can fix that by increasing the Ambient slider in the Dialog Box. Using the bottom middle handle, reposition the light source. Using the top handle, click and drag to move the light source up and to the left. Zoom out by pressing Command – (Mac) or Control – (PC). Now we’ll enhance the lighting in our image.įirst, select the Background layer in the Layers Panel. Press Command D (Mac) or Control D (PC) to deselect. To fix this, check on Preserve Alpha in the Dialog Box. This blurring is giving our picture opaque edges. The higher the Radius, the bigger the blur.ĭon’t increase the Radius too much, or it won’t look quite right. Increase the Radius in the Dialog Box to blur the background. With the background selected, we can apply a Gaussian Blur Filter.
Press Command Shift I (Mac) or Control Shift I (PC) to invert the selection. Right now, we have everything except the background selected, so we’ll need to invert our selection. We need to select the background in order to blur it. It’s the moment that we’ve all been waiting for. This will tell Affinity to have a second look at refining the edges of her hair.Īfter your selection is looking good, press Apply. To make the selection even better, paint around the edges of her hair. This button automatically refines your selection (like magic!) With a rough selection made, it’s time to refine the selection. You can also adjust your brush size by using the bracket keys beneath the equal sign on your keyboard ( ). If you accidentally select too much (no worries, happens all the time), you can hold down Alt (Mac) or Option (PC) on your keyboard while painting to remove from your selection. With the image opened in Affinity Photo, we need to start by selecting the subject of our photo.
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