I'll be using the beautiful daisy flower image in this section of the tutorial to demonstrate the first background removal technique. Double-click on it to import it into Affinity. Let's start by opening up the image by going to File > Open and locating the image on your computer. How to Open the Image in Affinity Designer To demonstrate the two techniques, I will be using these two photos from Envato Elements:ġ. How to remove a busy background from an image in Affinity Designer.How to use the Selection Brush Tool in Affinity Designer.How to use the Select Sampled Color option in Affinity Designer.How to remove a white background in Affinity Designer.Let's start! What You Will Learn in This Affinity Designer Tutorial Follow these steps to learn how to remove a white background or even a busy background from any image. To erase a background, Affinity Designer offers two main techniques that will be featured in this tutorial. However, Designer comes equipped with a powerful pixel editor that allows you to make basic edits to images. Considering that it is a vector-based application, you would assume that it wouldn’t be the best option for you to remove a background in Affinity Designer. In this tutorial, I’ll be demonstrating how you can easily remove a background in Affinity Designer.

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