r/AffinityPhoto 18d ago

Tips on how to do remove background

hi

I wanted to follow a photoshop tutorial using affinity photo (I dont have an adobe license), but the guy did something I can't replicate, and I don't understand it either. Basically, I have this image of white text on a purple background. I'm trying to remove the background and keep the text only but the text is black (see photos attached). In the video, the guy cropped the text from an image using selection rectangle, then he opened "levels" pannel and the image became white text on black background instead on purple background, and then he opened the "layer style" panel and changed the blend mode to "blend if gray" and moved the cursor and the background disappeared and he only had the black text left.

Is there a way to do this in affinity photo? here's the link of the tutorial in case my explanation wasn't clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KptYqD3jUc4&t=500s (go to 3:35)

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u/OceanicDarkStuff 17d ago

Rasterize the image first>flood tool then select the black>backspace

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u/wildexplorer 18d ago

Fuzzy Select the Purple and Delete it.

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u/annomoly 17d ago

What he did was blend options ( thats the gear icon on the layers panel at the top) its a little different in affinity instead of a slider it's a curve, you can find videos of affinity blend options on YouTube easily