Paint over the book and let the software change the pixels to match the background (see screenshot).The brush already has a soft edge but let’s enlarge the Width to 200 pixels in the Context Toolbar (see screenshot). Select the Inpainting Brush (see screenshot).Affinity Photo’s Inpainting feature does most of the work for us by matching the surrounding pixels to patch the empty areas and the book. Drag and rotate the photo so that only half of the cup and plant are visible (see screenshot).Īs you can see, the photo doesn’t cover the entire Canvas any longer.In the Transform panel, click the icon to lock the height and width. In the Menu Bar, click Arrange - Rotate 90 Counter-Clockwise. To rotate the photo, unlock the layer if necessary and select the Move tool.The photo will be too large for the Canvas and we want the objects to be at the top of the scene. Go back to your mockup document and click Edit - Paste.Now go to the Unsplash photo which has opened in Affinity Photo and select the Move tool.Check the box to set Photo as your default software and click OK. If Affinity Photo isn’t your default software, click Other and choose Affinity Photo. To download the photo from Unsplash, click the Download button and choose Open With (see screenshot).In the example, I am using a Width of 2000 pixels and a Height of 1334 pixels. Set the DPI to 144 and the Height and Width as needed. Click File - New and set the Type option to Web. Let’s start a new document in Affinity Photo (see screenshot).When you create your mockup graphics, you will want to use the required dimensions for your marketplace, such as Etsy or Creative Market. Once we have the photo open, let’s do the easy stuff first, by resizing and repositioning the photo. Our first task is to download a copy of the photo from Unsplash and open it in to Affinity Photo. I also want to place the objects at the top of my mockup scene, leaving a lot of space below for my product graphic and text. So, I will use the Affinity Photo Inpainting feature to erase the book next to the cup. As you can see, there are three objects in the photo and I only want the plant and coffee cup. In our example, we will use the first method with a CC0 image from Sincerely Media on Unsplash. Then you can use these objects to build a custom scene. In this method, you remove objects from the photo and save them in to another file with a transparent background. The second method gives you more flexibility. For method one, you will use the entire photo as a scene and place your product graphic and text in to the scene. Once you have chosen your photos, there are two ways to use them to create mockups. Both of these sites have large, good quality photos. My two favorite places for CC0 images are Unsplash and Pixabay. Photo manipulation is a big part of creating mockup backgrounds from CC0 images. I especially use this tool when I create my own product mockups from CC0 and public domain photos. Had this been a higher res image with more detail for an important project, even more precision is possible and would warrant investing more time to fine tune.One of the most used tools in Affinity Photo is the Inpainting Brush tool, which makes fixing mistakes or removing objects from a photo very easy. Using the OP's image, I did this very quickly in Designer, so it's certainly not perfect but you get the idea in the image below where I added a blue background after 'removing' the white background. With this method, after the background is 'removed', you can still use the node tool for more fine tuning since this is basically a masking process and the complete image is still there with nothing being actually deleted or removed. In the case of removing a white background, it's helpful to create a background layer with any color other than white so you can see the change. At that point, I change the stroke size to zero. The Curve layer will be above the Image layer, so you drag the Image layer up into the Curve layer to join the two and you will see the background 'disappear'. 2pt red stroke to outline the object via individually placed nodes, do fine tuning with the node tool for curves, etc, and remove the background by dragging the Image layer into the Curve layer. To remove the background from objects like this, I use the Pen tool with a.
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