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heal layer

charles kasler
I have mixed results trying to remove an object with a heal layer. I am learning Affinity Photo slowly & they suggested removing any background objects (with the inpainting brush) before doing any other adjustments. I haven't had enough time to test this out yet. Just checking if others have any experience with this? Thanks.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    I find that using a Heal or Clone layer in Capture One is frequently not ideal for removing objects unless they are pretty small, but sometimes it works perfectly. I usually try in Capture One and if that doesn't work, I use Affinity Photo and its inpainting brush instead. But I don't see the logic of doing it in Affinity first before you do anything else. That would require you to export from Capture One (presumably as a TIFF) to Affinity photo, then after doing your inpainting you'd be doing all the rest of your Capture One work on the TIFF not the raw file. I'd have thought that the best results would be had from working on the raw file as much as possible.

    Ian
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  • charles kasler
    good advice Ian - thanks.
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  • charles kasler
    Ian - I am trying it with haze removal in AP with good results. If I do my raw file editing in C-1, I have to "edit with" & export a tiff to AP? is that correct? Because if I edit the raw file & in C-1, then open AP & import it, I get a raw file but with none of the edits I did in C-1.
    I would think it best to do haze removal first, as it would affect my other adjustments, but it doesn't look like I can do that & still have control over the raw file.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    [quote="Pareshk" wrote:
    Ian - I am trying it with haze removal in AP with good results. If I do my raw file editing in C-1, I have to "edit with" & export a tiff to AP? is that correct? Because if I edit the raw file & in C-1, then open AP & import it, I get a raw file but with none of the edits I did in C-1.

    To achieve what you are trying to do, you need to (1) do as much of the work as you want to do in C1, then (2a) export a TIFF which you open in AP, or (2b) just use the Edit with... command in C1 (NOT "open with", which just opens the raw file in AP) then (3) do your work in AP - dehazing etc.

    C1 never alters the raw file itself, it just keeps a record of the adjustments you make to it to enable it to produce output with those adjustments at the end of the process, so opening the raw file in AP will not reflect any work already done in C1.

    Ian
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  • charles kasler
    That makes sense Ian...thank you again!
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