Lightbulb is greatly known for her goofy and ludicrous attitude, given that when she returned for Inanimate Insanity II, her character had completely changed from the clumsy and ditzy leader of Season 1's Team Epic to a more comical and almighty chief and commander of Team Bright Lights. Lightbulb is a goofy, fun-loving, enthusiastic, free-spirited, and optimistic character. Lightbulb's arms and legs protrude out of her grey metal twisted sleeve, followed by an electric foot contact between her legs. Within her glass bulb, she has a stem sticking out above her metal sleeve. Her face appears on her glass bulb, which is large and shiny yellow. This adds a nice lighting effect to the image, making it look like the light is coming from behind the glass of the bulb.Lightbulb resembles a large class Incandescent Light Bulb, an electric light which produces light with a wire filament heated to a high temperature by an electric current passing through it until it glows. In the Layers Panel, select the lake layer.Ĭhange the Blend Mode from Normal to Linear Light. With the lake fitting beautifully, it’s time to adjust the lighting. Then you can paint to bring back the lake.Ĭontinue painting until the lake fits perfectly inside the bulb. If you ever paint away too much of the lake, just press X on your keyboard to switch your color to white. To make your brush bigger or smaller, use the bracket keys underneath the equal sign on your keyboard ( ). Now we can paint to remove parts of the lake image. Lower the Hardness in the Context Toolbar to 0%, and make sure your color is set to black in the Color Panel. To remove parts of the lake, we’ll need to get out the Paint Brush Tool. Press the Mask icon to apply a mask to the lake layer. This allows us to remove parts of the lake, so that it will fit perfectly inside the edges of the bulb. However, the lake should not cover the top of the light bulb. Be sure to have the lake cover the left and right sides of the light bulb, as well as the bottom of it. Select the Move Tool, and then adjust the size and position of the lake. We need to resize the lake so that it fits into the light bulb. Press Command V (Mac) or Control V (PC) to paste the lake layer. Press Command C (Mac) or Control C (PC) to copy the image. Then, press Command D (Mac) or Control D (PC) to deselect the sky. Press Delete on your keyboard to remove the sky. The Flood Select Tool is great for selecting skies.Ĭlick in the middle of the sky to select it. This lets us click on one color in the photo, and any color that is within a 25% range of that color will be selected. In the Context Toolbar, set the Tolerance to 25%. With the light bulb looking good, open the tab with the lake image.įirst, we will remove the sky from the photo. You can change your brush size by using the bracket keys on your keyboard ( ). You may also need to use a smaller brush size, to paint more accurately. You might have to paint across an area multiple times before Affinity does a good enough job of removing the wire. Paint across the wire inside of the light bulb to remove it. The Inpainting Brush Tool allows you to remove imperfections from a photo. Just paint over whatever you want to remove, and Affinity will fill in the area with information it finds from the surrounding parts of the photo. To do this, click and hold on the Healing Brush Tool, and then select the Inpainting Brush Tool. After you’ve opened the light bulb and lake images inside of Affinity Photo, we’re first going to focus on cleaning up the inside of the light bulb.įirst, select the Inpainting Brush Tool.