I'm not sure why (remember, I don't know what I'm doing). It's possible to build a macro for most of this process in Affinity Photo. It's completely separated from the background and you're free to colour underneath You can paste this copied selection into a new document as your inks or line art.At this point, I choose to Merge Visible layers into a pixel layer.Apply Threshold Adjustment to get pure black and white.Use the sliders to lower the Blues (and greens if needed) to remove pencil lines. Apply Levels Adjustment to make whites a lot whiter and blacks a lot blacker.Apply Brightness/Contrast Adjustment to make a whites a little whiter and blacks a little blacker.Duplicate background layer after opening.I saved my scans as TIFFs and opened in Affinity Photo.Hopefully it'll be useful to others.ĭisclaimer: I have only the slightest clue what I'm doing so it's possible there's a much easier/better way. So, because the internet currently has nothing on how to do this in Affinity Photo, I'll outline my method below. Instead, after some desperate googling turned up nothing useful, I had to figure out something new. If I were more experienced in its use, I'd guess I could have figured out how to transpose the Photoshop method I'd been shown but it involved messing about with new channels and other stuff above my pay-grade.

Being able to 'filter' the blue out of the scanned pages means I don't have to rub my way through three erasers to get rid of pencil lines. I pencil them in blue before going back over in black ink. As a slight aside to explain: My Sketchy Setups guides are all hand-drawn.

Affinity designer pencil