[How to get a satin look to black and white....]

11 hours ago, sfriedberg said:

Play with contrast.  You've shown an image with very subdued highlights, and generally modest contrast.  Try a curve adjustment to knock down the whites into the lighter greys.

Thanks, I will give it a try

[How to get a satin look to black and white....]

2 hours ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

The above image has quite an HDR sense to it and may have been composed from multiple exposures of the same shot. Affinity can do that with the HDR Merge feature. If you have just one exposure, try to boost the Local Contrast setting in the Tone Mapping Persona (while keeping the Tone Compression all the way down). This works better with higher bit depths. Also, the harvester looks heavily retouched. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of brushwork involved in the shading of the vehicle's body.

Klingt überzeugend, ich werd's versuchen. LG aus MUC

[How to get a satin look to black and white....]

9 hours ago, thomaso said:

What is "NB"? – Doesn't in particular BW allow detailed brightness adjustment related to certain color areas?
You might use White Balance additionally to shift certain colors for BW, or use a mask e.g. to darken the sky separately.

thanks for the tips

[How to get a satin look to black and white....]

4 hours ago, Jowday said:

NB

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nota bene

was intended to avoid people telling me how tosimply  turn colour into BW as happened in another forum , by  drawing their attention to this as a precaution. Quote below from the Cambridge Dictionary. AlsI studied latin a long time ago, but thanks anyway

[How to get a satin look to black and white....]

How do I get this satin look with AF? (NB. BW is not the problem) 

[Retrospective Macro creation from AF History]

Thanks Walt, I will give it a try

[Retrospective Macro creation from AF History]

Is it possible to retrospectively create a macro from AF History?

 

The reason I ask is that I often find myself stumblingly getting to a very successfull and pleasing result, and wishing I could preserve the steps as a macro, too late however.

[Does anyone know how to get this effect with Affinity?]

[When are DAM/cataloging and tethering features coming to Affinity Photo]

On 1/30/2019 at 8:15 PM, chefseyephotography said:

I wanted to find out if you have any plans to add photo cataloging features to Affinity Photo similar to those found in Adobe Lightroom or Capture One?  Skylum’s Luminar 3 product has implemented a DAM/cataloging features with its newest release Luminar 3 and this product competes directly with Affinity Photo.  Also, do you have any plans for a tethering feature? It would be nice to bring photos directly into Affinity Photo from a camera as one can do in Lightroom and ON1.

I am using B8Stack Freeware for Tethering - works with Imaging Edge Desktop(for Sony only). There is no embedded tethering in AF