Edoardo radice

Hi all, I'm experimenting huge difficulties in white balancing images. So I've tried to create a very simple "test image" to understand if I'm doing something wrong. This is the test image, an 8 bit Pixel layer Then I've created another layer with a reddish tint and blended multiplying it (so i've created a tint shift in the image). Finally I've tried to color balance both with the color balance adjustment layer and with the White balance function of develop persona, both using the single click or using a rectangular selection. The result is the the white balance is always very poor. Hoping that this could help in solving the problem. bye Edoardo

Thank you for your kind reply. But we are speaking of a White balance bug!!! imho it is a major bug in an image processing software considering that in other software (even free ones) works as expected. Even if well known (I haven't found the post you cited: I was only looking for 1.8 verion bugs) I'll try to open a bug report. Thank you again Edoardo

Hi thank you for your reply: the workaround is really smart and it works fine. But do you agree with me that Affinity white balancing of my image is really strange? I expect that the area selected with the W.B. picker turns grey, not reddish. In your opinion should I open a post in the bug section of the forum? Thank you again Edoardo

Hi I have had a similar problem today trying to white balance an image of the moon. I've used differente strategies to white balance without reaching a proper result. You can read more here.

Hi all, this is my very first post on Affinity Forum and I have very little experience with Affinity Photo. I'm an astrophotographer and today I'ma trying to postprocess a Moon image to create a "mineral moon" image. I usually use an astrophotograpy dedicated software but now I want to try to process the image with Affinity. The very first step of mineral moon processing is perfectly white balancing the moon disk by aligning the RGB hystograms. In my case, as you can see in the attached picture (Image 01), the moon has a strong yellowish/pinkish color (due to some preprocessing I have done before) so I've tried to white balance. First I tried to use Filters-Color-Automatic white balance, but the result isn't good. (Image 02) Second I've tried with a color balancing layer, using the picker and tracing a rectangle on the moon surface with the ALT button pressed. Even in this case the color balance isn't correct: I still have a red excess (as you can see in the histogram) (Image 03) Only moving the sliders by hand I can get a decent result (Image 04 and image 05 after saturation), but I would prefer a more "automatic" method. Am I doing something wrong? Just for reference I've uploaded the result that I've obtained with the astrophotograpy software (where I have a lot of esperience). Thank you for help Edoardo Luca Radice