AlphabetCountry
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On 2/6/2021 at 4:44 AM, GarryP said:
Welcome to the forums @AlphabetCountry
My attached video shows one basic method to do what I think you want to do in Designer.
You might need to play around with the various Tolerances to get a really good result.
There may be better methods to use in Designer but Photo is probably better for this sort of thing.@GarryP BINGO! That's exactly what I was looking for. The video was perfect and this works like a charm. (I was so close, and yet so very far 🙂 ) This capability opens up a wealth of possibilities for me. Thank you so much for taking the time to post a solution; I -really- appreciate it!!!
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Total neophyte here, although I did take a 15-hour tutorial and have checked the FAQs; thanks in advance for your patience. I have a jpeg image of hand-lettered black text on a white ground. I want to change the black text to blue and the white ground to yellow. Here's what I did:
1. I bring the image into AD by dragging it into the AD icon on my Mac dock. (I note it registers as a background.)
2. Change to pixel persona
3. <Select sample color> and <Apply>. AD automatically selects the white ground.
4. <Invert pixel selection> so AD selects the black text
5. Apply a mask to remove the black text. (I note the black text now looks like a clear-ish checkerboard and the white ground looks like a greyed out checkerboard, not what I expected.)
At this point I thought I might be able to swap in a color of my choice to replace the black text with a color (using the color picker tool), and repeat the process for the white ground and swap in a different ground color, maybe by slipping a blue "background" behind the deleted text and white ground, thus turning the text blue. No such luck. Or do something with transparency, or ... ? Not sure if I just don't know how to do it or if it can't be done. Manually selecting text with a selection brush would not be worth the effort.
Suggestions most welcome. Thank you!
Color replacement in b&w image
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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@Lagarto Thank you very much for this detailed response. I think my problem was more basic (just to change entire text, then entire background), but I will definitely file this away for future use. Thanks again for taking the time to help me out!