drippy cat

Hi badabing. A HSL layer could help. Personally I'd go for a Colour Balance layer. It gives you sliders to adjust the cyan - red, the magenta - green and the yellow - blue balance. The nice thing is it gives you those sliders for highlights, mid tones and shadows. so you'd be able to target, say, the mid tones and make them more red while leaving the shadows blues alone.

Hi MBd; & yes, I could've. Good point & well made.

Hi Everyone, I've just put up a tutorial on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MagvUcQoiiE&feature=youtu.be which is all about creating the bleach bypass effect you see all over the place these days. I show you the effect along with describing potential problems & what to do about them. This video is part of a greater series of tutorials from the course I'm working on at the moment which will be called 'Affinity Photo: The Little Box of tricks' and has been designed to sit directly with and follow on from one of my other courses, 'Affinity Photo: Solid Foundations'. The latter course is aimed at beginners, the one I'm working on now builds on those foundations and will give you plenty of creative ways to send your images off in all manner of new directions.

What Alfred said. Thanks Alfred. If your dpi is higher than the size of the image needs then great; leave it higher & no need to resize.

Hi Boybrown, In that case I hope the course gives you something you can use. As for exporting it's pretty straightforward but I'll go into a bit of detail in case any other soul happens across this post and needs to know more than you might. Common wisdom says that you need 300 dpi/ppi (dots per inch/points per inch) to make it so that you can't see the individual pixels on print. So say you'd want a 5 by 7 print. That works out at 5 x 300 = 1500 pixels by 7 x 300 = 2100 pixels. Conversely if you know you have (eg) a file that's 4000 pixels by 3000 pixels the maximum size you could expect to print it would be 13.33 inches by 10 inches. But. That's common wisdom. Those magazines you look at by some major publishing houses? They print at the lower rez of 250 dpi & no one seems to complain. The fact of the matter is that you can get away with a bit less - depending on the circumstances - because people tend not to squint up close at photos especially if they are larger. There is also software around which attempts to enlarge photos and intelligently resample them to get rid of the jaggies. You can get some great result with them. I use Perfect Resize by on1. As for file format clients used to insist on .tif files but these days a jpeg with quality to maximum should serve you just fine if you are sending it off for a straight development onto print. That's what I do because it's the one format you can guarantee every developing machine that's operated by a 9 year old at your local chemist will recognise.

Hi PhotoNewbie & thanks for the kind words! I must admit I'm enjoying the series I'm working on now quite a bit. It goes beyond the basics and really gives a taste of what you can do with a modern & capable image editor. I hope you get a lot out of it & I'll make an announcement here when it's ready or I do a preview video on youtube.

Hi Boybrown; nice to talk to you again. Thanks for the nice things about the Solid Foundations course. The RAW course is like the SF course; one for newcomers to RAW editing. I explain what a RAW file is & how it's different to other files (the whole higher bit depth thing) & go through all the panels & explain what the sliders do. I also develop 10 RAW files (supplied with the course in case anyone doesn't have their own to experiment with) & develop them in different ways. Honestly? If you are already comfortable with developing RAW files, & it sounds like you are, I'm not sure I'd recommend the course. I don't give any radical new ways of developing stuff. I sat down & thought about how bewildered I was when I first started developing RAW files & what they were supposed to be & why you could do this & why you couldn't do that etc. The course is like Solid Foundations but for RAW files. So again, if you are beyond the need for solid foundations I won't try & grab your money. Instead I'll shamelessly plug the series I'm working on at the moment which is designed to build on top of the SF course by having a whole bunch of tutorials which cover many modern techniques & design practices I've accrued over the years. That might be right up your alley...

Hi all, To celebrate the launch of the new video series about Raw Development over at udemy.com, I've discounted both the existing and the new courses. The discount code for Affinity Photo: Solid Foundations is 'HoorayForRaw' (no quotes) The discount code for Affinity Photo: Raw Image Development is 'AffinityRawPromo' (no quotes) both are valid until the end of May, 2016 The tutorial link for Affinity Photo: Solid Foundations is https://www.udemy.com/affinityphoto-solid-foundations/ and the course link for Affinity Photo: Raw Image Processing is https://www.udemy.com/affinity-photo-raw-image-development/ Thanks, Drippy Cat

Hi all, I've just released the next course for Affinity Photo. This one is all about using the Develop Persona to develop Raw files. You can view the course here - https://www.udemy.com/affinity-photo-raw-image-development/or you can watch a video about the course here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vqOTtmo11g . The course is over 3 & a half hours and is focused on the Develop Persona and Raw files. I created it with the course 'Affinity Photo: Solid Foundations' (also at udemy.com) in mind so that the two of the act together. I explain what a Raw file is, the advantages (and disadvantages) of Raw files over jpegs, and I go through the tabs and tools to give a thorough grounding in Raw file enhancement. As well as the theory and tool demonstrations I also take 10 Raw files and develop them so you can see the development process repeatedly. You get the same 10 Raw files as downloads to experiment with. Hope it proves useful to someone, Drippy Cat Hang on! - go here - https://www.udemy.com/affinity-photo-raw-image-development/?couponCode=AffinityRawPromoor enter ' AffinityRawPromo' (no quotes) to get a discount off the regular price until the end of May 2016!

Hi KXPP. I'm currently developing the Raw course. When it's released I'm planning on a new offer on the Solid Foundations course to celebrate. I'll have to look up the conditions Udemy apply on how many sales promotions I'm allowed to do in a set period of time. But all being well, I'd like to get the new course and the promotions out by the end of May.

Hi PhotoNewbie. I'm glad to hear it's working out for you. I hope my query to Udemy (which to be fair they answered in a timely fashion) helped/is helping matters along. Any questions just ask here on via the udemy q&A part of the site.

Hi Bob. I'm very pleased to hear it and I hope it gives you a good starting point... Cheers, Simon

Hi PhotoNewbie. I've just received this reply from Udemy: 'Thanks for your message. I apologize for any frustration this has caused. Unfortunately, there is a lag between when a course is approved for the Udemy marketplace and when it appears on mobile. This is due to Apple’s approval process for courses submitted to their marketplaces. Apple do not provide a timeline for when a specific course will be available and the time needed to approve a course on their system can vary. Could you please tell your student to purchase the course on Udemy.com and the course will be added to his account on his mobile devices. Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. Please let me know if I can help further.' To be fair, when I was submitting apps to the Apple store there was a delay while the appraised it, although usually I got the approval within a week. maybe larger video courses take more time because they have to watch the lot in case there are undesirable parts hidden away. I hope some of that helps...

Ok. I've submitted a query about it and if/when I hear anything about it I'll post here.

Hi PhotoNewbie. Sorry to hear about your problems. No; really, I am sorry and rather annoyed about ti since you're not the first person to have had these kind of problems. Unfortunately I jave to get a ticket and stand in line along with everyone else. I'll get onto it though and see if anything can be done.

@Edr - I'm sorry to hear you've had such problems with this. I do find it odd that my course won't show up when other courses do. Maybe it's because it's a newer course and hasn't been registered in that section yet? But I'm just speculating here. But I'll get onto them about it and if I have anything that can help you I'll post it here.

@BoyBrown - Hi. Just got back from a week away so sorry I didn't respond earlier. I'm in the planning stages of the Raw course and definitely want it out by the end of May - albeit once it's done properly - I hope.

Just a quick heads up to those already enrolled & who may have finished the course. I've added a video at the end which explains how to combine different images into one, and using the resize canvas command.

Thank you very much Patricia! I left a glowing reply to your glowing review along distinctly linguisticky lines.

Hi jmac; funny you should mention that. I've just finished writing to someone directly on the Udemy site about probably the same issue. I'm sorry you're having problems with it & I hope it gets sorted out for you sooner rather than later.

Music to my ears FJ! Thank you so much.

Hi Gramondo and thank you so very much for your kind words! I must admit I've been a bit taken aback by the nice things people have written so far. It's a good motivation to carry on with the next course.

Merci Madame!

boybrown, jmac, Chipotle and wendywoo - Thank you all so much! It's always a nervous moment when you release something into the world. The fact that you got back so soon about it has made my day. Oh, and Elf, thank you for your kind words in the review section over at udemy. People do read the reviews and they make a difference. Thank you all again!

Oo bu**er! Thanks for that boybrown. I've just fixed it now. I was getting so wrapped up in getting everything right that I missed that one. Cheers.