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@firstdefence That's a cool approach too! I wonder how an outer shadow would look though as the original print doesn't look like the writing is cut out rather than hovering above the blue background with a bit of a 3D effect. PS. My Affinity Photo 1 doesn't allow me to open your attached file because it doesn't have the features Affinity Photo 2 has.

@thomaso Thanks! Just used your approach and rebuilded the whole tripe with a bit of a shadow on the inside as well as the outside to have sort of an average between the my original, the CD from my Brother as well as these to from the internet: It indeed seems as if most copies don't feature that white part - this might have happened in the printing process. It's also clear that every original print has that edge/shadow around the writing as well as the stripe. Here's another good example: I've never found an accurate, high resolution picture of the album cover on the internet while archiving all of my music. Which is why it is my goal is to create a fantastic copy of that cover and provide it to albumartexchange.com, which helped me a lot with finding great high resolution album covers. The writing now seems perfect to me and for the stripe I think I'll settle for the average of the album covers, which is a stripe with a bit of a shadow. More on the right side than the left.

@Pšenda Just tried that too, works very well as well! Got the orange stripe even, using your method 🙂 But I'm all ears for a different approach.

@Alfred Very cool idea and definitely a great option. It would take a whole lot of tweaking though to get it like the original.

@thomaso Wow man, amazing! That's it!! Thanks so much! Now I noticed that the orange "stripe" is uneven too - color wise. Any idea on how to change that without removing the white border and the gradient that gets darker towards the edge? Appreciate it a lot!

@RichardMH This sounds very good! But I would need Affinity Photo 2 for the Hue Range Live mask, right? Can you upload a high quality picture of the result you got? Many thanks!

@Alfred True that but it's quite a specific outer shadow, quite uneven, which is part of the album cover.

@Alfred Thanks, the font indeed is very close to the original and it also looks good, but all the small details making the font 3Dish are missing that way.

@markw Sorry for responding so late and thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I couldn't open the .afphoto file as I'm still on Affinity Photo 1. I Just tried every step you listed, but the writing ended up looking like it was cut off and the font, when zooming in was a bit more rounded than the original. Very interesting approach though. The slightly dark edge and fade are definitely part of the original which is what I try to preserve as every version of that cover on the internet either has a rebuild font or not the correct details. I would love to only make most of the blue color uniform without those spots from the scan while maintaining the effect of the font. Definitely tricky...

@GarryP Thanks! Sure, here it is attached: ToRecordOnlyWaterForTenDays.png.zip

@Pšenda Thanks a lot! I just tried it. It works quite well, but zooming in I can still see a blue edge around the writing. Is there an even more noble way of doing this whole thing? I will upload it as a .zip file.

Dear fellow Affinity Photo users, Is there someone that could give me tips on how to level out the color fluctuations on the attached album cover? It is a scan I have cleaned up but when you zoom out there's visible spots/patches that are darker than others. Is it possible to even this out? I hope there are possibilities other than removing the text and putting in a blue background as I couldn't get it quite right with the text I wish to keep the same. Many, many thanks for any tips and infos. Steve PS. I'm not too familiar with all the tools