dmstraker

ooooh My fu.... ..od,  beautiful image 

Here's an image taken this morning up our local mountain (the Skirrid).
 
Simple adjustment: A tad vibrance in the mid tones (using Blend Ranges). Curves for a little green boost. Levels in LAB Lightness down a bit.
 
Affinity Photo is such a joy to use.

Here's an image taken this morning up our local mountain (the Skirrid).
 
Simple adjustment: A tad vibrance in the mid tones (using Blend Ranges). Curves for a little green boost. Levels in LAB Lightness down a bit.
 
Affinity Photo is such a joy to use.

Here's an image taken this morning up our local mountain (the Skirrid).
 
Simple adjustment: A tad vibrance in the mid tones (using Blend Ranges). Curves for a little green boost. Levels in LAB Lightness down a bit.
 
Affinity Photo is such a joy to use.

Hi dmstraker,
You can use the hardness of the brush setting to control the feathering while painting. You can change this in real-time pressing ⌃(ctrl) + ⌥ (option/alt) and dragging the mouse vertically (dragging horizontally changes the brush size). If you want to feather a selection (already created) go to menu Select ▸ Feather..., or alternatively Select ▸ Refine Edges... and use the Feather slider to control the effect.

Here's an image taken this morning up our local mountain (the Skirrid).
 
Simple adjustment: A tad vibrance in the mid tones (using Blend Ranges). Curves for a little green boost. Levels in LAB Lightness down a bit.
 
Affinity Photo is such a joy to use.

Here's an image taken this morning up our local mountain (the Skirrid).
 
Simple adjustment: A tad vibrance in the mid tones (using Blend Ranges). Curves for a little green boost. Levels in LAB Lightness down a bit.
 
Affinity Photo is such a joy to use.

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1stsummary.pdf

I made some curves adjustments for AD and AP which I'd like to share with you.
 
the attached Affinity file features embedded documents so that you can easily preview the effect of all curves on a single photo and then choose a curve that fits best/ gives you a good starting point/ idea.
 
You can add them to your AP though opening the document, selecting each group, selecting the "curves" adj, so that it's panel opens up, click "add preset". (I've made a feature request to make that easier)
You can then access them by the "view > studio > adjustments" panel which is active by default (only available in AP)
 
please don't overdo it   
blend modes, opacity and blend ranges can, and should be adjusted upon your needs  
 
for more information about such techniques you can have a look over here
https://affinity.ser...er-amateur-pro/
 

 
cheers
 
PS:   similar presets for the "channel mixer" are available here
PS: similar presets for "LUT" adj. are available here
 
PS: here is a great resource to really understand curves
 
 
 
 
 
 
EDIT:
just added some Black and White adjustments too FWIW   
>> curves mix.afdesign <<
>> BW mix.afdesign <<

Attached is a simple tones bar that can be used in AP for:
Assessing luminosity of parts of an image. Constraining curves adjustments to specific tones. Variable luminosity-based selection and edit. Details on origin and use are included in a pdf.
mono-tones.zip

Attached is a simple tones bar that can be used in AP for:
Assessing luminosity of parts of an image. Constraining curves adjustments to specific tones. Variable luminosity-based selection and edit. Details on origin and use are included in a pdf.
mono-tones.zip

Those are by themselves pretty different sized apps, PS CC 2017 is by far a much bigger tool (installed 3-4 GB on 64-bit systems), which also contains and has to load up much more embedded things/tools than AP (installed about 344 MB on 64-bit systems) here. - In contrast here AP is pretty lean and much smaller in size, thus it probably makes more sense to test instead how quick they can load in some given raw and image files or perform certain tasks on those!

Update attached, with symmetrical curves.
 
Comments?
 
Curve Blends V2.afphoto

Following on from a previous post, I've created three sets of macros for selecting a part of an image based on five Blend Ranges 'luminosity' curves (nominally called Blacks, Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights and Whites).
 
You can download the zip file here (the forum doesn't seem to like zip files, so I put it on my website).
 
A few points of note (more in the included .pdf file):
The 'Preview' set just cuts out the selection so you can see exactly what is being selected. It also lets you inspect the Blend Ranges curves. The 'Select' set turns this into a selection in the image. The 'Blend' set does the same for adjustments and filters. Curve overlaps are deliberately symmetrical so together they should sum to 100%. All sets include all contiguous combinations, such as 'Blacks+Shadows'.  

Simplest way to remove a guide line (as toupee says):
Switch to Move tool (V) and drag the offending line out. Another way without selecting it directly:
Add a short-cut key (Edit/Preferences, Shortcut Keys) to show the Guides Manager. Toggling guide lines is Ctrl-;, so Ctrl-Alt-; seems reasonable (this is handy anyway if you use guides a lot). Then when you want to remove a guide lines, just hit Ctrl-Alt-;, click on the offending line and click the garbage bin icon. A note about this: if you hit the delete key when selecting the line in the Guides Manager, it deletes the image. It should really delete the guide line. The Guides Manager is also a good place in which locks on lines may be added as a new feature. Alternatively hover over the line until the cursor changes, then right click for pop-up menu.

Following on from a previous post, I've created three sets of macros for selecting a part of an image based on five Blend Ranges 'luminosity' curves (nominally called Blacks, Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights and Whites).
 
You can download the zip file here (the forum doesn't seem to like zip files, so I put it on my website).
 
A few points of note (more in the included .pdf file):
The 'Preview' set just cuts out the selection so you can see exactly what is being selected. It also lets you inspect the Blend Ranges curves. The 'Select' set turns this into a selection in the image. The 'Blend' set does the same for adjustments and filters. Curve overlaps are deliberately symmetrical so together they should sum to 100%. All sets include all contiguous combinations, such as 'Blacks+Shadows'.  

Photoshop CS6/ACR now won't process Sony .arw files from my RX100V (though it does cope with .arw from my A7R2). Photoshop/Lightroom CC is 10 pounds/month in the UK. Ach.
 
Why AP for me (a super-keen amateur photographer)? Some reasons:
Excellent selection/layer/mask/blend mode non-destructive editing. Genius blend ranges (blend-if killer). Magical lighting tool. All I need in luminance and colour edting. Superb help system and training videos. Lots of photoshop compatibility (also means magazine articles, youtube etc are easy to translate). Dynamic company with responsive staff and regular updates. I feel more than a statistic. Nik/Topaz compatibility.  
Yet I am still currently still using Lightroom (purchased version, not rental) as front end because (a) reasonable browse facility, but more about ( b ) better lens corrections (esp. chromatic aberration) and better HDR merge. But then I switch to AP for general editing. When AP fix these I'll be a very happy bunny.
 
I'm currently building a presentation for photo clubs in my are (South Wales and vicinity) called 'Anything but Photoshop'). This means I've chewed through much of the competition. On1 comes second but is a very different animal. Affinity is the clear winner by a country mile.

You can double-click some sliders and they return to zero. This is great. Could we have this feature on all sliders, please?

I wanted to enhance dark lines in an architectural image, so needed a layer with only outlines and otherwise transparent. Here's what I did.
Duplicate background Detect edges Adjustment layer: Black/white, Merge Layer/Invert Adjustment layer: Levels black 50%, Merge Filters/Colours/Erase White Paper Opacity to suit. (Yes, I could Blend Mode: Darken rather than erase white paper, but having just the lines gives a bit more flexibility).
 
Is there a better way?

Following on from a previous post, I've created three sets of macros for selecting a part of an image based on five Blend Ranges 'luminosity' curves (nominally called Blacks, Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights and Whites).
 
You can download the zip file here (the forum doesn't seem to like zip files, so I put it on my website).
 
A few points of note (more in the included .pdf file):
The 'Preview' set just cuts out the selection so you can see exactly what is being selected. It also lets you inspect the Blend Ranges curves. The 'Select' set turns this into a selection in the image. The 'Blend' set does the same for adjustments and filters. Curve overlaps are deliberately symmetrical so together they should sum to 100%. All sets include all contiguous combinations, such as 'Blacks+Shadows'.  

Following on from a previous post, I've created three sets of macros for selecting a part of an image based on five Blend Ranges 'luminosity' curves (nominally called Blacks, Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights and Whites).
 
You can download the zip file here (the forum doesn't seem to like zip files, so I put it on my website).
 
A few points of note (more in the included .pdf file):
The 'Preview' set just cuts out the selection so you can see exactly what is being selected. It also lets you inspect the Blend Ranges curves. The 'Select' set turns this into a selection in the image. The 'Blend' set does the same for adjustments and filters. Curve overlaps are deliberately symmetrical so together they should sum to 100%. All sets include all contiguous combinations, such as 'Blacks+Shadows'.  

Following on from a previous post, I've created three sets of macros for selecting a part of an image based on five Blend Ranges 'luminosity' curves (nominally called Blacks, Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights and Whites).
 
You can download the zip file here (the forum doesn't seem to like zip files, so I put it on my website).
 
A few points of note (more in the included .pdf file):
The 'Preview' set just cuts out the selection so you can see exactly what is being selected. It also lets you inspect the Blend Ranges curves. The 'Select' set turns this into a selection in the image. The 'Blend' set does the same for adjustments and filters. Curve overlaps are deliberately symmetrical so together they should sum to 100%. All sets include all contiguous combinations, such as 'Blacks+Shadows'.  

Following on from a previous post, I've created three sets of macros for selecting a part of an image based on five Blend Ranges 'luminosity' curves (nominally called Blacks, Shadows, Mid-tones, Highlights and Whites).
 
You can download the zip file here (the forum doesn't seem to like zip files, so I put it on my website).
 
A few points of note (more in the included .pdf file):
The 'Preview' set just cuts out the selection so you can see exactly what is being selected. It also lets you inspect the Blend Ranges curves. The 'Select' set turns this into a selection in the image. The 'Blend' set does the same for adjustments and filters. Curve overlaps are deliberately symmetrical so together they should sum to 100%. All sets include all contiguous combinations, such as 'Blacks+Shadows'.  

When exporting to jpg I like to set the maximum quality and Lanczos resample. It's a real pain having to manually select these every time. Also, randomly, Affinity decides to offer me 85% quality. I don't know why and don't appreciate this as it's easily missed.
 
It's a simple fix: have a checkbox on the export dialogue 'Keep settings as default'.
 
The same principle could probably be applied to other dialogues too.
 
Thanks!

Affinity Photo has some important terms that are not always easy to understand, such as 'alpha' and 'matte'. A short glossary of these in the excellent help system would be brilliant (perhaps in the 'Workspace' section?).
 
This is particularly important in retaining new users who could abandon Affinity just because of the discomfort of confusion (yes, really).
 
Many thanks.