Still learning by experimenting, but think I'm getting better --- thanks to Ability Photo. I had been using Corel Paint Shop Pro 2018, but it has been cast aside because I can come closer to the results I want. I definitely prefer the workflow with Ability.
I found a site where someone saved a bunch of glass negatives from a photography studio that went back as far as the 1890's (possibly earlier).
Here is the original image and the incomplete colorized image. I wasn't able to complete it today ... separating the sky and the foliage is going to take some extra time. I liked the result I got with the lace on her left side - both around her neck and especially at the cuff of her left arm. It was surprisingly fast and simple.
Any particular reason you think you won't get the same boring answer to this question that we have gotten every other time it has been asked?
Basically, that answer has always been that while they would like to release their own DAM eventually, & there has already been some work toward that end, for now refining & improving the current projects (including the as yet still in beta Affinity Publisher) are what they are focused on.
The easiest way would be to use a mask.
Duplicate the image layer and apply the Haze Filter to that.. Add a 'New Empty Mask Layer' to the duplicated layer and make sure it is nested inside.
It will appear to remove all trace of the Haze filter, which is what you want. You can then paint on the Mask layer with white paint to 'apply' the Haze filter to the image below.
Painting on the mask with white paint to reveal a (very strong) haze filter.
Hi DarkerBlack,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Go to the Channels panel, right-click the Background Alpha channel and select Fill.
If you want to save that alpha channel before filling it, right-click the Background Alpha channel and select Create Spare Channel.
Hi DTC867,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
There's quite a few threads about finding a Lightroom replacement / DAM (Digital Asset Management) to work with Affinity Photo. If you perform a search with these and similar terms - "Lightroom replacement", " DAM" - here in the forum you should find them pretty quickly. As you may guess the answers varies a lot and depends on what features you consider important/how you like to manage them (though a catalogue/database, folders etc). We hope to offer our own DAM software later as well but it may still take some time.
We are pleased to announce the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.6.4
The change-list is as follows:
- All new shadows / highlights algorithm for Develop.
- Develop clarity improvements.
- Improved input smoothing for all tools.
- Improved Perlin Noise filter.
- Transparent TGA import support.
- Many improvements to batch processing.
- PSD, PDF import / export improvements.
- Significant Photoshop plugin support improvements.
- Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc.
- Fixed slow Lens Blur, Depth of Field blur issues.
- Fixed Depth of Field blur progress / slowness issues.
- Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once.
- Restored ability of marquee tools to snap.
- Fixed crashing bug when exporting certain large PSDs.
- Added special case PSD import code for “SketchClub” PSD files (they should fix this!).
- Fixed Text Styles panel to show the document defaults when no text is selected
- Changed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers
- Fixed document DPI showing a decimal place in some situations
- Fixed reset of user workspace when new panels have been added
- Fixed newly created Text Styles being applied twice to a text frame on creation
- Fixed vector export (including PDF) taking a long time due to large clip areas
- Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable does not fit to printer margins
- Fixed 2nd Print has a zero size document in printer dialog
- Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay
- Fixed colour node appearing on the Colour panel
- Fixed hit testing on floating window edges to make it easier to resize windows
- Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closing the application (a side-effect of this change is that Alt+F4 on a floating window will now just close that window, not the app)
- Fixed View Mode menu item incorrectly exposed in Affinity Photo Export Persona
- Fixed double clicking View Tool is not consistent between Personas
- Fixed crash when making a gradient document fill global
- Improved performance when History and Layers panel are visible
- Fixed PDF Export for some documents
- Added bottom right resize grip corner to floating document windows
- Added Float, Float All, Dock and Dock All commands to Window menu
- Fixed Adjustment panels appearing at an invalid location if the panel was closed on a monitor which is then subsequently unplugged
- Fixed metadata not loading for unicode paths opened via drag and drop
- Fixed failure to close down due to waiting for invalid files to finish opening
- Fixed Text Styles panel to reflect the document defaults when no text is selected
- Fixed Layers panel to add more distinction between clipped and nested layers
- Fixed document DPI showing decimal places
- Fixed Workspaces getting reset when new panels are added in updates
- Fixed vector export of clips on rasterised items
- Fixed Fit/Shrink to printable not fitting to printer margins
- Fixed second Print having a zero size document in printer dialog
- Fixed fonts being rejected if they had a space in their Postscript name
- Fixed being unable to move the Greyness node in Layer Effects > Colour Overlay
- Fixed Spacebar not changing cursor to hand when in Develop
- Improved resizing of floating document windows
- Fixed closing a floating window through the taskbar closes the app
- Fixed Alignment Editor applying a second time when clicking away via a direct new selection
- Changed 'Arrange' button text to be 'Alignment'
- Fixed being unable to adjust custom wet edges spline
- Fixed sporadic hanging when opening many image files at once
- Fixed Pixelmator PSD text import
- Attempt to support fonts with truncated type 4 tables (e.g. Serpentine)
- Fixed text frame auto-resizing not working with a single character
- Added support for fonts that substitute spaces, eg Nyala
- Fixed Liquify Brush panel size slider limited to 1024px
- Fixed brush selection is not retained after duplicating brush
- Fixed changing brush tip is not always initially accepted
- Fixed inability to export transparent PNG, TIFF, etc
- Fixed Fill Noise not applied when filling with Custom colour, Primary and Secondary colours etc
- Fixed Colour Chooser not correctly switching to match the selected colour
- Fixed tool shortcuts ignore modifier keys
- Fixed Text Styles showing wrong units for Justification options
- Fixed Tab Stop units not auto updating with document units
- Fixed Text Style dialog missing the [No Change] behaviour for the Tab Stop table
- Fixed drag and drop from IrfanView not accepting file items into the document as new layers
- Fixed exporting multiple documents
- Fixed when a colour is removed, the Opacity/Noise slider is not disabled
- Fixed floating windows starting off-screen when monitor is disconnected
- Fixed layer folder icon not initially updating
- Fixed floating windows appearing on the incorrect taskbar
- Fixed text not being drawn after power duplicate
- Fixed rare instances of being unable to select text
- Fixed a couple of instances where the colour wheel wouldn't update properly
- Fixed unable to select a second swatch for bevel and emboss highlight and shadows
- Use different icon for Arrange/Alignment
- Fixed unusable transparent area left after cropping with New View
- Fixed parallel batch builds
- Fixed Live Dust and Scratches filter slider resetting to zero when dragging
- Fixed crash when moving live denoise filter in Layers panel
- Fixed popup closing when dragging an export token
- Extended Develop Clarity range (-100 to 100)
- Fixed Depth of Field Blur Vibrance property only allowing values of 0% or 100%
- Improved loading of Canon EOS 6D Mark II files so they are less purple
- Fixed creating an analogous colour chord does not add the correct swatches
- Fixed Colour picker loupe not displaying on second monitor
- Fixed Panel groups do not revert size when dragged in and out of other groups
- Fixed Document Setup does not reflect or change current "Actual Size" Zoom for "Web" type documents
- Numerous other fixes and stability improvements.
Please do not post bugs or problems that you find when using this version of the software in this thread, instead make a new thread in the Bugs on Windows section
Put a rectangle shape over the image, set the fill to black.
Apply a gradient fill with A set to Black and C set to Black (white or grey) but with the opacity of C at 0%. B is the midpoint control and controls how the gradient changes from black to clear. The "feathering transition".
Drag A B or C to adjust. You can also apply more control points by clicking on the gradient line, which will give you more control handles (circles) and more midpoint controls. A multi gradiated (?) gradient.
P.S it looks rather faded in the middle because I dragged it so far to the right.
Affinity Photo just prompted me to update to version 1.6.1. Which I did.
But where can I find the patch notes for the new version?
Not here in the support forum.
No link in the 'About' screen of the application.
No apparent link on the Affinity website.
Nothing in the application's Help file.
Nothing in the application's Welcome screen.
Hi Five, glad to see you are alive! and on this forum.
Selections and masks are quite similar in that they isolate an area, however ...
A selection, selects the area you want. You may want to adjust the colours in just one place..
A mask, masks out the area you don't want (hides it), Like the above (but the opposite way round) it allows you to just modify an isolated area.
Both approaches allow you to cut out and copy say, one person from one picture and paste into another picture. A selection pastes just the area you selected. With a mask however, you paste not just the cut out person, but also the whole surrounding image untouched (but hidden). Handy In case you ever need it later, but the drawback is larger file sizes.
If you just want to adjust the colour of something, a selection is usually quicker and easier.
The advantage of saving selections to channels is that you can retrieve them and sometimes it's useful to build up a complex selection in stages. As an example, select the body and feather the selection edges to blend it in to its new surroundings, select the head and hair and refine the edges around the hair separately. You could not feather around the hair because it would vanish. Join the two selections into one selection by loading them from the channels..
Duplicating the original image layer is just something a lot of users do before starting any work on an image.
It serves as a backup if something goes wrong which is not immediately noticed and thus not easily fixed later on in the editing, especially so if you overwrite the original image.
It can also serve as a quick reference of the original image so you can easily see a before and after comparison of the work you have done on the image
Like I said, it is optional but good workflow in my opinion.
