katework Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I have a colored drawing that I would like to make black and white (to use as a coloring sheet for children). When I go to color replace the caramel colored shirt and select white as the replacement color, it colors it a dark grey, the other colors change but not to white, but as a somewhat pale version of the color, i.e. lavender becomes a beige, but not white. I have saved it as a jpeg and tried, same results as with an affinity photo doc. What's up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 Which program/application are you using? Designer, Photo or Publisher? Each has different tools which would be useful for this. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katework Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: Which program/application are you using? Designer, Photo or Publisher? Each has different tools which would be useful for this. photo. went through a tutorial and the directions from affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 The colour replacement tool is probably not what you want to use, I would use the threshold filter on the layers panel... Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katework Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 don't know if I did it correctly, but went to adjustment, threshold and moved it down until the colors became white. Voila. Thanks so much. Still don't know why the replacement color tool didn't work, however. firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 The Colour replacement tool should really be called the hue replacement tool as that is closer to what it actually does. Using white is a bit like desaturating the colour, that is why it was turning a shade of grey. To see this for yourself you can use the HSL filter, select the red colour dot and use the picker and click on the shirt, then drag the saturation shift to the left -100% and the shirt will turn the same grey as on the screenshot pic. IPv6 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 5 hours ago, firstdefence said: The colour replacement tool is probably what you want to use ... Is there perhaps a missing "not" in that? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 6 hours ago, R C-R said: Is there perhaps a missing "not" in that? amended 👍 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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