Karina Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Hi, I really hope you guys can help me out! I drew a snowflake design in Procreate, but I need to change the black to a specific value for the printing company in Affinity. How do I do this? See attached picture for the shape. If I select the black with the magic wand tool and replace the colour in AP, the edges of the shape become jagged. And I don’t want that. Is there another way? I do have the snowflake file in layers. THANK YOU! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl123 Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Hard to say without seeing the document layout But based on the image you uploaded, try this... Select the black background with the magic wand tool Hit the Refine button in the context toolbar Accept the default values and set Output to New Layer Add a Fill Layer below this new Layer and set its color to whatever is required Karina 1 Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Instead of making a selection, add a Fill layer on top of the snowflake layer. Set the fill colour to the desired value and set the layer’s blend mode to ‘Screen’. Karina 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karina Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 2 hours ago, carl123 said: Hard to say without seeing the document layout But based on the image you uploaded, try this... Select the black background with the magic wand tool Hit the Refine button in the context toolbar Accept the default values and set Output to New Layer Add a Fill Layer below this new Layer and set its color to whatever is required Thanks for your help! This didn’t work unfortunately. I think I should clarify that the background is white, and the layer with the snowflake drawing is black. I need to change the CMYK values of the black snowflake layer. (I did it this way because of the printing process, the black will be printed on gold paper, so the white will eventually be gold.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karina Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 2 hours ago, Alfred said: Instead of making a selection, add a Fill layer on top of the snowflake layer. Set the fill colour to the desired value and set the layer’s blend mode to ‘Screen’. Thanks a lot, that sounded very sensible, but unfortunately this didn’t work either... In the end I switched things around and made a C0M0Y0K0 swatch in AP, exported that to Procreate, and made the Snowflake design in white, so I could set the background to the desired black CMYK value in Affinity. A bit of a hassle, but unfortunately it didn’t work to set the right CMYK values in Procreate. Why it DOES work to set the right values in Affinity, export that to Procreate to make the design in the right values, and then export it back to Affinity is beyond me, but hey it works. Affinity is definitely better with CMYK values then Procreate, that’s for sure! Thanks for helping me find a solution! 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 23 minutes ago, Karina said: Thanks a lot, that sounded very sensible, but unfortunately this didn’t work either... What went wrong when you tried it? Karina 1 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karina Posted September 25, 2020 Author Share Posted September 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, Alfred said: What went wrong when you tried it? Well, I did make the fill layer in C100M100Y100K100, then double checked with the colour picker and all was fine. Then I set the layer to screen and checked with the colour picker again, and the wrong CMYK figures came up (again!!!!). Those numbers have been haunting me 🤣 I tried several times, and the same thing kept happening. Maybe there’s a mistake in the Procreate psd file... I worked around all this by now as I described above by making a C0M0Y0K0 swatch in Affinity, exporting that to Procreate to make the drawing in the right CMYK values, and exporting back to Affinity. But, it didn’t work with a black C100M100Y100K100 swatch, the same bewitched Procreate numbers kept popping up... I think Procreate can’t handle those numbers, they’re too high so it automatically corrects them to a lower CMYK number. That’s the only explanation I can think of anyway... Thanks a lot for your advise! Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatGuy Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 try lighter color blend mode instead, screen had other cmyk values for me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 Hi Karina, I used your PNG to make a vector version for you, it might make it easier to colour. Snowflake.afphoto 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...
JimmyJack Posted September 25, 2020 Share Posted September 25, 2020 8 hours ago, Karina said: ..... I think I should clarify that the background is white, and the layer with the snowflake drawing is black. I need to change the CMYK values of the black snowflake layer. (I did it this way because of the printing process, the black will be printed on gold paper, so the white will eventually be gold.) 6 hours ago, Karina said: Well, I did make the fill layer in C100M100Y100K100, then double checked with the colour picker and all was fine. Then I set the layer to screen and checked with the colour picker again, and the wrong CMYK figures came up (again!!!!). Those numbers have been haunting me 🤣 I tried several times, and the same thing kept happening. The print house wants registration black for the artwork 🤔? Oh-kayyyy. In any regard, if the artwork is truly alone on a layer, try.... Option 1: Select the artwork layer and give it an FX Color Overlay with the desired color mix. (If you need vector output be aware that this will only give you a raster export.... but it sounds like that's what you're already working with.) Option 2 (raster or vector): Make a rectangle the size of your canvas with the desired final color fill. Drag you artwork layer to the mask position. Option 3 (raster or vector): Make a rectangle the size of your canvas with the desired final color fill. Drag that to the child position of the artwork layer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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