Publisher Recolor problem

[Carey]

I am hoping someone can help or shed some light on this problem. I could not find anything similar in the forum.

af Publisher has a recolor adjustment in layers. I want to change an orange to a green in a layer. But upon clicking RECOLOR a popup flashes on my screen, disappears and my image is changed to red. Wow!

i tried the recolor layer adjustment on the original image as a stand alone in AF photo, no problem. Orange becomes green of choice. I can even save my choices as a preset and name it.

I'm on a mac bookair, on big sur 11.1. af publisher 1.8.6, the latest. AF photo 1.8.6. My book is about 900mb (could that be the problem?) lots of images.

af photo gives me a work around. Great, but a faster work flow would be doing the recolor in publisher as i have over 100 images to change. Your insights would be appreciated.

 

 

[Old Bruce]

Does this flashing popup occur when you are using the Photo Persona in Publisher or does it happen in the Publisher Persona? For what it is worth it works fine for me here on Mac OS 10.14.6 with either persona. The red is the result of the default recolour adjustment being applied. Does your Layers panel show that there is a recolour layer added? If yes then what happens if you double click on it? There should be a window for adjusting the colour etc.

[Carey]

Hi @Old Bruce,

thanks for taking a look at this. As per your suggestions....

I tried recolor in Publisher and Photo persona, unfortunately, no difference, neither worked.

Yes, my layers panel does show an added recolor layer. On double click I get zoom to selection. But no popup to allow more adjustments.

I attached a screen record of selecting the image, clicking on recolour Layer adjustment, the popup showing and disappearing, once the image turns red, I double click to get a zoom of the selection. But no recolour popup box, not even a flash.

Looks like I will be recoloring in AF Photo and replacing the image.

I noticed the flash of the popup box was slower while I was screen recording.

Oh well, thanks again anyways.

 

[Old Bruce]

You have to double click on the recolour layer icon/thumbnail to bringup the relevant stuff. I think the reason it just blanks out at first is because you have the Image Layer's filename highlighted and ready to be edited.

 Click once on the picture layer, add the recolour layer and then you can double click on the thumbnail (outlined in red here) to change the colours.

[Carey]

hi @Old Bruce

I had clicked where you described as well as elsewhere in the vicinity. Each time re-starting from opening the file. Upon getting your latest advise, I tried again. I also tried clicking another image, then selecting the recolor layer again and double clicking in the area you identified, no luck. Just a zoom to selection. I even tried clicking the layer adjustment> recolor with the recolor adjustment layer selected. I just get another recolor adjustment layer.

I wonder if it could be the MAC OS? You're on 10.xx and I'm on 11.1 btw my mba is MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2018) though newer maybe not enough power for layer adjustment recolor to work well.

thanks again for your input.

[Old Bruce]

I am on 10.14.6. So now comes the grasping at straws bit. Are you in separated mode? Do you have two screens? Was this document made on a two screen system? This could maybe explain how the recolour panel doesn't show.

For my use case what I do is select the layer I wish to recolour and then use the tiny icon (divided circle) on the bottom of the layer panel

Then the recolour panel pops open at the lower right of the available document view port (for want of the correct term)

  The red arrows show the very bottom of my screen.

 

[Carey]

hi again @Old Bruce

one screen only... just my MBA. Nor split screen. I even hit the show all open apps (f3) to see if the popup is hidden behind another window or on another desktop.... nowhere to be seen. btw, the flow you show and describe is exactly the what I did, only the Recolor box appears then disappears in a sec.

I have a handful of straws : )

[Old Bruce]

Okay, time for the nuclear option. Back up any brushes keyboard shortcuts assets etc that you have set up first.

Do a clear user data start. Hold down the control key while the application starts up and you'll see the clear user data screen with the default top three items checked, hit clear and try again.

If this was an OS 11 problem you wouldn't be alone with this problem.

[walt.farrell]

I suspect that a Master Page is involved (though why the screenshot shows a Gray bar (solid or broken) rather than Orange I'm not sure. If the object is within a Master Page layer then you may have to use Edit Detached on the Master Layer before working on its contents.

[Carey]

@walt.farrell, holy doodle! you hit the nail on the head. I never would have gotten there on my own. I feel like I have to learn the secret handshake to get the hang of AF.

Once I clicked on Edit Detached, an orange bar showed up (I'm guessing that is the one you mean). This allowed me to select Recolor options.

Well it sure shows the difference between dedicated userslike yourself and @Old Bruce to beginner : )  I greatly appreciate the time you take to advise me.

p.s. I find it interesting that my RECOLOR choices (hue, saturation, lightness and blend mode) produce different results in Publisher vs Photo for the same values on the same image. Maybe it is impacted by the colour of my master page background in Publisher (I don't have that set in Photo). On with the digging and learning.

thx again all.

[walt.farrell]

29 minutes ago, Carey said:

. I find it interesting that my RECOLOR choices (hue, saturation, lightness and blend mode) produce different results in Publisher vs Photo for the same values on the same image. Maybe it is impacted by the colour of my master page background in Publisher (I don't have that set in Photo). On with the digging and learning.

You probably have an RGB document in Photo. Is your Publisher document also in RGB, or is it CMYK?

[Carey]

both are set to rbg in their respective preference panel.