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Applying an effect strongly on the right side of an image, lightly on the left


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Hello All!

I have a old scan of an image, nice details, but the colour is distinctly stronger towards the right hand side than the left, and it appears to change very smoothly.

So, what I want to do is adjust the colour saturation, so that the left edge gets a strong colour boost, with the effect fading left to right, so the right edge is not affected.

Is this possible please?

All clues gratefully received!
Thank You,

Nick

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Yup.

Add an HSL Shift adjustment, set the Saturation Shift to the left:

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With the HSL Adjustment layer selected, choose the Gradient Tool and drag it across the image:

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White is full effect, black is no effect.

(I did mine right to left but the principle is the same.)

Cheers,

H

Affinity Photo 2.0.3,  Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel.

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Sorry, it took me a while to get the time to come back to this.

 

Wow! So easy I got it right first time, thank you so much!

 

In case it's of interest, I was working on an old map of Mars by Antoniadi, where on side of his map was distinctly darker than the other. I wanted to wrap it around a sphere to make a CGI Mars globe.

I attach the result, showing the seam - it's still visible, but that's mainly because his map edges did not match up quite properly.

Nick

mars-gradient-fixx.jpg

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