dodge and burn tools

[Colin Red]

Hi there,

  The Dodge and Burn tools do not appear to be working. The Highlights Midtones and Shadows selections in the contex tool bar are not making changes, they are all doing the same thing ......... hope I am not missing something here :) 

[Puck]

16 hours ago, Colin Red said:

Hi there,

  The Dodge and Burn tools do not appear to be working. The Highlights Midtones and Shadows selections in the contex tool bar are not making changes, they are all doing the same thing ......... hope I am not missing something here :) 

Hello. It would be nice to know what operating system you are working with and what version of Affinity Photo. I still have macOS 10.14.6 Mojave installed and Affinity Photo 1.9.3 from the Serif Store. Dodge and Burn works perfectly here. Have you made any changes to Opacity and Flow? Or in the brush settings? 

[Chris B]

Hey Colin Red,

Can you attach a document and let us know which layer you're trying this on? They're working fine for me.

[Colin Red]

Hello and thank you for the speedy replies

I am running Catalina 10.15.7 on a Mac and Affinity Photo 1.9.3 from the Affinity Store ...... Sending a screen shot ..... let me know if you need more

[Old Bruce]

23 hours ago, Colin Red said:

Hi there,

  The Dodge and Burn tools do not appear to be working. The Highlights Midtones and Shadows selections in the contex tool bar are not making changes, they are all doing the same thing ......... hope I am not missing something here  

I find that the difference between Shadow/Midtone/Highlight is so (expletive deleted) small that there is no point in using these two tools. Can't say for certain when this behaviour showed up but in my memory I had much better results from using these tools previously.

[Colin Red]

Hi again,

           I have Affinity Photo on my iPad and duplicated the above adjustments .... you can clearly see the tools work on the iPad and I do not need to identify them like I did prior. 

[Colin Red]

Hi again

     I just finished installing Photo on my old 2011 iMac using High Sierra and ran the same test ......... the Dodge and Burn tools are working fine ...... This appears to be a problem with the last update ........ 

[Chris B]

Did you use the same Opacity and Flow on the iPad? The iPad image is much darker too so that's another variable.

I've just tested this on my iMac and I can see a clear difference. I did set both Opacity and Flow to 100% though. Perhaps you aren't using a high enough value?

[Colin Red]

Hi Chris,

             Found the problem ....... Dodge and Burn not working in 32bit ROMM RGB ..... I changed to 16bit ROMM RGB and the tools work ... also in 8bit ROMM RGB they are working.   Is this a bug !!!!

cheers

Colin

 

[Puck]

21 hours ago, Colin Red said:

Hi Chris,

             Found the problem ....... Dodge and Burn not working in 32bit ROMM RGB ..... I changed to 16bit ROMM RGB and the tools work ... also in 8bit ROMM RGB they are working.   Is this a bug !!!!

cheers

Colin

 

For me it also works in 32bit ROMM RGB.

[Colin Red]

Hi,

      Humour me .....  In the Develop Assistant  change the RAW output format to 32bit from 16bit and try again

cheers

[Chris B]

It works for me if I change to 32 bit from the Develop Assistant or convert to 32 from 16. 

I will poke this some more because I am seeing a difference between 16 and 32.

[Colin Red]

thank you,

                I always work from a RAW file with the Assistant set to 32bit output ......... I was reading something this morning that even some Photoshop tools do not work in 32bit. I only started using the dodge and burn tools a little while ago and noticed the difference when I was explaining the dodge and burn tools settings to a friend 

[Puck]

2 hours ago, Colin Red said:

Hi,

      Humour me .....  In the Develop Assistant  change the RAW output format to 32bit from 16bit and try again

cheers

Works for me. But yes, there is a difference between 32bit and 16bit as Chris mentioned.

[Chris B]

The tools will be compositing in linear colour space in 32 bit so would appear more sensitive or aggressive.