VCW Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Hi I was wondering if anyone had tried to incorporate Steve Arnold's luminosity mask software into their Affinity workflows? I have heard this has been possible with Photoshop and Lightroom. Seemingly this has been achieved, for example with Photoshop, by hooking the mask panels code directly into Photoshop's API. So I would imagine for it to work with Affinity this would mean mimicking Photoshop's code in order to achieve this? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Welcome to the forum @VCW Using Panels, Extensions, certain Plugins, Scripts and Actions etc designed for Adobe Photoshop CC, in Affinity, is not possible. VCW 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...
NotMyFault Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 While firstdefense is correct, you can easily create and manipulate luminosity masks in Photo by other methods. If you can explain what exact function you are looking for, we might be able to envision a workflow in Photo getting the same result, but utilizing the basic functions of Photo. VCW 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VCW Posted May 23, 2022 Author Share Posted May 23, 2022 Hi all thank you for the kind replies. I would imagine, off the top of my head, any workflow that allowed for lightening/darkening sections of landscapes so as to improve dynamic range would be a good start :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Choose your preferred search engine and enter affinity editing landscape tutorial you will get a wide range of tutorials. Luminosity masks are not essential for this task. you can use blend ranges as direct “replacement”, or create a luminosity mask if you like. https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Layers/LayerMasks.html VCW 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 6 hours ago, VCW said: ... I would imagine, off the top of my head, any workflow that allowed for lightening/darkening sections of landscapes so as to improve dynamic range would be a good start You could try using one or more of the Adjustment Layers: Levels, Brightness and Contrast, Shadows and Highlights, or Curves. Not necessary to use masks for that. VCW 1 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...
firstdefence Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 This guy is quite good re luminosity masks VCW 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 May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 1 hour ago, firstdefence said: This guy is quite good re luminosity masks Creating all those spare channels & deleting the extra layers is a lengthly complicated process ... so I wonder if anybody has tried making a macro to do that with a single click... VCW 1 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...
RichardMH Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 27 minutes ago, R C-R said: Creating all those spare channels & deleting the extra layers is a lengthly complicated process ... so I wonder if anybody has tried making a macro to do that with a single click... Problem is you can't name spare channels in macros. VCW and R C-R 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 30 minutes ago, RichardMH said: Problem is you can't name spare channels in macros. Bummer! Maybe someday we will be able to do that. VCW 1 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...
Gnobelix Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Hello @VCW, welcome to this forum. As mentioned above, there is no possibility to rename the reserve channel via a Macro. There are some macros here in the forum to create luminance masks. I have created this macro, it generates a selection, a resserve channel and a greyscale layer. The greyscale layer can be worked as you like and can be rasterised as a mask if necessary. The disadvantage of the macro is that only one brightness is taken into account. I had also put the macro together once, but the reserve channels were too confusing for me. Cheers Luminaz-Maske mit Auswahl, Graustufen-Ebene.afmacros VCW 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.4: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.4: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 23H2 Build (22631.3447) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VCW Posted May 24, 2022 Author Share Posted May 24, 2022 Hi @Gnobelix that is so kind! Thanks ever so much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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