Photoshop Levels white point color picker alternative

[EricGraphix]

In a photoshop tutorial the whitepoint color picker found in the levels dialog box is used on the earrings background to make it pure white. Is there an alternative method to this in affinity photo? 

222670981_WhiteBackground-1.afphoto

[Dan C]

Hi EricGraphix,

For this image, I would correct the white balance a little 

then using the levels adjustment, bring down the white level a touch.

 

 

This should give the desired result.

 

 

Lee

[EricGraphix]

Thanks for the help and sorry for the big file size. I realize I could have shared only the first layer image.

[- S -]

Although there are alternative methods that can be reasonably quick depending on what you're doing, in order to replicate what Photoshop does with white point, grey point and black point pickers in Curves and Levels, it is a slow manual process in Affinity Photo.

Those pickers are something that anyone who uses Photoshop will absolutely miss in Affinity Photo as they save a lot of time.  Even more so with old faded scanned images – the Photoshop pickers are pretty great, along with the "Auto" button in Curves, that users can [ALT/OPT + Click] to bring up the settings.

To try to mimick the Photoshop white point picker directly, you need to determine what point of the image should be pure white (R=255, G=255, B=255) and manually adjust the white point of each RGB channel with a Curves adjustment layer – using the Info pane as a guide.  But it will quickly become a PITA, unless you only have a couple of images to work on.  Maybe Serif will add them in the future…

Video:

 

Affinity File:

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[firstdefence]

For the future, I'd invest in a light box, it will make editing a lot simpler, Just glue some fishing wire to the ceiling of the light box and hang the jewellery from that, you'll end up with decent exposure and white balance and no shadows to deal with.

Ebay lightbox example

[spinko]

This is a feature I use a lot (!) in Adobe Photoshop. Please include it in V2 Affinity Photo ASAP. Thank you.

[Claudio60]

No, this feature isn't available and was already asked a long time ago: 

 

 

[bwana]

Still not available under V2? 

[v_kyr]

11 minutes ago, bwana said:

Still not available under V2? 

AFAIK, nope!

[Claudio60]

No, unluckily