T V Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Hi All, Here is a share of my Live Luminosity Range Mask Saved Presets. In addition to the original Highlights, Midtones, Darks ( 3 ) saved presets, I have included 19 more. This may seem too technical for many, but, I will try my best to break it down how to use these. The file that Affinity Photo 2 uses to save these is called livemask_presets.propcol . It is located in user/(folder)/.affinity/Common/2.0/user . If you delete the livemask_presets.propcol file, affinity photo will replace with the original ( 3 ) livemask_presets.propcol file upon restarting the app., so, it should be fairly easy to work with. If you have created any custom files and cannot delete and want to, follow the previous steps. Otherwise, back up your file and save it to another location. Please feel free to comment... UPDATED... For the all of the users who already downloaded, Please download the new file V3 Hue. V2 has been removed for your safety. ( UPDATED ) to full set Luminosity/Hue/Band-pass. See next page... for more info on how to delete see... Live Luminosity Range Mask Saved Presets ( How do I delete? ) - Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows) - Affinity | Forum (serif.com) Enjoy - T V mrs68tm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpod7d Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Hi TV These are great. For those running mac this Propcol file goes into user/library/group containers/6LVTQB9699.com.seriflabs/V2/user folder they are then available when selecting the layer, new live mask layer, luminosity range I tried them and they are great. Thanks TV T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 Cool...I had no idea it would work for Mac users. Thanks for testing it out. I made my first macro using these last night and I would bet it would work without the user having to install them. These should be baked in IMO, and they are after shutting down the app in a sense. It has been an interesting 24 hours of tinkering. Hopefully, this will inspire others to help make Affinity Fun, Thanks for your input! - T V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpod7d Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Hi TV You're welcome thanks for making them T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twolane Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I replaced the v2 original propcol file with yours. Now what? I don't see any presets anywhere. T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpod7d Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Hi Twolane I us a mac machine so these instructions are for that platform You have to select the Luminosity mask, from the new Live layer Mask in the layer menu pull down menu. Once this is open you go to the pull don menu (upper left corner of the live luminosity range mask, where you will find all of the preset luminosity curves. Just select one and you're off. Hope this helps T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twolane Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Eureka! Or, I think I see the light, so to speak. You mean the pulldown with Shadows ... M6, which obvi must be the 3 originals, plus your L1 to M6 additions. Thanks very much! I'm off to experiment. T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpod7d Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Good luck And send thanks to TV he created the curves, I just explained how to install and use them on a Mac T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 Hi Twolane, This is what you should see. Try restarting the app. I am a noob at .propcol files. See the ( How do I delete? ) if you have not ( link above ). It will explain all of the things I ran into while trying to figure out how I could start over. Please try again, and keep us updated. - T V ( thx spiderpod7d for helping! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted November 30, 2022 Author Share Posted November 30, 2022 Awesome! Have Fun! - T V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twolane Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 I'm on Win11 x64. I renamed the original propcol to name+_ORIGINAL and left it where it was. I copied over T V's and retained the name, obviously, and voila! I saved a backup of the original and T V's file to my v2 Affinity Settings (backup) folder as well. I just needed to know where to look in Photo, cuz I'm kinda slow at this Affinify magick stuff. (As I'm sure Walt and a couple of others can attest to.) So again, thanks, T V, and thanks, spiderpod7d. It looks like it's working just fine for my needs. T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share Posted December 1, 2022 I am working on an update, doing a deeper dive into the curves using the screenshots overlays to improve the spacing and smoothness. This should be an easy translation to the panel improving the symmetry as well. Any input is well appreciated, as the math/spacing from curve to curve can be improved upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 1, 2022 Author Share Posted December 1, 2022 Now UPDATED... Cleaner, smoother, and more symmetrical - Enjoy, - T V See above download link... Let me know what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs68tm Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 thx something similar for Hue and Band Pass? thx again T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted December 2, 2022 Staff Share Posted December 2, 2022 Not to be a killjoy or anything, but just wanted to reiterate what @T V mentions in his original post. Please make sure you backup your propcol files before overwriting them or messing with them, especially now that Affinity V2 shares content types such as Assets, Brushes, Swatches and Styles between Affinity apps. You may think you're only affecting one app but it could have a knock on effect to other apps and/or personas. Don't want to stop users sharing content to help others but also don't want users losing any data walt.farrell and T V 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 Yes, I was noticing late last night that in recording Hue Mask presets they are saved to the same .propcol file. So, any changes will affect your presets across several different tools. I will build a profile for say 15' or 30' Hue shift covering the color wheel...Band Pass I will have to have a look at...next is a deeper dive into the math of the Luminosity ranges...BACK UP YOUR SAVED FILES, yes...no buzz kill here. Thanks for the suggestions and good advice! Would be super cool to have separate .propcol files, but, we can work with this... mrs68tm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 I will also have to figure out how to zip these so they are labeled as differing versions... turning into a bigger project, but, I'm down with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs68tm Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Thx. It would be nice to have some extra presets for Hue and Band Pass. I played around with Luminosity live mask and it spared a lot of time, being a very good point of starting. Thx again for sharing it! T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderpod7d Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Hi All I too tried them yesterday and they seemed to work great. T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 Right now, they are improved...really...when I overlayed all of the curves on top of each other I could see the relative spacing much clearer...figuring out a logical way to translate the graphs to the panel and saving my workspace so that everything was still accessible was the headache...It is freezing with snow in the forecast so, I will continue with this until I feel compelled into hibernation. mrs68tm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 Any suggestions for Band Pass Preset settings? Not sure what to start with...ranges, etc.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs68tm Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Mainly ranges combined with spline, with different options for opacity. Thx T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 So, similar graphs for H, M, D? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs68tm Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Yes, it would be nice! T V 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T V Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 1-6...luminosity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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