MikeO Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 I'm working on a portrait in Designer 2.0.3. The portrait is made up of several dozen objects, all of which have a unique fill color. I grouped everything and then decided that the whole portrait looked too dark since it would be printed so I used an adjustment layer to lighten it. I exported the file as an EPS since that's what the print vendor requires. The problem is that the adjustment layer is merged with the objects its affecting by rasterizing the whole thing. I need it to remain as vector art since it's going to be printed as a large mural. Is there a way to adjust a grouped object of different colors in one go, as opposed to adjusting each object in the group individually which would be tedious and very difficult to retain the same contrast between objects? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 Select same color might help. Ideally, replace them by global colors so you can adjust the colors any time later in swatch panel. If you have the group layer active, you can choose a new fill or stroke color in color panel, it will get assigned to all grouped objects. 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...
MikeO Posted February 1, 2023 Author Share Posted February 1, 2023 Here's most of what I'm working with. Changing all of these objects to global colors would take hours and still wouldn't accomplish what I'd want since I have to select each color individually to change them, when all I want to do is select the group and lighten or darken all of it. An Adjustment layer gets the look I want but exporting the file with active adjustment layers will rasterize any objects associated with the adjustment. This is a 3m high mural so rasterizing it at 300dpi would lead to an immense file. Godlessape and henryanthony 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 Maybe export to svg. then search for all colors (grep / find), import to excel calculate lighter colors search and replace in svg (text editor, e.g. notepad++) import into new designer file export v_kyr 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...
NotMyFault Posted February 1, 2023 Share Posted February 1, 2023 If you export to PNG: files with large areas of solid colours will compress extremely well, try it out. Did you you recognise the option to use "select same colour"? You can select all objects of same colour, and assign a new (global) colour to all in one click. SO it depends only on the number of individual colours, not on the number of layers / objects. 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...
NotMyFault Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Is your question still relevant? Im sure someone like @v_kyr can write a script based on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60123309/sed-command-to-batch-change-fill-and-stroke-of-an-svg to replace all colours in a SVG file by those who are x% brighter SVG files are plain text and contain commands like <path d="M-0.305667,490C113.016,490 226.813,490.274 340.135, 339.714,489.891Z" fill="#3A0A46"/> and the hex number behind fill is just the hex value for RGB colors. Do you work on Mac (where sed is available) or on Windows? 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...
v_kyr Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 Should be possible with a bunch of equally powerful tools (... like the above mentioned sed, or awk, perl, ruby, python ... and so on) which are all also available for Win platforms if needed. On Win even the Powershell can do mighty things via scripting. - One (as always) just has to know what exactly to do & perform and then to try that out with some of the before mentioned scripting tools, or something the like. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 On 1/31/2023 at 11:29 AM, MikeO said: the whole portrait looked too dark since it would be printed so I used an adjustment layer to lighten it. You could try adjusting the opacity of everything to, oh say 90 - 95%. That would mean less ink per colour and more white paper per colour meaning it would be lighter in tone. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.3 | Affinity Photo 2.5.3 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.3 | 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...
MikeO Posted February 2, 2023 Author Share Posted February 2, 2023 I'm using a Mac, and yeah I used the "Select by fill color" but there are very few objects that are the same color. Thanks for the suggestions though the idea of scripting makes my brain hurt. I think what I'm going to do is wait till the vendor outputs a test piece and we see what it looks like under the lighting conditions in the space. At that point I can let the vendor deal with their converted version of the file. Which may be a PNG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 21 minutes ago, MikeO said: yeah I used the "Select by fill color" but there are very few objects that are the same color. What you would need in ADe is this overall missing functionality from Ai here ... How To Brighten Colors In Illustrator Globally (Youtube video) How To Brighten Colors In Illustrator Globally (Website tutorial) MikeO 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted February 3, 2023 Author Share Posted February 3, 2023 23 hours ago, v_kyr said: What you would need in ADe is this overall missing functionality from Ai here ... How To Brighten Colors In Illustrator Globally (Youtube video) How To Brighten Colors In Illustrator Globally (Website tutorial) Yep. I was hoping not to have to go back and forth. BUT, it's an option since I have both apps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anyone2 Posted March 29, 2023 Share Posted March 29, 2023 Um, I may not understand, but if you group them then layer -> new adjustment whatever. It changes all the layers in the group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeO Posted March 30, 2023 Author Share Posted March 30, 2023 16 hours ago, Anyone2 said: Um, I may not understand, but if you group them then layer -> new adjustment whatever. It changes all the layers in the group. That works of course, but I can't send the native file to our print vendor so I need to export it as vector art. Designer rasterizes it during the export when an adjustment layer is present. I need them to remain vector objects, both for file size and also if I need to make any object adjustments later to accommodate any wall and fixture irregularities. In any event the proof came out well, so I didn't need to do this. I'll try some of these scripting ideas now that I'm not under deadline. Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godlessape Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Im having the same issue. Im uploading many files (over 800 currently) to Figma and now need to adjust the colours of every file. Doing it on Figma (or even in Rive) is easy cos when I select the file it gives me an overview of all the strokes and fills and their transparencies (per the document or per layer depending on what I select) So if I want to edit/change all of the same yellows its a simple two click process as they are grouped. But to edit the source files in Affinity is a laborious, manual process. Is there a colour overview feature like this in Affinity that I just don't know how to access? - If not, it would be a very handy feature to add. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 1 hour ago, Godlessape said: Is there a colour overview feature like this in Affinity that I just don't know how to access? - If not, it would be a very handy feature to add. ? No, there isn't. Feel free to make a Feature Request in the Feedback section of the forums. Godlessape 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.6.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 I always start every job with a set of globals which are set as a default palette for all CMYK jobs, which is a good starting point for starting a piece of artwork similar to above (very nice MikeO). A workaround for not starting with a global palette, would be to copy paste into Vectorstyler and use maybe a channel mixer filter, which actually changes vector colours, then copy paste back into Affinity which will remain vector - quite handy for quickly doing muti-page/artboard colour variation mock ups - hopefully get something in Affinity in the future? Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpstaton Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 On 2/3/2023 at 1:54 PM, MikeO said: Yep. I was hoping not to have to go back and forth. BUT, it's an option since I have both apps. And now I'm installing illustrator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 On 6/24/2023 at 11:23 AM, Godlessape said: But to edit the source files in Affinity is a laborious, manual process. Is there a colour overview feature like this in Affinity that I just don't know how to access? If your source file uses solid colors (no gradients), this method might help to speed up the process, especially it creates global color to allow further changes with far less effort: create a document palette from existing document change all colors in that palette to global (one step per color) create one helper object (rectangle) Repeat for every color in color palette: assign color of document palette to helper object fill use select same fill color assign global color again as fill color assign color of document palette to helper object stroke use select same stroke color assign global color again as stroke color repeat for every color you want to change: edit the global color in swatches and assign the new color value. 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...
thomaso Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Alternatively to @NotMyFaults recipe: 1. Assign the wanted global fill + stroke to one of the objects. 2. Choose menu "Edit" > "Copy". 3. Select one of the objects you want to change. 4. Choose "Select Same Fill Colour" to select all those objects. 5. Apply fill + stroke as wanted via menu "Edit" > "Paste Style". NotMyFault 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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