colour replace is only a light shade of selection

[Grazuncle]

Hi

I'm following a few of the many Affinity Photo colour replacement YT videos and think I'm doing it right but my results are not coming out the same. Every time i paint over a selection the results are only a lighter shade of my colour picked choice. in the example here I am replacing a solid yellow. The swatch I selected is a near Pillar Box red! yet the replaced colour is more like pink... yuk!

I'm impressed with the accuracy of the contiguous selection but why the replacement is only a lighter shade, is eluding me

my settings are posted too

HELP!

[walt.farrell]

The name "Color Replacement" Brush Tool is misleading. As described in the Help, it is really a Hue Replacement brush, and keeps Saturation and Lightness values the same. This will usually give very different results than you might be expecting, but is what the tool is intended to do by design.

You could get an idea of the possibilities by using the Color Panel.

1. Select the color that you want to replace (that is, the existing color in your image).
2. Switch the Color panel to the HSL sliders.
3. Without touching the S and L sliders, move the H slider. The colors that you see in the color well are the only possibilities for the result of the Color Replacement Brush.

I'm not sure what tutorials you've been watching, so I can't comment on what you might have seen there.

From the Help:

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The Color Replacement Brush Tool takes a sample of the color under the cursor when you begin to paint, and will replace all closely matching colors along the stroke with the current Primary color. The targeted color's hue will be replaced with the current Primary color's hue, while retaining saturation and lightness values of the original pixels.

For the yellowish color from your screenshot, this video clip should show all the possibilities you could get using the Color Replacement Brush Tool:

 

[Grazuncle]

Thanks for the information it is very useful

 

this is what i was watching.. 

 

I don't recall the Youtuber mentioning the HSL slider but he gets exactly the shade he picked and just painted the boat hull.. LOL

 

I'll try again with your suggestion. grateful

[v_kyr]

Aside from being IMO crap, the Color Replacement Brush Tool is one of the biggest memory and performance wasteer. When you use it, the lights in the house go dark and start to flicker. - Thus better use an Selective Colour adjustment.

[Grazuncle]

I found a video with your suggestion and found the process much better.