creativevision Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Sorry, it's not about that book/film 😄 I have the attached example file ... as you can see it uses various shades of a pastel orange: Text is in #BB8855 Rectangle 1 is #FFC799 Rectangle 2 is #FFDDBB Rectangle 3 is #FFC799 again  We like the combination and relationships between the various shades (including the overlaps). But what we'd now like to be able to do - as easily as possible being the key - is change it all to eg a pastel blue, or green, or yellow ... and for all those various elements to be adjusted by the same amount.  So ideally, at the touch of a button, we get the yellow 'versions' of what we've got (ie 3 different yellows that have a similar relationship between each other to the way the existing oranges have a relationship to each other). And then, at the touch of another button, the blues palette. And so on!  Understand we can do each individually but wondering if there's a quicker easier way to do it ... especially as we want to do it 50+ different times  example.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 3 hours ago, creativevision said: like to be able to do - as easily as possible being the key - is change it all to eg a pastel blue, or green, or yellow ... and for all those various elements to be adjusted by the same amount. I can't open V2 files, so I refer to your description only. If you have a switch between separate "Swatches Palettes" in mind I doubt it is possible in Affinity to toggle between palettes (-> how would each single object know which of several swatches is meant to be used for it?). If you indeed want to create shades / tints of one specific basic colour then two methods may work: • A Colour Overlay effect with a specific colour applied to neutral tints/shades of gray. • Working with layer opacity (on white/black background) + a basic colour swatch that lets you toggle between various swatches (or change the colour definition in case of a global swatch). For instance: shades tints colourize.m4v Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobWu Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 What about a HSL adjustment op top, and play with the Hue Shift? henryanthony 1 Quote Windows 11 - 23H2 ⊕ ASUS PRIME X670E-Pro ⊕ AMD Ryzen 9-7900X ⊕ Arctic Liquid Cooler II ⊕ 64GB RAM ⊕ OS SSD Samsung 980Pro 2Tb ⊕ Cache SSD Samsung 870 EVO 1Tb ⊕ Video HD WD Blue 4Tb ⊕ Geforce RTX 3060 12Gb ⊕ BenQ SW270C ⊕ Dell U2412M ⊕ Affinity Photo 2.3.x ⊕ Affinity Designer 2.3.x ⊕ Affinity Publisher 2.3.x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 53 minutes ago, RobWu said: What about a HSL adjustment op top, and play with the Hue Shift? Adjustments like HSL or Recolour use relative value ranges (e.g. – 100% to + 100%). They make it hard to achieve a certain absolute colour value, which the OP seems to approach when mentioning specific hex values and "palette". Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 4 hours ago, creativevision said: especially as we want to do it 50+ different times Group all layers so that they have the same base color. Select the group layer and apply the "Recolor" adjustment layer to it. If you drag the adjustment layer into the group and set it to the top position, only the layers in the group will be changed.  Alfred and creativevision 1 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator  Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GripsholmLion Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Can I ask what your end usage will be? I have method in mind, but its relevance (or not) is dependent upon that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 You could use a Gradient Map, set the left & right end nodes to white. Change the hue of the mid tones by setting the colour well to Hue then adjust the slider  henryanthony and Old Bruce 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativevision Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 Thank you all for the responses. The usage will simply be to create a series of Instagram posts ... all with different content and should look different but the aim is to create 'theme' so the example provided will be the consistent design but the content and colour will change. For idea our purposes @Komatös idea was perfect. Thank you all!  RobWu and Komatös 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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