EvilMP Posted Friday at 08:26 PM Share Posted Friday at 08:26 PM Hi Everyone, I have been on a mad search trying to find a way to use Affinity Photo 2 to show the shadows and mid tones of a reference photo that I am drawing. All my searches always give me information on how to add shadows to the image, when I am trying to do the opposite and really see the shadows and how they affect the forms, this way I can translate this onto paper. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted Friday at 09:19 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:19 PM 57 minutes ago, EvilMP said: Hi Everyone, I have been on a mad search trying to find a way to use Affinity Photo 2 to show the shadows and mid tones of a reference photo that I am drawing. All my searches always give me information on how to add shadows to the image, when I am trying to do the opposite and really see the shadows and how they affect the forms, this way I can translate this onto paper. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. There are multiple was. use selection tool to select tonal ranges then switch to quick mask to get an overlay showing the selected region Use blend range to show only desired tonal ranges use live masks to show desired ranges Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 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 Saturday at 03:31 PM Share Posted Saturday at 03:31 PM The file contains a PT filter which helps to choose a range of lightness values, and black out all pixels outside the selected range. Simply copy/paste the layer on top of your layer stack and adjust the sliders to taste. Screen Recording 2024-02-24 at 16.27.14.mov lightness visualizer.afphoto R C-R 1 Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 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...
EvilMP Posted Saturday at 05:54 PM Author Share Posted Saturday at 05:54 PM @NotMyFault Thanks so much, just one question how do I adjust the size because when I drag and drop the photo into the layer stack it resizes the photo to that panoramic view set by the PT filter and I only get one small side of the Rhino photo I plan on drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotMyFault Posted Saturday at 06:48 PM Share Posted Saturday at 06:48 PM Do it the other way round: copy the PT filter and paste into the open document containing your file. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 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...
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