Color selection "picker"

[OldHickory30]

Is there a simple option as in PS, where I can click on a specific color and make adjustments?

In PS and Capture One, you simply choose the hand / arrow and select the color. As an architectural photographer, this is something I use in almost in every image.

 

Thanks!

[thomaso]

By "a specific color", do you mean one specific value only or a range around this value? In the latter case, an HSL Adjustment might work. Or, if your goal isn't a colour adjustment (like HSL) applied to a specific colour, you might want to use a Hue Range Mask to narrow the selection down to a specific colour range and use that as mask for each adjustment type.

If I missed your point at all can you show an architectural sample image with the wanted edits before/after?

[OldHickory30]

I just want a simple tool like PS, for selecting a specific color and have the option to adjust the intensity / saturation etc.

[thomaso]

Again, do you mean a simple HSL Adjustment, with or without using its Colour Picker tool?

[OldHickory30]

Well this is what I got when I followed your video and than Capture One. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't appear you can choose the color with the picker, it looks as though you have to again create another layer and select a range. Even in Capture One, they make it so easy, click on the color and choose your adjustments.  Why am I going to a menu selection creating a specific layer? This should be one of the first options in the panel, sorry the UI is not friendly for photographers nor, appreciating our workflow. AP has so much potential but simplicity is lacking, I use photoshop to complete the last 10-20% of my processing but AP makes that last 20% take longer than the 80% in in Capture One. 

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, OldHickory30 said:

Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't appear you can choose the color with the picker, it looks as though you have to again create another layer and select a range.

• In the video at 20 sec. the picker is used and the picked colour jumps from a pink to more violet. Try this picker yourself to make a judgement based on experience.
• Where do you see in my video that I "have to again create another layer"?

What is the difference between your two C1 screenshots? Do they demonstrate a before/after situation, or did you adjust any colour at all in this examples? And what does your Affinity Gradient Map screenshot tell, does it show your wanted result? Initially you said twice you want to affect "a specific color" while this result looks like affect a range of colours but replace all of them with one specific colour.

Did you take a look into the Hue Range Mask I linked above? It seems to offer the flexibility you want for a colour range selection that may be non-destructively and editable used as mask for any adjustment. Here is Serif intro into its interface & usage: 

 

1 hour ago, OldHickory30 said:

Even in Capture One, they make it so easy, click on the color and choose your adjustments.  Why am I going to a menu selection creating a specific layer?

In both apps a user action is required to create an adjustment or a specific layer, either via a panel, a menu, a dialog window or a tool or button etc. In Affinity you don't have to use the main menu for a new adjustment but may also use the Adjustment Panel directly or the pop-up menu in the Layers Panel's bottom icons.

The two interfaces of the two apps are so different, not only regarding layers, that I doubt a comparison is useful. Nevertheless you have multiple layers for multiple adjustments in both apps. Layers are simply the visual organization structure to access multiple adjustments separately.

However, if you simply want to compare your habits and experiences from your previous apps with Affinity's user interface, I don't see room for a useful discussion here. Of course, you are free to prefer your previous tools. And if you want to make feature requests you better post them directly in the according sub-forum. However, Affinity isn't just a photo editor or raw developer but rather a layout application, including vector objects, typographic functions and text styles or warp/liquify features for instance to create quite more complex compositions.

[OldHickory30]

17 hours ago, thomaso said:

By "a specific color", do you mean one specific value only or a range around this value? In the latter case, an HSL Adjustment might work. Or, if your goal isn't a colour adjustment (like HSL) applied to a specific colour, you might want to use a Hue Range Mask to narrow the selection down to a specific colour range and use that as mask for each adjustment type.

If I missed your point at all can you show an architectural sample image with the wanted edits before/after?

Thanks for the explanation, I guess what I'm referring. in most photo editing software one can you use.  a tear dropper to select the color, nothing more nothing less. AP I have to determine the color and range. There is a color picker but doesn't function like PS or C1, unless I'm missing something.

[thomaso]

3 hours ago, OldHickory30 said:

I guess what I'm referring. in most photo editing software one can you use.  a tear dropper to select the color, nothing more nothing less.

I am not sure what you mean by "select the color" – this part sounds like the Colour Picker Tool from the Tools Panel. It picks ("selects") a colour + applies it if wanted. And there is also a picker in the Colour Panel, it works slightly different than the Tool.

If you still have a HSL Colour Adjustment in mind: What is wrong with the Picker in its dialog window? To me it picks like a charm … and also changes saturation & luminance if wanted.

To refine the selected (picked) colour, to reduce or widen a selected colour or range use the two outer gray circular handles in the colour wheel, and to soften/smoothen the selection use the two inner dots.

What does it that you do not want and what does it not that you want it to do? And, if a HSL Adjustment is not sufficient for you, what are you missing in the function of the  Hue Range Mask? – Please explain clearly, we started already to repeat the discussion. Your repeated references to other apps + screenshots doesn't help to clarify what you might mean and do want exactly. Your request for "a simple tool" / "a tear dropper to select the color, nothing more" was answered.

[walt.farrell]

In Photo you might be able to do something like Select > Select Sampled Color to get a pixel selection, and then use the Flood Fill Tool to replace the color of those pixels with another one.

Help: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Selections/selections_sampled.html

[OldHickory30]

2 hours ago, thomaso said:

I am not sure what you mean by "select the color" – this part sounds like the Colour Picker Tool from the Tools Panel. It picks ("selects") a colour + applies it if wanted. And there is also a picker in the Colour Panel, it works slightly different that the Tool.

If you still have a HSL Colour Adjustment in mind: What is wrong with the Picker in its dialog window? To me it picks like a charm … and also changes saturation & luminance if wanted.

 

To refine the selected (picked) colour, to reduce or widen a selected colour or range use the two outer gray circular handles in the colour wheel, and to soften/smoothen the selection use the two inner dots.

What does it that you do not want and what does it not that you want it to do? And, if a HSL Adjustment is not sufficient for you, what are you missing in the function of the  Hue Range Mask? – Please explain clearly, we started already to repeat the discussion. Your repeated references to other apps + screenshots doesn't help to clarify what you might mean and do want exactly. Your request for "a simple tool" / "a tear dropper to select the color, nothing more" was answered.

That was helpful, trying to adapt to a diffrant workflow that I have been used to for many years, but I'm trying to stick with it!

[OldHickory30]

Just now, OldHickory30 said:

That was helpful, trying to adapt to a different workflow that I have been used to for many years, but I'm trying to stick with it!

Thea's what I'm looking for, tried the color picker prior was having issues....Thank you!

[OldHickory30]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

In Photo you might be able to do something like Select > Select Sampled Color to get a pixel selection, and then use the Flood Fill Tool to replace the color of those pixels with another one.

Help: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Selections/selections_sampled.html

Thanks, I'll give it a shot!