Color replacement brush tool too dark

[JackieDe]

Hi,

 

I am currently trying to understand how the color replacement tool is supposed to work in affinity photo 2: I have an image with a very dark blue background, which I would like to replace with a light red one. So I select the color replacement brush, select a bright red color from my color pciker, and paint over the dark blue background. Now what the tool does it replaces the background, but wiht a very dark red that resembles the darkness of the originally blue background. But this is not what I want, I want it to be replaced with the bright red color instead. How do I get the tool to replace the color exactly with the one I selected? Of course, Opacity of the vrush is set to default (100%).

[carl123]

The colour replacement brush only affects the hue so is often not suitable to do what people expect it to do

You could try using a HSL or Recolour adjustment layer instead

If you want to you can upload the image to the forum to get more targeted advice

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, JackieDe said:

I am currently trying to understand how the color replacement tool is supposed to work in affinity photo 2

Looking closely at the Help will assist you there. As Carl said, you want to use a different approach.

Help: https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Painting/replaceClrs.html

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The targeted color's hue will be replaced with the current Foreground color's hue, while retaining saturation and lightness values of the original pixels.

 

[R C-R]

12 hours ago, carl123 said:

The colour replacement brush only affects the hue so is often not suitable to do what people expect it to do

Which is why I suggested shortly after the first release of AP that they should have named it the Hue replacement brush!