LEB Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Am I right in saying that there is no other way than exporting to change a large part of a drawing to greyscale in Affinity Designer 2.5.3? I'd like to change a large number of elements from colour to greyscale at once, and I cannot figure out how to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 On 9/1/2024 at 5:05 AM, LEB said: Am I right in saying that there is no other way than exporting to change a large part of a drawing to greyscale in Affinity Designer 2.5.3? I'd like to change a large number of elements from colour to greyscale at once, and I cannot figure out how to do it. To be clear: You want to change only part of the image to grayscale, but leave the rest in color? If so, can you provide a sample drawing (.afdesign file would be best), and tell us what part you want to be grayscale, and what should remain in color? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEB Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 Hi @walt.farrell, Yes I have a drawing with maybe 100 objects in color (shapes, texts, lines, etc.) which I would like to convert to grayscale, the other objects should remain as they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 18 hours ago, LEB said: Yes I have a drawing with maybe 100 objects in color (shapes, texts, lines, etc.) which I would like to convert to grayscale, the other objects should remain as they are. I think it would depend on the arrangement of the items in your drawing, and whether the items you want to be colored and those you want to be grayscale overlap, or not. If they don't overlap, then you couldselect each of them in the Layers panel (or using a Marquee Selection with the Move Tool), and then Group them. Then you could add an HSL adjustment to the Group and drag the Saturation slider to the left. That would desaturate the items in the Group, and wouldn't affect others outside the Group. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 @LEB: I see that a Moderator has split this into its own topic in the active part of the Questions forum, which means that neither of us is Following it any more. You'll need to click the Follow button at the top of the page. LEB 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Obsolete. walt.farrell and LEB 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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