Today's problem

[AndyV]

I've been doing this same task for nearly a week.

I'm basically drawing letters on a transparent background with the Paintbrush tool. Every single one is using the same blue color. When I discover I have accidentally reverted back to black and white or accidentally sampled a color I use the eyedropper tool to sample the same blue as before and continue on. I've drawn hundreds of letters.

Now all of a sudden, even though the "same blue" is still  there, I'm getting a darker blue, and I have no idea what I've done to be getting it. I haven't changed the layer mode. It is on "Normal" as usual. I haven't changed the Brush mode. It also is on "Normal" as usual.

It's probably a dumb reason, but this seems to be my near daily experience. I keep running into doing something "accidentally".

 

[cboy]

id you are wanting a consistent color don't use the eyedropper tool it guessing at the color of any given pixel that it lands on. you need to make a custom color palette and save the wanted fill color in that palette and just keep using that same color over and over again. you can look at the color you like and make it the same cmyk values in the color sub menu and match to that.

 

if that doesn't fix it then it may be a transparency issue. if you can upload the file in question I can look at it for you.

[walt.farrell]

It would be more useful to have a screenshot that includes the entire application window, so we can see more information.

 

[AndyV]

Sorry Walt. Didn't think. Here it is. If you need something more close up let me know. I'm really stuck here

 

cboy: a sensible recommendation in general but I clearly have the right color chosen. and sampling from a previous paintstroke has been sampling the correct color. so as far as a solution to what's going on, that isn't it.

[AndyV]

Oh wait everyone!!! I know what's wrong.

It's kind of hard to explain. But I start out with just hand scrawled letters that I've made on pencil and paper and scanned. Then I select out the white paper background. Then I do an extreme level adjustment that turns the letters to mostly white (and remove any black artifacts). Then I convert the greyscale to color, and have  a saved "Recolor" adjustment to blue.

So both the level adjustment and the recolor adjustment were embedded into the original layer of the scanned file. But I forgot the step where I have to rasterize the layer before continuing. So whenever I drew a new blue line, it was going through the level adjustment and the recolor adjustment and getting turned into something darker.,

This is the sort of thing I keep having trouble with: things that Affinity can do that my Photoshop (CS2!) doesn't do. I still can't get used to adjustments OVER a layer and WITHIN a layer and then having to rasterize the layer. Too much to think about and remember!!

 

But problem solved. I knew it had to be my idiocy! 

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, AndyV said:

It's kind of hard to explain. But I start out with just hand scrawled letters that I've made on pencil and paper and scanned. Then I select out the white paper background. Then I do an extreme level adjustment that turns the letters to mostly white (and remove any black artifacts). Then I convert the greyscale to color, and have  a saved "Recolor" adjustment to blue.

Quite a big difference from:

4 hours ago, AndyV said:

I'm basically drawing letters on a transparent background with the Paintbrush tool.

I doubt anyone could give you advice.

[AndyV]

17 hours ago, Pšenda said:

Quite a big difference from:

I doubt anyone could give you advice.

   And that is quite a big difference from "I'm sorry, I don't understand. It appears as if you're doing two different things. Could you clarify?
 

Why you felt the need to send out this odd little ad hominem I really don't understand.

I could have explained in much greater detail what I was doing, because I did leave a step out, but I didn't think it necessary as that would be extra unnecessary detail that wasn't relevant to the problem. 

I'm terribly sorry that you felt I was a nuisance to you. You should put me on ignore as I shall you.

Have a nice day.

 

PS For the record, a lot of people have been very helpful with my little problems in using Affinity. I appreciate the help I've gotten on this site very much.

[Pšenda]

8 hours ago, AndyV said:

Could you clarify?

It was just that the description of what you do - when you asked for help, from what you actually do - when you wrote that you solved the problem yourself, is quite different. So no one other than yourself could give you advice because they couldn't know your actual workflow. Which is a shame - because it was enough to specify the workflow more accurately/specifically in the first question. But the problem is solved, and that's the main thing 🙂