Colorize Grayscale Images in Affinity Publisher

[Gerard Designs]

Hello,  I saw a couple posts recently that people were asking if you can colorize grayscale images in Affinity Publisher. Yes you can, make sure the image is grayscale, not RGB or CMYK. When you place the image inside the photo frame, just make sure that you have the image

selected in the layers panel. If you just click on just the photo frame nothing will happen. You can even do a gradient fill on the image also.

Thanks Gerard

Colorize Grayscale Images.afpub

[Ldina]

Note, it also works with placed RGB images the same way. I didn't try CMYK images.

[Gerard Designs]

Thank You, Good to know I will try it.  Gerard

[Ldina]

You're welcome.

You can also "recolor" RGB images to B&W if you set the Fill Color to zero saturation (with sliders or color wheel). Whether set to White, Black or some shade of Gray, the tonal values will remain the same, so if you want to reshape the tones in the image, you could use other adjustments (Curves, Levels, etc). I did try CMYK and it didn't seem to work the same way. These were all in a document set up as RGB.

If your document is CMYK, I believe you can do the same, but you may need to click on the K-Only button in the toolbar. I'm not able to confirm this right now, but there are many posts about this on the forum.

[Gerard Designs]

Thanks Again,  I will give this a try also.  Gerard