colibri Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Hi, I'm very sorry for asking this question but it's been driving me insane in the last 2 days. So I have this png file of a bunch of icons, they are all black and white. I want to colorize them to make them super pretty :D Looks like this So I then: 1) flattened the doc just to be sure. There's only one, unlocked PIXEL layer 2) set the color format to RGB16 3) converted the ICC profile to RGB generic 4) selected a part of the (only) layer using the square selection tool 5) pressed the adjustement panel/button and selected "HSL" .... nothing happens. This is odd because it works just fine using a color image (I regularly change eye colors and stuff like that without any issue) So something tells me that affinity doesn't consider black to be a color, but of course if i try to pain over the black it doens't take the aliasing into account and looks terrible. I tried 'filling' the black space with a different color and that doenst replace the black either, it just paints on top (and badly so). So in a nutshell what i want is replace the black and all its gradients of grey that forms the antialiasiang to say, red with gradients of red. I hope this makes sense, again, sorry for the n00b question! Quote
Staff Leigh Posted October 14, 2016 Staff Posted October 14, 2016 Welcome to the forum colibri :) There are several ways you can do this. If you want to use just one colour you could place a coloured rectangle over the icon and use the Blend If function to replace the black from the icon with the Red from the Rectangle. If the logo has a transparent background you could use the Colour Overlay Filter Effect to change the colour. The link is no longer working in your post but if you attach a sample icon we will be able to help you further :) Quote
colibri Posted October 15, 2016 Author Posted October 15, 2016 Color overlay did the trick, thank you @Leigh!! Quote
Staff Leigh Posted October 17, 2016 Staff Posted October 17, 2016 Excellent - glad I could help :) Quote
strandboy Posted June 23, 2020 Posted June 23, 2020 thank you, this has been driving me crazy Leigh 1 Quote
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