colibri Posted October 12, 2016 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted October 14, 2016 Staff Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colibri Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 Color overlay did the trick, thank you @Leigh!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Leigh Posted October 17, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 17, 2016 Excellent - glad I could help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strandboy Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 thank you, this has been driving me crazy Leigh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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