LarsDaniel 6 Posted January 5, 2018 Hi! I am in the process of creating a new workflow for my portrait photography, using Affinity on iPad Pro, instead of PS on Macbook Pro. There is one of my PS procedures, for which I just can’t seem to find a substitute in Affinity. In PS I use the Color Adjustment layer, to shift a range of e.g. reds towards orange, and thus fix problematic red skin tones. The thing is, that you can use two sliders to finely tune the exact range of reds that you want to affect. Is there any way I can achieve the same in Affinity? (Using e.g. the whole RED channel is way to coarse.) Thanks 1 Fotoloco reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DM1 413 Posted January 6, 2018 Under Colour adjustments, the Colour balance filter allows you to select shadow, midtones or highlights, then adjust colours for each of these ranges independently. Is that what you are trying to achieve? IPad Pro 10.5 512GB iOS 12.1 Affinity Photo 1.6.11.85 Affinity Design 1.6.4.45 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LarsDaniel 6 Posted January 9, 2018 No, unfortunately not what I am looking for. Attached is an example of the Photoshop adjustment layer: Reds are selected, but the crux is the four sliders at the bottom. They set the affected color range AND the width of the transitions. The procedure for e.g. fixing red skin is this: First you drag the hue slider all the way to one side, so all reds turn green. (This will be the whole face). Then you drag the sliders to diminish the range, untill only the problematic skin zones are green. Then you drag the hue back to zero and towards orange untill a pleasing tone is achieved. This works fantasticly well, and I do believe it is the prefered way to tune skin tones in the “industry”. If Affinity Photo could do this as well, it would be a huge deal for many. 2 Fotoloco and wgphoto reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DM1 413 Posted January 10, 2018 The HSL filter is closest to what you are seeking but doesn't have all the individual sliders, so may not achieve the end result. You can certainly get the face to turn green by adjusting the hue wheel but the bottom slider is missing. You may need to combine 2 filters. If it’s not there, it might be worth posting a request in the 'features' thread to have it combined with the HSL filter. IPad Pro 10.5 512GB iOS 12.1 Affinity Photo 1.6.11.85 Affinity Design 1.6.4.45 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LarsDaniel 6 Posted January 10, 2018 Yup, I know the HSL filter, but as you note, there is no way of adjusting the width of the range it works on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LarsDaniel 6 Posted January 11, 2018 And here is the Capture One equivalent: Very powerful and muched missed in Affinity Photo. 2 wgphoto and >|< reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MEB 6,856 Posted January 11, 2018 Hi LarsDaniel, Welcome to Affinity Forums Currently there's no direct/equivalent feature in Affinity Photo as you discovered. I do agree this would be a great improvement. I'm moving this thread to the Feature Requests section as it has more chances to be picked there. Thanks for your feedback. 5 gdavis, Fotoloco, BeardLAM and 2 others reacted to this Affinity Quick Reference | Common Feature Requests | Call for Camera Images Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkClown 145 Posted January 11, 2018 Very helpful suggestion!! Thx LarsDaniel! iCore i7-3770, 3.50GHz, 32GB RAM, SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570, Windows 7 Enterprise 64Bit, SP 1 - AP and AD latest final & betahttp://www.timobierbaum.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LarsDaniel 6 Posted January 11, 2018 1 hour ago, MEB said: Hi LarsDaniel, Welcome to Affinity Forums Currently there's no direct/equivalent feature in Affinity Photo as you discovered. I do agree this would be a great improvement. I'm moving this thread to the Feature Requests section as it has more chances to be picked there. Thanks for your feedback. Super. I am crossing my fingers. :-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BeardLAM 4 Posted January 23, 2018 Hi all, and Serif's moderator MEB. Firstly I'd like to reiterate the need for selective colour control w/fine tuning capabilities. Secondly, my suggestion is further to PS's capability in this sphere, namely: the tools to mask a selective range (eg the yellows/oranges of sunflowers) using a colour picker & range slider (to widen or narrow the colour mask's selection range); and, thereafter, fine tune (say) yellows etc by affecting their complimentary colours (eg blues etc), via desaturation of the highlights&midtones - but only within the selected colour range mask - using (crucially) curves, as well as optional sliders, to effect this example of full tonal control. The mask allows other yellows/oranges in the photo to be masked/brushed out, and so left unaffected by the adjustments. I should note I've been taught how to do this on PS, and have been looking to achieve the same with A4iPad - which lead me to this feature request. kindest regards... M 3 Fotoloco, 1drey and >|< reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
1drey 5 Posted June 26, 2018 On 1/23/2018 at 8:32 PM, BeardLAM said: Secondly, my suggestion is further to PS's capability in this sphere, namely: the tools to mask a selective range (eg the yellows/oranges of sunflowers) using a colour picker & range slider (to widen or narrow the colour mask's selection range); and, thereafter, fine tune (say) yellows etc by affecting their complimentary colours (eg blues etc), via desaturation of the highlights&midtones - but only within the selected colour range mask - using (crucially) curves, as well as optional sliders, to effect this example of full tonal control. That would be extremely valuable option, use this approach very often in PS 1 davemac2015 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
akl_gaarden 1 Posted November 15, 2018 I just want to add my support for this feature to be implemented. 1 Fotoloco reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fotoloco 15 Posted November 20, 2018 We really need this... Any creative workarounds in the meantime? I haven't come up with anything that comes close to replicating the results of this approach in Photoshop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wgphoto 65 Posted November 20, 2018 +1 for the C1 implementation, as that is what I'm used to. I'd take either at this point. iPad Pro 12.9 2nd Gen/Mac Mini, in that order Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Aammppaa 385 Posted November 20, 2018 HSL filter has been rewritten for 1.7 - have you checked out the beta? Has a colour picker and allows you to change the width of the affected range. 1 wgphoto reacted to this Win7 Ultimate x64 | i5-3570K @ 3.4GHz | 16 GB RAM | 120 GB SSD | nVidia GTX 660 Ti | Huion 1060 Plus ScreenToGIF (Open Source, Portable, ~610kB) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wgphoto 65 Posted November 26, 2018 On 11/20/2018 at 4:38 PM, Aammppaa said: HSL filter has been rewritten for 1.7 - have you checked out the beta? Has a colour picker and allows you to change the width of the affected range. Current beta does not have this functionality. Look forward to testing out with 1.7, I guess. iPad Pro 12.9 2nd Gen/Mac Mini, in that order Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fotoloco 15 Posted November 27, 2018 IMO, the ideal solution is to provide a HSL-type adjustment that allows only the selected color/hue range to pass through (effectively like a bandpass filter in music). It could be used to make a mask, and therefore used with any other adjustment or layer. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites