changing black raster image to another color

[deegolden]

I have this image in black. The client wants it to be pink. I'm stumped! Tried some layer effects, but nothing covers up all of the black.

Yum Wrap Paper Left Edge.Tif

[Gabe]

Hi there,

Welcome to the forums. 

First change the colour format from Grayscale to RGB. An easy way to do it would be to create a rectangle covering the full image and set it's blending mode to screen.

Thanks,

Gabe. 

[toltec]

As GabrielM said

Set the Blend Mode to something like screen

I actually used a pink fill layer Layer > New Fill Layer but it's the same result.

[deegolden]

Screen doesn't work for every color. I wanted to replace the black with a color, not use layer effects.

How can I select the black ?

[deegolden]

I have icons selected (from my mask I think) how do I add color? When I hit apply in the edit, fill screen nothing happens.

I seriously think I chose the wrong program for the way my brain works. Everything I try doesn't work, and I only have one client. I used to be able to do this in photoshop, but affinity photo really has me baffled. I can't do the simplest things, and the videos don't address what I'm trying to do, the videos take too long to watch, and they go too fast for me to follow.

[toltec]

43 minutes ago, deegolden said:

Screen doesn't work for every color. I wanted to replace the black with a color, not use layer effects.

How can I select the black ?

It's not a layer effect. 

 

First, turn the document into colour, using the menu command, Document > Colour Format > RGB

Create a new Fill layer Layer > New Fill Layer

Do nothing else except click on whatever colour you like i.e. Pink, 

that will set the Fill layer to pink

Change the blend mode to Screen

It will turn the image that colour

If you want to end up with a single pink image, with only one layer

Right click on the Fill layer, and choose Merge Down

Go File > Export and select TIFF

Save it where you want. Result, one pink .tiff file

Yum Wrap Pink.tiff

[Wosven]

@deegolden  it seems your main layer "Figure two..." isn't visible but only the mask.

[toltec]

11 hours ago, deegolden said:

I used to be able to do this in photoshop, but affinity photo really has me baffled. I can't do the simplest things,

Don't worry. After 30 years of using Photoshop I struggled too. With a bit of help from this forum and some trial and error (mostly error) I'm getting the hang of it. I'm sure you will too.

[deegolden]

I’m having fun making greeting cards. Doing pretty well. It’s just that one client’s jobs that are driving me crazy. 

Is there a shortcut keyboard combo for fill? In photoshop on the Mac it was command delete or control? Delete. 

[toltec]

If you mean, Edit > Fill

Shift + F5

[deegolden]

Thanks!

[Alfred]

Hmm ... this doesn’t look right!

Where has the last letter of ‘Secondary Colour’ gone? (I don’t have a Mac on which to try to reproduce this.)

[toltec]

38 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

Hmm ... this doesn’t look right!

Where has the last letter of ‘Secondary Colour’ gone? (I don’t have a Mac on which to try to reproduce this.)

Perhaps our American cousins have got the best idea. Remove superfluous letters in words like color to gain space.

That still doesn't explain why they leave the "i" in aluminium though 

[walt.farrell]

1 minute ago, toltec said:

Perhaps our American cousins have got the best idea. Remove superfluous letters in words like color to gain space.

That still doesn't explain why they leave the "i" in aluminium though 

Um. We (Americans) don't; we spell it the right way: aluminum.

[toltec]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Um. We (Americans) don't; we spell it the right way: aluminum.

Edit. Ah, yes, no second i

Now it makes sense !

I didn't see that first time I looked.

[Alfred]

11 minutes ago, toltec said:

It seems a bit inconsistent.

“Aluminum” is pronounced just as it looks, as is “thru”, so where’s the inconsistency? (The first “o” in “color” is pronounced like the “u” in “fun”, but the same is true for “colour”.)

[toltec]

55 minutes ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

“Aluminum” is pronounced just as it looks, as is “thru”, so where’s the inconsistency? (The first “o” in “color” is pronounced like the “u” in “fun”, but the same is true for “colour”.)

Whenever I hear an American say aluminium, they always say "aluminum" not pronouncing the second i. This difference is even featured in the Enterprise Rent-a-car advert.

I've never seen the American spelling used, or don't think so. Must be more observant !

[Alfred]

17 minutes ago, toltec said:

Whenever I hear an American say aluminium, they always say "aluminum" not pronouncing the second i.

But that’s exactly the point! In American English it’s spelled/spelt without a second “i”, and their pronunciation is consistent with that. British English pronunciation is much less consistent with spelling: furzample, “centre” derives from French but we say “-ter” instead of “-tre”. And don’t get me started on English surnames like Cholmondeley and Featherstonehaugh, or Scottish place names like Kirkcudbright and Milngavie....

[dutchshader]

Aluminium was discoverd by Humphry Davy, first calling it aluminium changed the name later to aluminum. 

[Oval]

ELEVEN 

[toltec]

Just now, αℓƒяє∂ said:

But that’s exactly the point! In American English it’s spelled/spelt without a second “i”,.

Ah, I've never seen that.

2 minutes ago, dutchshader said:

Aluminium was discoverd by Humphry Davy, first calling it aluminium changed the name later to aluminum. 

Didn't know that.

That is better, now I can die happy. 

 

Don't take that as an invitation 

[Alfred]

1 minute ago, toltec said:

Ah, I've never seen that.

 

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Um. We (Americans) don't; we spell it the right way: aluminum.

[toltec]

1 minute ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

Um. We (Americans) don't; we spell it the right way: aluminum.

Damn, another one of those "Specsavers" moments.

Or maybe a "Senior" moment, I remember when er, what was it again ?

[Nifty]

HAHAHAHAAAA. Alfred is giving some people an English lesson... Good on you Alfred, your English is as good as my Australian,,, We speak the same King's English... LOLOLOLOLOL... Hey,, I have a Senior's moment several times a day.... Neville...,, We spell Aluminium just as we say it... A L U M I N I U M..... Easy... lololol.. I think we have messed up the Forum rules... 

 

Edited June 23, 2018 by Nifty
just clarifying a message spelling....

[toltec]

1 hour ago, dutchshader said:

Aluminium was discoverd by Humphry Davy, 

Shouldn't that have been spelled "discovered by Humphrey Davey" ?

Oh never mind  e's dead now anyway.