jorismak Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 I decided to give Affinity Photo another go .. my workflow keeps changing / evolving so I thought to just try it to see if it's more usable these days compared to the early 1.5 beta's. I'm running into a few things where I'm thinking that I'm just missing it, or there must be another 'affinity-way' to do it. I can't seem to find a way to set the levels overlay to a specific blackpoint by sampling the image. Like the basic 'black, mid and white point' droppers in the levels-dialogbox. I only need black-point for now, but can't seem to find any of those. Now, I need to open the info tab, add a color sampler to a specific point (maybe even add a blur-fx underneath if I want average values, because the color sampler doesn't seem to have a size control.. the color-picker does, but not the color sampler). I drop it on the point, and I can get RGB values in the 0 - 255 range. But the levels-overlay takes values in percent.. so I need to convert the values from the color sampler to percent by doing (x / 255) * 100, and enter those values manually in the R, G and B channels in the levels-overlay... quite a bit of work! The other thing that I can't seem to find (and must surely exist somewhere) is the 'Divide' blending mode. I hovered over all the blending modes but none do what I expect from 'Divide' , so it doesn't seem to be a simple naming-difference. Now, I have to duplicate a channel and use 'Apply image' with another layer and enter 'DR / SR', 'DG / SG' and 'DB / SB' in the formulas to divide one layer by another layer. Not as slow as the levels-black-point but still a lot harder than just selecting the Divide blend mode and keep on going... Where are those functions in Affinity (I'm on 1.6.5.112) and / or what are they called because I can't seem to find them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted July 7, 2018 Share Posted July 7, 2018 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorismak Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Really ? That can't be true.. I would consider that basic functionality, specially the blend modes.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilililililiil Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Just wanna +1 the divide mode and sampling black, grey and white points. Thanks @jorismak, I Had no idea about apply Image and will try it out. Both of those things are nice to have for CC of scanned colour negatives , and would bring Affinity p much on par w PS for me, unlike for >l< hah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ilililililiil Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Not sure if it makes sense to add this here but, in order to remove a color mask with Apply Image on iOS, I have to first save the colour mask as a separate file, since only the current layer can be sampled. So, who do I pray and send money to to get Divide blending mode added? I can manage without sampling black points by eye, and this would allow me to ditch the desktop altogether for processing negatives Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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