Colourizing

[krh1874]

Hi, I'm a complete newbie to affinity, and photo editing in general, I'm trying to learn one little topic at a time. I am starting to get the hang of colourizing a black and 

white photo using the recolour adjustment but still have a problem. When I select recolour the box pops up where you select the colour and saturation, but the colour slider

goes from red, orange, yellow etc and back to red, if I want to colour hair and other things, there is nowhere I can select a dark brown for example, the closet I can

get is a light auburn and the picture just looks wrong. Its on the colour palette near the top right, but if I select from there my 'white' disk that I use for adding colour disappears

Help! how do I get a dark brown?

Thanks

[firstdefence]

You are better off painting over the image on separate layers for each area of the image you want to colour, so a layer for hair, layer for skin, a layer for clothes etc

1. Create a pixel layer
2. Adjust its blend mode to Colour. You can also use Average, Overlay or Soft light.
3. select the Brush Tool
4. Select a brush
5. Select a colour
6. Now start painting over the area you want to colour

[krh1874]

12 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

You are better off painting over the image on separate layers for each area of the image you want to colour, so a layer for hair, layer for skin, a layer for clothes etc

1. Create a pixel layer
2. Adjust its blend mode to Colour. You can also use Average, Overlay or Soft light.
3. select the Brush Tool
4. Select a brush
5. Select a colour
6. Now start painting over the area you want to colour

Thanks, that sounds quite complicated lol, I'll start trying that shortly, does it have an opacity slider so painted colours don't look 'solid'?

[firstdefence]

4 minutes ago, krh1874 said:

Thanks, that sounds quite complicated lol, I'll start trying that shortly, does it have an opacity slider so painted colours don't look 'solid'?

Hi, yes you can adjust the opacity, changing the blend mode of a layer changes how it behaves with layers beneath it, so changing a layers blend mode to soft light is like shining a diffused colour light on a part of the image, thats probably a poor analogy.

 

[krh1874]

1 minute ago, firstdefence said:

Hi, yes you can adjust the opacity, changing the blend mode of a layer changes how it behaves with layers beneath it, so changing a layers blend mode to soft light is like shining a diffused colour light on a part of the image, thats probably a poor analogy.

 

That sounds better, I'll let you know how I get on 

[firstdefence]

Good luck, its easier than it sounds