Deadeyedox Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 How is the best way to solid colour a pure white area of an image in AP? I have played with clone and various other brushes but without achieving anything satisfactory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Depends on the area (size, look etc.). You can try to select and fill the white area, or replace color for that white area etc. There are several ways and possibilities to alter white color image areas. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Sounds like Deadeyedox is trying to clone over washed out parts of an image? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeyedox Posted December 29, 2018 Author Share Posted December 29, 2018 Dear v_kyr, Attached is what I am trying to work on. It is a 550x670 pixels part of an image and was shot at a very high ISO. I do not like the pure white part and would like to make it similar to the rest of the surrounding fire. What would the best approach be to obtain that result? IMG_8333-3.tif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 You can try "Layer -> New Adjustment -> Selective Color adjustment", set the panel to "white tones" and untick "relative", adjust the color sliders. Or duplicate the image layer, then on the duplicate "Filter -> Color -> Remove the white backround". Next make a new pixel layer, drag it below the last layer with the removed white, fill the new empty layer with a gradient overlay to your likings between several orange to yellow colors etc. Add some noise from the noise filter which resamples your fire noise. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 I feel I have seen a video about similar --- had look but haven't found it as yet. Someone may remember it was about replacing blown out sky behind trees where a filter was used ---- maybe Filter>colors>erase white paper (??) I have never tried it but am interested to explore the idea and if someone can post the link that would be appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianrb Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 found him worked ok with this test but not so well on another file -- one trick could be to use free hand selection tool (??) added blue sky to 1st image No idea if this will help the OP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 What about overlaying flames like in the example below. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeyedox Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 Dear all, Many thanks for your replies, all of them will be useful in my trying to learn how to use AP. I am quite conversant with Lightroom but still have to learn how to use layers and the additional tools effectively.So far I have tried V_KYR's two approaches, with my own additions and will try the other approaches soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeyedox Posted January 5, 2019 Author Share Posted January 5, 2019 Firstdefence, thanks for the links to the Aph tutorials, I had found some using a search engine but having a whole list of them is much better. No excuse to not get stuck in more systematically now. firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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