Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hi all, I'm following through a tutorial and it's telling me to enter the levels shown in the second of the screen grabs that I'm going to attach to this. But I noticed that there are three level boxes and they do not work in percentages in the same way as Affinity Photo does. Does anyone know how I could convert these figures as shown in the tutorial into percentages so that I could match it in Photo? Thanks very much for any information you might have! Phil Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Staff Gabe Posted February 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hi @Phil_rose, On an 8 bit document, 1 point = 0.39% . To work this out, just divide 100 by the number of subdivisions (255 in this case). Unfortunately, we only support display integer numbers as % , so any values with decimals will be rounded up to the nearest integer value. 14 hours ago, >|< said: The display of a percentage in a numeric field is integer, but the value is a real number. If you enter 0.5% then the value will be displayed as 1% but the value will actually be 0.005. Gabe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hmm, thanks for this but I don't seem to be getting the effect that I was expecting. I'll add the link to the tutorial here. I'm trying to create a star field and I followed through the instructions up to the point where tells me to work on levels on the lower layer. But what I'm saying is this which is just flat grey with no stars showing. In the second screenshot you will see what I did that gets a little closer to what I'm looking for but is still not right. I was hoping for a black BG with a multitude of stars. And I still doing something wrong? http://designstacks.net/create-a-realistic-star-field-with-space-dust-in-photoshop/2 Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 Are you working on the same image as in the tutorial? I ask because the PS histogram and your Affinity histogram look very different. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 I'm not but I followed along with the tutorial and created black layers. I might start from the beginning again! Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 This is the beginning of the tutorial and the look is totally different than it should... I wonder why. The file is the right size/resolution. Any ideas? Thanks! Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 If you are not using the same image then you would be choosing different black and white points. Tutorials on Levels should really be referring to locations dependent on the histogram rather than absolute values. It would be interesting to see this tutorial if you could post a link. The screenshot you have just posted seems to be about noise not levels! John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 I did add that link above. Here it is again. Thanks! http://designstacks.net/create-a-realistic-star-field-with-space-dust-in-photoshop Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 (It doesn't come with an image to use...) Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted February 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2019 Photoshop's noise is a lot brighter than our noise. 500px, 100% noise. Left Affinity, Right Photoshop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 Ah, so it is! So I started over from the beginning and now I am just working from looking at it and adjusting channels and levels to make it work and it seems be working. I'll show you finished product when it's done! Thanks all for the help and let you know if anything else comes up. Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 8 minutes ago, Phil_rose said: I did add that link above. Here it is again. Thanks! http://designstacks.net/create-a-realistic-star-field-with-space-dust-in-photoshop Sorry, I missed the link in the original posting. It seems that the original tutorial had some errors, according to the comments below it. Did you amend it according to these? If the noise is different, as @GabrielM says, then it looks as if you will need some trial and error to get it to work. It would also explain why your histogram looks very different from the one in the tutorial. You could try to tweak your noise image using levels and curves so that it more closely resembles the histogram in the tutorial. How did you generate your noise? I wonder if it it might be worth exploring the noise() function in the Equations filter. I would be happy to have play with this procedure to see if I can produce a credible starfield. I am not at my PC at present, so it may be some time before I can. It looks like an interesting challenge! John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hi, I generated the noise as in the tutorial. This is what I ended up with. I finished up using Topaz Star Effects and Lens Effects and pulled them back with transparency and Screen. Phil Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 14, 2019 Author Share Posted February 14, 2019 Oops, here's the picture. John Rostron 1 Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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John Rostron Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 23 hours ago, Phil_rose said: Oops, here's the picture Very impressive. I will have to give it a go myself. John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulEC Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/14/2019 at 4:14 PM, GabrielM said: Photoshop's noise is a lot brighter than our noise. Perhaps an option to make it brighter would be useful! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 10 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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firstdefence Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/14/2019 at 4:14 PM, GabrielM said: Photoshop's noise is a lot brighter than our noise. 500px, 100% noise. Left Affinity, Right Photoshop Quite a difference, I had a go at matching Photoshops Add noise filter to affinity's and in Photoshop you have to go down to approx 15-17% to get a comparable 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...
firstdefence Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 This may just be coincidence but following >|< suggestion of curves I opted for Levels instead and got this by setting the White level to 16% 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...
firstdefence Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Again following >|< suggestion of curves I had a play and you can get quite a nice multi-coloured star map. 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...
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