Can't add style

[Lucio]

Hi, I'm new to Affinity Photo, I'm trying to add some style for a convenient workflow.

I've added a new style category; selected the picture from which i would like to save a style and tried one of the following:

1- "Add style from selection" in the menu of the style tab;

2- right click the image and choose "create new style" from the drop down menu;

3-  from the main menu Edit>Create style;

Nothing happens...

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

[gdenby]

Hi, Lucio,

In my experience, styles are generated from the strokes and fills of a vector object. They don't come from pictures. Pictures can have tone mapping presets added to them. Is that perhaps what you want?

[Guest]

Hello Lucio,

You must convert the image into curves to make it a style: right click on the image, "Convert to Curves" then right click again and "Create Style".

[Lucio]

Thank you @reglico and  @gdenby for clarifying!

I thought "styles" were something different, some applications call them presets, they consist in a certain amount of tuning that you can save as a preset (or style) so that you can apply it later on any image.

Do you know if there is this feature in Affinity Photo? I didn't find anything on the help, only single module presets, is that all that can be saved?

Thanks for you answers.

[v_kyr]

Despite what others told above is usually correct (Styles are addable from vector shapes/text), you can add images (bitmaps) with the gradient bitmap tool into a let's say rect shape (no stroke and fill) and add that as a style then into your own created style category. - Presets are another theme, you can create those in the Develop persona.

[gdenby]

Lucio,

If you edit an image in the tone mapping personna, you can save the settings, such as exposure, contrast, etc as a new preset. AFAIK, the image needs to be in RGB 8 color space.

[Lucio]

12 hours ago, gdenby said:

Lucio,

If you edit an image in the tone mapping personna, you can save the settings, such as exposure, contrast, etc as a new preset. AFAIK, the image needs to be in RGB 8 color space.

Thanks gdenby, this come closer to what i'm looking for, I didn't experiment this Persona yet. It's a pity there isn't a channel mixer module as in Photo Persona.