Radial filter equivalent to LR's

[iamimdoc]

(This question was asked several years ago and I do not see any responses then or since)

 

Does Affinity Photo have a  radial filter similar to that in Light Room?

If not, in general what would be the work flow to try to reproduce this affect?

Thank you

[Callum]

Hi Iamimdoc,

Welcome to the forums

I'm not familiar with LightRoom so I'm not sure if this does what you are looking for but have you tried going to Filter > Blur> Radial Blur.

Thanks

Callum

[John Rostron]

I have just looked at what the Lightroom Radial filter does. It would appear to be similar to a radial gradient used as a mask.

John

[SteveB523]

On 6/5/2019 at 9:41 AM, John Rostron said:

I have just looked at what the Lightroom Radial filter does. It would appear to be similar to a radial gradient used as a mask.

John

I agree with John; here’s my more wordy version:

I don’t have Lightroom, but I’ve seen LR’s radial filter used in a Simon Foster class on the Nik Collection on Udemy.

The radial filter appeared to be an elliptical shape on top of a layer that one could use to control aspects of the layer such as exposure, etc.

In Affinity, one could simply create an ellipse of the desired size with no stroke and a white-black gradient fill. Then rasterize the ellipse into a mask, and apply yer mask to any adjustment layer or group of layers that you desire.

if you want to use the ellipse to affect color, then no need to convert it to a mask - just use a fill of the desired gradient and adjust the blend mode and opacity as desired.  Olivio Sariikas recently released a YouTube video titled “Free Glorious Light Pack” that demonstrates that technique.

 

[aslusers]

I believe there is a very similar equivalent to the Lightroom Radial Filter in Affinity Photo.  It is available only in the develop persona.

 

When opening a file in persona, you have two choices of overlays - the Brush Overlay (controlled by the overlay paint and overlay erase tools on the left) and the Gradient Overlay (controlled by the gradient overlay tool on the left).      Once you create an overlay, it exists as a kind of layer which can be found in the Overlays tab on the right.    

I played around with it (after watching a Lightroom tutorial which used the Radial Filter) and it seems very similar in function, though not exactly the same.  

Until now, I typically achieve spot adjustments by making then masking adjustment layers.   The advantage of the LR Radial Filter seems to be that you have access to all possible adjustments after you have limited the location of the affect by drawing the Radial Filter.     The Affinity Photo Gradient Overlay seems to have similar function minus a few adjustments (clarity for example is dimmed), and the ability to continually adjust the radial selection size (using the control bars in the gradient on the image) as well as the opacity (in the Overlays tab). 

I typically do global adjustments in the develop persona and spot adjustments in the photo persona... so if I do adopt this tool it will be a change in my workflow....  but I'll try and see how I like it.   As always, we can pop back into the develop persona after conversion, but I"m not sure if there is a loss of range or quality after the image has been converted from raw for these adjustments. (I would assume there is).

I uploaded a screen shot of the Affinity Help info about this function below

 

- Holly