ivanozzo Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Hi everyone, is it possible to apply a transparency to every single color in a gradient map? So, for example, apply an 85% transparency to the color in the 80% position... ESRI Arcgis Pro has this kind of possibility: Thank!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 Click on the colour well (labeled Colore: in your top screenshot) and set it there in that popup dialog. ivanozzo 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanozzo Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 1 hour ago, Old Bruce said: Click on the colour well (labeled Colore: in your top screenshot) and set it there in that popup dialog. Can't find opacity option here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 My mistake, sorry for the wrong advice. I could have sworn that the Noise slider changed to an Opacity slider if clicked. This seems to be an oversight as a regular gradient can be manipulated like you want. It is very roundabout to do this but you can make a document palette of swatches with the colour and transparency you want and then choose those to be the colours at the 80% etc positions. ivanozzo 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanozzo Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 32 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: My mistake, sorry for the wrong advice. I could have sworn that the Noise slider changed to an Opacity slider if clicked. This seems to be an oversight as a regular gradient can be manipulated like you want. It is very roundabout to do this but you can make a document palette of swatches with the colour and transparency you want and then choose those to be the colours at the 80% etc positions. Thanks, I tried to create a custom palette with the desired opacity for each color but the opacity is ignored by gradient tool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 I could see the transparency (sic) in the edit window but it wasn't applied to the image, just the colour. I made some 0% transparency swatches and the original colour was applied. ivanozzo 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 On 6/23/2019 at 6:17 PM, ivanozzo said: Can't find opacity option here... Have you tried this already: ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 15 minutes ago, PixelPest said: Have you tried this already: Hi PixelPest, this works in the normal gradient editor. Ivanozzo is using the Gradient Map...the noise slider is fixed as noise, it does not change to opacity. Try using the gradient Map and you will see the problem. ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 You´re looking in the wrong place I guess: Cheers ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 1 minute ago, PixelPest said: You´re looking in the wrong place I guess: Cheers No we are looking in the correct place, the Gradient Map. Try adding a Gradient Map adjustment layer. Then try editing the gradient. You do not get the normal gradient editor, a Gradient Map works by mapping the gradient colours to the tones of the image. It is completely different from a linear gradient ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, PixelPest said: You´re looking in the wrong place I guess: Cheers That is not the Gradient Map, which is an adjustment layer. Murfee and ivanozzo 2 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 My bad - the image from Posted Sunday at 06:40 PM was cropped so I was on the wrong track. ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 16 minutes ago, PixelPest said: My bad - the image from Posted Sunday at 06:40 PM was cropped so I was on the wrong track. Easily done Gradient Maps are very powerful tools for colour grading, I use an 8 stage heat map gradient to check the tonal ranges in some images, particularly useful with B&W images, when the tones are harder to identify, the bright colours of the gradient map make it much easier to see the balance between shadows, mids and highlights, when I have finished I just delete the gradient map layer or deselect it. ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivanozzo Posted June 27, 2019 Author Share Posted June 27, 2019 Thanks to all for the replies! But currently in the gradient tool (adjustment) the opacity option for color stops is missing. I will wait for the next updates! Tschüs!! (I'm learning German now... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 10 minutes ago, ivanozzo said: Thanks to all for the replies! But currently in the gradient tool (adjustment) the opacity option for color stops is missing. I will wait for the next updates! Hi ivanozzo, I have added an improvement request for this to be added, I don’t remember it ever working. I have also requested that application palletes are also added, for some reason you can only use document or system ones ivanozzo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PixelPest Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Nothing wrong with the feature request - just curious on how the transparent pixel should look up the values in the base image for manipulation? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murfee Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 5 hours ago, PixelPest said: Nothing wrong with the feature request - just curious on how the transparent pixel should look up the values in the base image for manipulation? Cheers The left side of the gradient map works on the darkest tones, the right on the lightest. For an easy example, if the transparent stop is at 50% the tones in that range will be unaffected if the transparency is at 100%, they will start to be affected as the gradient moves towards a solid colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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