Replace Colors?

[peacenjoy]

I tried to replace the faded color in a photo to a brighter red but though I had the "replace color" brush selected it painted bright red over the image. I looked it up in the tutorial and the tutorial showed exactly what I wanted to do but though I had the correct brush selected it didn't do it. I closed the program, picked another photo and chose green to brighten the field, and it toned it a light pink, chose red, it turned dark. I am using a trial copy of Afinity Photo - does that mean that some brushes automatically do not work? Admittedly I'm accustomed to Adobe Photoshop where one merely chooses the "replace hue" brush and it does just that. Not sure what to do?

[Dan C]

Hi peacenjoy,

Welcome to the forums

Using the Colour Replacement Brush Tool in Affinity Photo, you first need to select the colour you wish to change to on the Colour Panel. I'd stick with one of the Basic brushes, you'll have options to adjust on the Context Toolbar like Width, Opacity etc, you can also adjust the Tolerance level. Remember this process will replace the targeted colours hue with the replacement colours hue while retaining lightness.

If you don't find this is providing the expected results then I recommend trying our new HSL adjustment, which allows you to target specific colour regions, or directly pick a colour from your image!

On 6/28/2019 at 8:16 PM, peacenjoy said:

am using a trial copy of Afinity Photo - does that mean that some brushes automatically do not work?

All of the tools in the trial function as though they would with the full version, our trial simply has a time restraint

[peacenjoy]

Thank you, Dan - Actually I did all that, but I can try the HSL adjustment. I think I have to get used to the program more - I'm accustomed to Photoshop and Photopaint, and I usually pick up any photo program quickly; this is taking more time but it might reward me well!