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In my job I work with PS retouching old book covers. In many case I work with channels and calculations (to mix channels I created).
I wanna to make the same things with AP but I can't:
In PS I do:
1) I copy a channel (example: red and rename it to "red copy").

2) I select the recently created channel, double click and can work on it in grayscale (it appears on the viewport) and I just leave a black and white version.

3) When I finish I copy another channel (example blue channel and rename it to "blue copy").

4) The same process.

5) After finishing the blue copy modifications I open the calculations dialog box.

6) I mix the "red copy" and "blue copy" and I get a new alpha channel

7) I use it to mask a zone in the original image.

How can i do the same thing with AP?
I bought the three Affinity apps and I very happy with them. I'm using the 1.7.1 version.

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You can create Greyscale layers for each colour from the Channels Panel.
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You just right click on each channel, red, green, blue remembering to reselect the image layer each time and you end up with this.
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Not sure if this helps but might get you a few steps further.

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9 hours ago, firstdefence said:

You can create Greyscale layers for each colour from the Channels Panel.

A macro will do this quickly & easily. Somewhere on this site, I may have uploaded one that does that but I can't find it now. :(

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