SquarePeg Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 Looking for something similar to (and as easy as) the GND feature that is in Lightroom? Been through most of the available tutorials for the iPad and the desktop versions and can’t find what I’m looking for. Also, can someone point me towards a good additional resource outside of the Photos tutorials for basic info like finding/using/saving presets, unsharp mask settings, denoise settings and using the fill layer options? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 21, 2019 Share Posted September 21, 2019 In Affinity every adjustment layer has a built-in mask, and you can control the application of the adjustment by painting on that mask. White makes the adjustment visible, black hides it. I think the Affinity equivalent of Lightroom's GND would be applying a White to Black (or Black to White) gradient to the mask of an adjustment, oriented properly to get the effect you want. You can additionally simply paint on the mask to choose which areas of the photo the adjustment applies to. (I don't use iPad, so I can't tell you how to do that.) Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquarePeg Posted September 22, 2019 Author Share Posted September 22, 2019 On 9/21/2019 at 11:00 AM, walt.farrell said: In Affinity every adjustment layer has a built-in mask, and you can control the application of the adjustment by painting on that mask. White makes the adjustment visible, black hides it. I think the Affinity equivalent of Lightroom's GND would be applying a White to Black (or Black to White) gradient to the mask of an adjustment, oriented properly to get the effect you want. You can additionally simply paint on the mask to choose which areas of the photo the adjustment applies to. (I don't use iPad, so I can't tell you how to do that.) Thanks for your reply. That is pretty much what I’ve been doing but I was watching a Creative Live tutorial on landscapes the other day and during the editing portion, the LR option of the GND seemed so much simpler than the steps I’ve been using to get there in Photo. I’ve had the iPad version for a few years but haven’t really gotten too deeply into any of the features so I thought maybe I had missed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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