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InAffinity helps you learn and improve your photo editing skills using Affinity Photo. Its focus is twofold. First is to comprehensively explore and explain the everyday detail of using Affinity Photo, presenting these in bite-sized chunks. In this, it will answer questions such as 'How do I do X' and 'What is this thing for'. Secondly, we'll be exploring its creative and novel uses prodding its nooks and crannies to get the best out of this amazing piece of software.
InAffinity is written by Dave Straker, a long-time photography geek, engineer, and educator. Dave is also qualified and passionate about psychology, including the curious question of how we interpret photographs and why we like some images more than others. Dave's other passion is changingminds.org, which he's been writing for over fifteen years. Check it out -- you'll even find
InAffinity is written by Dave Straker, a long-time photography geek, engineer, and educator. Dave is also qualified and passionate about psychology, including the curious question of how we interpret photographs and why we like some images more than others. Dave's other passion is changingminds.org, which he's been writing for over fifteen years. Check it out -- you'll even find
Inverting Opacity/Alpha of a Pixel Layer (and How to Use it)
Each pixel has both RGB values and an 'Alpha' (A) value, which sets the transparency (or opacity or alpha) of that pixel. Sometimes when you have a layer (which can be a pixel layer, shape, etc) you might want to invert the transparency/alpha/opacity of the layer. Doing a standard layer invert only changes the colour. Here's a very simple way to do an alpha invert, plus an example (using it as a pixel mask) of how it might be used.
For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/902_inverting_alpha_pixel_layer.htm#see
There are now online pages for InAffinity here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/affinity_photo.htm
Free resources, including macros, palettes, etc. are here:
changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/resources/resources.htm
If you are a beginner, start here:
changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/categories/ap_categories_beginners.htm
There is a full, cross-referenced index for every video here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/inaffinity_video_index.htm
To find videos by date of publication, start here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/ap_time-sorted.htm
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The web page for this video is here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/902_inverting_alpha_pixel_layer.htm
For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/902_inverting_alpha_pixel_layer.htm#see
There are now online pages for InAffinity here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/affinity_photo.htm
Free resources, including macros, palettes, etc. are here:
changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/resources/resources.htm
If you are a beginner, start here:
changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/categories/ap_categories_beginners.htm
There is a full, cross-referenced index for every video here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/inaffinity_video_index.htm
To find videos by date of publication, start here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/ap_time-sorted.htm
To find videos by subject, start here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/categories/ap_categories_alphabetic.htm
The web page for this video is here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/902_inverting_alpha_pixel_layer.htm
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Easy Watercolour Effect Using Tone Mapping Persona
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The Tone Mapping Persona with in Affinity Photo is largely intended for use with creating 'HDR' (High Dynamic Range) effects, but can also be used for the picture-enhancing tone mapping and local contrast controls it offers. Here, we are using this multiple times to create an image to blend into the original which can then produce a pleasing faded or watercolour effect. For related videos, see ...
he Compound Vignette Method for Managing Eye Movement
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Vignettes work by darkening the edge of an image so that the eye moves away from it and back into the main part of the image. A compound vignette works by using additional methods to achieve this eye-bouncing effect, including adjustment of saturation and sharpness. The reverse effect can also be used, for example by sharpening and brightening only those areas which you want to attract the eye....
60 Second Tip: Adjusting Colour using Black & White!
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Here's a quick way to adjust colour by using the Black and White adjustment control. This is great for darkening and lightening different colours within the image. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/899_60s_adjust_colour_bw.htm#see There are now online pages for InAffinity here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity...
Improving an Over-Sharpened Image with Special Blurs
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Sometimes you get an image which has been over-sharpened. What can you do with this? This video shows a simple way that may improve the situation with careful use of two specialist blurs (Median and Bilateral). For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/898_improve_oversharpened_image_blurs.htm#see There are now online pages for InAffin...
Tricky Sky Replacement Made Easy With Non-Destructive Methods
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Selecting skies can be very tricky, for example through a bare tree which has light edges and unsharp to twigs. Here's a way to handle this in a non-destructive way such that all controls are still 'live' and can be adjusted even after the edit is complete. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/897_tricky_sky_replacement_easy.htm#s...
Balancing a Picture with Curves and Different Masking Methods
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In this edit where the light across an image is rebalanced, four different curves adjustments are used, with the curve effect constrained each time by four different ways of masking the effect, including standard mask with gradient, fill layer with gradient, rectangle with gradient, and built-in mask with painting. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity...
60 Second Tip: Removing the Built-in Adjustment/Filter Mask
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All live adjustments and filters in Affinity Photo have built-in masks so you can limit the adjustment/filter effect to only a part of the image. However, if you want to remove the mask, there is no easily apparent way to do this. Fortunately there is a method, which goes through the Alpha layer in the Channels tab. Here's a quick video to show you this. For related videos, see here: changingmi...
Easy Colour Grading Using Channel Mixer and LAB
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The Channel Mixer adjustment and LAB colour are both in the 'lesser used' category, so here's a quick revision of how to use the Channel Mixer and what LAB is (as opposed to such as RGB or CMYK), followed by some simple ways of using this to adjust colours (hint: make things add up to 100%) in different grading balances. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/af...
Making Difficult Selections Using an Easy Drawing Tools
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There are useful selection tools in Affinity Photo, notably the Selection Brush that automatically detects edges. However, it can be difficult even for such tools to find the edge when contrast is low. In a previous video we shows how this can be addressed using painting tools. This time, we use drawing tools to outline the area, including the 'Lasso' Freehand Tool and, often more usefully, the...
Making Difficult Selections Using an Easy Painting Sequence
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There are useful selection tools in Affinity Photo, notably the Selection Brush that automatically detects edges. However, it can be difficult even for such tools to find the edge when contrast is low. It can also be a problem when you want to select a gradient, with selection going from fully selected to partially or even no selection in a graduated way. Here is a sequence of actions using dif...
Abstract and Pop Art Effects with the Posterise and Blur Principle
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There is a useful principle of adding blur and then posterising to create solid blocks of colour. This is used here to create artistic images, from a Picasso-style portrait to a more pop-art, cartoon effect with black outlines of the coloured areas. In between there are a number of other different art effects you can use. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/a...
Creative Effects with Extended Posterise and Blur
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Here's a simple way to extend the ability of using the Posterise adjustment through using a before-and-after blur. This can create a useful artistic effect in itself or may be blended back into the original image for creative colour and contrast adjustment. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/890_posterise_and_blur_effect.htm#see...
Full Edit: Walking to the Tree
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Here's a full edit of a photograph to show a number of different techniques in action, incuding cropping, flipping, greyscale conversion, cloning, microblur smoothing, hiraloam sharpening, gradient map recolouring and recolour masking and blending. For related videos, see here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/youtube_videos/889_absolute_beginners_3-17_walking_tree.htm#s...
Free! Saturation Mask Macros
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Here is a set of free macros that each create a single Procedural Texture layer that can be used as a saturation mask to control the extent of application of an adjustment or filter layer. This can be The different macros offer different levels of control, from Smart'n'Simple to a fuller control set. The Saturation Masks page includes download links and details of the controls for each of the m...
Pixel Masking: for Ultimate Flexibility
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Pixel Masking: for Ultimate Flexibility
Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 6): Creating a Macro
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Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 6): Creating a Macro
Colour Burn Inverse Edge Detect and Combined Sharpening (Live)
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Colour Burn Inverse Edge Detect and Combined Sharpening (Live)
The Colour Dodge Sketch Effect and Edge Boost (Live Version)
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The Colour Dodge Sketch Effect and Edge Boost (Live Version)
Absolute Beginner's Course: Series 3: Episode 16: Full Edit: Cottage Garden
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Absolute Beginner's Course: Series 3: Episode 16: Full Edit: Cottage Garden
Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 5)
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Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 5)
Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 4)
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Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 4)
Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 3)
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Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 3)
Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 2)
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Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 2)
Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 1)
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Procedural Texture Saturation Mask (Part 1)
Creating and Using a Saturation Mask with Selective Colour
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Creating and Using a Saturation Mask with Selective Colour
Sharpen First, Then (Surprise!) Noise Reduction Second
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Sharpen First, Then (Surprise!) Noise Reduction Second
Three Ways to use Curves to Enhance Whites
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Three Ways to use Curves to Enhance Whites
Thanks, trying affinity photo as an alternative to photoshop, was worried initially when i didn't see the polygonal lasso
youre the fucking GOAT, thanks dude! ♥
Superb, but need to come back when I'm in a better grade, so much to take in and not seen this anywhere else. Great vid & thks.
It was a great idea you had to include "Mono Protect" in your macro. For me, that makes it a better choice over AP2's Hue Range Mask. But how can I learn how to create my own procedural textures? I've looked at the equations you use, but they make no sense to me.
Simply superb, the only vid I have found that shows the the use and importantly the options in the channels pane. Thk you.
Super vid, the first I have seen that makes more sense that a mask is not in the layer stack but as you showed is actually along side of the layer it is attached to, and that nice graphic does make it more clear. But I confess when you start dragging mask around the layers I have no clue as Affinity seems to have a mind of it's own where/if it will let you grab/drop it. Sometime the layer looks like your example ie a layer an inset ( child ? ) mask underneath where sometimes the both are independently selectable and other times selecting either the layer or the mask highlights them both, totally confused, then other times they are side by side, extra confused, and I can't find any good info from the Affinity video lib ( unless I have missed it ), I guess they are all for the professional users and not the casual users like me and zillion others worldwide, so this vid does at least demystify the very first part of using a mask clearly. Many thks and Kind Rgds. PS. Are all these 'clipping' masks, I hear/see that term used here and there.
I never understood the logic behind this. Why does it keep the color when you switch it off? Thanks for the workaround.
Thank you, sir.
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very cool thank you!
How did you come up with all the equations for the procedural masks? Did you get them from some textbook, or was it trial and error?
I didn't know you could use other selection tools to create a selection for the Patch tool! That's terrific!
Thanks, brilliant, I had the problem of MetallicSmoothnes textures (smoothness was the alpha channel) but Godot using MetallicRoughness, So I needed to Invert the Alpha. Now my Models look as glossy as I intended them to be. Thanks.
Hi dave where are you ? Missing you 😢 I love your changingminds website since long
Yes, I agree, Dave is missed! Hope everything is ok? Your public awaits you! 😊
this video is really well made. thank you very much for this detailed explanation
"computers have no idea what to do with infinity" Who does?
Missing you on UA-cam hope your OK 👃
His changing minds website is the treasure trove of life changing information. His Twitter also inactive hope everything is ok 😢
Incredibly helpful - thank you for such concise and complete walkthroughs :)
This is just a brilliant trick. Thank you for that. Solves my struggles with color cast is ten seconds.
What a ridiculous method of creating a layer !!!! In PS and PSP you just make a marquee and press a keystroke !! The fact that i'm having to watch UA-cam videos just to find out how to do basic things, is infuriating.
I have seen lots of photos of landscapes where the green tones (grass and leaves) look so saturated to me as to be positively weird. Is the camera recording the green saturation incorrectly, or are our eyes so sensitive to green tones that we just perceive green as highly saturated?
Can I remove or increase the aliasing on the edges of shapes?
You forgot to say that the reason for the live filter (or smart object, which is how it's called in newer versions) is that you can then after picking the blending mode go and tune the high-pass filter radius on the fly to get a better result
Thank you for this very easy to follow tutorial. Your Affinity sessions will be my go-to for sure.
Thank you for this very easy to follow tutorial.
It's never good when the explanation is more complex, and convoluted that the actual explanation.
You are the best! I just installed Affinity and now I think Im a pro. Thank you so much!
So much easier in PS - select all > edit > stroke and your done. Is there no simple equivalent in Affinity?
Thank you so much!
It's not your fault. It's Serif's fault for trying to pack too many different operations into dragging on the layer stack: "...above the line..." "..below the line..." "drag onto name..." "drag onto icon..." "drag onto bar..." Each of these can produce a different result and I find it impossible to remember which drag operation produces which result. And with V2 you now have linked layers with their own subordinate layers, which is even harder to figure out. It would have been just fine to have the Arrange menu with operations like "Create clipping mask" and "Create child layer" and so on, with the "scope" of the layers in the layer stack shown with icons or letters indicating "clipping mask" or "child layer". Also a colored arrow showing which layer is linked to which other layer. Certainly a novice would find "Create clipping mask" easier to understand than "above the line" and "below the line"
Thankyou for your time.
Well i may as double up your comments section. When using the brush tool points of overlap double the density and make for uneven shadows. How do we set the brush so that an brush overlap is the same density. Even dropping the layers opacity to 30% does not work. Adding wet edges to the brush helps but its still increases density on points of overlap not by much but it is noticable. Any advice most welcome.
A great simple tutorial. Thankyou. Im sorry that none of my fellow nurds have bothered to leave a comment in 5 years.
I'd like to save some of my gradient maps, but if I click on the adjustment button on the bottom (between the mask and fx button) my saved gradients are not there. I understand that if you click on "adjustment" on the toolbar (yours is next to layers, effects and stack on the right just below the opacity slider) you can see saved gradient maps. How do you get "adjustment" to appear on that toolbar? It's not there on my user interface and I can't seem to find a way make it appear. I know it's easy - can you help me? Thanks - I love gradient maps but would like to save them for batch photos, etcs. Thanks for your amazing videos!!!
I recently acquired the Affinity trio and needed to get the patch tool working right away. Your voice, accent, information provided and speed is well-suited for teaching. Thank you so much.
Underrated video, I've been searching the net for an exact definition but most tutorials don't explain it clear enough...
Thanks Dave, just what I was looking for. Many thanks
Thank you very much. I was looking for a video like this for a long time. There are so many videos on UA-cam on this topic but no one has explained the method how darken mode actually works like you have. Now i understand well. Thank you again, many many thanks.
Who invented this blend mode? Artists who knew math, or mathematicians who knew art?
This worked exactly the same in Design V2 - thanks very much!
Thanks so much! Another clever way to success explained!
very useful. Thank you
thank you, that's one of the best explanations of how two use a Luminosity Mask and how to use it.
Fantastic, thanks so much for sharing. I will be looking to create an authentic 2-strip colour representation on my 1930s style artwork. Your video is by far the most informative that I’ve come across. I was having trouble figuring out why Red and Green were looking so much like Cyan and Magenta in my research!
thanks a lot
So pretty and such a pretty wife too! Thanks for sharing your technique.
Thank you! In the newer versions of Affinity Photo, you can type in the values for lab (0.5). So being accurate is not difficult anymore.
Thanks ❤
Excellent explanation. I've used multiply for decades, knew what it did but never really understood exactly how. Thanks!
The Kodachrome 64 had wonderful colors. With digital the colors are disgusting and dull. We are going backwards instead of moving forward, sad times.