Struggling With Color Grading Photos? Use This Simple Affinity Photo Technique
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- In this video, I’ll demonstrate a simple method for Color Grading photos using a level adjustment in Affinity Photo.
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Really useful video
Thanks
Glad you liked it. Thank you.
This is so much more helpful with all of the additional storytelling techniques you use to call out where you wanted people to look.
Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That's a lot to experiment with! Thanks Robin.
You're welcome and I hope you find it useful. Personally I find it very easy to produce nice effects with this technique.
Thank you Robin, I've learned something very useful I didn't know of regarding levels
Glad it was helpful! It's always nice to hear that someone has learned something.
You make it look so good and so simple! Thank you!
Thank you. It is easy once you understand how the sliders affect the colours and this technique always seems to produce great results.
Great video, crisp and to the point. 👍
Glad you liked it! Thank you very much.
Very interesting and so simple, thank you
Glad you liked it! Thank you.
Very good explanation Robin. I very rarely touch the B&W output or gamma sliders. Typically, I only pull the B&W sliders in to where pixels start. I’ve seen demonstrations in color grading with curves, but I found your explanation much more useful. It’s a useful supplement to your Affinity Essentials book. Sometimes seeing is easier to comprehend than reading. Thanks again, you definitely deserve your Bakewell tart today!
Thank you. You can do the same thing using Curves BUT you have greater control over the change in the Curves dialog - although that's not necessarily a good thing. It’s the simplicity of the Levels method that makes it so useful.
Thank you for your help very grateful
You are so welcome. Thank you
It looks more bright!!
It could well do. You are changing the combination of Red, Green and Blue for the pixel when you do this. That can affect how bright it looks.
Thanks for another great video I was wondering if you have made a video on the Tone Mapping Persona for normal photos not HDR I searched your channel but didn't find anything I have tried but Affinity keeps asking for a RGB pixel layer I am not sure what that is thanks again for all the videos almost everything I have learned so far I have learned from your vids
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the video. No, I haven't done one on the Tone Mapping Persona as I don't use it much.
The RGB Pixel Layer is just an image layer. If you are using Affinity Photo 2 and starting with a RAW file, it's possible that you are producing a RAW layer from your image rather than a Pixel layer. If that's the case, try duplicating the layer (which produces another RAW layer) and then rasterizing it. You can rasterize a layer by right clicking on it in the Layers Studio and selecting that option. All that Rasterizing does is turn the layer into a pixel layer so that it's an image made up of pixels.
Thanks. Could we have the original photo to practice with your tutorial?
No, sorry. This is a licensed image and I can't give it away.
This is excellent.....
Thank you. That's great to hear.
Thanks for this Robin, another informative video. What circumstance would you use levels over curves, they seem to do similar things?
You can do the same thing with Curves but with greater control. Imagine the Levels dialog and then making a change to the black level by moving it right. Everything to the left of the black level in the histogram then turns black. The other image tones to the right of that point are then redistributed across the histogram but you have no control over that redistribution other than the centre slider or the white level. With the Curves dialog you can add addition points along the curve to control the distribution. That’s the difference and it’s the simplicity of the Levels adjustment that makes it useful for this. If I wanted to make colour corrections, I would use Curves because it gives greater control and accuracy over the adjustment. I hope this helps.
@@RobinWhalley thanks for taking the time to reply, that makes sense now. 👍
@@chrisburgess9919 No problem. I'm pleased that it helped.
A Brit using Webster's misspelt version of colour? C'est dommage.
Color Grading is the accepted spelling of the technique.
@@RobinWhalley As a neighbour to the elephant to the south, I'm well aware.
@@cujoyyc4453 It took me a minute to understand but nicely put.
Robin, can you please spell colour correctly in your future videos. I know it's an American product, but ........
The approach I use is to match the spelling to either the product e.g. Nik Color Efex Pro. Or, the accepted and common usage of a term like Color SPace or Color Grading. When it's not one of these I revert to the English spelling of the word. This is the standard best practice adopted in publishing. I wanted to explain this because you're clearly not happy.
Wow! That's a lot of info in less than six minutes. I'll need to rewatch it a few time but it looks like a nifty way to alter the feel of an image with minimal faffing! Thanks Robin and cheers from DownUnder 🦘
I like to pack in the information to short videos if I can. I'm sure you wouldn't want to listen to me waffling on about things that aren't important. It's well worth experimenting wiht this technique. I've found it quick and easy to to use as well as very effective.