This is absolutely brilliant! You can use it not only adjustments like curves but also on live filters. Select the live filter you are using (e.g. Gaussian blur) and then click on the cog symbol in the Layers tab. Then you have an easy way to create a highly adjustable Orton effect. Do the same for unsharp mask, adjust the blend option curve and never worry about getting those pesky halos anymore. Not even with 4-5 pixel radius. Blend ranges really deserve much more attention than a small cog wheel gives them! Incredibly useful and powerful!
Great ideas, Gunther. Blend Ranges is Affinity's improvement on Photoshop's Blend If, and has many useful applications! More here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/categories/ap_blend_ranges.htm
Thank you, David. I’ve learned so many different methods for making selections from your channel. More than I’ve learned from the official Affinity Photo channel, in fact.
Sorry, I was commenting on the wrong video :| I was referring to blend options. I got in the habit of using luminosity masks in PS, implemented by some plug-ins that make it easy. I understand I can do the same thing with blend options, but it is difficult to interactively see what area of the picture I am selecting--*while* I am adjusting the blend option graphs. I noticed in this video, however, that for pixel layers you can make all the underlying layers transparent, so that you can easily tell what is affected by the blend options. Just a simple thing, but I hadn't thought of that before. I have tried adding a red pixel layer under the layer of interest, but that's more work. Neither of these approaches works for an adjustment layer (I believe). I'm really enjoying your videos!
This is absolutely brilliant! You can use it not only adjustments like curves but also on live filters. Select the live filter you are using (e.g. Gaussian blur) and then click on the cog symbol in the Layers tab. Then you have an easy way to create a highly adjustable Orton effect. Do the same for unsharp mask, adjust the blend option curve and never worry about getting those pesky halos anymore. Not even with 4-5 pixel radius. Blend ranges really deserve much more attention than a small cog wheel gives them! Incredibly useful and powerful!
Great ideas, Gunther. Blend Ranges is Affinity's improvement on Photoshop's Blend If, and has many useful applications! More here: changingminds.org/disciplines/photography/affinity_photo/categories/ap_blend_ranges.htm
I often forget about the possibilities of blend ranges, and I now realize that i could have solved some local adaptations much easier. Thanks David.
Thank you, David. I’ve learned so many different methods for making selections from your channel. More than I’ve learned from the official Affinity Photo channel, in fact.
Thanks for the re-do, David.
Super tutorial as ever, David. Thank you very much.
Sorry, I was commenting on the wrong video :|
I was referring to blend options. I got in the habit of using luminosity masks in PS, implemented by some plug-ins that make it easy. I understand I can do the same thing with blend options, but it is difficult to interactively see what area of the picture I am selecting--*while* I am adjusting the blend option graphs. I noticed in this video, however, that for pixel layers you can make all the underlying layers transparent, so that you can easily tell what is affected by the blend options. Just a simple thing, but I hadn't thought of that before. I have tried adding a red pixel layer under the layer of interest, but that's more work. Neither of these approaches works for an adjustment layer (I believe).
I'm really enjoying your videos!
Excellent!!