So far so good, very nicely done, but a little strenuous I think. Simply make a fill layer and and use the gradient tool on it where the desired color is to be inserted, use the color you want, use black where no color should appear, blend mode set to soft light. it can be done with any color you want and use as many layers as you want the image to contain (color shades).
Great ideas. Especially erase mode. Some of this can be had just by adding "stops" to the gradient, which is easier. ALSO, note that you can create ANY shape, fill it with a black-to-white gradient, put it "inside" your color adjustment layer, then rasterize it to mask. So you might be able to use just one shape rather than a bunch of rectangles. Also, you can gradient out the strokes of shapes for "banding effects" in your recolor layer.
@@OlivioSarikas Your ideas, though, are the fine art version. With them the sky is the limit. Plus, you don't have the destructive step of rasterizing to mask. AND, you can still use any shape and do strokes, fading each stroke by doing a gradient to transparent just like you taught me here. And I checked, you can use Appearances and make a multi-stroke shape in Designer then paste it into Photo as a sublayer in Erase mode for a "banded fade" of any shape-tool shape. Wow! It's like a 1979 modern look with just one shape that remains editable! Thanks!
Hi' Olivio. That's very clever, I dont like that it needs to be that complicated. Thanks a lot! btw I did edit 26 pic today, from a shoot with help from your autumn gradients! That saved me quite some time! Thanks again for that.
Hi Andreas, sounds awesome. Happy you like the Autumn Gradients :) Yes, it's a bit complicated, but you don't need it that often and you could also use a really big brush to paint them in. It's not as smooth as a gradient, but a lot faster :)
Woooo Olivio!!! This is so clever and I have been searching for a solution for a while already. Thank you so much! And I will say hi to you too if I meet you on the street! haha Thanks again!
@@OlivioSarikas , i just tried your method by drawing the rectangles and adding gradients on them and work as a child mask layers under Recolor Adjustment, they work perfectly like what you teach. But I found out that, the overlapping area between 2 rectangles is very obvious, is there any way to solve that? Thanks again!
Hi Olivio, great video...i'm trying to apply this to an exposure gradient but doesn't seem to be working once I create a rectangle/gradient/drag to the adjustment layer the whole adjustment layer disappears?? . I'm totally new to photo editing but I've created a panorama using raw images and want the centre to be darker than the top and bottom.
Thanks Olivio . By the way, you can leave the fill-mode of the rectangles all in normal mode to archive this effect when you invert the build-in adjustment-layer-mask before.
This is a very interesting thing to know. It really works. If adjustments build in mask is all black, then those gradients with opacity 0% works well. Thank you both!
And this same technic works also with fill layers. Add a fill layer, select another layer, change the color to black, select fill layer again and use the ”flood fill tool” to fill the fill layers mask with black. Now you can add for example a rectangle with transparent fill beneath the fill layer and rectangle will work as a mask. You can use ofcourse multiple rectangles or any other layers for masking.
I combined your idea and one commenter’s idea and found out: if you add a black mask inside/under any layer, then if you add layers inside the mask layer, those new layers will act as mask. You can for example add vector shape under your mask layer and then you’ll have a vector mask. You can also use any gradients you like, ”no color” / transparent / ”opacity 0%” doesn’t mask and any color will mask.
Olivio: Does this work with Affinity Photo 2? I attempted it with Affinity Photo 2 and could not get it to work. The problem occurred when the first gradient was set to blend mode "Erase". It seemed the gradient was erased! I tried this technique using Affinity Photo 1 and it worked. Perhaps something has changed with the newer version of Affinity Photo.
I have Affinity Photo 2 and what I do I just create multiple masks. E.g. I create an adjustment layer and add a blank mask. On that mask I pull the the B/W gradient. If I need another gradient mask, I add second mask and apply a new gradient on it. Needs more adjusting? Add another mask to that adjustment layer and edit it 🙂
LOL --- Give me a break ; I have enough trouble with only one Ap gradient :( . It is one of those tools I feel Affinity could have done better than basically copy the PS way . On1 made a good gradient tool but I do not have the program any more because of too many little dramas on my machines; so I guess I should learn the Ap way . Or just use the Lr5 tool that I do understand . All said; still another great video Olivio -- thank you Cheers
Our little group attempted your tutorial today. In this instance, I was tutoring. Whilst the procedure worked fine for me last evening, we die encounter a few problems. Apparently, and I do certainly am happy to be corrected, we do not need to have a Grey Rectangle, it could be white - that seems to work. We do seem to follow your tutorial, word/choices absolutely, so we were trying to get a mid-grey like you have on the video. Seems that not necessary - it could be white (and other colours)?
Hallo Olivio. Du sprichst Deutsch ??? Ich habe dich bis dato immer auf Englisch angeschrieben. So oder so, wiederum ein ganz toller Beitrag von dir, Klasse. Gruss aus der Schweiz, André
Hallo Andre, ja, bin deutscher. Kannst mich auf beiden Sprachen anschreiben :) - Bei Fragen besser auf englisch, weil dann können auch andere antworten :)
@@OlivioSarikas Das ist praktisch. Na ja, Englisch geht auch, aber Deutsch ist mir näher. Schätze deine Videos sehr, bin 62 und habe Tiefdruckretoucheur 4 Jahre gelernt. Farbretusche war damals noch äusserst anspruchsvoll, man hatte ja keine "Vorschau" sondern nur auf s/w-Film die Auszüge CMY und Schwarz. Masken wurden von Hand gemalt etc. Toller Beruf. Bin der Bildbearbeitung all die Jahre treu geblieben. Jahrelang bei Photoshop, bin ich nun seit einiger Zeit bei Affinity gelandet (Abo-Politik von Adobe) und auf deinem Kanal habe ich schon so manchem Inspiration mitgenommen. Dafür herzlichen Dank Gruss André
Wow, masken von hand malen und alles ohne Vorschau. Klingt spannend aber heftig. Bin zwar auch noch aus der Analogfilm Zeit, aber damals hab ich noch nicht selbst entwickelt.
@@OlivioSarikas tja, Olivio, unsere "Vorschau" waren die gemessenen Densisometer-Werte (zuerst im Negativ, musste man alles umrechnen), später beim Positivfilm und Farbkataloge, dicke Bücher, in denen man ungefähr nachschauen konnte, die die Werte YCB für einen Farbton ergaben (ohne Schwarz) Masken wurden bereits bei den Negativauszügen erstellt, war wirklich hochkomplex und erforderte viel Erfahrung. Die erste "Vorschau", immer mit Spannung erwartet, hatten wir dann beim Andruck. Dann wurde nochmals gröbere Sachen (grüne oder rötliche Schatten z.B.) korrigiert. Wie das? Auf dem bereits geätzten Kupferzylinder. Das machten dann aber die Tiefdruckätzer, auch ein Beruf, den es heute nicht mehr gibt. Habe dann bei Ringier Schweiz die ersten Trommelscanner mit einer rudimentären Vorschau als 20-jähriger kennengelernt. Daraus entstand dann für einige Zeit der "Scanneroperateur", bis dann die ganze DTP-Geschichte kam. Früher hatten wir den Schriftsetzer, den Seitenmonteur und den Bildbearbeiter. (im Tiefdruck der Retoucher, im Offset der Fotolitograph), heute ist das ein Beruf, nämlich der Polygraph. So ändern die Zeiten, ist auch gut. Herzliche Grüsse aus der Schweiz. By the way; Freistellen oder ausdecken von Objekten, das war früher auch eine Kunst, wurde praktisch alles von Hand gemacht. Auf dem Negativ mit schwarzer Abdeckfarbe und Pinsel, Haar mit Anilinfarbe und viel Wasser, damit es "weich" aussah. Schmunzel... sorry, will dich nicht langweilen, es ist einfach schade, dass das Wissen über diese Handwerk völlig verloren geht.
Hallo Olivio, Danke. Und als Idee: Anwendungen für die "synthetisierten Live-Filter" (keine Ahnung wie die in Englisch heissen (unterster Eintrag in Live-Filter-Menü unter "Ebenen")
So Affinity Photo has no raster gradient tool? Only a non destructive one? Isn’t there a way to quickly rasterize a gradient from the tool to the mask layer? I could make that mask in 3 drags with Photoshop.
just make the selection, then drag the gradient tool across the selection. if you mean to apply a layer adjustment or mask with a gradient, then make the adjustment layer first, then make the selection, then click back on the layer with the adjustment then grab the gradient tool and drag out your gradient
Just a warning. If folks use Apple Photos and Affinity, the linkage between the two is broken in Catalina. You cannot save your work back to Photos. According to Affinity Photos support forums, there is no ETA and it's not even clear if they are working to resolve it. Do not move to Catalina if you use this feature.
@@OlivioSarikas Olivio, yes, this is exactly what Affinity Support is recommending. It will work until the final fix gets implemented. I really like your channel and thought folks who use the Mac version may benefit from this. Hope you're having a great day.
Hi Vincent, the reason for that is , it simply fades out opacity without changing the color. if you set two different colors, it will fade into the other color before it reaches opacity 0%, so you would have white in there. - although for the earse blend that probably might not matter as much
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Finally made it work. Amazing .
Sehr gute Idee! Und sehr flexibel einzusetzen.
Thanks for the gradient tip Olivio much appreciated
Wow, I LOVE this. Thank you so much. I'm going to have a lot of fun playing around with this.
Great Solution, Thank you Olivio
This little Things are the real lifesavers. Thanks a lot.
You are Welcome, Andreas :)
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An original method to solve one of my olds problems, thanks👍
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So far so good, very nicely done, but a little strenuous I think. Simply make a fill layer and and use the gradient tool on it where the desired color is to be inserted, use the color you want, use black where no color should appear, blend mode set to soft light. it can be done with any color you want and use as many layers as you want the image to contain (color shades).
Great ideas. Especially erase mode. Some of this can be had just by adding "stops" to the gradient, which is easier. ALSO, note that you can create ANY shape, fill it with a black-to-white gradient, put it "inside" your color adjustment layer, then rasterize it to mask. So you might be able to use just one shape rather than a bunch of rectangles. Also, you can gradient out the strokes of shapes for "banding effects" in your recolor layer.
Hi Joshua, thank you. Those are some really great tips. Some i know, some are know to me. Really enjoyed your Comment. Thank you :)
@@OlivioSarikas Your ideas, though, are the fine art version. With them the sky is the limit. Plus, you don't have the destructive step of rasterizing to mask. AND, you can still use any shape and do strokes, fading each stroke by doing a gradient to transparent just like you taught me here. And I checked, you can use Appearances and make a multi-stroke shape in Designer then paste it into Photo as a sublayer in Erase mode for a "banded fade" of any shape-tool shape. Wow! It's like a 1979 modern look with just one shape that remains editable! Thanks!
This is a great tutorial, Olivio. I will be tutoring it to our little group of ten, or so, tomorrow, here in sunny New Zealand.
Thank you and have fun with you group, Jim :)
Hi' Olivio.
That's very clever, I dont like that it needs to be that complicated. Thanks a lot! btw I did edit 26 pic today, from a shoot with help from your autumn gradients! That saved me quite some time! Thanks again for that.
Hi Andreas, sounds awesome. Happy you like the Autumn Gradients :) Yes, it's a bit complicated, but you don't need it that often and you could also use a really big brush to paint them in. It's not as smooth as a gradient, but a lot faster :)
I learn something new every time.Thanks.
Thank you, David
WOW! This is very cool! Awesome work!
Thank you, Richard. Happy you enjoy it :)
Woooo Olivio!!! This is so clever and I have been searching for a solution for a while already. Thank you so much! And I will say hi to you too if I meet you on the street! haha Thanks again!
Thank you, Moi Moi. Happy i could help :)
@@OlivioSarikas , i just tried your method by drawing the rectangles and adding gradients on them and work as a child mask layers under Recolor Adjustment, they work perfectly like what you teach. But I found out that, the overlapping area between 2 rectangles is very obvious, is there any way to solve that? Thanks again!
This is an awesome tutorial/technique. I will be using this for sure.
You are welcome, Parrottm
This is amazing! 😲 Thank you so much
Muchas gracias Olivio
Thanks Olivio! Nice tip. Btw it doesn't matter which colour you use in gradients. Only the alpha (opacity) is important.
Hi Peter, that's true. For the erase bend mode it actually doesn't matter :)
Thank you Olivio, interesting and useful trick!
Thank you, Francesco
Really a great video ! Thanks Olivio.
You are welcome, Riccardo :)
Very nice thank you
again, thankyou sir!
Very helpful
That's amazing! Thanks
very nice man! thank you!
You are welcome, Christopher :)
Hi Olivio, great video...i'm trying to apply this to an exposure gradient but doesn't seem to be working once I create a rectangle/gradient/drag to the adjustment layer the whole adjustment layer disappears?? . I'm totally new to photo editing but I've created a panorama using raw images and want the centre to be darker than the top and bottom.
Love it
Thanks Olivio
. By the way, you can leave the fill-mode of the rectangles all in normal mode to archive this effect when you invert the build-in adjustment-layer-mask before.
Hi Blender, really? I have to check that out. Thank you :)
This is a very interesting thing to know. It really works. If adjustments build in mask is all black, then those gradients with opacity 0% works well. Thank you both!
And this same technic works also with fill layers. Add a fill layer, select another layer, change the color to black, select fill layer again and use the ”flood fill tool” to fill the fill layers mask with black. Now you can add for example a rectangle with transparent fill beneath the fill layer and rectangle will work as a mask. You can use ofcourse multiple rectangles or any other layers for masking.
nice, thanks
You are Welcome 😊
I combined your idea and one commenter’s idea and found out: if you add a black mask inside/under any layer, then if you add layers inside the mask layer, those new layers will act as mask. You can for example add vector shape under your mask layer and then you’ll have a vector mask. You can also use any gradients you like, ”no color” / transparent / ”opacity 0%” doesn’t mask and any color will mask.
Ok, one step further: group your vector shapes and drag the group on adjustment/fill/image layer’s thumbnail image (over a tiny image).
Awesome! Thank you Jyrki :)
Thanks - very helpful. Just wish Affinity would sort this out tho.
Great!..tq sir
You are welcome, Supian :)
Thank you for that upload. Can you show us how to create a space scene with nebula and so on in Affinity photo? Without using stockfotos.
Hi globe, you mean just with effects? Sounds interessting. Search my channel for a tutorial how to create a planet with effects in the meantime :)
Thank you very much Olivio for your response. You make a great job.
Olivio: Does this work with Affinity Photo 2? I attempted it with Affinity Photo 2 and could not get it to work. The problem occurred when the first gradient was set to blend mode "Erase". It seemed the gradient was erased! I tried this technique using Affinity Photo 1 and it worked. Perhaps something has changed with the newer version of Affinity Photo.
I have Affinity Photo 2 and what I do I just create multiple masks. E.g. I create an adjustment layer and add a blank mask. On that mask I pull the the B/W gradient. If I need another gradient mask, I add second mask and apply a new gradient on it. Needs more adjusting? Add another mask to that adjustment layer and edit it 🙂
Genius!!
Thank you, Bob
Hi, Olivio..
Can be applied in Affinity Designer too ? Thanks
Hi Rizki, i'm not sure about that. But i don't see a reason why not.
LOL --- Give me a break ; I have enough trouble with only one Ap gradient :( . It is one of those tools I feel Affinity could have done better than basically copy the PS way . On1 made a good gradient tool but I do not have the program any more because of too many little dramas on my machines; so I guess I should learn the Ap way . Or just use the Lr5 tool that I do understand .
All said; still another great video Olivio -- thank you
Cheers
Hi Olivio, I bought your 80 pack LUTS for Affinity photo. Can I use them for video in Filmora 9 ??? Thanks
Hi OAP, yes, you can :) Every Software that supporst LUTs should be able to load them :)
Our little group attempted your tutorial today. In this instance, I was tutoring. Whilst the procedure worked fine for me last evening, we die encounter a few problems. Apparently, and I do certainly am happy to be corrected, we do not need to have a Grey Rectangle, it could be white - that seems to work. We do seem to follow your tutorial, word/choices absolutely, so we were trying to get a mid-grey like you have on the video. Seems that not necessary - it could be white (and other colours)?
Hi Jim, you are right this gray rectangle is not necessary for the technique. it is just an extra step to give you more control over the values
Great
Thank you, Pier
That was clever. I'm going to have to study that again.
How about a mask using color channels?
Hi Eric, i talked about masks using color channels in my last tutorial bout Masks. Have a look on my channel :)
@@OlivioSarikas Ok. Will do. I watched a few, yours included, and I forgot.
Love your channel and your tutorials!
Hallo Olivio. Du sprichst Deutsch ??? Ich habe dich bis dato immer auf Englisch angeschrieben.
So oder so, wiederum ein ganz toller Beitrag von dir, Klasse.
Gruss aus der Schweiz, André
Hallo Andre, ja, bin deutscher. Kannst mich auf beiden Sprachen anschreiben :) - Bei Fragen besser auf englisch, weil dann können auch andere antworten :)
@@OlivioSarikas Das ist praktisch. Na ja, Englisch geht auch, aber Deutsch ist mir näher. Schätze deine Videos sehr, bin 62 und habe Tiefdruckretoucheur 4 Jahre gelernt. Farbretusche war damals noch äusserst anspruchsvoll, man hatte ja keine "Vorschau" sondern nur auf s/w-Film die Auszüge CMY und Schwarz. Masken wurden von Hand gemalt etc. Toller Beruf. Bin der Bildbearbeitung all die Jahre treu geblieben.
Jahrelang bei Photoshop, bin ich nun seit einiger Zeit bei Affinity gelandet (Abo-Politik von Adobe) und auf deinem Kanal habe ich schon so manchem Inspiration mitgenommen. Dafür herzlichen Dank
Gruss André
Wow, masken von hand malen und alles ohne Vorschau. Klingt spannend aber heftig. Bin zwar auch noch aus der Analogfilm Zeit, aber damals hab ich noch nicht selbst entwickelt.
@@OlivioSarikas tja, Olivio, unsere "Vorschau" waren die gemessenen Densisometer-Werte (zuerst im Negativ, musste man alles umrechnen), später beim Positivfilm und Farbkataloge, dicke Bücher, in denen man ungefähr nachschauen konnte, die die Werte YCB für einen Farbton ergaben (ohne Schwarz) Masken wurden bereits bei den Negativauszügen erstellt, war wirklich hochkomplex und erforderte viel Erfahrung. Die erste "Vorschau", immer mit Spannung erwartet, hatten wir dann beim Andruck. Dann wurde nochmals gröbere Sachen (grüne oder rötliche Schatten z.B.) korrigiert. Wie das? Auf dem bereits geätzten Kupferzylinder. Das machten dann aber die Tiefdruckätzer, auch ein Beruf, den es heute nicht mehr gibt.
Habe dann bei Ringier Schweiz die ersten Trommelscanner mit einer rudimentären Vorschau als 20-jähriger kennengelernt. Daraus entstand dann für einige Zeit der "Scanneroperateur", bis dann die ganze DTP-Geschichte kam.
Früher hatten wir den Schriftsetzer, den Seitenmonteur und den Bildbearbeiter. (im Tiefdruck der Retoucher, im Offset der Fotolitograph), heute ist das ein Beruf, nämlich der Polygraph.
So ändern die Zeiten, ist auch gut. Herzliche Grüsse aus der Schweiz.
By the way; Freistellen oder ausdecken von Objekten, das war früher auch eine Kunst, wurde praktisch alles von Hand gemacht. Auf dem Negativ mit schwarzer Abdeckfarbe und Pinsel, Haar mit Anilinfarbe und viel Wasser, damit es "weich" aussah. Schmunzel...
sorry, will dich nicht langweilen, es ist einfach schade, dass das Wissen über diese Handwerk völlig verloren geht.
Hallo Olivio, Danke.
Und als Idee: Anwendungen für die "synthetisierten Live-Filter" (keine Ahnung wie die in Englisch heissen (unterster Eintrag in Live-Filter-Menü unter "Ebenen")
Danke Docu, muss ich mir mal angucken :)
So Affinity Photo has no raster gradient tool? Only a non destructive one? Isn’t there a way to quickly rasterize a gradient from the tool to the mask layer? I could make that mask in 3 drags with Photoshop.
Everything in Affinity seems to require a workaround, are they ever gonna get their act together?
I tried the gradient mask but it doesnt work for me :(
How can I apply a gradient to a selection in an image, please?
just make the selection, then drag the gradient tool across the selection. if you mean to apply a layer adjustment or mask with a gradient, then make the adjustment layer first, then make the selection, then click back on the layer with the adjustment then grab the gradient tool and drag out your gradient
Just a warning. If folks use Apple Photos and Affinity, the linkage between the two is broken in Catalina. You cannot save your work back to Photos. According to Affinity Photos support forums, there is no ETA and it's not even clear if they are working to resolve it. Do not move to Catalina if you use this feature.
Wow, thank's for letting us know. I suppose a workaround would be to export it from AP and import it into Photos as a new picture.
@@OlivioSarikas Olivio, yes, this is exactly what Affinity Support is recommending. It will work until the final fix gets implemented. I really like your channel and thought folks who use the Mac version may benefit from this. Hope you're having a great day.
I don't understand that black to black ?.
Hi Vincent, the reason for that is , it simply fades out opacity without changing the color. if you set two different colors, it will fade into the other color before it reaches opacity 0%, so you would have white in there. - although for the earse blend that probably might not matter as much