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The Vibrance Saturation slide uses perceptual adjustment, as you describe in this video. Use it to adjust the color card, you'll get good greys. The HSL Saturation slider is purely mechanical, like the unadjusted Black & White filter box. Use it to adjust the color card and you'll get broken b&w.
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This was a revelation to me! I’ve tried the B/W adjustment and always been shocked at how bad it is. I’ve then tweaked a few parameters to try to hit on a random improvement, but always felt a bit lost in the process. The equation you showed and the preset you built from it is a game-changer! I created one for my Affinity Photo installations within seconds and it works so well. I think Serif should really build-in these settings as the defaults. Thanks for such a great tip.
This is brilliant. I've been doing a B&W challenge for the month of February and I wish I'd seen this earlier. It's nice to have an accurate B&W starting point, and then adjust to suit, rather than just moving those sliders to what you think. Thanks so much for this. :)
I'm so glad I found this tutorial, I've never known where to start with a black and white conversion and have always struggled. Now I have a great starting point. Thank you.
Many years designing and retouching photos... and until now I didn't know this! Thank you for a wonderful and clear tutorial. I am a beginner with the affinity suite and you have given me wonderful tutorials. I have made some works now and the suite is incredible. Greetings from Costa Rica
If there were Oscars given to tutorials this one would definitely win. Great solution and so well explained. I love B&W fotography and struggled with the results in different editing programs. I think I just found a perfect solution. Thank you !
This was great. I've been converting more photos I take into black and white as I used to develop my own film and print my own pictures when I first got interested in 35mm photography almost 50 years ago. Just recently picked up a new mirrorless camera and have been working away. This was such an instructive lesson, Ally! Thank you.
This was absolutely brilliant thank you - I’ve always struggled with getting a B&W conversion that I was happy with (more by luck than judgment usually) but now I will have an excellent starting point every time.
I have only just started moving over from Corel to Affinity programs. I used to use Serif products years ago. I can't believe the power of this new program, and the awesome courses and teaching skills you offer. Thank you sincerely.
Wow! This one is so much better than the default B&W option in Affinity. Superb Video. Saved this as a preset. Now all I have to do is to click my preset and get perfect Black & White image. Thank you so much!
You’re like a Xmas miracle! I have been experimenting with BnW photos for a while now and struggling with getting the colour tone right, especially faces/ skin tones in winter. It appears over exposed and I was tearing my hair out. Your video has changed my whole outlook on monochrome photography. I’m enjoying editing again. Thank you so much Ally! 😇
Great tutorial! Loved that you explained how the percentages used came into being. I've already gone & created that preset in my program. What a difference it makes! Thank you so very much!
I agree. I really enjoyed your drawings! reminded me of Roobarb & Custard animation from the 70's... if you aren't old or British (probably) you should look it up people!
I have been editing my photos with Affinity Photo since 2017 and I have seen all the tutorials you can imagine. But this special (10steps) very nice and organized short course has been a great lesson for me. THNAK YOU VERY MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS !
you can actually select the channel mixer adjustment and Gray as output channel. The colors in black and white will be exactly the same without the hassle! cheers
This is so perfect, it could not have been better. I struggle whenever I convert my colour pictures into black and white but with this tutorial, my struggles are over. I had to try this tips on two pictures and the results is so wonderful. Thank you Ezra and Ally. Both of you have been a reliable partner in my Affinity Photo journey.
This is brilliant. Great research, practical information, and principles, not just "techniques." I've been working with color and design for a veeerry long time, and this formula is completely new to me. So, so good. Thank you!
Wow! This video has literally blown my mind. So simple, yet so effective. I now have a correct starting point for Black and White images. Thanks so much guys.
Well, that was really helpful -- thank you! I already knew the difference between the HSL and Vibrance adjustments, but I didn't know the percentages involved. I shall make good use of what I've learned!
Thanks for making this! This tip has saved me multiple times :) I just wanted to mention that selecting the "Color" blending mode for the B&W adjustment layer has the same effect!
Just changed a couple of presets I've created that uses the bw layer. This makes so much sense as a great starting point! Thank you for the research and posting this!
Thanks for great insight and help on an otherwise confusing adjustment tool. Somewhere I remember seeing another video on RUclips about using this tool AND blending modes. The color photo was then adjusted using the black & white adjustment tool. As always your videos are excellent!
Thank you so much for this great video tutorial and explanation of black and white as it applies to digital photo editing. I've been learning Affinity photo over the last couple of months and there's definitely a lot to learn. These short videos make learning Affinity photo interesting and less daunting.
As a photographer, using color filters on the camera lens, like a red25 filter allows all colors except red to enter the camera lens. leaving red color a darker element in the film. The same with yellow and green filters, absorbing the color while allowing others to enter the lens, This is the same concept. Your way of turning a color photo into a B/W using this method is great and more exact. Thank you so much as this was very valuable knowledge that you shared with us. I have enjoyed learning a better way of turning color into B/Ws more accurately.
Awesome way to learn the natural shades of black and white. I’m doing your other course however I just enrolled for the photography course in the link. I think that will be the missing link, from camera to Affinity. Knowing the best way to take photos to get the best results in Affinity. Thankyou heaps for what you do..
Thanks so much for this informative lesson! Using the preset you created really creates the perfect starting point for a black and white conversion. Lately I've been doing a deep dive into AP and your videos have been a big help.
Thanks Ally - this is really good information. Perhaps the Vibrance panel uses a combination of other values in a way that results in all of them becoming pure grey. That is what I originally expected, lol, not the white. Explains why there were so many adjustments needed when using the B&W Adjustment. Now we have a great starting point!
This is an excellent video. I have seen a lot of similar video on this topic, but I have never seen it explained so good. Great job Ally. Thanks for sharing this.
Very interesting! I actually hadn't come across this problem which you demonstrate so strikingly with that colour card, but I have been aware for some time that just changing a picture's colour mode from, say RGB to grayscale often doesn't yield quite satisfactory results as to the luminosity of individual colours. In Photoshop they - quite a few years ago - introduced this adjustment layer for going B&W where you can tweak the values for basic colours - it's probably more or less related to the settings you make here in the B&W Adjustment. Having a basically correct preset for the purpose in AP they way you're doing it, is certainly very useful!
Very cool trick and helpful preset! Not having used the Adjustment Studio all that much it took a bit to find (plus finding those added presets). It seems to me a wise place to put those "added" presets would be within a "load presets" button/tab within the Black & White Adjustment box itself. That seems more intuitive to me. 🤷♂️
Cool! I didn't know that. I'd still recommend the Black and White Adjustment layer though, because it let's you fine tune how light or dark each color becomes.
@@AffinityRevolution You're welcome. Since I'm still working through AP, when I import your card, I don't have a save present like in to video, and I don't know where to do this.
@@tpiorkowski Do you have the Adjustments Panel, and just no option for saving a preset? Or do you not have the Adjustments Panel? Also, are you using a Mac or PC?
@@tpiorkowski When you are using an adjustment layer, there will be an option to "Add Preset" at the top left of the dialog box. After you save the preset, it should appear in the Adjustments Panel.
Ally is my hero! I just love your videos. You have helped me step up my post processing so much. Can't thank you enough. You are extremely talented. All of your videos are amazing. Can you do a few on luminosity masks with Affinity 2? I've seen a few but I'm still confused. If you've done some, can you send me the link? Love from Atlanta!
Thank you! That's so nice of you to say. 😊 Personally, I prefer Blend Ranges to Luminosity Masks. They are pretty much the same thing, but I've found Blend Ranges are easier to work with, because they don't create an additional layer you need to keep track of in the Layers Panel. Here's a video I made on Blend Ranges: ruclips.net/video/qZOyA3lNTYU/видео.htmlsi=H11cBKRpXiGv1Ci9
Much of what I do is for newsprint, which can be finicky at best. When I need to convert something from color to BW, I drop the saturation to zero using vibrance or an HSL adjustment layer, it works, looks, and and it prints fine. In most cases this alone works, but if it doesn't give the results I need, like if a specific item doesn't stand out like I want it to, or something becomes over saturated, or definition is lost, I'll turn to the BW adjustment and tweak the original color ranges of the image to get the results I need. It may seem redundant to some to have so many paths that lead to the same results, but it's extremely versatile having the expanded options each adjustment method offers when you need them, without having to apply multiple adjustment layers. Think of it like this... You can remove the saturation with a vibrance adjustment and simply create a BW image if that's all you need. Using HSL you can use the same method, but also retain control over luminosity to lighten or darken the entire image, like for overlaying text that will stand out, or using as a background. Using the BW adjustment you have control over all the original color ranges of the image you're converting, so you can lighten or darken select portions of the image, like use the blue or cyan slider to make a sky lighter or darker.
Ezra, Thank You so much for this tutorial. Pefrect Timing as I begin studying the art of bnw for my qualification. Thank You Again...You're an absolute gem.
Great information. Thank you. I shoot mostly nature landscape so I will still be tweaking the colour values to get the look I'm after but this is a much better starting point than the default B&W adjustment. Cheers.
Another awesome video. Thanks! I'm gonna go through my B&W right now and fix them all. Some work out fine for the look I want to achieve but the number I've left because I couldn't get them to look 'right' can now be fixed! 😃😃😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️
I really have been struggling with the b&w conversion, ended up in that I never used it, since it didn’t give me the result I was looking for. Instead I have been using Nik Silver Efex. But now I know how to do it (and why I’ve been struggling). Thank you very much!
nice work Ally, i have always used my eye balls for blk and white, the colour science is very interesting, it begs the question that affinity photo ( the creators) might want to add that as s default preset in a newer build. Just a thought.
Thanks, I do Love B&W, and do my pics by the eye, now I, we, have the technical reasons behind the great art of B&W to start our journey into a better artwork.
Oh wow! This was very interesting. I always just reduced the saturation to 0%, but I had no idea about perceived brightness and the different percentages. I think I'll try this new method for better tweaking powers.
Just fantastic, thank you so much for this very useful and informative video - this is something I had been thinking about but really didn't have a clue how to go about it 👍
I'd love to save this as a preset to use in Affinity Publisher's Black & White conversion, but sadly, it doesn't have an "Add Preset" button, nor an Adjustment Panel to show the presets. This looks like a feature request to the developers. Thanks for an excellent video!
Wow! Now who knew that? Great piece of information. I also noticed a BW preset called Default. You could have showed us the difference between that and your method. No worries, I will see it for myself. Thank you.
I was looking for a good B&W technic to achieve the Lee Jeffries style portrait, but both desaturating and black and withe adjust layer destroy some details. Thanks to this new technic, I have more details in my photos now :D Thanks so much n.n
I could be wrong.... But I think the vibrance is to give you an estimate to B&W ... Not accurate thoe... Some colors will still shows... And the saturation... I wanna say is for color correcting ...
Having the ability to do non-perceptual luminosity-based black-and-white conversions is really for doing all sorts of other color work to an image, such as color separations for printing or extracting chromaticity masks from an image. Even though you wouldn't want to set all the sliders to the same value for converting an image from color to black-and-white, sometimes you really need to force all hues equally to black, or to grey, or to white, specifically to extract information that is the same for all hues... for example getting the "black" gradient or "white" gradient from the image, where you are treating Yellow Hue and Blue Hue as 100% Chromatic, so you don't want there to be any "whiteness" in the yellow, or "blackness" in the Blue. The real problem with these 6-hue based techniques is that they are only 6-hues. I remember in a Beta version of Affinity they had put the "Orange" in there, which was actually very useful for getting into other 12-hue based work, but then it disappeared! When you take an image and set all values in Black and White to "Maximum White" such as 100%, then what is left over is actually the Blackness of the image from the HWB Color model. If you set all Hues to Maximum Black or 0%, then you have the Whiteness of the image from the HWB Color model. I wish Affinity would incorporate some more of the hues and color models like HWB.
Amazing!!! Thank you for sharing it!! I have to convert every photo in to black and white for put them on, or into glass with a laser. and to be honest, I used the black and white tool without realy knowing what I do. It worked, but I hope I get better results now. I whish I could use Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop at my workplace. But thank you I learned something new!! Also I just finished your pixel perfect selection course!! Amazing course!!!
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I have used this course and it is excellent.
Really appreciate your’s and Ezra’s courses!
Will this make my colors more vibrant when doing sublimation
@@tinman6182 Yes, you can use this skills in the course to make your colors more vibrant. 😊
The Vibrance Saturation slide uses perceptual adjustment, as you describe in this video. Use it to adjust the color card, you'll get good greys. The HSL Saturation slider is purely mechanical, like the unadjusted Black & White filter box. Use it to adjust the color card and you'll get broken b&w.
Thank you Joel! 🙂
Whenever I need to find out how to do something on Affinity Photo, Ally and Ezra are THE Masters I ask for guidance and they always deliver.
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Thank you so much! 🤗
I actually did learn something new. The "final tips" are brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you Julius! 😊
I love you and Ezra! Please never stop making videos.
Thank you! We're going to make videos for years to come. 😊
Wow. You have no idea how helpful this was. Thank you.
Glad you liked it! 😊
These guys are the best in Affinity tutorials.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much! 😊
That is the coolest thing I have learned this year!
Wow, thank you! 😊
This was a revelation to me! I’ve tried the B/W adjustment and always been shocked at how bad it is. I’ve then tweaked a few parameters to try to hit on a random improvement, but always felt a bit lost in the process.
The equation you showed and the preset you built from it is a game-changer! I created one for my Affinity Photo installations within seconds and it works so well. I think Serif should really build-in these settings as the defaults.
Thanks for such a great tip.
That's great! I'm glad you're enjoying the new preset. 😊
@@AffinityRevolution Yes! What lovelyappletv said. Great insight from TV.
This is brilliant. I've been doing a B&W challenge for the month of February and I wish I'd seen this earlier. It's nice to have an accurate B&W starting point, and then adjust to suit, rather than just moving those sliders to what you think. Thanks so much for this. :)
Thank you Nerrel! I hope this technique helps you make even better black and whites. 😊
I'm so glad I found this tutorial, I've never known where to start with a black and white conversion and have always struggled. Now I have a great starting point. Thank you.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Many years designing and retouching photos... and until now I didn't know this! Thank you for a wonderful and clear tutorial. I am a beginner with the affinity suite and you have given me wonderful tutorials. I have made some works now and the suite is incredible. Greetings from Costa Rica
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video. 😊
If there were Oscars given to tutorials this one would definitely win. Great solution and so well explained. I love B&W fotography and struggled with the results in different editing programs. I think I just found a perfect solution. Thank you !
Wow, thanks so much! 😊
This was great. I've been converting more photos I take into black and white as I used to develop my own film and print my own pictures when I first got interested in 35mm photography almost 50 years ago. Just recently picked up a new mirrorless camera and have been working away. This was such an instructive lesson, Ally! Thank you.
Very exciting! I hope you enjoy your new mirrorless camera. 😊
This was absolutely brilliant thank you - I’ve always struggled with getting a B&W conversion that I was happy with (more by luck than judgment usually) but now I will have an excellent starting point every time.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
I have only just started moving over from Corel to Affinity programs. I used to use Serif products years ago. I can't believe the power of this new program, and the awesome courses and teaching skills you offer. Thank you sincerely.
Thank you Shane! I agree with you - the Affinity apps are amazing! 😊
Wow! This one is so much better than the default B&W option in Affinity. Superb Video. Saved this as a preset. Now all I have to do is to click my preset and get perfect Black & White image. Thank you so much!
You're welcome! Glad you like the preset. 😊
You’re like a Xmas miracle! I have been experimenting with BnW photos for a while now and struggling with getting the colour tone right, especially faces/ skin tones in winter. It appears over exposed and I was tearing my hair out. Your video has changed my whole outlook on monochrome photography. I’m enjoying editing again. Thank you so much Ally! 😇
That's great to hear! Glad I could help. 😊
😍 You are amazing. Always teaching us new and interesting things.
Thank you so much! 😊
It was always a guess, now it's perfection every time. Thank you Affinity Revolution for all the tutorials.
Glad you like them! 😊
Great tutorial! Loved that you explained how the percentages used came into being. I've already gone & created that preset in my program. What a difference it makes! Thank you so very much!
Thank you Kathleen! Glad you liked the video. 😊
I agree. I really enjoyed your drawings! reminded me of Roobarb & Custard animation from the 70's... if you aren't old or British (probably) you should look it up people!
I have been editing my photos with Affinity Photo since 2017 and I have seen all the tutorials you can imagine. But this special (10steps) very nice and organized short course has been a great lesson for me. THNAK YOU VERY MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS !
Thank you Tomas! 😊
you can actually select the channel mixer adjustment and Gray as output channel. The colors in black and white will be exactly the same without the hassle! cheers
Nice tip! Thank you! 😊
One of the best explanations about black and white conversion. Very simple and effective explanation. Thank you for your time and effort
Thank you Shirish! 😊
This is fabulous. Thanks so much for producing this video and providing the assets too to make a preset even easier!
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Amazing, I never knew I was doing it wrong all this time. Thanks for the tips.
Happy to help! 😊
This is so perfect, it could not have been better. I struggle whenever I convert my colour pictures into black and white but with this tutorial, my struggles are over. I had to try this tips on two pictures and the results is so wonderful. Thank you Ezra and Ally. Both of you have been a reliable partner in my Affinity Photo journey.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked the video. 😊
cool! i always adjust those sliders manually without knowing the 'theory'. now it's simpler to use , thanks
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Love this... I've been in graphic arts for years (and years) I can't say I ever had this explained so well. Thanks and well done as always.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Wow!!! I immediately created presets. Both in affinity photo and in Capture one. Incredible how details makes a huge difference😀😀😀
That's great! I'm glad this works in Capture One as well. 🙂
This is brilliant. Great research, practical information, and principles, not just "techniques." I've been working with color and design for a veeerry long time, and this formula is completely new to me. So, so good. Thank you!
I had never heard of this formula either. Glad you liked it!
Wow ! That was great, thanks for showing us how to get B&W conversions.
You're welcome! Glad you liked it. 😊
I struggle locating the Preset on iPad, after following your instructions. Thank you, as always for another great tutorial.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Wow! This video has literally blown my mind. So simple, yet so effective. I now have a correct starting point for Black and White images.
Thanks so much guys.
You're welcome Robert! I'm glad you liked it. 😊
Well, that was really helpful -- thank you! I already knew the difference between the HSL and Vibrance adjustments, but I didn't know the percentages involved. I shall make good use of what I've learned!
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
It is amazing!!! I didn't realize that when I applying black&white conversion I simply waste my photo. Thank You very much.
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
What can I say. Brilliant, informative and fun presentation. Thanks Ally. I look forward to giving this a try.
Thank you John! 😊
Very interesting lesson. The color theory is endless, but these little tricks help in the everyday practical use of Affinity Photo. Thanks a lot
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
This is just so cool! Great lesson on how color and our eyes work, plus free color cards and adjustments! Seriously, you guys just rock! Thanks!
Thank you! Glad you liked it. 😊
Thanks for making this! This tip has saved me multiple times :) I just wanted to mention that selecting the "Color" blending mode for the B&W adjustment layer has the same effect!
Good tip! Thanks Jack!
You‘re simply the best, Ally ❤ 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Just changed a couple of presets I've created that uses the bw layer. This makes so much sense as a great starting point! Thank you for the research and posting this!
Glad it helped! 😊
Aaahh! Now we`re talking! Again!
Very educative and informativ 🤩 Thank you so much!
Thank you! 🤗
Another brilliant video, learnt so much, thanks for your time and sharing
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Another long time viewer that just loves your stuff. TY so much! 🙏
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As a learner, I found brilliant! Thank you.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Really great tip/lesson. I also didn't guess what would happen when you changed the color card to black and white. Thanks!
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Beautifully explained. For information, I was once a TV circuit design engineer, in the old days, when TVs were as deep as they were wide.
Wow, that's so cool! TVs have changed so much in recent years.
Thanks for great insight and help on an otherwise confusing adjustment tool. Somewhere I remember seeing another video on RUclips about using this tool AND blending modes. The color photo was then adjusted using the black & white adjustment tool. As always your videos are excellent!
Thank you Elder Meyers! You're always so nice. 😊
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Thank you so much for this tutorial!!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it. 😊
You are like the one who puts all the positive aspects of the world together ! always thanks for your tutorial :)
Thank you Jude! 😊
Thank you so much for this great video tutorial and explanation of black and white as it applies to digital photo editing. I've been learning Affinity photo over the last couple of months and there's definitely a lot to learn. These short videos make learning Affinity photo interesting and less daunting.
Thank you! I'm glad you are enjoying Affinity Photo. 😊
As a photographer, using color filters on the camera lens, like a red25 filter allows all colors except red to enter the camera lens. leaving red color a darker element in the film. The same with yellow and green filters, absorbing the color while allowing others to enter the lens, This is the same concept. Your way of turning a color photo into a B/W using this method is great and more exact. Thank you so much as this was very valuable knowledge that you shared with us. I have enjoyed learning a better way of turning color into B/Ws more accurately.
Thanks for the tip! I hadn't heard about red25 filters.
Nice, beautiful video! A clear explanation that helps a lot. Thank you so much. You do an incredible job sharing so much knowledge ☮
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Thank you for this :D I really feel this preset should be included in the release. Added it to mine.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Your videos are always the best, I can't tell anything else ♥️
Thank you so much! 😊
Awesome way to learn the natural shades of black and white. I’m doing your other course however I just enrolled for the photography course in the link. I think that will be the missing link, from camera to Affinity. Knowing the best way to take photos to get the best results in Affinity. Thankyou heaps for what you do..
Thank you Toby! I'm glad you're learning so much from the tutorials. 😊
Thanks so much for this informative lesson! Using the preset you created really creates the perfect starting point for a black and white conversion. Lately I've been doing a deep dive into AP and your videos have been a big help.
That's great! Keep up the good work on your deep dive. 😊
Thanks Ally - this is really good information. Perhaps the Vibrance panel uses a combination of other values in a way that results in all of them becoming pure grey. That is what I originally expected, lol, not the white. Explains why there were so many adjustments needed when using the B&W Adjustment. Now we have a great starting point!
Glad you think so too! :)
Amazing. I had no idea of this so very much appreciated. Thank you.
You're welcome! I'm glad you liked the video. 😊
Another great video by you as always. I think I'm in love. Lol. Take care. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much! 😊
Incredible. I did not know any of this. I always just turned saturation down to zero to do the same. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
That was amazing! Your tutorials are so helpful. Thank you for not using music.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying the videos. 😊
Very enlightening. I will definitely give this a try out thank you.
Thank you Ken!
This is an excellent video. I have seen a lot of similar video on this topic, but I have never seen it explained so good. Great job Ally. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Very interesting! I actually hadn't come across this problem which you demonstrate so strikingly with that colour card, but I have been aware for some time that just changing a picture's colour mode from, say RGB to grayscale often doesn't yield quite satisfactory results as to the luminosity of individual colours. In Photoshop they - quite a few years ago - introduced this adjustment layer for going B&W where you can tweak the values for basic colours - it's probably more or less related to the settings you make here in the B&W Adjustment. Having a basically correct preset for the purpose in AP they way you're doing it, is certainly very useful!
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Very cool trick and helpful preset! Not having used the Adjustment Studio all that much it took a bit to find (plus finding those added presets). It seems to me a wise place to put those "added" presets would be within a "load presets" button/tab within the Black & White Adjustment box itself. That seems more intuitive to me. 🤷♂️
I agree. That seems much more intuitive. Hopefully the developers add something like that eventually. 🙂
interestingly you get the same accurate black and white if you add a grey fill layer and set the blendmode to either color or saturation
Cool! I didn't know that. I'd still recommend the Black and White Adjustment layer though, because it let's you fine tune how light or dark each color becomes.
Another outstanding view, it was very interesting and informative, Thanks for sharing,
Thank you Tom! 😊
@@AffinityRevolution You're welcome. Since I'm still working through AP, when I import your card, I don't have a save present like in to video, and I don't know where to do this.
@@tpiorkowski Do you have the Adjustments Panel, and just no option for saving a preset? Or do you not have the Adjustments Panel? Also, are you using a Mac or PC?
@@AffinityRevolution HI, I'm running on a mac, I do have an adjustments panel that I can click on, still no save preset area that I can see, Thanks
@@tpiorkowski When you are using an adjustment layer, there will be an option to "Add Preset" at the top left of the dialog box. After you save the preset, it should appear in the Adjustments Panel.
Great video! The color science you share is truly useful because it applies the same way in other softwares as well. Subscribed!
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Ally is my hero! I just love your videos. You have helped me step up my post processing so much. Can't thank you enough. You are extremely talented. All of your videos are amazing. Can you do a few on luminosity masks with Affinity 2? I've seen a few but I'm still confused. If you've done some, can you send me the link? Love from Atlanta!
Thank you! That's so nice of you to say. 😊
Personally, I prefer Blend Ranges to Luminosity Masks. They are pretty much the same thing, but I've found Blend Ranges are easier to work with, because they don't create an additional layer you need to keep track of in the Layers Panel. Here's a video I made on Blend Ranges: ruclips.net/video/qZOyA3lNTYU/видео.htmlsi=H11cBKRpXiGv1Ci9
Thank you. I tried this technique on a few pictures already. The difference is amazing.
Awesome! I'm glad it's working well for you. 😊
Much of what I do is for newsprint, which can be finicky at best. When I need to convert something from color to BW, I drop the saturation to zero using vibrance or an HSL adjustment layer, it works, looks, and and it prints fine. In most cases this alone works, but if it doesn't give the results I need, like if a specific item doesn't stand out like I want it to, or something becomes over saturated, or definition is lost, I'll turn to the BW adjustment and tweak the original color ranges of the image to get the results I need. It may seem redundant to some to have so many paths that lead to the same results, but it's extremely versatile having the expanded options each adjustment method offers when you need them, without having to apply multiple adjustment layers. Think of it like this... You can remove the saturation with a vibrance adjustment and simply create a BW image if that's all you need. Using HSL you can use the same method, but also retain control over luminosity to lighten or darken the entire image, like for overlaying text that will stand out, or using as a background. Using the BW adjustment you have control over all the original color ranges of the image you're converting, so you can lighten or darken select portions of the image, like use the blue or cyan slider to make a sky lighter or darker.
Affinity has a lot of tools that do similar things. It's nice to have access to all of them. 🙂
A very interesting video and very well explained. Thanks a lot for your good work.
Glad you liked it! 😊
Ezra, Thank You so much for this tutorial. Pefrect Timing as I begin studying the art of bnw for my qualification. Thank You Again...You're an absolute gem.
Thank you! 😊
Thanks for this Video (and many others) !! Clears and easy explained. Now I understand how often my B&W pics looks not how I want :)
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Thanks Ally for another helpful tip. I can't understand why Affinity doesn't have the Black & White filter pre-set though 🤔
I wish they did!
Great information. Thank you. I shoot mostly nature landscape so I will still be tweaking the colour values to get the look I'm after but this is a much better starting point than the default B&W adjustment. Cheers.
Thank you! Glad you liked it.
Another awesome video. Thanks! I'm gonna go through my B&W right now and fix them all. Some work out fine for the look I want to achieve but the number I've left because I couldn't get them to look 'right' can now be fixed! 😃😃😃👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️
Awesome! Have fun editing! 😊
I really have been struggling with the b&w conversion, ended up in that I never used it, since it didn’t give me the result I was looking for. Instead I have been using Nik Silver Efex. But now I know how to do it (and why I’ve been struggling). Thank you very much!
I hope your black and whites turn out beautifully! 😊
Informative AND so very useful. Thank you. BTW, loved the song/poem at the end... had to reverse and hear you again! ⭐x5
Thank you! 🤗
nice work Ally, i have always used my eye balls for blk and white, the colour science is very interesting, it begs the question that affinity photo ( the creators) might want to add that as s default preset in a newer build. Just a thought.
I agree. Hopefully they will.
Thanks, I do Love B&W, and do my pics by the eye, now I, we, have the technical reasons behind the great art of B&W to start our journey into a better artwork.
I hope this technique makes your black and whites even better. 😊
This was one of your best videos. It was interesting and I learned quite a lot. Thanks again.
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Oh wow! This was very interesting. I always just reduced the saturation to 0%, but I had no idea about perceived brightness and the different percentages. I think I'll try this new method for better tweaking powers.
Thank you! I'm glad you learned something new. 😊
Well explained. Thank you for this lesson about color mixing.
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Just fantastic, thank you so much for this very useful and informative video - this is something I had been thinking about but really didn't have a clue how to go about it 👍
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
I'd love to save this as a preset to use in Affinity Publisher's Black & White conversion, but sadly, it doesn't have an "Add Preset" button, nor an Adjustment Panel to show the presets. This looks like a feature request to the developers.
Thanks for an excellent video!
Ooops! I just found that Publisher DOES have an Adjustments Panel - it's in the Photo Persona (Duh!), but there's still no "Add Preset" button.
That's strange they haven't added presets to Publisher... maybe that's a feature they will add in a future update.
Wow! Now who knew that? Great piece of information. I also noticed a BW preset called Default. You could have showed us the difference between that and your method. No worries, I will see it for myself. Thank you.
Thank you Behram! 😊
Awesome. This was something very new to me that i have learned today. Thanks a lot to the couple for making Affinity photo so creative!
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Super informative Ally, terrific - many thanks.
Thank you Chris! 😊
I was looking for a good B&W technic to achieve the Lee Jeffries style portrait, but both desaturating and black and withe adjust layer destroy some details. Thanks to this new technic, I have more details in my photos now :D
Thanks so much n.n
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
I could be wrong.... But I think the vibrance is to give you an estimate to B&W ... Not accurate thoe... Some colors will still shows... And the saturation... I wanna say is for color correcting ...
Thanks for sharing your insights! :)
So needed knowledge recently! Thank you! :)
You're welcome! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Very nice. Thanks again Ally and Ezra!
You're welcome! 😊
Having the ability to do non-perceptual luminosity-based black-and-white conversions is really for doing all sorts of other color work to an image, such as color separations for printing or extracting chromaticity masks from an image. Even though you wouldn't want to set all the sliders to the same value for converting an image from color to black-and-white, sometimes you really need to force all hues equally to black, or to grey, or to white, specifically to extract information that is the same for all hues... for example getting the "black" gradient or "white" gradient from the image, where you are treating Yellow Hue and Blue Hue as 100% Chromatic, so you don't want there to be any "whiteness" in the yellow, or "blackness" in the Blue. The real problem with these 6-hue based techniques is that they are only 6-hues. I remember in a Beta version of Affinity they had put the "Orange" in there, which was actually very useful for getting into other 12-hue based work, but then it disappeared! When you take an image and set all values in Black and White to "Maximum White" such as 100%, then what is left over is actually the Blackness of the image from the HWB Color model. If you set all Hues to Maximum Black or 0%, then you have the Whiteness of the image from the HWB Color model. I wish Affinity would incorporate some more of the hues and color models like HWB.
Very interesting, I didn't know that. It would be great if they brought the orange slider back.
thnks for sharing such useful information. your tutorials are really good
Thank you! Glad you liked the video. 😊
Thank you Ally, that was a really helpful tutorial, again... a very good starting point for B&W's :)
Glad it was helpful! 😊
Ally, thank you, that is so clever.
But it begs the question why don't Affinity add it as this already?
I wondered the same thing, so I'm not sure. 🤷♀️
Amazing!!! Thank you for sharing it!! I have to convert every photo in to black and white for put them on, or into glass with a laser. and to be honest, I used the black and white tool without realy knowing what I do. It worked, but I hope I get better results now. I whish I could use Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop at my workplace. But thank you I learned something new!! Also I just finished your pixel perfect selection course!! Amazing course!!!
Thank you! I'm glad you've been learning so much. 😊
I struggle using your method on iPad but managed to find the Preset, after saving. Thank you as always.