Brilliant! Thank you for a really informative video. I’d love to see you explain how to do this using Affinity photo.

@bourbon_sketcher

2 ай бұрын

That was my question too :) You can go so far, but Ive not seen how to bring in those 'marching ants' in Affinity Photo.

@RobinWhalley

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. Unfortunately it's quite a bit more difficult using Affinity Photo, at least to achieve good results.

@cmtogether9987

Ай бұрын

Is the issue that affinity doesn’t have an easy way to select the midtones of an image? I’ve seen other painting with light techniques in Lightroom videos where one just draws out an elliptical mask over the required area and then can apply adjustments to it. This feature seems to be missing in affinity - or have you found a way to do it :) Your affinity videos are how I’m teaching myself how to edit my photos. Very grateful they exist 🙏🏼

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

No, the blending modes don’t work in quite the same way as in Photoshop so the images often look flat. Selecting the different tonal ranges isn’t a problem. It’s making the adjustments look good.

Excellent, and thank you for the really detailed explanation! (I actually learned it using an enlarger and a spoon -- this is a little easier!) I've learned a lot from your videos on DxO Photolab and I'd really love it if you get a chance to do a DXO version.

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

Spoons and enlargers are a bit hit and miss. I'll have to give some thought to a PhotoLab version as I probably wouldn't approach it like this.

Thanks Robin, amazing what can be achieved with today's editing software. Although you used Photoshop the general ideas can be adapted in other software and give inspiration.

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

Thank you. That's very good of you to say.

fantastic video! lumenzia is good also for affinity?

@RobinWhalley

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. Unfortunately Lumenzia won't work with Affinity Photo. It's what's called an extension panel (although Adobe now calls them plugins). They only work with Photoshop. It's the same with Raya Pro and TK Actions.

@c.augustin

Ай бұрын

Affinity Photo (at least since version 2) offers three selections for highlights, midtones and shadows instead. Not as powerful as the likes of Lumenzia, but also available on the iPad. If you only need it now and then, this might be enough. I actually do have Lumenzia, but never really used it (for various reasons, one being that I have the Apple Pencil on my iPad, and it works much better with Affinity Photo and Procreate than using the Surface Pen on my Surface Pro 7 with Photoshop).

Thanks, Robin. I was not successful in doing what you describe in the video. I was working on a "background copy" layer. I see that you are working from a "levels" layer. Please let me know what I am missing. Regards, Mike

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

Sorry mike I have no idea without eeing what you are doing. If you follow exactly what I did in the video it should work.

@Mike-br4tw

Ай бұрын

@@RobinWhalley I'll give it another try.

@Mike-br4tw

Ай бұрын

I think that I missed the part about using a traditional dodging layer. Can you link me to a video which explains that?

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

@@Mike-br4tw I don't have one. I don't use the traditional dodge and burn tools in Photoshop. I don't think they are very good.

As usual a really good and informativ Video!

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked it. Thank you

That looked brilliant Robin! Is the process pretty much the same in affinity photo 2? I usually just use photolab to edit my raw photos but I might have to start making use of affinity photo 2 to get this kind of result with them.

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

You can use the same approach with Affinity Photo but you can't use tools like Lumenzia because they only work in Photoshop. You will also find that the effect produced by the blend modes in Affinity Photo differs to Photoshop. I can't seem to reproduce the same results with Affinity photo that I can with Photoshop.

Super tutorial

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it.

Great thanks

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

You are welcome. Thank you

Is the process exactly the same with affinity photo?Like, exactly?

@RobinWhalley

Ай бұрын

No. I tried to explain why in the other comments.