3 Tools For Color Grading In Affinity Photo - Beginner Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Color grading is a great way to add your own style to an image to make it look amazing. In Affinity Photo, there are 3 tools/adjustments that I always find myself going back and using for just about every photo. In this video, I go through those and show you how and when to use them. We'll cover how to use a gradient map, the curves adjustment, and selective color so you can quickly get a good-looking color grade on your images. I hope you find this useful for your edits!
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Extremely well done! Clear and precise, without unnecessary background music or long intro. fantastic!
Thank you very much!
My college stopped using/teaching adobe. Our instructors now only teach Affinity. As a VisCom major your step-by-step tutorial is very helpful. Thanks
That's awesome! I'm glad you found this helpful.
Crazy. Your the first person I've met thats been to a school. The rest of us learned photography on the streets!
@@jhowardsupporter people who go to school for these things understand the science behind it waaay more than those just learning it from the streets.
@@planetguam8475 No none of the legends went to school! Where did these guys go to school: Henri Cartier Bresson? Ansel Adams? Miss Aniela? Leni Riefenstahl? Some of the other street photographer, can't remember their names. Leni was doing this ballet thing and got cast in movies and the director started showing her how to use a camera. That how she started making movies. By the time she met Hitler in the late 30's he had already seen her films and so asked her to shoot Triumph Of The Will and stuff. Sometimes they show Jessie Owens, a black man winning at the Olympics in Berlin 1836, who do you think filmed all that? Leni even got yelled at by Dr. Goebbels during that and Goring, head of the Luftwaffe had to come save her! Leni was the only one who walked out of the Third Reich. History is written by the victors so if you want to hear the German side you'll have to get it from her.
This is awesome! I wish mine would teach affinity.
A really excellent presentation: straight into the subject without an interminable, long and boring introduction, very well done.
I love this tutorial! No fuss and I learned something new in the first 1 minute and 46 seconds.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it and learned something.
Out bloody standing. Thank you very much for your time.
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you liked it!
Best Affinity colour grading tutorial I've seen on TH-cam. Well explained, demonstrated, and applicable across all genres. Thanks.
Wow, thank you so much! I'm glad it was helpful!
This video is so helpful! I am a photography student in college currently. They are teaching me how to edit in photoshop, but I do not like it. Affinity seems way more user (and budget) friendly. Thank you so much for posting this. You're a great teacher. I subscribed!
Thank you! I appreciate it and I'm glad you liked it!
@@MichaelSturgill I did! Can’t wait for more!
Super helpful video! thank you so much! As someone who does photography as a hobby, I have taken courses on the basics of editing photos, but I have never been taught how to color grade. I think color grading adds that extra pop to photos and gives photos the life they’re missing. It takes the quality to the next level and I have been wanting to step up my post production skills for the longest time.
I'm glad you liked it! I completely agree. Color grading is my favorite way to take your photos the few extra steps and give them a unique style. Thanks for watching!
Every other video I found on affinity photo is subpar compared to this one. Well done, man! This really did help me a lot!
Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. I'm glad you liked it!
your explanation of the curves was really helpful
Excellent tutorial my man, learned a few new tricks from this one that I haven't seen elsewhere. Very helpful.
Thank you!
Really helpful intro to all this thank you so much!
Really good explanation! Thanks!
You're welcome!
At last! a clear concise video about using Affinity, thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
This was actually quite helpful. I've always ever just corrected my images and called it a day. This is a cool way to give it a personalized look.
Thanks! I'm glad it helped.
Great color grading tutorial Michael.
Thank you!
Great video! Although I have been using AP for a long time and new all these tools already, your video was so engaging and interesting it still added great value. I look forward to seeing more videos on AP. Subbed!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it and there will defiantly be more soon.
Super useful! Thanks a lot 👏
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for making this video
No problem 😊
Nice vid, think this will make my editing a whole lot better and easier
Glad I could help
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing this!!!
No problem. Hope it helped!
@@MichaelSturgill definitely!!!
very helpful! thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Super helpful with the information about choosing the colours from Adobe , nice video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Glad it was helpful!
Your videos are brilliant. Need more.
Thank you very much. There will be more coming soon!
Dude thank you for the grate video.
Glad you liked it!
I mostly use CaptureOne for color work, because it is easier to use and not so overloaded with features, but I also have Affinity. I think I'll play around with it a little more to get a feeling as to in which cases it is superior.
Nice! I've been thinking about trying CaptureOne. Affinity photo is great if you really want to take complete control over your images beyond just color work. It's definitely worth testing it out for different situations.
Thanks🙌🏻
No problem!
Excellent! Subscribed.
Thank you so much!
This turial was really helpful, thanks a lot and the info that you can save the settings. I will definitely take a look at your other films. I greet warmly.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it
Excellent!
Thank you!
Great tutorial, subscribed 'cause i just want to find your videos again and again.
Thank you so much! More vids will be coming soon.
great video!
Thank you!
Again, another solid tutorial and advice....Don't know if you've considered a vid on color balancing composites, say 2 or 3 different images, in Affinity Photo?, may prove very popular and useful...keep up the good work.
Thank you. That's certainly a suggestion I can look into. I'm working on a color correction vid that will kind of talk about a similar thing but I can look into doing a video on this. Thanks!
@@MichaelSturgill Thanks...looking forward to seeing future videos...Color correction and balancing is such an important area.
Excellent tutorial, thank you
Thank you!
Great tutorial, however adding blue with selective color to black is taking away yellow. In black CMY is at maximum which gives you black so in order to get blue, green , or red you have to respectfully take away from CMY. Minus cyan is red, minus magenta is green, and minus yellow is blue. CMY is the upside down RGB, Since you are working in a color space which is based on RGB model. If you understand the relationship between the two models, CMYK and RGB, it becomes much easier to get what you want with Selective Color. I enjoyed your tutorial very much, very informative. Thanks.
Thank you!
Excellent video!! Good job!
Thank you very much!
First time i met gradient map "wtf is this" and now i know how to use it
Awesome!
Very simple and useful! Thank you!!
Thank you!
Great Tutorial. Thanks
Thank you!
Great tutorial! I will try these methods. Thanks a lot
I'm glad you liked it. Thank you!
Wow, thanks man, that's a great tutorial
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
Great tutorial. Thanks!
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This is one great tutorial! Thank you so much!
Thank you!
I like it.
Thank you!
Thanks, really good.
Thank you!
sweeet thnx
No problem!
Nice! Thanks for this Video! 😎👍🏻
No problem! Thanks for watching.
i havent played around with this enough yet, but in adobe color wheel you can save the color palete, is it possible to just copy/paste or put those in affinity color paletes and save as new? so you can apply that palete or gradient to any photo
I have watched this a few times, and frankly I am stuck on the selection of the colors to use as a gradient? What are we trying to achieve with the color selection? I think it is adding those colors into the shadows and highlights? Or we trying to match the warmth of the coolness for a photo. When I try to apply this to say a shot of yellow Autumn leaves I can't get the photo to comeback where it looks more "normal". I am missing something I am sure. Or perhaps I am using an incorrect tool, as the examples all have clearly defined subjects separated from the background.
How do you decide in Selective Colour which Colour you need to choose and make changes to and Target ?
Unfortunately, the best advice I have is just to mess around with the sliders until you get something that starts to look nice. After you do it on a bunch of photos, you start to realize what to change. I would say to start with just editing the whites, neutrals and blacks to give yourself a base. Then start messing with the other colors.
Great video.
Thank you!
why do you delete the midtones on this image?? do u always do that or is for certain images
I just learned something new with these whole HEX sliders, pretty cool info. there's a lot steps to follow, shyt I'm here taking notes on everything just to edit s song cover lol
Is there a place to get some good gradient maps? Or can we pick gradient map from a picture?
I don't know of anywhere to get specifically gradient maps. you can always save presets you like. I have a video on how to steal a color grad from a photo using gradient maps if you wanted to check that out though.
I never used gradient map, not knowing how it could be used for (thanks to the odd default colours). What about HSL / HSV to colour grade. It seems to me this tools is as powerful as Selective Colour, plus you can select the range of colours you want to be affected (For example if you selectd the reds, you can select how wide or narrow the reds are.) Something you can't do it in the Selective Colour panel. What do you think ?
Oh yeah. I use hsl with pretty much every photo. Every tool kinda has their own best use for. I plan on doing more videos on each of the adjustments you can do but you are absolutly right. HSL is very powerful and widely used
Did you take that picture? She’s gorgeous! Making me seriously consider the switch to affinity as well,
No I wish! I grabbed the image from unplash.com. The photo was taken by Christopher Campbell. Also, I say at least give it a try. Affinity is awesome! But here's the link to the photo if you wanted to check it out: unsplash.com/photos/rDEOVtE7vOs
I see here more bright colors then color granding.
Why don't have I the adjustment button on my Affinity
Make sure you are in the layers panel. it will be at the bottom of the panel. Otherwise you can go to the adjustments panel and they'll all be there as well. If you don't see that you can go to view > studio > adjustments to bring them up. Hope this helps!
@@MichaelSturgill Thank you I found it. Too bad Serif does not update Movie plus it is the best video maker available I still use it but it does not allow HD
Michael - tried to find your email and couldn't so thought I would try to contact here. I have been trying to find someonw on youtube that I felt could teach me as I have been really challenged with Affinity. So I'm going give a shot with you as I obseerved the aboe video and thought it was well done. I'm trying to create a border with a drop shadow. Don't know if I can attach a file to this comment but will try. I would like to show the border and drop shadow whichi I can do but I can't seem to get rid of the white border around the shadow. Hope you can help.
Hey! The way I would do it would be to use layer effects from the bottom of the layers panel. From there, you can add an outline and an outer shadow to whatever layer you need. Hope this helps!
Is this more powerful than photoshop??
I wouldn't say it's more powerful, but it does feel better. It seems to run better on my computer and the workflow feels a lot better than Photoshop's. I do love Affinity Photo, even more than Photoshop. It's awesome!
Michael Sturgill thank you! Im still deciding between the two. I love affinity’s workflow. Its very nice
Photoshop is still the best for complex stuff and you have a lot of filters and effects to play with. Affinity can do 95% of it, although some requires 1 or 2 extra steps. However that is exactly the problem with Photoshop, it complicates simple things even down to selecting and moving objects. Affinity makes the tools so natural and easy to use. I have permanently migrated to Affinity for 2 years now. I only use photoshop when working with other designers.
4536647674 thank you for the first explanation
man great video! thank you
How do I do this in lightroom?
Thank you I'm glad you liked it. In lightroom, things are a bit different but it mostly has the same sort of tools to color grade.
The way I recommend to color grade in lightroom is by selecting the image in your library and go into the develop tab. In there you'll find all your color grading tools. You can use the curves in the same way I showed here.
Then you can use HSL/Color and Split toning to really dial in your color grade. For example, if you want a teal and orange look like in this video, you can go down to split toning and move the hue slider to an orange color(you can hold alt or option while moving the slider to see what its changing).
Then put the saturation slider up until you like the way it looks and then do the same with the shadows but with a blue color.
Hope this helps. If you want some good videos on how to color grade in lightroom you can checkout a channel called "Photos In Color" for some good tutorials or "Maarten Schrader" has some great tutorials on achieving similar looks to other photographers/editors on instagram.
this video made my brain wider!!! YOUR A LEGEND BRO (the biggest of brained)
~ B U L B O U S ~
haha thank you
@@MichaelSturgill No, thank you bro!!
Why do you call that blue teal? You first call it teal, then, as an admission of sorts, say that it's *considered* to be teal. This makes me very curious.
It's basically because the "look" is called teal and orange but it's really about putting bluish tints into the shadows and orangish tints into the highlights. I doesn't have to exactly be teal. It's also very possible I just messed up my wording, I can't quite remember.
Amazing!! but the workstation is diferento to me!! i have a original workstation!
Thank you! If you have the old workspace the same principles should still apply otherwise you might have to update to the latest version of Affinity Photo. You can always move the different tabs around too. That way you can make a layout that works best for you!
What is the url for the color page in photoshop you used?
color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel
I'm coming from Photoshop and I can't even do the easiest things in Affinity. Like here I don't even find the tools in the lower right of the window where you have them. About to go back to Photoshop where I find things.
Man, I felt the same way when I switched. Mostly with keyboard shortcuts. I kept doing the wrong ones because there's a couple different shortcuts. But, just like photoshop, you can rearrange your workspace to whatever works best for you. I would suggest trying that before you you abandoned it, but I see where you are coming from. It can be a challenge switching software. Just work with whatever works best for you! Thanks for your comment!
Different photo from the thumbnail...Probably the most useless techniques as well....
I'm sorry it wasn't helpful. What sort of techniques do you prefer or find more useful?
Jesus christ use your own photos.
I mostly wanted to use photos that people could quickly download and use to follow along with. I also shoot all my photos in RAW and I wanted to show that you can still use a JPG to get a good grade. Thanks for the comment!
@@MichaelSturgill That monobrow guy Piximperfect is a fiend for stock photos. I don't think he's seen a camera in his life! I sometimes use his method for matching contrast in a composite though. But seriously he comps a car into a scene using stock photos, there is cars right outside your house just go and take a picture of it! Full auto mode is fine!
It says 'beginner tutorial' but, my friend, you are racing here. Not good for a tutorial.
I'm sorry if it felt rushed. I tried going slower but I can try going slower on my next beginners tutorial.
@@MichaelSturgill Thank you, it would help. If you could include some more detail (i.e. reasons for doing certain things) it would be even better. I am analytical type and I like to know why you did this and not that. Hope you understand.
Great tutorial, thanks for the explanation
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it.
awesome tutorial !!
Thank you!
Thanks! Really useful information and demo.
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Awesome tutorial mate!
Thank you!
Very good video! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Excellent work, thanks!
I'm glad you liked it! Thank you.
How to correctly adjust the colors of manual drawings after scanning to become identical to the original when printed on paper ?
I'm sorry but I'm not sure I know how to help with this. That's something I haven't done. The only tip I could say would be to use the color picker inside the HSL adjustment and move around the hue bar until the colors are where you need them to be. Otherwise you can get color pickers on your phone that will tell you the color of what you point the camera at and you can use that to change it in Affinity Photo. Other than that I'm not sure. Hope you figure it out!
@@MichaelSturgill
by computer
Scanning with the scanner
not phone
Yeah, I was recommending that you use a color picker app to see what color is on the drawing so you can match the exact color in Affinity Photo because then you know what hex code to match it too. Sorry, I didn't clarify that. I'm sorry that I'm not much help. I haven't done any scanning before, I mostly just do photography so I won't be much of a help to your situation. Thank you for asking though, I wish I could help!
@@MichaelSturgill
Thank you so much
This has been really helpful! Been looking for a simple tutorial for colour grading.
Thank you. I'm glad you found it helpful!