Affinity Photo - Blend Ranges Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Easy explanation of Blend Ranges. Learn what they do and how to apply them to your artworks to create interesting effects and get fast Results.
We are going to look at Source Layer Ranges, Underlying Composition Ranges, Blend Gamma, Coverage Map and Linear / Curved Range Settings.
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Did you use Blend Ranges a Lot? How do you use them?
yes I do. You probably know that the sliders react to a 50% grey level and the adjustments react to this. I use it mainly on the underlying layer sliders as I can affect the layers underneath even when more than one adjustment is made by using groups.
Best explanation of blending ranges that I have seen. Excellent!
Thank you, Richard :)
Thanks Olivio, that's the best explanation of blend ranges I've come across.
Thank you, Daniel, that's really great to read :)
Your tutorial helped me to create a beautiful image of a stormy sky with orange-hued clouds, overlooking a harbor with houses built along the banks and on the hillside. I did great until I tried to make the rounded rectangle, but that's not so important anyway.
The parchment background, combined with HSL shift adjustment, turned a modern photo into something from the early 20th century. As a newbie to Affinity Photo, I had a lot of fun with this. Thank you!
Hi Olivio, I am experiencing some problems with the blend ranges and also using the live luminosity mask for a dark basement background and blending in top an image of a plastic carrying portable case which is green but the image has black border. I manage to make disappear the black border, but then the black handles to carry the portable cases also becomes transparent and I don´t manage to fix it with a mask and paint it to avoid the correction over the handles. If I have a way to send you an image by email or cloud I can send you the example to see if you can help me.
Thanks, Roger
Hello. At the end, when i moved my mask, the photo on the detour has a blank sheet, not at all the sheet of paper. The first layer.
Anyway, i loved your video.
Amazing Vid. Subscribed.
excellent explanation, thank you
Good Tutorial Olivio.
Awesome tutorial! I've never paid any attention to that tiny cogwheel before. Thanks for making it, Olivio. *Thumbs up*
Good thing I keep stumbling across your older vids like this beauty. There are a lot of tips in here and great examples when I thought all I would see is Blend Ranges explanation (which I sorely needed). 😁 Guess what! Blend Ranges don't scare me away anymore. Thanks!
Another great video! As an idea for the future - I have just discovered exporting from AP to a tiff file while saving the layers. This has provoked 4 questions. (1) If I can save a layered tiff, do I need to save the affinity photo file as well? (2) Are all affinity features available in a layered tiff (especially filters and effects)? (3) If I send a tiff with layers to other people who do not have Affinity Photo, will they be able to read it it and what are the limitations? (4) I have recently found a Data Asset Manager (DAM) (in Windows) that will store many file formats, including Affinity formats -even though they are not formally recognised by the software. It is called Daminion. It is clear that although a DAM is promised by Serif, I think it will be a long time coming. It has taken me several months to bring together my 25k digital images because the affinity files were stored separately to the more conventional formats (where I was using Elements Organiser). Is there any generic guidance you could give to amateurs like me regarding creating an organised digital archive? [I have to say I am impressed with Daminion which allows me to catalogue together photos, videos, pdfs, and documents created in affinity designer or publisher. No doubt there are others.]
Thanks for this explanation of Blend Rangers much appreciated
Brilliant! Absolutely loving this channel. I'm going through your vids and practising as I go. If you haven't already, can you do a lesson about creating presets. I especially need clarity about this: I may have multiple adjustment layers in place on an image. One adjustment layer may ask if I wish to create a preset, however is that preset taking into account all the other adjustment layers or just the adjustment layer I'm working with? I know I could just test this myself, and I do think it is the latter.
How then do I create a preset that takes all the adjustment layers into account? Is this what a LUT does? I would appreciate an explanation. Thanks! :D
Olivio, I just watch your video, after that, I open a picture and tried your info , but nothing happens. What I did wrong?
learning how to use this like i do in Capture One . It has luminance blending abilitites also.
I love the blend ranges. One of my favorite functions :)
Wow best explanation I've seen on these! Subscribing rn :)
Thanks for a great tutorial. However, unfortunately this is one of the really week spots of Affinity, compared to PS. I use this functionality a lot and it is both easier and there are tons of great plugins to do luminosity masking in PS. It is one of the main reasons that holds me back to switch from PS. to AF.
I agree, but AP is way cheaper, so of course it is going to have some less functionality. However check out this video i made about Luminosty in AP. th-cam.com/video/i07uQl_NO10/w-d-xo.html
@@OlivioSarikas you are of course right and I don’t expect all the “whistle and bells “ in AP that you have in PS. However, I think luminosity masking is today an essential tool in professional photo editing . I hope AP will improve the software in this area in the not too distant future. I will follow the development closely and I hope you are keeping up posting your great tutorials.
I hope so too. Thank you 🙏👍
i used this blend range technique to repair a sky with blown out highlights, choosing a similar looking sky. it only takes a bit of masking to tidy up the overlapping layers. it works well where you have difficult edges to mask out on the horizon, or if the image resolution is not high enough to get a detailed mask.
Thanks Olivio - really like your clear tutorial style - pace is perfect.
Thank you, Pete Edmunds
Thank you once again for a very informative tutorial - the sky replacement was very good along with everything else of course!
Really helpful, thanks so much!
Great tutorial, I really love it! Just a small comment: In english, y is not "ypsilon" but "why" ;-) So we have x-axis and "why"-axis....However, great job anyway!!!
Thank you, Lars. Good to know :)
Not piling on, because I am impressed with your excellent command of English, and vocabulary. We say an ty AY lee a sing. Great tutorial, Olivio!
Very very easy. So good... Great Olivio.
good explanation many other folks who do you tube tutorials on this subject do not know what they are talking about. The blend range slider are based and react to a 50% grey level and when adjusting the sliders you are adjusting the luminosity or color based on this 50% grey level.
Thank you very much, Hans :)
thank you sir, your videos are very helpful in understanding affinity photo better. very much appreciated.
You are welcome, nadeem. But please don't call me sir. No need for that. We are all friends here :)
Amazing tutorial - steady pace and well explained. Hey, Oli, that was a pretty nifty and clever hack towards the end. Nice!
Thank you, Sidney. Happy you like it :)
thanks - really helpful.
Excellent video on blend ranges thank you for taking the time to share with us. Looks more powerful than adobes blend if, AP is definitely rocking it love it more each time I learn something new.
Tha k you, Tony. It's very powerful. So many cool things you can do with it. :)
Thank you Olivio!
Mostly due to you, Olivio, I'm growing to love Affinity D & P more and more each day! Thanks!
Thank you, Kelly, that's awesome :)
Solche Situationen wie die letzten 30 Sekunden gehen häufig leider viel zu schnell. Runde Ecken, dann mit Shift oder Steuerung gedrückt die Ebene klicken, dann loslassen, dann Maske erstellen, dann Maske rausziehen, dann wird irgendwas ausgeschnitten. Ich habe es 6x zurückgespult aber es trotzdem nicht verstanden, weil nach jedem dieser Schritte die Frage entsteht, warum und was genau das? Da wäre zu jedem dieser für einige von uns komplizierten und unbekannten Schritte ein kurzer Satz zur Erklärung sinnvoll. So ärgere ich mich am Ende des Videos, dass ich den Rest nicht verstanden habe. Das nur mal als Feedback. Generell sind 90% deiner Videos aber sehr gut verständlich. 👍🏼
Hallo Hans, ich mache da quasi eine Maske aus einem Rechteck mit runden Ecken. Und die der Meister sagt: nicht denken, einfach machen, dann kommt das verstehen mit der arbeit ;)
I find all your explanations very clear Olivio. Thank you for making these excellent videos. I will try it when adding textures on some of my pics.
Thank you, Gray. I'm happy you like them :)
Hi, I have followed this video over and over again, and I've tried to copy your method of doing the old style photo. Everything works fine until I have to delete the 'rounded corner rectangle', and it just doesn't comply. No frame is left in place. Could it be because of the new version download? Thanks in anticipation, Debbie
Hi Debbie, sorry to hear that. I can't check at the moment, because i am on vacation, but make sure you are doing it with the right layers.
Hi, I use a Mac and had the same issue...then I tried the cmd key instead of the ctrl when klicking the rectangle and everything went fine... ;)
Can you teach how to remove stains from texture fabric like in old photo?
Hi Matthew, that sound like a interesting idea. You could probably use the impaint brush for that. I will look into it :)
Best Affinity tutos around. Thanx Olivio !!!
Thank you, Yanick. I'm very happy you like them so much :)
Another amazing tutorial, thank you so much, Olivio! I've been learning a lot with your videos, greetings from Mexico City!
Thank you Eduardo and happy wished to Mexico :)
The old photo trick at the end deserves it's own video. Very cool.
Thank you :) I actually made two videos about it. one about old BW photos and one about the sketch style :)
super tutorial! danke dafür!
Excellent tutorial, I think this is better than the "blend if" from photoshop.
Thank you, Brian :)
I never used blend range, I never understood blend range (I'm new in photo editing). I now understand that underlying composition range is for the layer underneat and the other one for the layer on top (correct me if I'm wrong) but are there any reason to use the source layer range blend?
The source layer is the layer you have selected while adjusting it's blend ranges, so yes, there are very good reasons to use that blend setting. just give it a try ;)
@@OlivioSarikas Then I still don't understand. The square you created adds another layer over the pixel one (your photo), if the underlying composition range is the pixel layer (in your exemple) then what's the point of the source layer since your pixel layer was the one selected? Both blends are doing the same thing.
Great explanation, thank you very much.!
Thank you, Cooleshaka, you are welcome :)
Are you doing this with raw files or jpeg?
In this case with a jpeg, because it's a photo from unsplash.com but you can do the same time a raw file
Thanks, Olivio! Your tutorials are the best! :)
Thank you, Anita. That's great to hear.
thanks for the time you take detailing us this awesome software.
You are welcome, Frederic :)
This is brilliantly done!
Thank you, Sidney :)
Great! Thank you!
You are welcome, Jules :)
Excellent ! Merci.
Thank you, Martine
@@OlivioSarikas 😊
Danke :-)
Gerne, Ralf :)
Olivio, once again, thanks for a clear explanation of a fairly un-intuitive process. I personally didn't use Blend Ranges mostly because I didn't know what to do with them, but with your video and some practice I'm sure I'll find several uses for them. Give yourself another 'big gold star' my friend and keep up with your excellent tutorials.
Thank you, Juan, happy i could inspire you and thank you for the Gold Star :)
This is killing real photography
If by "killing" you mean making it awesome, you are right. If not, define the word "real" - are you using silver plates and a 30 minutes exposure? because that is the "real" photography" the way it was invented. But, the inventors of photography already had in mind that it should be heavily modified and improved in every technical way when they invented it. After all, the invented a new technology, because they wanted something new, not stick with old and dusty "real" concepts of what makes a picture a picture. If you want real talk you need to look at cave paintings. those are the real pictures
@@OlivioSarikas Sarikas, be good! Peace with you. Real photography isn't going to get to you ever. Peace.