How To Color Correct And Fix Exposure - Affinity Photo Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- Color correcting is a super important step to editing photos. If you skip color correcting, color grading and editing can be tricky. Color correcting also gives you a baseline for your photos to make it easier to apply edits to a group of photos without them all looking different. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to color correct and fix exposure issues in Affinity Photo with the develop persona.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:44 Import
1:14 Exposure
4:45 Enhance
5:41 White Balance
8:08 Bonus - Correcting Specific Colors
9:15 Before/After/Outro
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I'm late to the party, but these are about the best Affinity tutorials available. Thanks!
Michael, you give out more than an average Affinity video. Thanks.
Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it!
Get this man to 1K, he teaches tutorials well! 😀
Ayy thank you very much!
Bro he does a little bit better than well, the man is straight up CURING MY ALZHEIMER'S!!!
Thanks for these Michael. You know your stuff and explain things well. So many just say, "Set this to this and that to that." without explaining why! That is something you do, so well done.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate that.
just found your videos. They are insanely good
Thank you very much!
Another wonderful tutorial video.
Thanks again!
Good tutorial and explained very clearly, thank you
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it!
Wow I learn so much from your video. Great job! Nice tutorial!
Thank you. I'm glad you learned from it!
Great straightforward video, thank you very much
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THANK U SO MUCH dude, love your teaching style thank u so much best tutorial ive watched in a long time thank you
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. I really appreciate it!
Thank you so much, I don't think you realise how much you're helping us here :D
I'm very happy to hear that. I'm glad I'm helping!
simple and clear, tank you
Glad it helped!
great video.. very helpful. thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Finally, somebody who isn't a wet bar comedian trying to teach you something!
Haha, thank you!
thanks for the refresher havent color corrected in about 10yrs
No problem!
Wow, wish I'd seen this earlier! Thanks Michael 😊
Glad it was helpful!
very informative
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nice tips
Thank you!
Thanks for the tips. You really seem to know your stuff! At the beginning you say that color correction should e.g. be done for all photos from a photo shoot, in order to basically prepare them for editing - is there a way to save the color correction as presets and then use the same settings on other photos as well? Or is that the wrong way to go about color correction?
Thank you. You can certainly save a preset to save yourself some time but, if you are saving a preset you should only apply that preset to photo's that were taken with the same camera settings (like white balance) and environment. Otherwise it won't quite be the same for all photos. If you want to save a preset, if you look at the tabs in the develop persona. On the far right of the tabs there's a menu you can click on and click on Add Preset. At the top of the basic menu you should see a preset dropdown that will now have your saved preset so you can use it on other photos.
One thing I will say about this is that if you have a larger amount of photos from a shoot, it would be easier to use an editor like lightroom, luminar, capture one, etc. to do your corrections, just because they are made for applying edits to a large amount of photos. So you could do your correction in there, then import the photo into Affinity to do your other edits. Just something to consider, otherwise the preset method will work fine. Thanks for the comment, hope this helps!
@@MichaelSturgill that helps a lot, thanks again!
I'm still on CS6 (photoshop & ilustrator) it does the job for me. But Affinity seems more and more attractive. Its UI is much better and it doesn't need many resources like Adobe apps especially the newest ones.
I love the Affinity Suite. The UI does look better and it feels faster than photoshop. I'd say wait for Affinity to go on sale and then try it to see how you like it
Try the Frank Walters Affinity Photo books - but, they're for beginners only. On amazon
A very useful video. I'm in the process of digitizing watercolour art and took a photo as a raw file. When I tried opening it in the develop persona however, I got a pop up saying 'Please select an RGB pixel layer..' does that mean these colour correct tips won't work for CMYK?
That's actually a great question. I've never really dabbled in CMYK, so I unfortunately am unsure about that. I would image there is a way to for a similar process to work for CMYK, but I am unsure how.
Thank you for your reply. I'm still new to it but I decided to work in RGB in Affinity Photo (and follow your helpful steps) and then open the document in Affinity designer and save is as CMYK...hopefully that should work :)
A few Issues:
Where did you get the "Basic" tab? It's not in my Studio.
You really did not "Color Correct" this photo, you just corrected exposure and used sliders to guess at it. I need to Correct a photo where Color Correction is badly needed; not exposure correction!
You have different tools & toolbars than I do; where did you get all those tools?
I am very familiar with Ps, and the way I can select up to 4 points and correct those. I cannot perform anything close to this in Affinity.
Please assist.
Thanks for the comment! Make sure you are in the develop persona if you aren't seeing what I have in the video. If you imported a non-raw photo (like a jpg), you can still go to the develop persona in the top left. Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "a photo where color correction is badly needed" Could you explain what you are looking to accomplish? I might be able to help.
@@MichaelSturgill Had the same problem with the missing exposure panel on the right. This solved it. Thank you!
Do you offer any courses on Udemy for Affinity Photo??? Because I would seriously pay for a course of yours.
Not yet, but I did just start working on a course, though. I'm hoping to release around early spring time. I'm happy to see that you would be interested!
I'm sorry, but I can't find the "Basics" tab in Affinity Photo. I reviewed the entire interface, entered the menu in "Studio", but I do not see such an item there. It's not the first time I've come across this with Affinity Photo editor - some elements are not so easy to find in the interface.
Are you in the develop persona?
@@MichaelSturgill And here's how ... Now I understand. I need to change the edit mode in the top panel. Thanks :-)
@@gandolfred No problem!