In this tutorial I explain how to colour a black and white image in affinity photo. I will also touch on saving selections, masking layers, adjustment layers and creating shortcuts.
As a beginner hobbyist photoshop user at best, I am trying to transition to Affinity Photo 2. This video was extremely helpful to me from the information gained on how to use the app tools and recolonizing images. You have an excellent teaching style. I will be watching more of your videos and hope you continue to create them. I have a feeling many will transition to Affinity and be looking for such great tutorials. Thank you for sharing with a new subscriber.
This tutorial is going in my vault. I learned more about how to SIMPLY use layers for selection, masking and coloring than I did from at least a half dozen of other tutorials. Also, your calm but methodical teaching technique allowed for me to easily think through what each step was actually doing. Now, I cannot wait to binge through your other tutorials.
I think this was just about the BEST tutorial on Affinity photo I have ever seen, clear and easy to understand how layers work and interact. Thanks for posting.
I know this is a bit late, but may be a helpful tip if anyone is still reading the comments. You can choose any color outside of Affinity Photo (AP) without having to save a file and open again in AP. Just click and hold on the color picker, and drag over to any spot you want to pick a color from. If on two or more monitors, you can have the color you want on your other monitor AP is not. If on single monitor, make the AP window small and be sure to have whatever you are using to visible at the time AP is on screen, click the color picker, and drag over to the color you want outside AP.
This video was really well explained and executed. You have a new subscriber! :) One common issue with old photos is exposure to the sun or being left near a radiator or in a hot car. This causes areas which appear faded or over-exposed. often right in the middle of the image. Such fading can often be in the form of a gradient. I'd love to see a video showing how to repair this, please.
Without a doubt one of the most perfect tutorials I’ve ever watched. I learned how to do colour correction, masking and such roughly 23 years ago, but not having actively used those skills for a long time, this was a wonderful refresher! One of the BIGGEST benefits of this approach that isn’t explicitly said, but rather is subtly demonstrated, is that by using a layered mask approach like this you are creating non-destructive elements on top of the original that can be turned off, on, modified in shape or colour, all with literally just a few seconds of effort. The other critical tip that is so wonderfully used is naming layers as you go. The vast majority of people skip over this, but it becomes not just helpful, but rather ESSENTIAL to do this as you begging to get into more complex projects where you may have multiple versions of a particular effect/layer that you want to test and/or having may dozens of elements that you need to keep track of. Figuring out what layer is what after the fact can be a gruelling and frustrating experience that not just takes away from the joy of the work, but makes the work far more fluid and efficient than it should be. WELL DONE! Thank you. :-)
This video was super helpful to me. The steps you took to colorize a b/w is far better than what I was doing, which was the hard way. I am saving this video for future reference. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
Would you kindly make a tutorial about how to adjust the skin tone because even when I use gradient map as shown in the video, it doesn't give me the result I want, thanks in advance!
Hello Chris, I am very lucky came across this tutorial. Simply superb way of explaining. I am your fan. Request you to make a video for the newbies, starting from explaining every tool and use of the same.
Nice tutorial, I prefer Pixbim Color Surprise AI to get the colored photo, it saves a ton of time and then do the final retouching with steps you have mentioned. Good work with clear explanation.
Sorry to be so offtopic but does anyone know a trick to log back into an instagram account..? I stupidly forgot my account password. I would appreciate any tips you can give me!
@Kristopher Julian Thanks so much for your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm trying it out now. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
This is epic! Thank you so much for making it! 😄❤️ I recently watched PiXImperfects video on colorising black and white photos and it made me want to get into colorising but I hate subscription models so affinity photo it is! The website you provide for getting the skin tones is great. One thing I was going to ask is that PiX used the flow tool to add subtle red tones where there would be blood vessels on the face etc. I thought it made a big difference to realism. I assume you can do this on affinity too? Sorry if that's the biggest noob question ever haha 😄
This is terrific Chris. There is enough info here to help me with so many of my Affinity blind spots. I'm an old Adobe man now unable to justify the subscription costs now that I am retired. Curious to know - are you UK based? Thanks indeed.
This is more complicated than it needs to be. There's no need to add a vector rectangle. A Fill layer takes care of that and it has a built-in mask (like all other adjustment layers) so you do not need to add a second mask. Create and refine your selection first, choose the color, and then add Layer -> New Fill Layer. Bingo. Then adjust the blend, color, opacity, etc. And with an alt-option click on the fill layer icon you can see the mask but it will not be black and white but the color of your choice.
As I say there are many different ways to do a job in affinity and this is one way I colour images. The fill layer does work equally well but the shape method works for my workflow. But thanks for your input and thanks for watching.
Hello Chris.Nice tutorial so far but i have a problem using the skin palette. After downloading it i selected it,copied it and then pasted it into my image that I'm using but it doesn't come up in the top left corner.It completely covers half the image.I've tried to figure this out but can't seem to get anywhere.Your thoughts on this please.
Looks great, but when I try to follow and klicks Creat mask, the mask is not created to the right of the colored rectangle but on its own raw, What am I missing? (I use version 1.9)
Can you do a photo restoration tutorial? Like how to remove tears and folds on the page? I'm working on one right now for a class assignment and I've been using this tutorial for the recolor. I just want to see if there's a better way than just inpainting for the bumps and folds to get a smoother photo.
I know this is a noobie question, but when I open a black & white photo, the color palette (or swatch) changes to grey scale. It actually seems to do that with all images (i.e. the palette only contains the colors of the image). How to get get all rgb colors back after loading a black and white image?
Hi the colour swatches will represent the colours in your image. However when you use the brush tool you select the colour using the foreground and background circle icons. They are in the top palette and look like two interlocked circles black and white in colour. click the white one and that should bring up the colour palette. Hope this helps.
I am trying to follow your steps and immediately from the start at 2:16 on the video where you show the drop-down menu so we can select "merge down" on my computer this "merge down" is grayed out. The only options are "Mask to below or merge visible. I don't get the same results when using any of the options. What am I doing wrong? Thank you
@@chrispwilliams6297 The layer is on top and I have selected it. But this layer is still brown in color and still, the merge down is grayed out. I am using a MacBook Pro.
Whaou i look the finish it's amazing. But Iam french and it's hard to understand quickly when the man talk. If I want to have the i,formation I must search a solution what i don't have
@@chrispwilliams6297 No, my tool symbols on the left side of the window are always dark gray, regardless of whether I opened one photo or not. If you would like to give me your email address, I would send you a screenshot so you can see what my Photoshop looks like. Maybe not every version of Photoshop has colored symbols. I use Photo Shop 2020. Greetings from Germany.
I'm afraid I only had permission to use it in the video not release the actual photo. However you can use any photo by adding a black and white filter. Cheers
I guess it’s probably pretty easy but since I’m really new to program I’m kinda struggling a lot. How can I change the color of the hat afterwards without creating a new mask and redo the process
