How do you restore colors? - Affinity Photo Tutorial // Very Easy 

Just perfect ! Brilliant job ! Easy to follow, easy to understand and easy to setup thank you Olivio !

Thank you very much. This was exactly what I needed. I bought Affinity because of this video.

I followed this step by step and was very successful. I really appreciate the clear directions.

Thank you ! Most helpful and simple. Just started scanning old negatives so this will help a lot !

Fantastic. Came across this video after spending hours re-storing colour on old photos using levels and colour adjustments etc. Tried this techique. Fantastic results while remaining simple to use. Many thanks.

Well done, thank you for the tutorial, it's amazing.

Excellent tutorial. Quick and to the point. Thank you!

As usual Olivio you astound us with your ability to explain so cogently and with such language flow something which is simultaneously so beneficial to so many people, me included, a topic which is inherently complex. Thanks again.

Thank you very much for the tutorial. I used your technique and got great results on some 60's and 70's photos from a Kodak Instamatic camera that always left the photos with a brown or orange tint.

I’ve done part of that technique for years but used a different blend mode. Still a cool truck to put into my toolbox. Another technique that one can use is to use the levels adjustment layer and adjust each channel to “where it starts” and this usually corrects color nicely. If that layer adjustment makes it too contrasty, you can change the blend mode to color or any other that only effects the color ranges and leaves the luminosity alone. The above is easier on the computer version and can be done on iPad but requires a bit of a workaround. Thanks Olivio for this!

I spent most of my photography life working with film. I found that different manufacturers used different pigments in the emulsion. For example Agfa colour film is Blue based emulsion,whereas Kodak use a brown based emulsion. This is why 2 identical photos with the exact same settings using Agfa and Kodak will have different results. I think maybe this needs to be taken into account when trying to restore colours from old film negatives or slides I have a lot of slides converted to digital that I will try this tutorial on.

Great idea. Will definitely try this method. Thanks.

Many thanks. Just discovered this. Brilliant tutorial. As a complete novice I found this easy to follow. Thank you for sharing!

Great tutorial! Thank you for the information.

What a brilliant tutorial. Thank you.

Fantastic and easy way to restore colors for old pictures. This is the first time I've seen this technique. Thanks

Excellent olivio. It worked out so well. Thanks.

Great Tutorial, looking forward to more

Again, WOW! It works but I have no idea how! I have just restored a photo of me in Africa that had become very green, fuzzy and bland. Now it looks as I think it actually was 30 years ago. I will probably never understand how this works, but I am grateful for the technique, if not the knowledge.

Wow. Great short tutorial 👍

It worked perfectly!

Very interesting technique, great.

Wow- very interesting & useful! Thank you!

That’s amazing!!

Great video, works a treat, wish I knew how.

Wonderful - thank you! 👍👍👍

Awesome thank you so much.

Thanks for this fast method. Great.

Hallo Olivio This "trick" is really outstanding. I tested it with "normal" but not so perfect pictures. Great effect also! Thanks

You are genius!

Awesome! You know, what to do!

Learning curves is not difficult! This method is like a quick fix and obviously you can get fast satisfactory results with it. A little more color correcting in the faces wouldn't hurt either as they appear a little too green. Well done Mr. Sarikas.

I really enjoyed the tutorial but I was also wondering at the 'why's' of how the inversion targets specific colors and I have to admit I don't understand it yet lol..I thought I would try your technique and also a different technique. Using your method, I got more or less the same results as you did. The second time I converted the image to LAB and made a curves adjustment to the A and B levels, added an unsharp mask and got a result with the darks not quite so dark and the fluorescent lights less blown out. Thank you for the tutorial, as always!

Good point how it will a photo taken in the '80s will never look like it was taken yesterday

This was quite fascinating and I look forward to seeing how you fix an old black and white photo. Do you know a way of predicting the original colour of a black and white photo. I recently tried to do this on a 1940s photo portrait using the painting app Procreate. I liked the result but have no idea if I was close to the original. Also can this method of colour fixing be done on affinity photo for iPad? You live in a beautiful city especially for an artist I love Vienna , best wishes and vielen Dank.

How did you figure this out? I'm glad I found this video.

Thanks Olivio. This is an issue for those of us trying to do our family history. For what it's worth: I thought the image looked pretty good early - at around 2:37. I take your point that you can't make an old image look new, and on that basis, I'd suggest that those couple of steps to 2:37 plus say tweaking of sharpness and contrast would produce a perfectly acceptable result for family history. Just my opinion, of course! :-)

Thanks for post this new method. Great Solution! Please, help us to process a photo, from negative color film 35 mm

Great and simple many thanks Olivio, only one problem is after following the instructions very carefully it still doesn't work the same as yours, am I missing something as I see affinity photo is now updated to the latest Affinity Photo, many thanks Ian M

WoW! How did you sort this one out? I mean, understanding quite a bit of color management, I’d like to understand what were your thoughts and ideas to find that awesome solution!

Thank you for the video. You are correct in that this method is different from adjusting hue saturation and color levels. I have a color photo I'm trying to restore. The image has sections partially faded. So some sections are almost original color but other areas have faded. Almost as if something covered a portion of the photo to protect the original color, allowing other areas to fade. I've tried your method in this video. In addition I tried to make color changes to a duplicate layer with bad results, with the idea of using a mask layer to only show the improved sections of the layer. I had no luck with this method either. Do you have any suggestions?? If you would like to view the actual image, I can email it to you.

Olivio. Sometimes when I restore an old photo, I get squiggles all along some sharp edges (like along a telephone wire against a blue sky). Is there a way to get rid of those?

Thanks Olivio,,, this is a way I've never seen.... and to get the green out could you use curves?? dropping the green a little??

Excellent technique! This works great for discolored photos that went warm (brown) but not so much for old photos that are UV damaged - bleached by sunlight - and fade to cooler blue colors. Do you have a simple methodology for that?

This is WITCHCRAFT man! I don't think I have ever seen a tutorial quite like this one. It blew my mind! Thanks

I'm stuck at 4:59 when you create the new adjustment layer it pops up on top of all the other layers, however on my version of Affinity when I do the same thing, it adds the adjustment layer to whichever layer was selected already. But in the video it doesn't look like there is any layer selected when you are adding the adjustment layer. So which layer does the adjustment belong to? (or how do you do the same steps on the most recent version of Affinity?)

Bedankt

Thank you for the technique! I tried it on some 50 years old digitized positives and the results are more than satisfactory. But it would be highly appreciated if you could possibly make a tutorial on working with digitized color negatives. For now I use curves, levels, white balance, etc. to eliminate that blue tint that images have after inverting. But I believe that making all those adjustments leads to losing original colors of a film.

Perhaps you can explain why this fixes the color. It's as if inverting creates ways to remove the sepia/brown but does it correctly relative to the specific colors involved.

That looked like a nice and simple and powerful fix. BRILLIANT... and I will follow it step by step. However, I would love to understand why each move works the way it does because as a novice to fixing colour I would start in the way you suggested at the beginning, with white balances and curves etc and what you did was counterintuitive. Obviously, explaining in detail would make the video both long and unwatchable (but, do you have prior videos that address some of the issues described below?). The implications of picking each particular control seems to be what I need to understand. Inverting, inverts, but then why does that help you to control colour? Introducing Gaussian Blur, what the hell's that about? How did it make the picture look sharper? If I read that right, it seemed to allow colour to be corrected over broad areas of the scene but I have no idea how, or why. The key seemed to be picking the correct Blend mode, but then I am not sure what the Blend modes REALLY do (you can sort of flash through them and see some differences, but how they work eludes me). Also do Blend Modes add up for each layer? Unsharp mask sharpens, but how, if it is unsharp? Blurring to Average then Invert you explained , but what for me was real black magic was... and suddenly, Hey Presto in Colour Burn blend mode, the colours were all corrected. I nearly fell of my seat. Blend Ranges? etc. In other words the use of nearly every control was unexpected.

Hi Olivio. Thanks for the great tutorials. I recently bought Affinity photo because I want to take product photos of my products for an online marketplace. Please, could you film a tutorial on how to edit photos for selling products online?

Would you help me on advice for a desktop specs that is good for editing, please?

Olivio, you should include a link to the photo you are working on. That way we can practice along with you. The original photo being so hazy, I would have tried Dehaze or Haze Removal first. Is that OK?

Did a screen capture and tried Paintshop Pro's Fade Correction adjustment which often does a good job. Not so good on this image. Followed your method in Affinity Photo with similar results. Here are the steps. Hope I got it right. 1. DUPLICATE 2. IMAGE TO PIXEL, RASTERIZE 3. LAYER, UP LEFT > INVERT 4. BLEND > OVERLAY 5. EFFECTS > GAUSSIAN BLUR > 300 PXLS, PRESERVE ALPHA 6. DUPLICATE ORG. > RASTERIZE > MOVE TO TOP 7. NEW DUP. > FILTERS > BLUR > AVERAGE > BROWN 8. LAYER > INVERT TO BLUE > BLEND > COLOR BURN BLEND SETTINGS > SOURCE LAYER RANGES > LEFT DOT DOWN 9. UNCHECK LINEAR > PULL MIDDLE OF CURVE TO RIGHT/DWN 10. ADJ. LAYER > LEVELS > BOTH SIDES TO START OF GRAPH > GAMMA TO LEFT A LITTLE 11. LIVE FILTER > UNSHARP MASK > TO TOP > RADIUS 1.5? > THRESHOLD > 0 > FACTOR > ADJUST

link to the source file doesnt work.

Good work but I can't find a tutorial on how to color correct portions of the picture that are hazy and discolored without interfering with the good portions of the picture😒

A lot of green in the shadows still.

Sie machen so schöne Videos. Können sie nicht auch mahl bei gelegenheit was Deutsches Produzieren. Danke

I must disagree with the majority of comments. Is it a useful solution - yes. Are the steps described well - yes. However, there is no explanation as to why this works. I want to know the why.

Perhaps you need to look up the word automatic. This is certainly not automatic,

the tutorial is useful for sure, but please fix the color of your beard.