![]() You can now save this as a Spare Channel in the Channels Studio Panel, calling it Darks 1. This merges the layer with the one below it. If you right click this layer to display the popup menu, you can select the “Merge Down” option. Instead, if you check the Layers Studio Panel you will see a new Invert adjustment layer. Unlike other Adjustment Layers, this adjustment doesn’t have a dialog. Then in the Adjustment Studio Panel click the “Invert” adjustment. You can invert the Layer by clicking to select it. The only difference is that we first need to invert our desaturated layer. To create the Darks series of Luminosity Masks is very similar to the Lights series. Once you’ve finished, delete all the layers you created except for the first “desaturated” layer. You can continue this process until you have all the Lights Luminosity Masks that you need. Now go over to the Channels Studio Panel and save the Consolidated channel to be Lights 3. This time you won’t need to set the Blending Mode if you duplicated the layer that you set to Multiply. The process to create the Lights 3 Luminosity Mask is just a repeat of Lights 2.Ĭreate a new duplicate layer in the Layers Studio Panel. Rename the spare channel to be “Lights 2”. You will now see the image becomes darker.īack in the Channels Studio Panel, right-click one of the Consolidated channels as you did before and create a Spare Channel. Select the new duplicate layer by clicking it and change the Blending Mode from “Normal” to “Multiply”. You can do this right clicking the layer and selecting the Duplicate option.Īlternatively, you can click the layer in the to select it and then press Command + J on your keyboard (Mac) or Ctrl +J (PC). ![]() To do this, duplicate the desaturated layer you created in the Affinity Photo Layers Studio Panel. Now we have our Lights 1 Luminosity Mask saved we can create the Lights 2 mask. Creating the other Lights Luminosity Masks You can see this numbered 2 in the screenshot. Right-click on this new channel which appears at the bottom of the Studio Panel and rename it “Lights 1”. This will save a copy of the channel you selected with the name “Spare Channel”. Click the option to “Create Spare Channel”. ![]() When you right click on one of the three composite channels you will see a popup menu. The result is that the layer you created will have the saturation removed, creating the Lights 1 layer which you can see below. This will merge the adjustment with the currently selected layer. In the HSL layer, click the Merge option. I’ve personally found the HSL method typically produces a better result. The colour response sliders can affect the results. Try to avoid the urge to use a Black and White Adjustment Layer to create the black and white image. In the HSL dialog, reduce the Saturation slider for the Master Channel to 0, desaturating the image. In the Adjustments panel add an HSL adjustment layer. You can do this by selecting the layer and pressing Command + J (Mac) or Ctrl + J (PC) on your keyboard.Ĭlick the new duplicate layer to select it, then click the Adjustment Studio Panel. Now duplicate the Background layer in the Layers panel. To create the initial black and white image, open your photo in Affinity Photo. This luminosity mask will form the basis for all the other masks and is just a black and white version of the image. The first and most complicated task is to create our Lights 1 mask. You’ll find this later in this tutorial, but before you scroll down searching for it, it’s still worth reading the text. If you find the description a little difficult to follow, I’ve produced a full video demonstrating the process. Best of all, I’m going to show you how to do it without needing to remember lots of complicated keyboard shortcuts. Instead, I will show you how to create sets of Luminosity Masks, just as you might in Photoshop. I won’t get into an argument over the validity of using Affinity Photo Luminosity Masking in this article. If you don’t have the latest version of Affinity Photo you can download a trial from the Affinity Photo website. ![]() And the second option is brilliant but isn’t really a replacement when you just want to reproduce what’s possible in Photoshop. The first of these approaches is simple but doesn’t give the control possible in Photoshop. People arguing that you don’t need to create Luminosity Masks in Affinity Photo because of the advanced Range Blending options.You may even find one of my videos showing you how to do this. A simple approach to creating Luminosity Masks in Affinity Photo using the Select Tones option.If you Google Luminosity Masks and Affinity Photo, you’re likely to find a couple of things: If you’ve come from a Photoshop background, creating Affinity Photo Luminosity Masks could have you scratching your head.
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