#Startrail affinity series#

Set blend mode (overlay), adapt opacity and hardness, choose colour Sepia Images first add black & white adjustment, tweak, then add recolour adjustment.Creative Black & White using colour balance to enhance black and white adjustment.Lighting lighting filter, blend modes, dodging and burningĬlick-drag and release to define a gradient.Bringing Out Water Detail high pass filter, tone persona.Revealing Sky Detail haze removal, gaussian blur for halo removal, curves adjustment.Unsharp mask filter with blend mode lighten, increases local contrast across the lighter areas fore- and background tonally very similar Gaussian blur, clarity filter with blend mode Group layers that need same processing applied Vector-Based Retouching pen tool to enhance linesįill, opacity down, add gaussian blur to replace window panes.Punch tool to make areas larger, twirl to add e.g. Use freeze tool to protect areas from being affected by liquifying Liquify: Retouching dilate pupils (punch tool with pinch setting), make flowers bigger.Then heal the high frequency layer detail with brush set on high hardness Increase radius to filter more detail into high frequeny layer, if neededĮdit the low frequency layer (e.g.

Frequency Separation distributes frequencies to separate layers (filters-frequency separation): high frequency (fine detail) and low frequency (tonal information).Works best on unprocessed image, so do first!ĭuplicate original image into new layer for non-destructive approach Inpainting sits under healing brush, brilliant for content replacement.Cloning clone on new pixel layer for non-destructive cloning, set to current layer and below or layers beneath.In adjustment layers: selective colour adjustment Split Toning and Selective Colour HSL adjustments separately for shadows and highlights in RAW.

Shadows/Highlights shadows and highlight filter as opposed to adjustment layer - for heavy workĪlso available as live filter layer (non destructive).

S curve: boost highlights, reduce shadows

Curves adjustment of shadows, highlights and midtones.

Levels auto level or manually (adjustments - level).

HSL (HSV vs HSL, V for value, affects brightness)Īll can be added to everyuthing or just selected layers (as children) White balance cool and warm tones, tint to compensate colour casts

Adjustment Layers adjust tone and colourīlack & white adjustment (colour channels can be controlled).

Horizontal blue line creates clipping path, vertical blue line will add the offered layer as a child layer.

Vector Masking draw shape and add it as child layer to pixel layer, adds vector mask.

Lock children to manipulate mask with children in set positionĬlipping: shape is parent, masking: image is parent vector maskĬlipping allows more flexibility, rectangle like a window, image can be moved around behind. rectangle shape (vertical blue line) as a child layer, i.e.

Clipping vs Masking clipping: image goes into e.g.

Pixel Selections from Layers white balance to warm up image areaĪdjustment/live filters in different areas of image - HSL, brightness & contrast, unsharp mask.

Refining Selections adding/removing fine hair etc to selection with refine.

Resize document to change dpi! (uncheck resample if for crop use)

Cropping: Options to save custom settings for future use: add preset.

Cropping: Golden Spiral shift-o to flip/rotate the center of spiral.

Straightening Images select crop tool, straighten, click-drag to define line to straighten to.

Overlay: third grid, diagonals, golden spiralĭocument 'unclip canvas' to undo crop, but keep other adjustments

Cropping: Aesthetic align objects on gridlines.

Cropping: Practical absolute cropping and relative cropping, custom.

Document/Image Resizing dpi and image size in pxĭocument-resize or at export, canvas resizing.

Resize in and out of proportion, rotate, skewįit into different image with adjustments

Scaling and Transforming shift+rotate: constrains to 15º.

Live Filter Layers depth of field filter, unsharp mask filter, add noise filterĪdjustment and filter layers have their own masks: invert, paint effect on.).

Layers Overview turn on/off: tick/untick or shift-click icon.

Layer Concepts layers made up of rasterized bitmaps, tonal adjustments, convolution filters or vector objects.

Filters haze removal, vignette, perspective, lightingĪdd new live filter layer to make non destructive changesĬhoose from filter menu to make destructive changes.

Adjustments brightness and contrast, HSL, selective colour, exposure, black & white, levels (intensify darker or lighter tones).

#Startrail affinity series#

Links to Affinity Video Tutorials Beginner's Series