Color Replacement Brush - Affinity Photo Tutorials - Tools explained

[@fspg2]

I am always enthusiastic about your tutorials - well explained, very pleasant voice - and very understandable English for a non-native listener. Many Thanks!!!

[@kimfam9126]

You have given a clearer explanation than many other tutors on the tool and it is a great time saver ! Appreciate your great approaches taken in all your broadcast.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you very much. That's exactly my goal 😍

[@mellifluous479]

Although I've learned many things on my own from experimenting, all the AP and AD tutorials fill in the gaps, sharing valuable and useful tool tips and techniques. Taking notes too assures I will retain what I've learned. Gracias, again and kudos.

[@philipzwick]

That was so clear even I could understand it. Also, comprehensive explanations of the choices. Well done.

[@dheatherington9250]

Thanks for this Olivio. I had to do a colour replacement a while back and used the adjustment which wasn't bad but I had completely forgotten (If I ever really knew) about the colour replacement brush. Let's have more short videos on specific tools. When you don't use them very often it is easy to forget that they even exist.

[@tinasheyadley]

Thank you very much, this is super helpful to my web design projects.

[@stgray9669]

Hi Olivio, great video as always. Thank you. Just a small point , sometimes you refer to colour, brightness and saturation when you mean HUE, brightness and saturation.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi St Gray, thank you - yes, but i suppose more people understand the word color instead of hue - which includes color, but color also means more than that

[@Maximilan20]

This is very very useful and simple to use as well. Thanks a bunch for this!!

[@OlivioSarikas]

You're very welcome!

[@anonagain]

Thanks Olivio - just what I needed, thorough and clearly explained!

[@rogerlobo1746]

You’re the best Olívio 💪🏽👏🏼

[@Skyflopper]

Clearly explained and informative. Thank you!

[@johnlochness]

Thank you. I never knew that even existed. More videos on tools I don't know exist would be great.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Happy to help, johnlochness

[@thaddeuscorea]

excellent videos. small point: contiguous is not continuous. contiguous means that selections must be adjoining each other. correct? I would love to see a very in depth video of the refine selection process. especially making use of ramp and feather

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you :) I mostly use a rough version of refine and then rather fix the mask with a normal brush later on myself. I feel like that gives me better results. Of course that is not useful for very small details like hair, but AP was never great at selecting hair and in that case a different software to create these finer selections is probably a faster and easier way

[@marktaylor9579]

Thanks Olivio, really useful and nicely explained.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome, Mark Taylor

[@sajwaa]

Thank you Olivio! This was just what I needed and I am so happy to have also purchased your light and gradient packs! :)

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome, s.a a . Enjoy your Packs :)

[@Rainmaker40Bsc]

Hi Olivia, Another great tutorial I would love to see a video discussing the use of the automatic selection tools and some secret sauce about how to refine them. I feel that some selection tools like the magic wand are becoming antiquated as automatic selection develops. It would be great to find out some ways to get really refined auto selection.

[@senormojo]

Great stuff. Is there a way to modify a very dark item, eg a black wooden chair?

[@ronnyb5890]

thanx Olivio,didnt even know that this brush existed,now because of your video i do,and how to use it :-)

[@parrottm76262]

Wow, I understand how to use that brush now. Thanks so much for the walk through.

[@SophieMarnez]

I really like your video... simple and complete. I still have a problem : I have a clipart in black on transparent background and I can't chan its color. Would you have a video that explains just that ? In Affinity Phot or Designer... equally. Thanks a lot !

[@OlivioSarikas]

If you have a vector clipart you need to open it in designer and change the color of the elements.. If it is a Pixel clipart, you need to select the area and change the color or replace it

[@SophieMarnez]

@@OlivioSarikas Thanks a lot... it's a PNG but I can easily change it into a vector. Thanks a lot for your answer, it saves my life... as you realized from my question, it's not my main field of expertise !

[@cjc363636]

Olivio! Thanks for the tip! I've never used the color replacement brush.... I'll give it a try for sure! On what other buttons/menus, etc I'd like to know more about.... the top right of the top frame. The "squares" that I assume have to do with what is behind or in front of other things. I don't know when or how those work. Anyway, thanks, stay safe!

[@SteveRB511]

Nice video. The color replacement brush also looks like a way to perhaps add things like weathering effects on copper, mold on objects, etc. by playing around with its settings and using layers to get the desired effects. (Speaking of which, I need to see if SuperBlade Pro plugin now works with Affinity Photo - used it for a corroded copper interface panel for a Flash animation years ago.)

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank SteveRB511, that's a great idea :)

[@JayWeldy]

Outstanding Video Sir

[@phlotographer]

just something that I hope helps -- Contiguous -- Very close or connected in space or time. Pronounced "kun tig u us" or the un sound is as in the word until. Tig rhymes with dig as in dig a hole. U as in You and us as in Bus. I once before tried to help with Copy and will once more. Caw (as in the sound a crow makes) pee -- what one would do as #1 in the bathroom. Caw pee = copy. or this way Cop as in slang for Policeman then E. so Cop E = Copy. Thanks for this tutorial. Been watching and saving yours and others for a few years now.

[@cr8cat794]

this is excellent explanation

[@lkk07]

Is there a way to use the color replacement brush to change to a gradient color scheme? What is the best way to apply gradient colors? ie. I need to make gradient hair etc... Thanx

[@RiccardoPareschi]

Great video, as usual. Thanks Olivio !

[@OlivioSarikas]

Glad you liked it!

[@schakkeltje]

Thank you for the tutorial. Maybe you could make a tutorial about the LAB colour space and how you could use it in Affinity Photo?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, i will think about it :)

[@mikearst2940]

When I did a lot of darkroom work my favorite combination was Agfa's warm-toned Portriga paper, toned in selenium. The result was very unusual. The paper itself had a dark warm brownish tint, and the selenium would add a trace of cool purple to it. The results were very rich blacks and rich lower midtones. I can't seem to get this effect via Capture One's split-toning feature-at least partly because there are no blending modes in Capture One's layers. I have wondered how this kind of thing might be done in Affinity Photo. A video showing enhancing b&w images with split-toning would be pretty interesting! (Perhaps to get the full effect it also requires luminosity masking? I don't know...)

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Mike Arst, that sounds amazing, but i don't know the results you got from that process, so i can't really reproduce it. Did you have a look at Nik Collection? It has some very nice Analogfilm and BW Tools :)

[@mikearst2940]

@@OlivioSarikas Thanks for your reply. I know that my brief description does not provide much to go on. It's a difficult effect to describe. I guess the approach could be more general: How to do subtle split-toning of b&w images using Affinity Photo? I do have the Nik tools (from the time when they could be downloaded for free) and could probably find a way to get them working with Capture One. I haven't used them yet, though.

[@hz81944]

Thank you bro 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[@lissettefeliciano9945]

Thank you, Olivio! Would you make a video of how to change the color of the eyes when they are dark brown or black? By the way, I like Affinity Photo but I’m newbie😃

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Lissette Feliciano, i made a video about changing eye color (not brown, but maybe this helps too): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jamZhmpufdGaorM

[@lissettefeliciano9945]

Olivio Sarikas. Yes, I saw it but I tried to do it with a photo of a person with almost black eyes and I couldn't do it. Any suggestions? Thanks

[@lissettefeliciano9945]

Let me explain, I have a photograph of a person with black or dark brown eyes and I want to change the color of their eyes, for example, to a blue hue. I tried it but I couldn't.

[@MentosCubing]

@@lissettefeliciano9945 If the eyes are really hard to work with, sometimes you might have to replace the pupils with another photo.

[@pedropuckerstein4670]

Nice - one of your better tutorials! I especially like your highlighting of the difference between the two tool ! - I still don't understand why AP makes it so difficult to replace "white" pixels. I have downloaded free macros from a variety of sources that help to isolate the white pixels with varying tweaks from white to gray, but I just don't understand why AP couldn't have built in a way to isolate white with some threshold to allow for deleting or recoloring.

[@SAnnCole]

Can you share some of your sources for free macros, please? I've been hunting!

[@pedropuckerstein4670]

Ann Cole yes find the channel “in affinity” the guy is from England and he provides many free macros also Jim Ritson (sp?) from affinity photo (check official site maybe tutorials) for macros. Also the channel “affinity revolution” provides free macros and tutorials. These are KZbin channels.

[@pedropuckerstein4670]

Ann Cole the in affinity guy approaches his tutorials from a mathematical perspective but his macros have knobs

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Pedro Puckerstein, you can create a selection from the last color you picked. if that is white, that should select all white pixels for you :)

[@pedropuckerstein4670]

@@OlivioSarikas Well Olivio do I feel so stupid! Thank you for your advice. I was being fooled by the non transparent background, as I was defaulting to white. I also saw other people complaining about this on the internet and convinced myself that white pixels couldn't be detected. I did a controlled experiment to prove your advice and you are correct. So all the macros that Dave from In-Affinity and some of Jim Ritson's ones to find white to gray pixels perhaps is not necessary for me now. I enjoy your channel as well as the others I subscribe to. If you remember, I asked you a few times about using Luminar as a plug in. My workaround, for the MAC was to purchase Keyboard Maestro and I wrote some macros that export a PNG and import into Luminar - this saves a bunch of keystrokes. Not the best solution, but automated. Thanks again !!!

[@Pir8Pete99]

Very educational Olivio. The pixel brush might be something to explain to us..Pete

[@Keith12001]

Thank you for sharing, I have just started using it but this software is great.

[@jordanlotus188]

very very nice and helpful.

[@DorenSorell]

Olivio - If you use the Recolor Adjustment Layer on the Blend Mode of Hue ... it has a very similar effect.

[@JasonFranklinRN]

He literally discussed and demonstrated why recollection adj. layer is not best option.

[@marekpavlik6494]

@@JasonFranklinRN But that was using the recolor layer with blending mode set to Normal. With Hue blending mode, you will only apply the hue of the color (not saturation or lightness).

[@jamescoronasr2899]

Thank you for that. What I’m having trouble with is creating shadows. When I edit, copy and paste an object in another scene, so as to make it appear like it was always in that scene, I apply a shadow. Is there a proper method of creating shadows? Jim C

[@jameshout5814]

Hello Olivio. I'm needing to use the brush tool to remove saturation. Is that possible?

[@anneburke2405]

Thank you Olivia, now I get it.

[@hapzfl]

Great tutorial. But I am stuck. The brush is stuck at red. I don't know where the red is coming from. If I change the color selection that little brush continues to show red although the foreground color was changed to blue. The color replacement brush does not use the blue foreground color but the red. How do I get rid of that red? Why doesn't the replacement brush change to the foreground color?

[@jordanlotus188]

very nice. please show how to change the icc profile of the photo to 3rd party icc profile to get exact color of photo .thanks in advance.

[@elliottcobin1468]

I would like a tutorial on how to decide on each of the settings in the Color tab of preferences. Thanks very much.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Elliott Cobin, i made a video about the different color tabs found in affinity photo kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWfQgnmpj9egrLc

[@elliottcobin1468]

Olivio Sarikas I’m referring to Preferences. There are settings in a tab in Preferences labeled Color.

[@OlivioSarikas]

@@elliottcobin1468 those are advanced settings, you should not change them, unless you know exactly what you are doing.

[@isoria07]

With this method, can we extract the color of the sky (or landscape) from one photo and apply it to another ? Otherwise could you someday make a video about it? (Excuse my English, I use Google Translate ...) thank you so much !

[@BartPols]

Hi Olivio, I see a lot of advertisement with Presets for Adobe Photoshop. Can you explain if and how these presets work with Affinity Photo? I've been searching on Google and KZbin, but can't find anything. I see you have some vid's about LUTS, but I believe its something different?

[@davemckelvie2751]

Me as well. I believe I understand the way to import them but would love to see the whole process and any recommendations on which ones are the best to buy or does Olivio know of other great ones for free DL.

[@adeletayles7565]

Thanks again Olivio.

[@OlivioSarikas]

You are welcome, Adele tayles

[@jerrettdigital]

Is there any way to turn black to a color? I am trying to change the black checkers on a jacket to a color but this unfortunately doesn't seem to work on black or white

[@neglectedloves]

again a great video, but I tried to intensify a already red fire hydrant, the color replacement brush tool worked (changing it to i.e. green) but did not intensify the reds with bright red chosen as my color. Is there a solution to make it more popping? Thanks :-)

[@OlivioSarikas]

HI Nicolas, the replacement brush will only exchange the color, but not the luminosity or saturation of the color. for that you can use a HSL adjustment to adjust these values. In that Adjustment you also see a couple of color dots that allow you to define color ranges that you can define and adjust individually.

[@neglectedloves]

@@OlivioSarikas thanks 🙏🏻 is the HSL adjustment part of a tool (brush) or a global setting? Can you elaborate? Thanks 😊

[@OlivioSarikas]

@@neglectedloves It's an adjustment layer. have a look here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laCyiqewj5Vjmrc

[@neglectedloves]

@@OlivioSarikas thank you Olivio! You are amazing! 👏🏻

[@neglectedloves]

@@OlivioSarikas That absolutely did it! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@WaldirBorbaJunior]

Interesting... loved it.

[@dheatherington9250]

I do a lot of repairing old black and white / sepia photographs and postcards using the clone, patch and healing brush but find it more difficult to repair images which are partly faded. If there is an even fade then levels is ok but how should I be tackling images which are only faded across one area.

[@willsao]

How can I remove if I painted too much? The erase brush tool is removing all the pixels and I don't want to use "undo".

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Willsao, you can use the History to go back many steps or you could use multiple layers for different things you are painting - for example when i paint, i often put the shadows on a different layer so i can go back and change them without touching the colors below

[@willsao]

Olivio Sarikas Hello, thanks for reply. I decided to use a duplicate layer with an inverted mask. Still think there should be an eraser brush that only removes what you paint with all other brushes.

[@tinadorkin9564]

Thanks for doing these, always helpful. It would be great if you could show what tools/ steps for when I want to darken/lighten parts of an image etc top to bottom or a particular area...i think its the gradient tool & I believe there is another that's uses two lines to draw your in eye using blurring. Sorry its not a great explanation. Stay safe

[@davidos903]

Never found the Color Replacement Brush Tool. There is no white corner at the Paint Brush Tool icon....

[@Bassbarbie]

I'm really confused. Were the apples selected somehow? How does it know which colour to change to what? How did you suddenly select half an apple?

[@CCoburn3]

Great video.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, corbett coburn

[@wesleybilly8097]

This is cool but when there is an update how do I know that this method isn't obsolete ? I have no way of knowing which tutorials no longer apply or are now done differently because of updates.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Wesley, updates very rarely alter a software to an extend that a user needs to completely re-learn how to use it, as this would make the software very painful to work with. So, while methods improve over time, it is very unlikely you couldn't still understand their basic concept from a older video. or, alternatively, stick to just watching new videos ;)

[@Kargul85TV]

How do I swap one color for another without changing the color saturation? Just one color for another?

[@vvmac1]

Thanks.

[@4CardsMan]

Lots of stuff about the Recolor effect and the various adjustments, but I still don't know how to use the tool!. Perhaps another presenter could explains this.

[@brianhorrocks5757]

Great, thanks.

[@joannacrosby9579]

Just to note 'sample continuously' does mean 'keep sampling' but the other word is contIGuous, and that means 'next to.'

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, that's really interesting. The small details of other languages :)

[@lemachiniste2003]

what if i want to change a color to black? i tried, and i can change it to any color, but if i set it to black, it just change the object color to a very pale gray...

[@engqie1151]

how to measure a distance between one object to another one, thanks

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi qie's qie, you could create a shape between both of them and then check the size of that shape :)

[@Timelesshero1711]

The brush is horribly slow and laggy and doesn't even paint all the areas on my selected apple. any ideas on what is happening on my end? :C

[@listentotheanimalscreamsha1511]

Does this work with affinity designer?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Affinity Designer is more a Vector program, there you can simply change the fill color of a shape ;)

[@justcommander3143]

This isn't working for me. I have a picture of my car, and I want to change the colour to white and bumpers to black. But when I hover the mouse over the image, it doesn't show any change within the circle and doesn't paint any other colour when I try. It stays silver. Any ideas?

[@OlivioSarikas]

This is a HUE change - meaning it changes the color but not the brightness. White and Black aren't colors, they are brightness values. So this doesn't work to make something black or white or to color something that is black or white.

[@justcommander3143]

@@OlivioSarikas ah yes that explains it. I used the selection brush, outputted the car parts to layers and then added a colour adjustment layer to change the colour that way.

[@alainadamski7703]

Thank you Olivio, one quick question: does it work with cherries ;-) (I'm kidding, of course) Take care and see you soon.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Thank you, ALAIN ADAMSKI 😂😂😂

[@slartibartfass5729]

Nice feature and tutorial. But it turned out you cannot simply replace for example the color blue with the color white in a technical sketch due to Affinity only changing the the color tone but not the brightness. So when I ask Affinity to replace a light blue sketched item with white it gets gray. To bad...

[@OlivioSarikas]

That's because white is not a color. Color as in HUE. So, as you found out correctly, it can only replace colors (hue) in the brightness (tone) of the original color of the image. If you look at a hue slider (like in the HSL adjustment) you will see that it doesn't include white, black or any gray values, because all of them are not colors

[@slartibartfass5729]

How can I replace all blue with white? Photoshop has a color replacement for that but not Affinity?

[@OlivioSarikas]

@@slartibartfass5729 Sorry, i have never tried that. So I can't offer you a solution at this point.

[@Stevieboyfpv]

quality!

[@markoehlschlager3862]

They should call this tool a "Hue Replacement" tool, because it does not alter the saturation or value of the underlying image - only the hue.

[@OlivioSarikas]

Hi Mark Oehlschlager, probably, but i suppose more people know the word color ;)

[@fdv8302]

I left a comment for a tutorial request on your reddit page. I understand you use facebook now but I don’t have facebook. Is there another way to send you the request?

[@OlivioSarikas]

You can always post your suggestions here :) please post each suggestion is a extra comment, because KZbin does not alert me about answers to comments

[@nabinaghoshh]

Is it available on iPad?

[@OlivioSarikas]

Yes, Affinity Photo is for iPad too.

[@nabinaghoshh]

@@OlivioSarikas No no I meant, a tutorial explaining this tool on ipad! I have affinity Photo and yesterday I was trying this tool but couldn't understand.

[@keithhookway9365]

make a selection using the pen tool

[@LukVanCleemput]

I don't have that brush in my tools and can not find it

[@thedumasgroupllc]

Must have missed something. Did not work. No color replaced at all:(

[@richard127gm]

Con-TIG-uous. Just saying. Good video, thanks.

[@ivamanral989]

But how rhe fuck do you even select the colour..mine won't work

[@TongUtube]

Can you be my private teacher?