The Orton Effect: Make Your Images Look Amazing with Affinity Photo

[@trevorburton4429]

Brilliant as always Robin. You make it appear such an easy process.

[@RobinWhalley]

Thanks so much 😊

[@Balchre]

I do enjoy your videos and learn a lot. Thanks for producing them. I look forward to the next one.

[@RobinWhalley]

Glad you like them! Thank you.

[@mtntopviking]

Awesome tutorial! You always make everything easy to follow and understand. Thank you so much for these videos!

[@RobinWhalley]

You're very welcome. I’m glad you find them easy to understand.

[@theoldfarmerguy1238]

Very nice presentation of the effect

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. I’m glad you liked it.

[@RishiRajKoul]

I should have seen your channel earlier. I am loving your content

[@RobinWhalley]

Thank you. I'm glad you find me.

[@alangauld6079]

To be honest, if I want a glow in my images I head for Nik Colorefex. It has several glow options and control points to localize them. It's interesting to see how to do it in Affinity, but Nik is so much easier! But I also remember applying the real Orton effect using Kodachrome slides back in the 80/90s when it was popular for a while. It was about the only kind of "effect" you could do on Kodachrome since the processing was all done by Kodak and the photographer had no control over exposure, colour or contrast, unlike with E6, where you could do it all yourself.

[@RobinWhalley]

Yes, there are plenty of tools that allow you to create these glow effects but it's not always obvious how to do it using tools like Affinity Photo. Personally I never got on well with Kodak slide and tended to use Fuji. I also found processing my own slide film too "fussy" so stuck to black and white processing. Hats off to anyone managing to get good results with the Orton Effect in the analog world.

[@ovidiuvisan2563]

Superb, thank you!

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. Thank you.

[@manuelferreira1279]

Thank´s Mr Robin for the tutorial :)

[@RobinWhalley]

You're welcome. Thank you

[@craigozancin]

This is a great video. Can't you just add a gausien blur on top of the stack and add the levels under that? That eliminates the need for a merge visible layer. Also, would you still use the blend rage or the new live luminosity range mask added with version 2?

[@RobinWhalley]

Great questions. Yes to both. I tend to use the new Luminosity Mask in preference to Blend Range now in many situations.

[@davidellinsworth3299]

@@RobinWhalley try adding a Gaussian Blur live filter, changing the blend mode to Soft Light. An opacity of 15-25% generally works well for most applications. Then use a luminosity mask to blend it into the desired tonal ranges.

[@RobinWhalley]

@@davidellinsworth3299 Thanks for the suggestion. I've got about a dozen different ways to create these glow effects and use the Gaussian Blur layer combined with a Brightness Contrast layer a lot. It's quite amazing what you can do these days.

[@peterravald6924]

Hi Robin. What happened to learning how to take the photo correctly and doing a a simple edit to lift it to suit?

[@RobinWhalley]

Hi Pete. I hope you're well. I still think what you say is the best approach. BUT peopl want to know how to create these kinds of effects. They can also be useful for things like woodland photography providing they are used with care.

[@octaviogarcia9616]

Hi Robin, Do you have it but for Photoshop?

[@RobinWhalley]

Different approach but works very well kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKSppJaqdq-ca9E

[@photographedemode]

I'm trying to find out how to create almost a smoky atmosphere for interior scenes. I noticed in some TV or Movie scenes, they are able to make somewhat of a smoky atmosphere despite the fact that no one is smoking, it makes for almost a slight mist. The scene are always in focus, but with this kind of mist in them. Do you know how to do this?

[@RobinWhalley]

I would probably use an overlay like in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqbEiapphaZ0fKc

[@ianbrowne9304]

I have sent you an email regarding this great orton effect Robin

[@RobinWhalley]

Thanks. I will take a look.