EDITING VIEWERS’ IMAGES AND USING RECOLOR ADJUSTMENT - AFFINITY PHOTO IPAD - Editing Tutorial Ep. 12

hi and welcome to another editing tutorial on affinity photo for ipad i have three different images today that were all sent to me by you with some different requests on the stuff you wanted a little bit of help with so let's look at that today okay so this first image was sent to me by miguel trondgren he took this very nice photo of a blackbird and it's a very nice close-up a lot of detail clean background that's completely blurred out due to the shallow depth of field and he asked if it was possible to make the background a more dark brown color so let's see how we could do that before we do the adjustment itself i have already duplicated my layer and i have created a layer mask on the top layer to make the top layer the bird itself and nothing else and if you want to see how i did that go to this video here where i talk about masks because i didn't want to do the whole masking again on the selection process because it takes a while but after that part is done we could work on the background layer and not affect the bird itself and to do that i want to go to adjustments i want to go to recolor and it defaults down this red color so we know we applied something but we want to change that color a bit it works as kind of an overlay on the background itself so if there was were some detail here you would still be able to see the details i can just to to show you if i put this on top you can still see the blackbird and the color has been applied to that bird as well but let's put this recoloring adjustment beneath the about the bird itself and still on top of the background layer and now we can work on the hue here and i want to go to something that is is a bit orange i want to tone down the saturation a bit and then we want to darken this thing and this lightness thing can go in both positive and negative numbers so i want to take it down quite a bit maybe to something like this and then we could always adjust our opacity as well maybe to something along the lines of this color here so this is a very simple way to change the color of a background without doing anything destructive i can turn on and off this layer and you can see the dramatic difference i also think it does something very good for the bird actually to have this a little bit more dark background a few other things we could do with this was the maybe a normal curves layer to put a little bit of extra contrast i will increase my highlights and i will decrease the shadows a bit and we could also use the catch light trick i showed you in another video i'll link it right here and we take the pixel layer we take our normal paint brush white color 100 flow 100 opacity zero percent hardness and we zoom in on this eye right here we already have a very nice catch light here but we could then paint right here and then we go to our blend ranges and the layer beneath will decide which parts of this will be gone when we take away the darkest parts of the layer below or the current layer by using the layer below as a reference and now we have a catch light that is a bit more shiny i'll maybe turn down the opacity just a little bit so that's the first one that was how i would recolor the background and just do a little bit of catch slide and contrast middle i hope you uh benefit from this and you can use it in your own editing so for the next one i have an image sent to me by simon and this one was let me just delete all this so you can see actually where we are starting off this image is already edited and it's very nicely beautiful added we have this moody scene seascape and it has been purposely decolorized a little bit so the saturation has been decreased to cater for this mood and this uh this very nice scene but simon asked if it was possible to maybe increase the focus a little bit on that big wooden tree stump right here because this part of driftwood is the same color and nuance as the rest of the image so it doesn't really stand out but we want to keep a nice nice mood still so what we can do is we can i'll just duplicate the layer that's what i did right here and all the other ones i will go through them is because i already played a little bit with this image but if we take a pixel layer and do what we did when we talked about non-destructive dodging and burning we could fill this whole layer with a 50 gray and then we could go to overlay which hides the gray completely but then when we paint on this layer with a white brush it will brighten up those parts of the image and when we paint with a black brush it'll darken other parts of the image and for this i want to go to maybe yeah 52 opacity is fine and maybe 35 percent flow because we don't want to be too aggressive with this zero percent hardness is fine and now we can start to paint a little bit on the driftwood itself to brighten up parts of of the image and this is maybe still a little bit too much so i'll just turn down the opacity and flow of this brush because i don't want to be too too rough with this one and this way we can we can kind of [Music] make the driftwood stand out a little bit more on the parts where the light has already caught it a little bit and we can even create a little bit of contrast by also painting black on other parts of the image but i'll just do this very quickly to show you how you can use these dodging and burning techniques to actually make certain parts of the image stand out a bit [Music] and now we could go to the black color if you want to and maybe darken those shadows a little bit to give a bit more contrast and dramatic look to this piece of driftwood [Music] and remember if you want to see what you have done you can always go to the layer options and you can click solo and that shows exactly what we have painted on the layer itself so if you want to go back you can just click on every any other layer so if we look at this before and after it's a very dramatic difference and it's probably also a bit too much so we could turn it down a bit to maybe something like this and now we just gave the piece drift with a little bit extra what this image is also um a good example of what we could also do with the coloring and i know that simon did a great job on this one and i don't want to redo his work because i think he did a very nice edit i just want to show as a proof of concept what you can use the recoloring tool for in this case i'll just delete the one i already did earlier today and if i were to put in the new recolor adjustment right here again it looks strange because it always defaults on the red one but if we want to go maybe recolor the shadows a bit we can we can go down here and we can choose something something bluish and just go the 100 opacity and oh no sorry 100 saturation turn down the opacity a little bit and then we can use these blend ranges again and if we choose the destination of the blend ranges the image will look at the layer below to determine which parts of the current layer that we will be showing so right now everything is shown but if i were to pull down on this one then the current layer will not be shown in the parts where the layer below is actually bright so the highlights will not be affected by this layer we can also pull it all the way over to where it actually only affects the shadows so now we have put a little bit of blue into the shadows to make it a little bit more dramatic we could make another adjustment layer like this i'll just duplicate it and then go in and change the hue of it because we want to maybe have something that is more orange and we want to affect the brighter parts of the image now instead so this one will just be deleted or we can do like this go to something warm and then we can say we only want this warmer color to affect the brighter parts of the image [Music] just to brighten up that sky a little bit or give it a little bit warmer touch so now we have two different recolor adjustments one that's affecting the shadows by applying a little bit of blue and another recoloring adjustment which is affecting the highlights while we are applying a little bit of orange the other thing we could do was the curves adjustment i'll just make a new one here and the curves adjustment when we just look at the master that's the all the the colors combined and we can increase the highlights and we can decrease the shadows like this to create contrast we've done this many times before but we can also go to the red green or blue channels to actually affect the colors of the image so let's say we wanted some red in the highlights i can go to the red channel and i can pull up on the highlights in the red channel i could also go to the blue and pull down oh sorry pull up if we want to increase the blues this way in the channels of the curves adjustment so this way we can really use the curves in many many different ways to create extra effects and extra drama the next thing we could do was apply a lens filter and the lens filter applies kind of this orangey in this case orange haze on top of the whole image and and we can increase or decrease that effect but also use a blend ranges adjustment here to make sure that this lens filter only applies to the brighter parts of the image so we don't have any orange in the shadows for instance so this is how you can put in some extra color or drama into an image let me just select all these and show it show you the before and after so this is what it looked like before and this is what it looked like after this is completely different tone and a completely different look of the image and this is not to to redo simon's work but to kind of show you how this recolor adjustment that we just used in miko's image can actually be used on skies or water or whatever as well and also the dodging and burning can be used on the driftwood to create a little bit extra contrast so makes make certain parts of the image stand out so for the last one um jim sent me this image of these geese and asked if it was possible to remove or clone out that one goose that is half hidden by another goose in front of it and yes and no well yes is the answer we can do that but we can't just use a in painting brush or something to to paint it out because the other goose will be affected as well so what we can do is we can select the goose we want to keep and put that one on a layer by itself and to do that we will duplicate our layer and in this case if i go to use my selection selections brush it might be a little bit difficult for me to see what i'm doing so instead what i could do was put a curved adjustment just temporarily and just brighten the whole thing and zoom in because then when i use my curves my selection brush it's a bit easier for me to make sure that i only select the goose that i want to keep and not the one we want to get rid of so i use my smart brush a smart selections brush to select the goose we want to keep remember also have a video on this you can go check out if you want to get it refreshed we press refine and we make sure that the goose is selected properly and the goose in the background is in fact part of the background in the selection as well we go to mask and now this one single layer should only have one goose and it's almost almost good enough but not quite so let's go in and redo this mask a little bit or just refine it by clicking the layer options and solo and now we can go in and just paint black where we want to hide something in the mask and white but we want to show something in the mask and i will go very very close because the selection brush has actually selected the goose quite well but it also selected parts of the shadows from the other goose so it's actually quite easy for me to go in with a brush a black brush like this and just make sure that i delete the parts of the background that were not supposed to be selected with the smart selections brush and still have that feathered look pun intended on the bird that is in front of a of the one we are deleting now so we just have this outline here and i'm just going to delete that by painting it black on this layer or this mask sorry and remember that when we do a mask like this we are not really deleting anything so if i make a mistake you can just paint white and that part will be shown again and that's why this is a very nice way to do it because we don't really make any expensive mistakes [Music] all right so now i can go back like this and i will just hide this layer we just created and now i will also delete the curves adjustment because i don't need that one anymore and i can go in and i would probably just delete both these two geese from this background layer because we have the goose we need on a layer by itself and it's going to be easier for affinity photo to delete both of these from this layer than it would be to delete only one of them now it did a very good job but there are a few places we just want to run over again like this and now we can re show the second layer that we put the goose on by itself and now it's also easier for us to see if there are some places where the mask is not completely perfect so now with the mask selected and the black brush selected i can go in and just paint where i can see a little bit of shadow from that other goose there we go that's how i would remove one bird from an image if you want to do that so i hope this was pretty clear in in what i'm doing and remember that all these different videos we already did are actually covering the masking the cloning the layer and selections and all these types of things so this is just a way of applying all the stuff that we already learned and then the recoloring was a new one today so if you have any requests if you have any comments or questions let me know in the comments below make sure to like and subscribe so know that i'm doing the right thing and that you actually benefit from what i'm trying to teach you this way and if you have any requests for upcoming videos let me know in the comments as well and i will see you next time take care you

Channel: Thamdrup Wildlife

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Keywords: Wildlife, Bird, Photography, Editing, iPad, Lightroom, Affinity, Thamdrupwildlife, Affinity Photo iPad, Affinity Photo for iPad, Tutorial, Affinity iPad, How to, Non-destructive, Retouch, Edit photos, Edit image, Edit images, Apple pencil, Pencil, Tips, Tricks, Layers, Masks, Recolor, Recolor adjustment, Adjustment layers, Adjustment layer, Blend ranges, Blend mode

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Length: 18min 34sec (1114 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021