This means that you will see only icons related to what you are working with. Modern User InterfaceĪffinity Photo’s interface is divided into separate task-oriented workspaces, called personas. It also includes more advanced tools, such as clone stamp, batch edit, font effects, and lens distortion correction and can become a great alternative to Photoshop for iPad. After this, draw the gradient on the Fill Layer.Affinity Photo has all the basic photo editing tools you can expect: red-eye removal, cropping, selecting, drawing tools, as well as instruments for creating vector shapes. The other end of the gradient (right tab stop) is then set to white. A good starting point is a colour that has a value of 50 in all three colour channels (red, green, and blue).
The gradient then uses these two colours.įor this example, we will use a dark grey colour at the start (left stop point). Click the stop point at the other end of the gradient and set that colour. It’s then possible to change the colour of that point by clicking the Colour swatch in the dialog. This has a circle or stop at each end which we can click to select. In the gradient tab we see a gradient designer along the top. We do this by clicking the colour swatch (3) and in the dialog selecting the “Gradient” tab. As we are creating a graduated filter effect, we want to select the Linear option.įinally, we should configure the gradient colour. Next, select the type of gradient to draw using the Type dropdown (2). This ensures the layer is filled with coloured pixels when we draw it. We do this using the controls in Affinity Photo’s context sensitive toolbar.įirst check the Context setting is set to Fill (1). Configuring the Gradient Toolīefore we draw our gradient, we need to configure the Gradient Tool. This will help you see what’s happening when you draw the gradient. Temporarily change the Blending Mode for the layer back to Normal. We can use this information about the Blending Mode to create our graduate. Then if we use black for the fill, it turns the image black. The darker the grey we use, the darker the image becomes. If we now change the fill colour to a darker grey rather than white, it will darken the image. These are all grouped together in the top section of the Blending Mode dropdown. You will see the same behaviour with the other Blending Modes that darken an image. That’s because white is what we call the neutral colour for the Multiply Blending Mode. You should then see the Fill Layer vanish. After setting the fill colour to white, change the Fill Layer Blending Mode to Multiply in the Layers Studio Panel. In this example I have selected white for the fill to illustrate an important point about Blending Modes.
You can control the colour used by clicking the colour swatch (number 3) to select the colour. The Gradient Tool is also activated in the Affinity Photo Tools Palette (number 2).Īfter adding a Fill Layer, the image is probably filed with a solid colour. You can do this in the Layer menu by selecting the “New Fill Layer” option.Īfter adding the Fill Layer, the new layer should appear in the Layers Studio Panel (number 1). We can see how some of the Blending Modes work in Affinity Photo if we add a new Fill Layer to our image. They control how the contents of a layer blend with the layers below it to produce an effect. But if we combine it with the power of Blending Modes it’s a different story.īlending Modes are used in lots of applications, including Affinity Photo. This alone doesn’t have much value in terms of photo editing. We use the Gradient Tool in Affinity Photo to draw a gradient using two or more colours of our choice. Using Blending Modes with the Gradient Tool
The colours in the image would benefit from some adjustment and I can address both problems using the Gradient Tool. Despite using a Graduated ND filter when I shot this, the sky is too light compared to the dark, wet rock of the foreground.
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