hi I'm Robin Whalley welcome to Lenscraft last week I
explained how to change the color of an object in affinity photo using the color
replacement brush the color replacement brush is a great tool but it's not the
easiest way to change the color of an object in the Finnerty
that award probably goes to the hue adjustment layer if you haven't used
this before I think this video will surprise you with what's possible start
by opening the image you want to adjust I'll be using the shot of an old door to
change the color of the door and later change the color of the surround as well
to do this I'll add an HSL adjustment layer in the adjustment studio panel
unlike with the color replacement brush because this is an adjustment layer it
means that it is non-destructive if I get into a mess I can reset the
adjustment using the reset button or if I get into a complete mess I can delete
the entire layer and just add a new one in the HSL dialog you can see there's a
color wheel and below this as several color samples you can use the sample on
the far left has lots of colors in it when you select this sample and you just
when you apply affects the entire image to make an adjustment to the image I'll
use the hue/saturation and luminosity sliders the luminosity slider controls
how dark or lighter color is because I've selected the old color option the
adjustment affects the entire image notice also what's happening to the
outside of the color wheel the outside is turning white or black depending on
which way I move the slider that's because the inside of the wheel is
showing the colors of the original image whilst the outside shows the effect of
the adjustment I'm applying the next slider is the saturation slider which
controls the color intensity and again it's currently affecting all the colors
in the image by the way if you want to reset a slider after making an
adjustment just double click the slider next we have the hue slider which I can
use to change the colors in the image as I move the slider left and right all the
colors in the image are changing and it can be difficult to
what's happening but there is an easy way to do this watch what's happening
again to the color wheel notice that the outside colors are rotating around the
inside wheel and that's showing you what's happening to the image remember
this because it can be very helpful in controlling the hue slider now let me
show you how easy it is to change the color of the door because the doors blue
I'll pick the blue color sample notice this four dots now appear in the color
wheel these are showing the range of colors I selected when I click the blue
sample any adjustments I make affect all the colors in the color wheel that fall
between the two in adults the two outer dots mark the full extent of the colors
affected by the adjustment I won't affect any of the colors that fall
outside of these 202 dots the areas between the outer and inner dots are
gradually affected by my adjustment in range between 0% and 100% this is what
helps blend the color adjustment into the image if I move the hue slider to
the left now you can see the colors on the outside of the wheel a shifting left
which turns the door pink notice that the adjustment hasn't affected the cyan
colors in the door though I could correct this by moving the hue slider
further to the left but that changes the doors color further
instead I can click and move the four dots on the color wheel moving the inner
dots I can widen the range of colors affected changing more colors in the
door when I do this I should also move the outer dot to maintain a gap between
the two that helps blend the adjustments into the image let's say know that I
want to change the colors of the terracotta tiles around the door I could
do this by adding a separate hue/saturation layer but I'll
demonstrate it using the same layer the colors of the tiles sits somewhere
between red and yellow on the color wheel
I'll pick red but rather than immediately moving the hue slider I'll
use the picker tool I can use this to sample the color of one of the tiles
that I want to adjust as I do this notice what happens to the red color
sample it changes to show the colors that I've selected with the picker now I
can turn the tiles blue by moving the hue slider to the right
at the moment this is affecting the entire image and if I don't want that I
can add a mask to the hue layer then I can use a black paintbrush to paint out
the effect in some of the areas
and don't forget if you find an area that's difficult to adjust with the hue
layer you could switch to using the color replacement brush for that if you
didn't see my video for the affinity photo color replacement brush I'll
include the link in the YouTube video description
I hope you found this video helpful I'm Robin Whalley you've been watching
Lenscraft i'll see you next week for another video