Photo Plus - UK (2019-12)

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THE MISSION

Turn day to night in

Affinity using a

Gradient Map

adjustment and

layer masking skills

Time needed

15 minutes

Skill level

Easy

Kit needed

Serif Affinity Photo

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to night! In this tutorial we’ll look

at how this is done with a simple

combination of layer skills.

We’ll begin by making a tonal

adjustment to transform the

bright blue sky into a moody

night-time backdrop, altering the

colours to cool things down and

darkening the midtones to plunge

our subject into darkness. We’ll

use the Gradient Map tool for this,

which lets us map a range of

night-time shades onto the tonal

range of our image. It helps here

that the original photo is shot in

hard sunlight as – with colours

altered – we can make the

sunlight look almost like

moonlight instead, which has

a similarly hard-edged quality.

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in an image of a starry sky, then

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transforming the blue backdrop

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evening scene. This is done by

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the Flood Selection tool, then

converting the selection to a layer

mask in order to constrain the

stars to the area of sky on the

layer below. An ability to combine

photos with layer masks like this

is one of the cornerstones of

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Master these skills and you can

merge all kinds of photos and

selective effects for endlessly

creative results.

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Transform day to night

James Paterson uses a combination of tonal tools and compositing skills

to turn sunlight into moonlight and show off key layer skills in Affinity

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