The most worthwhile 30 minutes I've invested in a long time. Great job explaining this process - I've learned more than I have in ages. Thank you! :)

As a beginner hobbyist photoshop user at best, I am trying to transition to Affinity Photo 2. This video was extremely helpful to me from the information gained on how to use the app tools and recolonizing images. You have an excellent teaching style. I will be watching more of your videos and hope you continue to create them. I have a feeling many will transition to Affinity and be looking for such great tutorials. Thank you for sharing with a new subscriber.

This tutorial is going in my vault. I learned more about how to SIMPLY use layers for selection, masking and coloring than I did from at least a half dozen of other tutorials. Also, your calm but methodical teaching technique allowed for me to easily think through what each step was actually doing. Now, I cannot wait to binge through your other tutorials.

I think this was just about the BEST tutorial on Affinity photo I have ever seen, clear and easy to understand how layers work and interact. Thanks for posting.

It’s an absolute joy to attend your tutorials, you explain everything so clearly. Thank you so much. 💕

Best helpful tutorial ever.

A very good tutorial covering layers, masks, where to find colours etc. All in a methodical manner and easy to follow.

WOW! what a Teeeecha. Absolutely perfect instructional video. Be proud of yourself. Worth every minute of my time👏👋. Thank you.

Love the tutorial and the way you delivered it. Very watchable so I shall be back.

I never knew about these online color picking tools. Thanks

Thank you. Not only was this a GREAT tutorial, you also had 2 web based reference sites that I now have bookmarked.

Brilliant tutorial. Absolutely brilliant, it is the best I have ever seen on this topic.

Great educator, thank you.

Thanks Chris to share this amazing tutorial, super clear, a soft voice. It was a good good tutorial!!

Without a doubt one of the most perfect tutorials I’ve ever watched. I learned how to do colour correction, masking and such roughly 23 years ago, but not having actively used those skills for a long time, this was a wonderful refresher! One of the BIGGEST benefits of this approach that isn’t explicitly said, but rather is subtly demonstrated, is that by using a layered mask approach like this you are creating non-destructive elements on top of the original that can be turned off, on, modified in shape or colour, all with literally just a few seconds of effort. The other critical tip that is so wonderfully used is naming layers as you go. The vast majority of people skip over this, but it becomes not just helpful, but rather ESSENTIAL to do this as you begging to get into more complex projects where you may have multiple versions of a particular effect/layer that you want to test and/or having may dozens of elements that you need to keep track of. Figuring out what layer is what after the fact can be a gruelling and frustrating experience that not just takes away from the joy of the work, but makes the work far more fluid and efficient than it should be. WELL DONE! Thank you. :-)

This video was really well explained and executed. You have a new subscriber! :) One common issue with old photos is exposure to the sun or being left near a radiator or in a hot car. This causes areas which appear faded or over-exposed. often right in the middle of the image. Such fading can often be in the form of a gradient. I'd love to see a video showing how to repair this, please.

This video was super helpful to me. The steps you took to colorize a b/w is far better than what I was doing, which was the hard way. I am saving this video for future reference. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.

More long winded videos please. This is a great tutorial. Thanks

great tutorial Chris - thanks for sharing your work and knowledge

That color palette is a game changer! Great tute, appreciate your video!

I know this is a bit late, but may be a helpful tip if anyone is still reading the comments. You can choose any color outside of Affinity Photo (AP) without having to save a file and open again in AP. Just click and hold on the color picker, and drag over to any spot you want to pick a color from. If on two or more monitors, you can have the color you want on your other monitor AP is not. If on single monitor, make the AP window small and be sure to have whatever you are using to visible at the time AP is on screen, click the color picker, and drag over to the color you want outside AP.

Truly wonderful video. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

Well done, thorough and structured, I must show my family your methods.

Agree, Absolutely brilliant video many thanks for your time sharing

one of the best tutorials. Thank you so much

Really excellent presentation and exposition a... and so very helpful. Big thanks!!

What a superb, clear explanation! Thanks for posting this.

This was an excellent tutorial. You are one of my top favourites, if not my favourite for all things Affinity.

Very nice video. Learned a lot. Going to head into some of my ancestor's B&W photos and try colorizing them. Thanks!

Just amazing!, Thanks for the tutorial :)

Very helpful as always - Thank You!

Thank you for sharing

Brilliant vid … Always wondered how to do this thank you so much 👏👏👏👌👍

Thank you, very helpful! Trying a concept for a new thumbnail and this is exactly what I needed!

Very enjoyable and informative, thank you!

You are the best!!!

Wonderful tutorial, thank you very much.

excellent

Very informative and useful!!

Nice job thank you so much

Hello Chris, I am very lucky came across this tutorial. Simply superb way of explaining. I am your fan. Request you to make a video for the newbies, starting from explaining every tool and use of the same.

Thank you so much sir.

Fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much!

Nice tutorial, I prefer Pixbim Color Surprise AI to get the colored photo, it saves a ton of time and then do the final retouching with steps you have mentioned. Good work with clear explanation.

Still one of the best & so easy to follow Diolch yn fawr!

Just discovered you...subbed👍 Great tut.

nice job :)

Thank you this is really helpful!

This is terrific Chris. There is enough info here to help me with so many of my Affinity blind spots. I'm an old Adobe man now unable to justify the subscription costs now that I am retired. Curious to know - are you UK based? Thanks indeed.

This is epic! Thank you so much for making it! 😄❤️ I recently watched PiXImperfects video on colorising black and white photos and it made me want to get into colorising but I hate subscription models so affinity photo it is! The website you provide for getting the skin tones is great. One thing I was going to ask is that PiX used the flow tool to add subtle red tones where there would be blood vessels on the face etc. I thought it made a big difference to realism. I assume you can do this on affinity too? Sorry if that's the biggest noob question ever haha 😄

Ya solo nos falta el pelo, pero es un video genial y muy didáctico. Gracias por compartirlo

This is more complicated than it needs to be. There's no need to add a vector rectangle. A Fill layer takes care of that and it has a built-in mask (like all other adjustment layers) so you do not need to add a second mask. Create and refine your selection first, choose the color, and then add Layer -> New Fill Layer. Bingo. Then adjust the blend, color, opacity, etc. And with an alt-option click on the fill layer icon you can see the mask but it will not be black and white but the color of your choice.

Looks great, but when I try to follow and klicks Creat mask, the mask is not created to the right of the colored rectangle but on its own raw, What am I missing? (I use version 1.9)

I'm a bit late to the party, but saw your video ands it looked rather good, but I have a couple or three questions if you don't mind? 1, first of, how do you setup your screen like that? mine doesn't show all the tools on the left and same with the layers, I can only see the first layer and have to click on the icon below them to see the rest of them, my settings are 3840 x 2160 (native). 2, I followed your tutorial up to where you are creating a mask 10:01 when I try to create a mask, mine doesn't put the mask picture next to the proper picture like yours does, it puts a mask there but it only has a little image in the bottom right corner of it and the picture in the workspace doesn't have the colour like yours does? so I get to this point and I am stuck. I am subscribed by the way. 👍👍

Hello Chris.Nice tutorial so far but i have a problem using the skin palette. After downloading it i selected it,copied it and then pasted it into my image that I'm using but it doesn't come up in the top left corner.It completely covers half the image.I've tried to figure this out but can't seem to get anywhere.Your thoughts on this please.

Can you do a photo restoration tutorial? Like how to remove tears and folds on the page? I'm working on one right now for a class assignment and I've been using this tutorial for the recolor. I just want to see if there's a better way than just inpainting for the bumps and folds to get a smoother photo.

Very informative. Wish that something was done with the hair and the whites of the eyes.

I know this is a noobie question, but when I open a black & white photo, the color palette (or swatch) changes to grey scale. It actually seems to do that with all images (i.e. the palette only contains the colors of the image). How to get get all rgb colors back after loading a black and white image?

Great video, any chance you could provide the picture used for us to practice with? Thanks very much.

You should use paths to select the areas for better accuracy.

I am trying to follow your steps and immediately from the start at 2:16 on the video where you show the drop-down menu so we can select "merge down" on my computer this "merge down" is grayed out. The only options are "Mask to below or merge visible. I don't get the same results when using any of the options. What am I doing wrong? Thank you

Totally off topic, but: Crispy Williams

Whaou i look the finish it's amazing. But Iam french and it's hard to understand quickly when the man talk. If I want to have the i,formation I must search a solution what i don't have

When I try this will a proper B&W image, I only see B&W sliders - I can't select a colour. I have the same setting as you're displaying. Any ideas?

Didn’t know one could save and load selections… interesting…

Dear Sir, Could you explain to me how you set up the color tool list? Thank you in advance for the reply.

Do u still have the photo somewhere to maybe share it to follow step by step

Where did it go?I and many others were asking.