Black and white portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss

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Black and white portraiture in Affinity Photo with Ivan Weiss

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Күн бұрын

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@edwardalexander9486 2 жыл бұрын

"Back it off a lot" - good advice! Bit of a David Bailey theme, you've pulled it off.

@IvanWeiss-london 2 жыл бұрын

I'll happily take that comparison :)

@paulreid7761 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. Brilliant tutorial on face work.

@jed1947 3 жыл бұрын

You have a great eye for light! The use of inverted curve adjustments screen and multiply blended for non-destructive dodging and burning is brilliant! I am going to copy your workflow of exaggerating adjustments to see the effect location more clearly, then reducing the opacity to the desired effect level. Oh, and tone mapping then changing the blend range to enhance the shadow detail is really effective! I really learned a lot watching you work! Thank you!

@Bug66 3 жыл бұрын

absolute top class teaching, thank you Ivan :)

@nickicameron5430 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ivan. That was so interesting and informative. I love your delivery - it's so clear and understandable which makes me think I can do this! I've learnt so much.

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

You absolutely can do this, Nicki!

@cliffdickinson7091 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, a masterful splendid effort. Well done; the portrait brings out the essence of her beauty and grace.

@Pin0 3 жыл бұрын

An intensive method for the b&w conversion. Show up the power of this software. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Italy

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Grazie, Pino!

@JoeHoddinott 3 жыл бұрын

Splendid work, Ivan. Your tutorials are always a treat. Very classy portrait as well.

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers!

@Pizzi236 3 жыл бұрын

Another great tutorial from Ivan Weiss. We need more!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Koldo! I'd love to make some more videos with Affinity.

@PeteCocoPhoto Жыл бұрын

This is wonderful. Thanks Ivan!

@oliverpinelli6868 19 күн бұрын

Thank you very much. I learned a lot.

@kuenstler52 3 жыл бұрын

thanks a lot!! one of the best tutorials I have seen for AF!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Armin!

@tomchambers8686 3 жыл бұрын

Great lesson and some very interesting techniques I might have a play with. Great stuff Ivan.

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Give it a go and see!

@klodeclaude2708 9 ай бұрын

merci pour la video , tres jolie rendu , je vais m en inspirer pour mes prochains portraits merci patron ;-)

@steveforbes6900 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, I particularly like the Tone Mapping step and blending .. neat trick

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, one of those things I stumbled across by accident. It just adds a bit of grit to the shadows that I particularly like in b/w.

@Goldmangun 3 жыл бұрын

Another excellent addition to the series, thank you!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

There's more to come. Stay tuned!

@mrMinstrel 3 жыл бұрын

@@IvanWeiss-london Always a treat to know more is on the way....thanks for your teachings!

@louisevincent997 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome and inspiring, thank you

@wojtekluczynski7467 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Verry inspiring tutorial. :)

@nelsonsoares2281 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible class I learned a lot.

@tomaswilde5481 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for teaching and sharing. I have learned a lot. It has been so interesting and useful !!

@mqms71 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ivan and Affinity for this informative video👍🏻

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Marc.

@stevehallam0850 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent walk through, thanks!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it, Steve.

@RonK Жыл бұрын

awesome, thank you!

@dougson56 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ivan very informative and thought provoking, I have a couple of portraits that just didn’t seem to cut the mustard but I’ve just found another way to skin a cat ! Can we have more please, your method is easy to follow . 😃

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure there will be more in future. Stay tuned!

@fab5450 3 жыл бұрын

great, very appreciated!!

@louismolino8674 3 жыл бұрын

Great session. Thanks.

@jakubstrumillo 2 жыл бұрын

Watching year later - still usefull! Well cooked Ivan.

@stevenelson43 3 жыл бұрын

That was wonderful! Doing the skin retouch on layers *under* the high frequency layer finally made perfect sense to me. Don’t know why it took so long for that to click in my head. Can I ask what raw processor you use to get the low contrast “technicolor“ rendering?

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it, Steve. I do my raw conversion in Canon DPP, which allows me to use the Picture Styles (profiles) that I use in camera. The Technicolor profile is available online from various colour grading websites/forums.

@stevenelson43 3 жыл бұрын

@@IvanWeiss-london Thank you for taking the time to clarify. I live in a Nikon/CaptureOne workflow, but I'll investigate to see what similar profiles exist for my tool set. Your final version of the portrait was very powerful but I honestly loved the look of the image at the starting point, too!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenelson43 I'm certain there is a way to do something similar in C1.

@stevenelson43 3 жыл бұрын

@@IvanWeiss-london No doubt. C1 profiles and styles abound. The profile you install in your Canon camera itself, though… I've never entered those waters, so it's unknown territory for me.

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenelson43 It's the same thing - a profile that converts the raw data into a readable image format (jpeg or tiff).

@MarlonFrancisS 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@MikeAffinityTuts 3 жыл бұрын

Wow learnt so much thank you

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it useful, Michael.

@Sevrmark 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Learned stuff!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

That makes me happy :)

@kchonie2500 3 жыл бұрын

I cringed while watching this AMAZING tutorial, I have been doing this for quite a number of years and it just drove home the point of how little I actually know... Dunning Kruger is alive and well. Please keep these amazing tutorials coming... Ps. Is there any chance of getting the original raw image so we can apply your techniques to a known result?

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

We are all always learning!

@lazvaldes2857 3 жыл бұрын

love your approach and am incorporating some of those tricks (exaggerated BW for blemish removal). Would love for you to post some sections of the final image magnified (I am trying to find a balance between blemish removal and retention as this is what establishes the balance making image look real)

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

That's always a tricky one. Ultimately it comes down to a balance between your personal taste and how/where the image is going to be used. A good rule of thumb is to get to a point where you think it is finished, reduce the opacity of your skin retouching layers by 50% and then take a break. When you come back to it, ask yourself immediately if it feels overdone.

@Daniel_Ilyich 2 жыл бұрын

Ivan, this is a really great masterclass. With the first portrait, would it be possible to achieve a similar effect with the beauty dish as a main light and a reflector? I'm a hobbyist, but I'd like to get more serious about shaping the lighting, caveat being a limited budget. Also, as a side note, do you ever work with constant artificial lighting sources? I have this thought that flash photography causes the subject to tense up (I could be wrong, since many photographers such as yourself achieve phenomenal results).

@lazvaldes2857 3 жыл бұрын

Are the luminosity adjustements on the HSL layer based on anything other than personal preference? I know there are luminosity values for RGB and CYM when converting to BW from Color based on Television standards when using a BW adjustement layer.

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

It's just my personal preference based on trial and error. I'm not necessarily trying to create an accurate b/w representation, it's more about creating the mood/feeling that I want.

@shinkisoushi 3 жыл бұрын

Any chance you guys will do one of these for darker skin tones? This technique seems best for lighter skin tones. That would help me out a lot. Thanks for this regardless!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

I use the same techniques regardless of the skin tone of the subject. Techniques are just tools, you have to use your eye to judge.

@shinkisoushi 3 жыл бұрын

@@IvanWeiss-london I learned that cameras are default calibrated for white skin tones and that editing in post is the best way to get around this, save for making cameras that can adjust for dark skin tones. If you'd like I can link some videos explaining this awful habit that continues. Having said that, I also learned that using the same techniques for editing dark skin tones as light skin tones is no good (and may be considered racist, actually). There are many photographers with many videos talking about this.... For Photoshop and Lightroom. I can't find one that talks about this using Affinity. Thanks anyway!

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

@@shinkisoushi You can see plenty of examples of different skin tones in my work on my website and Instagram. The point is that we as artists have to make the decisions about how we apply the techniques to get the results that we want.

@shinkisoushi 3 жыл бұрын

@@IvanWeiss-london Thank you for taking the time!

@NSGOutdoors 3 жыл бұрын

i need help creating my own camo prints that can be repeated. i can only find help on photoshop on this topic

@IvanWeiss-london 3 жыл бұрын

Try asking in the Affinity forum.

@Affinitybyserif 3 жыл бұрын

Check out this article on Affinity Spotlight, there's an accompanying video too:affinityspotlight.com/article/create-repeat-patterns-with-a-live-pattern-preview-in-affinity-designer-for-ipad/