Excellent set of expositions. So many of us who use B&W sparingly will really appreciate the depth of your tutorial, especially the portraits. So Thank you so much.

Very good tutorial! Well done, John! Thank you and keep up the good work!

Thanks for your full and comprehensive explanation on the tools to use!!!!

Nice and easy, thank you John

I started to do B&W photos and it's the first time I see a video to realized them so easy. Thank you John!

Very nice video. One thing that could be added is that 32bit precision is also available in the photo Persona. Before loading your raw file, go to the Assistant>Develop Assistant and in drop box that says raw output format select 32bit HDR. When you go from Develop into Photo you will still be working in 32bit, and because it's unbounded nothing is clipped when moving between personas

Even though it's a B&W tutorial, I appreciate how you managed to drop general Affinity Photo workflow tips as well. Great tutorial

Great tutorial John, thanks for doing it. New to both black and white edits and Affinity Photo - followed the steps and learned a lot.

Thank you for making this video, I found it very helpful. I like your calm, clear way of explaining things. The audio quality was excellent, as was the graphic and lighting values. I'm looking forward to seeing some of your other work. Best wishes!

This video was clearly explained and by someone skilled. Thank you and God bless.

very helpful, thank you!!

Thank you this is really helpful.

This is a terrific tutorial! I use affinity on an ipad and look forward to learning how to do this in that format.

Thanks, great tutorial - new sub.

Great help thank you!!

Very good especially the stone arch bridge pic in the background of that jpg

Thank you very much for explaining so well and so clearly. I use to speak french and many tutorials comes from UK, I have to be concentrated to learn all the tips, but you explained so well, :)

Thank you ; this has been very helpful! New subbie.

Nicely done. Well presented. Thumbs up from me.

Hi John, I've just purchased this software and your video was very helpful. I'm looking forward to finding out more that I can do with it. Thanks again.

Superb. Thanks.

Great video!!! I love bnw too!!! New subscriber!!!

Thank you this is very helpful. Though my eyes fail to discern the subtle workings of split toning on the mountain image, I can make it work with others.

Great tutorial 👍👍

Hi John thanks for this video been all over youtube trying to grasp this topic till I thought my head was going to explode lol.... came across your video just the job

enjoyed this tutorial. Not sure about the landscape as at least on my monitor, the sky looked pure black other than the clouds and not what I would expect for a sky even in B/W. I was really interested in how you did the darkening of the chair and the subject's R thigh. Have not seen that done before. I was sitting and watching and thinking "I wonder what he will do with the thigh area of which the exposure there was equal to the mask of the face". Good method for sure. Because I did not know it, I likely would have tried a "burn" or masking in an increase in exposure but you did it quite simply. TY For the last one of your friend, I found the bright sky to be distracting and with the full face facial view, there was a bit of ear on the R side of his face that could have been cloned out. Also a bit too little space, well really no space at the top of the subjects head. The last couple comments are the types of things we so often see with folk's images or those "borrowed" from the internet when doing image editing tutorials and some like bad facial views, shooting up into nostrils, amputated hands and feet as well as limbs are things that no matter what is done with any program the basic issue will remain although sometimes things can be salvaged with cropping and changing the angle of the subject on the canvas. I will keep an eye for more of you videos as I have a huge collection of videos from every creator for AP and other programs and yours has been added under B/W and Portrait. Oh, just thought about one more thing. Via preferences one can make shortcut adjustments and one I have done for doing an export is to use Shift + A which is easy to do with the L ring finger and L middle finger as one press.

Wow, i think Affinity Photo is cool tool

Hi John from South Africa. New to Affinity, a very informative video looking forward to more

Nice tutorial dude.

Thanks for sharing this great tutorial John. Dig it.

Good

Haven’t heard the term “4 corner burn” in about 25 years… when I was in high school. Lol

Very nice, very interesting and useful. I learned a lot . It would be interesting that you highlight your mouse pointer; that will help following you. Thank you very much, from Bogota, Colombia.

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Thanks John When you decide to make tutorial for Affinity Photo Udemy or other place let me know , I love B&W, and the way you conduct your videos. Humberto Sunny Puerto Rico

Hi John, I'm Brazilian and I'm watching your video on black and white photos, I loved this edition, but I have a doubt; here in Brazil we use Adobe's Lightroom and Photoshop a lot to edit photos. Is there a lot of difference between these two for Affinity Photo and Capture One? Thank you!!

I find the soft light blending mode to be an awesome way for boosting contrast (used carefully) by setting duplicate layer of the photo and playing around with opacity and tonal range of the blended layer ;) I have a question regarding exporting to jpg (or whatever else) of images that have heavy gradients - how do you save/export such images to prevent banding (loosing quality)? I love adding vignette, as it draws more attention to certain areas of an image, but the wider spread of tones, the more crap it looks after saving to jpg :( Any suggestions from your side on that issue?

Nice tutorial... One question, why do you do the bw-adjustments in the Develop Persona, and not in the editing mode? Because in this way, once it is developed BW cannot be adjusted anymore resp. brought back to colour if necessary

Hi John, I just found you on Instagram. I'm really glad you use Affinity Photo because that is all I have. I've been using it about three or four years. I've never had any formal training unless you call watching KZfaq videos formal. I enjoyed the video. I learned several things I didn't know. I noticed when you had an adjustment panel open and you made an adjustment, when you were finished, you clicked the red circle in the upper left of the box. I have always clicked merge. Is there a difference and should I be using the red circle instead?

Back in the darkroom days, did you ever work with Agfa's Portriga-Rapid paper? That was an unusual paper. Toned in selenium toner, it took on an even more interesting look. If that rings a bell at all - how might someone do the split-toning to produce that kind of effect in Affinity Photo? It would be strong in the dark quarter tones and shadows, less intense in the midtones, and hardly noticeable in the highlights (which had a cream color to them - but not distinctly yellowish). The overall effect was very rich.

Hey! C1 is dealing with RAWs and the library/file management, right? But all you've done in Affinity could have been done in C1 either, no? What's you thoughts on DXO's Photolab or the Nik Collection? Thanks.

I haven't seen anybody make the B&W adjustments in the Develop Persona before (RAW files). Apparently you must feel there are advantages with your method compared to converting it to B&W in the Photo Persona. Could you please comment on this?

I'm a painter/artist. I own Affinity Photo but I'm unable to find out how to create a 4 or 5 value black and white photo from my original color image. That feature was in Adobe PhotoShop when I owned a copy. I hope.you can help me. Thanks so much.

Is your monitor calibrated for print

Thankfully you showed us how to change the colour profile at the start but sadly you didn’t show us what steps we need to take with the colour profiles before we print it out at home. Can you please explain. Thanks

Do you prefer converting an image to B&W than in Affinity Photo? What's your usual B&W C1 + Affinity editing workflow?

What edition is your software?

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This is pretty pathetic.