Hi Robin. This is the first time I've watch your video tutorials on Afffinity Photo. The way you explain is really simple and clear. Thanks for your free tutorials. keep up the good work. Justin

Hi Robin What a really great way to create luminosity masks. Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to share this with the Affinity community. Best wishes. Paul

Dear Robin, thank you for your explanation, this was very helpful! All the best

Great method to create luminosity masks. Will definitely give this a go.

Robin, this is brilliant. I was considering buying Luminar, but I swear I want to make things less complicated. For much of what I do this seems like it will work great, without exporting the file to a third party app, or spending more for another program. Thanks again for your insights and videos, man!

Sir, you are a genius!!! Thank you...

Brilliant, thank you! 🙏

Thanks Robin. I'll try this. Keep up the good work. 👍

Very good method and very useful! Thx!

Great technique there robin. Thanks 👍👍😁

Thanks Robin This is a much easier way to create Luminosity masks in Affinity and probably easier to create a macro which I shall try. BTW interested to see what you think of NIK 5

Really cool method. What do you think of the red overlay/blend ranges method?.... Duplicate background layer > draw a red rectangle over it > group those two layers > with the group selected use underlying composition ranges (within blend ranges) to manipulate what tones you'd like to mask - the portion of the red overlay that remain is what you have masked. Whatever adjustment or live filter you put within the group will be masked to those tones. This method was conceived by Olivio Sarikas, and I made a variation of it to enable selections of the masked tones, which I have put in a blog on my website

Thank you Robin for all your wonderful tutorials. As a beginner though, I did struggle to follow this one. Are there prerequisite intro tutorials or concepts I can learn to help follow this one? This helps with the how but I struggle with the why and when to use each tool (luminosity mask, levels, color channel, etc.)

Thanks Robin - that's a great way to create luminosity masks. However, I still find it a bit convoluted when compared with Blend Ranges which are a really powerful alternative and so much easier and quicker to use. I used to be really envious of Adobe users and their access to Luminosity plug-ins but to be honest I probably wouldn't use them even if they were available in Affinity now.

Thank you for this excellent tutorial, simplifying what can be a challenging and complex task! I like having the luminosity masks on separate layers to easily view what is being altered, which the Blend Options dialog box isn't capable of.

Simply Wonderful

Excellent, thanks

Thx for sharing very interesting. Tve part on loading to selection from light, mid or dark layerin the group is abit difficult to follow, i would appreciate if you do one tut more explaining specifically this technique. Thank you

Robin thanks for posting this video, it has really upped my game with editing. Quick question if I may, when you select a color channel I noticed red was always selected, would there be a time to select Green or Blue? I am heading back into one of "practice" images to see. Thanks Kevin

Command control click is the only way I can access channel submenus. Any idea why? Good tutorial

Hi Robin, I followed along with your video but was having some trouble getting it to work on my end. I got the 4 layers grouped and the pixel layer added. but this is where I got lost on what I should be doing. im not sure if you are selecting a specific colour channel.

Wow, my head is swimming. That's a lot of information for a neophyte.

Thank you so much for this video . I have watched it so many times to try and make luminosity masks work for me . I think I nearly have it . Can I ask you a question please ? When I have loaded my selected mask ,ie say darks , to pixel selection ... when I paint on the layer with white I seem to still be able to lighten all parts of the image, not just the darks . Is this right or am i still missing a step ? Thanks again for your instruction

If you were to buy knowing what you know now, which would you choose. DXO etc?

I've watched the video several times and followed step by step. But when I turn off the group, the photo stays B&W. If I save, close, and re-open, the photo is in color. And I'm unable to paint, (yes, brush is selected). Is there an option that I'm missing?

I wish they, "Affinity" or someone would just make or allow panels to work in the program like Photoshop. I would then kick Adobe to the curb.

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No paint is coming out of my brush. This happens all the time for no reason. The eraser tool is also not working. This also happens all the time. Nothing will paint on the pixel layer. When I turn them all off the paintbrush works fine. Your exercise is not working even slightly for me. I can paint on the layer directly not the added pixel layer. Nothing happens when I paint on the added layer. I have deleted the layer and added a new one and the same thing keeps happening. If I copy the layer then I can paint on the copy. It will not paint on a new layer that is not a copy of the photo!!! As soon as I create a selection from a channel I lose the ability to paint on the added layer. I have tried this on many pictures and the same thing keeps happening. I figured it out. I didn't reset the channels after making the selection. When I did, it worked as it should.