From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
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Removing the black from a firework - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Affinity Photo for Desktop
Removing the black from a firework
- [Lecturer] Here's a scene with some trees and a building and I want to put a firework on top of this. The question is, how can we get all the black out of this firework? Well the obvious way is to change the Layer mode from Normal to Screen, that does certainly get rid of all the black, but is also makes the firework very washed out. We need to find a better approach. Leave the setting at Normal, and click the little gear icon at the top of the Layers panel. And this opens the Blend Options dialog. We can set the visibility of the pixels in this layer depending on their brightness. If we grab the top left handle in the Source layer ranges and drag it down to the bottom, that makes all the black in the firework invisible, but is also makes the whole thing rather washed out. If we click anywhere else along this line and drag up, then we restore the visibility. And we can drag the top and the bottom together until we get the perfect cutoff. But when we zoom in we can see it's a hard…
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