Hautglanz entfernen in Affinity Photo 2

Unwanted shiny spots on the skin are a common problem. In this video we'll take a look at how to get rid of them. In this project we want to get rid of the shiny spots on the skin. We want the whole thing to look a bit powdered. The picture I'm going to show you is linked in the description. We start by looking into the layers. Our background image is selected. We press CTRL-J to make a copy of it. The top of the two layers should now be selected. We go to the adjustments and add HSL. Here in the HSL settings we can reduce the saturation completely, so pull it all the way to the left, to get a black and white image out of this picture. Then we select this top layer again and go down here to the live filter. In the live filters we select the high pass filter. This makes the picture look completely grey. We want to put the skin structure into a separate layer. That's what we're doing right now. We want to filter out the skin structure. By increasing the high pass filter from the radius a bit, we can set how strong the whole thing should be visible. If we go too high, the whole thing looks strange. If we go too low, not much of the structure is visible. That's why we're looking for a suitable value here. I would say around 7. That fits quite well here. The skin structure is quite visible here. And then we can close the whole thing again. We select the top layer again in the layers. This is where the adjustments and filters are located. The top layer is selected. We want it to affect the whole picture in a natural way. That's why we open the blend mode here and change the blend mode to interlock. We can find that a bit further down. By interlocking, we have a natural picture again. What happens now is that we have the skin structure in here. It looks like a retouch on the picture. You can see that when I fade it in and out. As I said, the skin structure is in here. Now we want to paint over the sound areas with skin tones. To do that, we select our background picture again. And then we add a new pixel layer to this symbol. This layer should be in the middle here. We want to make sure that the skin structure doesn't affect the whole picture, which makes everything a bit sharpened, but that it only affects the areas that we are going to paint with our brush. That means that in the layers we grab this top layer that contains the skin structure and put it in the newly created empty pixel layer. Just drag it in here. Now it's in here and doesn't affect the picture at all because there is nothing in this layer yet. But now we are going to paint over the sound areas and on these painted areas the skin structure is placed on top again, which creates a natural result. That means we select this empty layer. We select our paintbrush on the left. We can adjust the brush tool from the size so that we can paint over the forehead easily. Make it big enough. I would set the hardness relatively soft. You can see that here. And now we need the right color. We can set it in our color studio on the right by grabbing the pipette with the left mouse button. We always take one skin color from the area where we are painting right now. That means around the sound area we select a skin color. Let it go. Then we can select the color next to the pipette so that it is also selected. And now we can paint with it. Before that we want to reduce the opacity a bit. For this we can simply reduce the opacity for this entire layer to between 30 and 40 percent. I set it to 40 percent. And now we can simply paint over it. The opacity is limited and we can simply paint over this area on the forehead. So much for this upper area. Let's go down a bit. For the nose we need a smaller brush. We can reduce the brush width on the top left so that we can work more finely. Then we can use the pipette again to get a suitable skin tone. Because the skin looks a bit different everywhere we can always use a suitable color. I would recommend to select the color again at the corresponding area and then paint over the sound areas with this color. Then we have a slightly larger area under the eye on the left. I select the color again and paint over it. And so we do this for all sound areas in the face. You can also think about how detailed you want to go. How you want to adjust and change the color and how you want to match it to the corresponding area. As you can see, simply select the color again and paint over the sound areas. And so I do this everywhere. Here above the right eye we also have a small area where I will paint over it again. Once here. And then we also have a few areas on the mouth. Right here at the lips. I will also paint over it. Select the color of the lips and paint over the sound areas with this color. And so I do this quickly for the chin and above the mouth. I have now painted over all sound areas. If I fade out the layer and fade in again, you can already see the difference that the whole thing has brought. This is of course not the final result yet. We already have a small problem with what we have painted. The colors also affect areas that they should not affect at all. This means that not only the sound area was painted over, but that we worked relatively roughly and also got over the sound areas. We want to limit this to these brightness areas. To do this, we have selected the upper level. We can click on this little gear symbol to call up the mix options. Here in this right window we can take the point on the left for the dark areas and drag it down. This way we exclude the dark areas from this color adjustment. We can also drag this point a little to the right. You see what happens when we go all the way to the right. Then these sound areas get their sound back. The further we go to the left, the more brightness areas are painted over with our color. This way we can adjust the color over the brightness areas. We adjust it as far as it has to be so that the sound areas are well covered and the color does not go unnecessarily far over it. I think you understand what I mean. This also works. We can close this window again and continue to duplicate this level. The level is selected, we press CTRL-J and we get a duplicate of it. Then we take the bottom of these two levels, and we want to delete everything that is inside. We click on the inner layer on the paper basket symbol so that we only have the painted level. We can increase the opacity so that we can see it well. If you look at it, it looks weird on the picture. What we want to do is to use only the color of this level. We open the blend mode and change this level to the color mode. We find it at the bottom. Here we have the blend mode color. This ensures that the previously white sound areas get the color we used to paint over. This may not look optimal, but we want to adjust it to a value that leads to a good result. It depends on how intensive you want to do it. I set it to 50% so that you can see what difference it makes. If I delete the level, you can see that the color areas were much whiter. Now they get more natural skin tones. If we mark both levels and delete them you can see a big difference. You can still adjust the opacity of the levels and adjust the result to your liking. As long as it still looks natural. This should be added. Otherwise, this would be our finished result where the sound areas look natural. That would be one method. I hope it was clear. If you want to learn more about Affinity Photo, check out the video description. There you can find my full course. I hope to see you in one of my next videos.