Fix colours with Affinity Photo

James Paterson corrects unsightly colour casts and shows you how to boost your photos with a range of Affinity Photo tools

Affinity Photo by Serif offers a wide array of colour correcting tools. We’re going look at some of the best options, from white balance adjustments to powerful selective colour tweaks. Along the way we’ll encounter many of the most useful colour tools and settings in Affinity Photo. Whether you have a photo with a colour cast, a portrait with unnatural skin tones, or a colour temperature mismatch, these techniques described are sure to help.

We’ll use Adjustment Layers to make a series of colour tweaks here. These allow us to make our changes on separate layers, so we can always go back and tweak things later if need be.

At first we’ll use the White Balance command. This lets us correct the yellow cast in our original photo by using a colour picker to source a neutral point in the image. But if things still don’t look right we can go on to tweak things manually. While doing so, it can be helpful to boost saturation to eye-pooping levels to get an exaggerated idea of the colour shifts in the image.