In this article, I am going to show you how I use the masks and the Haze Tool in Affinity Photo to apply it selectively. The above panorama consists of six photographs shot with my DJI Inspire 2 drone using the X5S camera and an Olympus 12mm f/2 lens. I corrected each photograph in Capture One Pro using the Lutify LM-RAW-CL-Chiara-25 LUT and then made further adjustments.
I then exported the six photographs as 16-bit TIFF files to AutoPano Pro, stitched them together and exported the final result as a 16-bit TIFF. The next step is to take it into Affinity Photo and apply the Haze Filter using a mask so I can apply it selectively rather than to the entire image. I want to thank toltec on the Affinity Forum for their help in my understanding of this process in Affinity Photo. See the video below for how to do this.
You’ll find a trial version for Affinity Photo here.
You’ll find the Capture One Page for Lutify LUTs here.
You’ll find a trial version of Capture One Pro 11 here.
Watch the video
Conclusion
Now that you know how to do this with the Haze Removal tool, try it with other tools as well.
Fly safe and have fun!
Great video of how to apply the haze tool in Affinity Photo. And a nice drone image by the way.
I have created an article for working with masks for beginners in Affinity Photo. It might be helpful for some with a visual presentation on how to work with masks in Affinity Photo:
https://www.dam-photo.com/affinity-photo-working-with-masks/
Peter, Thanks for the kind words. And nice job on your masking article in Affinity Photo!
I switched over to Affinity for all my post needs a few years ago.(I am very happy with the program) This was a good refresher for sure on haze removal. I been editing my DSLR and drone photos with affinity. Recently I purchased AirMagic for batch procession of my drone photos. It seems to do a very good job. I was sort of getting tired of processing singles from the drone. Will see how it goes this summer, heck I might even give Luminar a try.