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Here is a macro for a more advanced cartoon effect:
 

21 macros for Affinity Photos to make your photo awesome :)
Made by me
 
Download: Egor_Komarov_color_grading.afmacros
 
Examples:


 

 

 

 

 

 





 
 
Download: Egor_Komarov_color_grading.afmacros
 

Assets from [Screech] inktober #09
Sharing a selection of vector assets
Asset List subCategory List
35 Feathers
8 Fill texture patterns
14 Texture Groups
19 Texture Overlays
11 Trees/partial
13 Leaves
11 shapes 
Asset Sample Sheets
PDF sample Sheet x2 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 7 subcategories
 
Samples as displayed (had to change colour of some assets in library as don't display well on grey backgrounds)
Also embedded repeating patterns (x2) had to be inserted to assets as group rather than embedded file (which is how I usually use them.)
 
Enjoy!
 
Hope you find them useful
 
 


Vector Assets 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets 01 02.pdf
vectorAssets-Screech.zip

Assets from [Juicy] inktober #23
Asset List subCategory List
17 Leaf shape
24 Branches
4 Branch Groups
5 Complete Branch
17 Texture Pattern Shapes
23 Colour Block shapes [ground pattern]
 
Asset Sample Sheets
PDF sample Sheet x2 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 6 subcategories


vectorAssets - Juicy.zip
Vector Assets 02 01.pdf
Vector Assets 02 02.pdf

Vector Assets from [Poison] Inktober#03
Asset List subCategory List
20 Mushroom Outlines
11 Overlay Textures
13 Texture Patterns
19 Plants
10 Cracks
13 Moss Patterns
10 Leaf Shapes
7 Vegetation Components
PDF sample Sheet x3 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 8 subcategories
Asset Sample Sheets



 
Vector Assets Poison 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets Poison 01 02.pdf
Vector Assets Poison 01 03.pdf
VectorAssets-Poison.zip

Vector Assets from [Shy] Inktober07
Asset List | subCategory List
10 Grass Single Grey
08 Grass Multiple Grey
30 Grass Single Colour
15 Grass Multiple Colour
05 Grass Small Cluster
08 Grass Large Cluster
PDF sample Sheet x2 (not all assets displayed)
Single asset file with 8 subcategories
Asset Sample Sheets


Vector Assets Shy 01 01.pdf
Vector Assets Shy 01 02.pdf
 
vectorAssets - Shy.zip

Pop and Sharpen with intelligent high pass filter
 
Here is a more intelligent way of sharpening with a high pass filter.  The high pass filter does not work well with very bright and very dark pixels. It introduces undesirable artifacts for those type of pixels.  The first thing this macro does is add a brightness/contrast layer and the contrast is reduced to make these very bright and dark pixels move toward middle gray.  I set the macro to reduce the opacity by 0% but you have the ability to change this to whatever value you want.  (You may wish not to apply any contrast reduction as the high pass filter will be applied to the midtones only.) This helps eliminate some of the intensity plateaus / white halos.  You may or may not need to add this reduction based on the contrast of your picture. I merge this layer down into the pixel layer.  The macro then applies the high pass filter.  The high pass filter generates a 50% gray level and then looks for high frequency components which are defined as rapid changes in brightness in adjacent pixels.  Hence it basically looks for edges. It then brightens those pixels adjacent to the edges above 50% gray and darkens those pixels on edges below 50% gray. You can adjust the radius which determines the pixel depth adjacent to the detected high frequency edge that are modified. Keep the radius about 10 or less pixels and adjust to make sure that artifacts such as halos do not appear. I find 10 pixels the absolute maximum upper limit but typically use 0.8- 1.2 pixel. This upper limit can be adjusted based on the picture and how much you decrease the contrast in the brightness/contrast layer defined above. Then the blend mode is set to linear light but any contrast specific blend mode such as overlay, soft light, hard light, and vivid light will also work.  Linear light has the biggest effect and soft light the least effect.  I typically do not use soft light for this. Linear light provides the most sharpening but you could see halos, then comes vivid light which may still create halos then hard light, overlay and soft light  I found that vivid light sometimes still shows some halos depending of course on the radius but they seem to disappear with the hard light blend mode. The blend modes above do not address 50% gray pixels which the high pass filter ignores. These are the only blend modes you should use for this macro. Pick which one works for you. To control this effect even more, blend ranges are set to apply the filter to the midtones only.  Then the Fill is set for the linear light blend mode in the high pass filter to 100%. You can adjust the Fill. The higher the Fill, the higher the amount of sharpening so here is an embedded soft way to decrease the sharpening without changing the high pass radius. Next a black mask is applied to the high pass filter.  
Advanced users never sharpen the entire picture but only selected areas to draw the viewer into the picture. When the macro has run, the user needs to select the black mask and paint with a white brush set to appropriate opacity, fill and hardness and paint over the areas that you want to sharpen in the picture.   If you do nothing, no sharpening takes place. You again can reduce the amount of sharpening here if you set the fill and opacity to less than 100%. 
The macro then pops the picture by applying curves in the LAB color space and offsetting Ao and Bo.  You can adjust Ao and Bo to taste within the curves adjustment. You can adjust the lightness also to taste. The macro then also creates a selective color adjustment and Levels adjustment that you can adjust to taste to further enhance the picture.  These adjustment layers are picture specific, so no adjustments are made to them.  It is up to you to go in and adjust them to taste.
intelligent high pass sharpen and pop.afmacro

Hi guys, I just made this brushes 2 days ago.
Here's the link if you want to download it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19yzrVPnG8VIdnJzcJsHqzf8Hi6ALiIww/view?usp=sharing
You can also check out the video below to see how I use these brushes. Hope you like it, thank you!
 

Hello my friends...! Here are a few more star brushes for you. They come in a subcategory called "Stars 2 by Volker Krenz" Have a lot of fun ... Stars 2 by Volker Krenz.afbrushes

Update.
In a recent post, @chaletart was attempting to change the DPI of his document to values greater than 400. I have updated my Change DPI macro library to include higher values.I now includes 600, 800, 1000, 2000 and 4000.
Change DPI 1.6.afmacros
Edit: Ihis now points to a macro library created entirely in Affinity Photo 1.6, but has been tested in 1.8.5.
 
John

I recently watched one of @dmstraker Dave Straker’s InAffinity tutorials about “Pastel Colour Grading…” and it gave me some ideas. So, thanks to you for the inspiration, Dave!
I’ve attached another macro for creating a specific Artistic Look – this one called a Pastel Watercolor Effect. The attached file is a macro category (even though it only contains a single macro); you can import it into the Library Panel in the Desktop version of Affinity Photo, and it is compatible with the iPad version as well. (In my own preliminary testing, the macro works fairly well on an iPad, although there are some issues with missing items in the dialog box that appears for setting parameters.)
When you click the macro, it creates a number of layers inside of a group. The group is called “Pastel Watercolor Effect” and it can be turned on and off by simply showing or hiding the entire group. When you invoke the macro, you will be presented with a number of options in a dialog:
1-6] Lighten Color - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Red, Green, Blue
All of these color ranges are initially set to a value of -200%. As you move each of the sliders to the right, that particular color range will be selectively lightened. If you set any of the sliders all the way to 100% then that color range will go to white.
7] Set Amount of Pastel Blurring
This slider defaults to a value of 25 px. Setting it higher or lower will adjust the amount of “smudging” that the pastel layer displays.
8] Set Intensity of Outlines
This slider defaults to a value of 0.7. You can set it to values between 0 and 2, with higher values giving you darker and more intense outlines. If you set the Intensity slider to 0, the black outlines will effectively disappear.
9] Adjust Brightness
Brightness defaults to a value of 20%. You might want to increase it if (i) you have increased the outline intensity significantly, or (ii) to compensate for changes (particularly decreases) you might make to the Contrast.
10] Adjust Contrast
Contrast defaults to 0%. Adjust this to taste.
I’ve attached 2 photos (below) to show Before and After versions using this effect. Included in the photos are the settings that were used (which are a bit different from the default values).

 

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As with all of the macros I have submitted, please note that I am only one person and have tested this on a limited number of images on a single computer. There is no way to have foreseen every possible scenario. I am hopeful (but obviously won’t guarantee) that you’ll like the results.
If you do like the macro, please keep it and enjoy it. This is “pay it forward software,” the happy result of an abundance of learning gleaned from the members of this forum who are so generous with their time and expertise!
Pastel Watercolor Effect.afmacros

New little set. Playing again.

Wood Styles.afstyles.zip

I was bored so I converted more of my old styles over to Affinity format. Hope you enjoy them!
Find this and more at https://dscape-llc.com/affinity
 
 
 
 

 

Well... (update...)
 

 
A set of 6 simple stupid tools to vent your obsessive-compulsive disorder  :lol:
These brushes offer a ramp shaped to jitter hues and luminosity of the colour you're painting with.
Download here
 
Happy mosaic!

Hi guys,
 
I decided to make my icon pack free. I am busy with my startup and don’t have time nor interest to improve this further. 
 
Hope it comes useful to you.
 
Thanks,
Vlad
 
Eclipse - Icon Pack.afdesign

Hi guys! I needed to create a custom design for a Brand manual and I was struggling with the fact that there's no layout grid option like sketch. So I decided to download the illustrator templates of the 960.gs grid system and adapt it to affinity designer using the constraints (so no matter how wide your artboard is, the grid will always strech porportionally). Hope you find this as useful as me.
 
You've got three files:
12 column layout 16 column layout 24 column layout Happy designing!
960_grid_12_col.afdesign
960_grid_16_col.afdesign
960_grid_24_col.afdesign

Some Background styles that I created from a seamless image collection I had.
 

 
 
 
Backgrounds.afstyles.zip

So, I fell in love with Affinity after about an hour of playing with it. I bought it and started bringing my favorite assets over from Photoshop and Illustrator, including some styles I have been using for years on my web projects. I thought perhaps others could use them too, so here they are with a bonus set of sticker styles.
 
Enjoy if they're of interest to you. 
 
UPDATE: New version 2.0! This time the gradients and strokes are tool editable. No more trips to the Effects Panel. This gives better and easier control of the styles.
 
BONUS: By request, 4 atmosphere styles. Included is the AD file with all styles applied for you to play with. Will likely only open in the latest beta. Sorry.
 
BONUS: Dream Metals styles! Aluminum, Gold, and Copper.


 
Find these and more at https://dscape-llc.com/affinity