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    Hilltop reacted to v_kyr in Xmas Trees   
    Here are some last minute Affinity Designer Xmas trees for your Christmas card greetings!

    The AD files:
    xmas_trees.afdesign xmas_tree_a5.afdesign
     
    You will find a bunch of other Xmas related things under some of my other resources contributions, see therefor:
    Retrospective of resources contributions
    Have a nice time!
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    Hilltop reacted to walt.farrell in Showing hidden characters   
    That's a Publisher option, but not a Designer option.
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    Hilltop reacted to Mensch Mesch in Simple hatching styles | Einfach Schraffur Stile   
    With these simple hatching styles you can hatch your vector objects in Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo. Affinity Publisher Beta seems not working yet (previews looks strange on my machine).

     
    DOWNLOAD: https://mensch-mesch.com/download/affinity-designer-schraffuren-hatchings/
    With the red styles you can easily change the color of the hatching while using an adjusment layer recolor.
    Keep on drawin'
    Norbert
     
     
     
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    Hilltop reacted to smadell in Paint by Numbers   
    I am attaching an Affinity Photo macro that turns a photo into a “Paint by Numbers” image. The attached file is a macros category, and should be imported through the “hamburger” menu at the top right of the Library panel. The category can also be imported into the iPad version of Affinity Photo, although there is one important limitation (more on this later).
    When you use the macro, it creates a Group called “Paint by Numbers Effect.” All of the changes are inside of this group, so you can turn it on and off simply. Once you look inside the group, you will see multiple layers. From bottom to top, these are:
    1) Original Image - Merge Visible
    This is a “merge visible” version of your photo. It includes all of the editing you may have done up until that point.
    2) Posterization Adjustment
    This is a Posterize adjustment layer, and is meant to reduce the number of colors/tones used in the effect.
    3) Outlines
    This is a separate layer, created (in part) by using a Detect Edges filter. It provides outlines for the areas of color. This mimics the outlines that were present on the Paint by Numbers boards we used as kids.
    4) Normalize Colors
    This is a copy of the original Merge Visible image, and has its blend mode set to Color. This is used to reset the posterized colors to more natural ones.
    5) Adjust Brightness & Contrast
    This is a finishing adjustment, and can provide a better final effect.
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    Once you click the macro, you will be presented with a default version of the effect. A dialog box allows you to set a number of parameters. As you change each of these parameters, the Paint by Numbers effect is updated. You are asked:
    Posterize - How Many Colors?
    The default value is 4, but values between 3 and 6 generally give good results. If your image is a portrait, judging the final result by looking at what the different values do to the subject’s face is a good idea.
    Outlines - Adjust the Opacity
    The default is 50%. Adjust this upward to make the outlines more prominent; adjust it downward to make the outlines less obvious. Set to 0 to make them go away entirely.
    Finish - Adjust the Brightness
    Finish - Adjust the Contrast
    The default is 10% brightness, and 20% contrast. Adjust these up or down to give you final effect the desired finish.
    When you click Apply, the effect is finalized. Obviously, you can manually change any of the settings after the fact. However, you should know that while the number of posterization levels for the image is non-destructive, the originally chosen number is also used to create the outlines, and this is a destructive change. Although you can change the posterization level after the fact, it is not advisable to do this. The outlines might no longer line up with the individual areas of color.
    Also, for some reason, the iPad version of Affinity Photo handles the macro pretty well but will not allow you to change the number of posterization levels before finalizing the effect. It is baked in at 4 levels. You can change this after the fact, but (as above) the number of levels in your posterized image may not match your outlines very well.
    Here is the macro in action. The original image is top left; the parameters dialog is shown in its default state, and then changed during the course of the macro; the final effect is shown top right

    As always, I am one person with one computer and have not tested this in every possible scenario. Try it and, if you like it, keep it and enjoy it. This forum has provided me with so many good ideas and answers to questions; this macro is my attempt to “pay it forward.”
    [Note: Credit where credit is due. I am indebted to Dave Straker, whose recent YouTube video gave me some excellent ideas for this macro. Dave’s channel is called “InAffinity,” and is a steady source of helpful information. Thanks, Dave!]
     
    Paint by Numbers.afmacros
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    Hilltop got a reaction from dcarvalho84 in Hearts Brushes - Valentines Day   
    407 and counting...  These are very nice, thank you so much dcarvalho!
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    Hilltop reacted to dcarvalho84 in Hearts Brushes - Valentines Day   
    Just want to thank you all!
    I've just downloaded my own brushes because i've lost my file and i've noticed 406 downloads! That's pretty nice!
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    Hilltop reacted to dcarvalho84 in Hearts Brushes - Valentines Day   
    Hi.
    I've made some brushes for the upcoming Valentines day and i would like to share them with you all.
    Please feel free to use them as you like. Commercial use too.
    They have 5 Draw persona brushes (Designer only) and 4 (Pattern) Pixel Persona Brushes you can use in Photo too.
    This is the first time i'm sharing something so... Please let me know what do you think.
    Update 31/01/2018 - 3 New Pixel Persona Brushes added - Please re-download.
    Thank you all for your kind words!
     



    DC Valentines Brushes.zip
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    Hilltop reacted to Chaosdynamix in [MATERIAL DESIGN] Color palette   
    Material Design color palette
    Last update : September 7, 2019
    Version : 1.0.0
     
    About
    This afpalette file contain all the main colors and variants of the Material Design color palette extracted (manually) from the Material Design Color Tool Website.
     
    Getting started
    Open the swatches pannel (View > Studio > Swatches). Click Panel Preferences (top right of the swatches pannel window) and select a palette type from the Import Palette sub-menu. Locate the file Material_Design_Colors.afpalette and click Open. The newly imported palette will now be available to choose in the palette pop-up menu.
     
    Missing variants
    Some variants are missing :
    All colors 50 light variants are white (#FFFFFF). Red, Grey and blue grey 100 light variants are white (#FFFFFF). Grey 900 dark variant is black (#000000).  
    Text color swatches
    For texts on a light color background :
    Black - Disabled (#000000 38%) Black - Medium (#000000 60%) Black - High (#000000 87%) For texts on a dark color background :
    White - Disabled (#FFFFFF 38%) White - Medium (#FFFFFF 60%) White - High (#FFFFFF 87%)  
    Readability
    You can change the appearance of the swatches in the pannel for a better readability :
    Open the swatches pannel (View > Studio > Swatches). Click Panel Preferences  and select Show as list from the Appearance sub-menu. Click Panel Preferences  and select Alphabetical from the Sort sub-menu.  
    Sources
    Material Design Color Tool
    Material_Design_Colors.afpalette
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    Hilltop reacted to razorpig in Affinity Publisher - Document Flow   
    @Hilltop Thanks for the reply - I appreciate you taking the time.
    Why would anyone want this behaviour? It's called a 'first draft'  Unfortunately I'm not blessed with your ability to place everything perfectly and purposefully the first time.
    For the benefit of others who might be reading this thread, the solution in my case involved a combination of text wrap settings ( specifically Jump ) and pinning objects to their required position within the text. Pinning is explained here :
    https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/tutorials/publisher/desktop/video/337296999
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Dan C in OK, textframe in text?   
    Thanks for the acknowledgment but apologies are not necessary.
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    Hilltop reacted to Dan C in OK, textframe in text?   
    Thanks Hilltop - I hadn't considered that, my apologies!
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Dan C in OK, textframe in text?   
    But what happens to the added object when other text is added to the body? Doesn't the object then sit in the wrong place as this isn't linked to a particular position in the text?
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    Hilltop got a reaction from fde101 in Brush stroke recording   
    You can save a document's history by going to File/Save History With Document.
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    Hilltop reacted to Vofyn in Brush stroke recording   
    @Hilltop - didnt know that! Ill definitely check this! 
    Other than that it would be awesome to have this kind of recording built in.
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Vofyn in Brush stroke recording   
    You can save a document's history by going to File/Save History With Document.
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    Hilltop reacted to LyricsGirl in FREE STUFF~! Posted on Affinity Graphics   
    A heap of my stuff- Styles Images and more
     
    Fantastic FREE stuff from the site Hosts and other members!
     
    https://affinity.graphics/
     
     

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    Hilltop reacted to AlanPickup in Affinity text Styles in Free Resources   
    Hi
    First of all can I please say a big thank you to all those users who post resources freely, it is greatly appreciated, I have had some spectacular result with downloaded resources.
    I am just posting this as it is one of my frustrations and may be the same for others on the forum. I design a text layout that I am happy with but want to embellish the headline, I quite often load a style which the designer has saved using a particular font and point size that I may not have installed on my PC so Affinity substitutes a font and the point size is entirely different to the one in my design, I have to then go in and change it to my font and point size and see if it works for me, if not I can end up going through the same procedure numerous times.
    I do not know if there is an action to retain my font and point size, if so I am missing it. What I do when I have imported a set of styles is pick one of my favourite fonts and set it to a big size. If when I apply the style it changes them I create a rectangle with the shape tool and apply the style to that and then import it back into my styles from the rectangle using add style from selection, then delete the one linked to a font and size.. When I then apply if my font and point size remain unchanged.
    Sorry if you feel this is in the wrong category but is applies to resources.
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    Hilltop reacted to R C-R in Re-Order Categories in Brushes Panel   
    This is a feature I would really like to see added, but not as much as a way to export & import multiple selected categories in a single step. As it is now, for those of us that own all 3 apps, it is a real PITA to set up each of them so that they all have the same categories in the same order.
    Including StudioLink's personas in Affinity Publisher, that is 5 separate sets of brush categories -- 2 sets of vector brushes & 3 sets of pixel brushes, each of which could have different categories with a different number of brushes in each of their categories in different orders.
    What would be really great is a separate companion app that could manage all this in one place, with features like finding identical brushes regardless of category, bulk renaming of identical categories or brushes, syncing categories across all the apps, etc. Even just a way to create a list of brush names in a hierarchic layout would be a good start, sortable by app, vector or raster brush type, category, etc., & exportable as tab or comma separated text for importing into a spreadsheet app.
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    Hilltop reacted to walt.farrell in Text style fill rounded borders   
    Once you've converted the rounded rectangle to a text frame, you can still control the fill of the frame, using the Text Frame studio panel (assuming we're talking about Publisher).
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    Hilltop reacted to Floriance in Installed brushes not visible on Designer   
    Oh, yeah! Simple after all. Many thanks, there they are 
    Thanks for the extremely quick response, I appreciate!
     
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    Hilltop reacted to Simple logic designs in 15 FREE STYLES   
    No problem and thanks for the kind words , I've been so busy even now I am working on an artist album cover and launch party flyer then move to other projects , if I get the time I'll do more but back to work now and thanks again 
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    Hilltop got a reaction from Floriance in Installed brushes not visible on Designer   
    You probably imported raster brushes and they can be seen when you switch to the Pixel Persona in Designer.
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    Hilltop reacted to Simple logic designs in 15 FREE STYLES   
    Hi everyone these are some styles i created for use on individual letters , hope there good enough for everyone to find a use case for them. this is my first go at creating styles it is a 148.59MB DOWNLOAD.
     
     
     

    S.L_LETTER_STYLES.afstyles
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    Hilltop reacted to Dan C in Problem running Photo after re-install   
    Thanks, I forgot to include the link! 
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