chriscaldwell

Hello, I am having a bit of a creative block and was hoping someone might be able to help me with an image. The idea is that the attached image will be used both as a thumbnail image for a Youtube video, and as a larger image on a website that someone should click on to view the video. If you are already on Youtube, you'd obviously know this was a video. But when you are just looking at a website, you might not realize you are supposed to click to view the video, because it may appear to be a static image when viewed as a larger image. ( I just asked someone if they saw the video on my site, and they totally missed it.) So I want to convey that the visitor should click and watch the video. To me, just having the word "Watch" seems boring. Is there a way to create something, maybe a beam of light, etc that would convey this is a video and they should click the play arrow? Hope that makes sense! Thank you so much for any help. Here's a link to my website page where this image is used: https://chriscaldwell.com/about.html Chris youtube-tmb-master.afphoto Screen Shot 2021-09-05 at 10.31.41 am.pdf

The Fish is great! I was going to ask next how to put some text in there or something that would appear to be "coming through" the ether!

This is extremely helpful and I thank you very much! What I was hoping to do was to maintain the black background of the man with crystal ball throughout and have the audience in the background sort of barely visible in the back and then have them blurred. It's hard to explain. I like the crowd to be sort of silhouetted in the black background of the crystal ball pic. Almost like the attached examples. Again, my sincere gratitude for you taking the time to help me.

Hello! I'm trying to combine the two attached photos in such a way that it appears there is an audience in the background of the photo of the man with crystal ball. Would love to learn how to do this so I can apply it to other photos as well. Thank you for any help or suggestions. Chris

This is a great technique as well. Thank you very much for this help!

Wow. I would not have thought of that, thomaso! What a great idea, also. Worked great. Thanks so much. Chris

That's a great suggestion! I'm putting it in my notes right now! Thank you.

Thank you so much smadell! I really appreciate the help.

Hello! I am experimenting with some texture overlays for large images on a website. One of the patterns that I saw being used on a website was diagonal pixels and perhaps a color overlay. I have attached a sample of the image. Can someone explain to me how to create this type of effect in Affinity Photo? Perhaps the color overlay is done with CSS, but it's the diagonal line effect that interests me. Thank you so much for any help. Chris

Bingo! Everything works now. Convert to Curves now visible and was able to create the exact shape I needed. Thank you so much everybody for the quick help.

Thank you, Walt. Unfortunately, convert to curves is not available (screenshot attached).

Thank you so much for the quick reply, Bruce. I was indeed able to use the pen tool, but thought there was a way to also free-transform the shape or something similar, too, no?

Hello! I'm not sure how to manipulate the shearing tool to match the shape underneath the attached pic. I cannot manipulate the bottom right corner of my rectangle independently of the other edges of the rectangle. Hope that makes sense. Thank you for any help! Chris

Thank you so much for the help information, Pšenda.

jaedee! That is EXACTLY what I needed! God bless you for helping me so quickly. I really appreciate it. This is just great. Chris

Hello there! I'm a bit out of practice after an illness and returning to Affinity Projects. So glad to be here. Anyway, I can't remember how to make a gradient work. I have a photo (attached). I'm trying to darken the photo from around the tie area to the left of the photo. So basically fading half the body into black in a graceful way. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Okay, I'll try your suggestion! Thank you

Hello, I have this picture of our beloved dog who recently passed and wanted to have a pic framed for my mom. Was thinking a 5 x7 frame would be good. How do I make sure the photo prints exactly 5 inch x 7 inch? I've tried but it's always off a bit. Thank you, Chris

It was set up as in the file I attached. For some reason, when I clicked on Bullet 1 text style, it was making the font size much bigger. Thank you, Chris

Thank you both so much for this help! I really appreciate it. Chris

Hello there! I'm working on a resume project and am having a hard time understanding how to keep text aligned when it goes to a second line when using a bullet. I've attached a screenshot and the publisher file. Can't seem to figure out how to make it so the second line doesn't align with the bullet, but aligns with the text on the first line. Thank you so much for any help. Still learning Bublisher, so please keep it simple for me. Thank you. Chris carol-resume-22821-A.afpub

lol. all right now class, let's get back to work.

Funny, I went shopping for camouflage shorts today but couldn't "find" any.

I've finally convinced the client to use a different variant for his site. Thank you, thomaso.

The ironic thing about that Lagarto, is that in the original post regarding this project, there IS a misspelling in the logo and I didn't catch it until now.