chriscaldwell

Hello PaulEC, This is 100% what I was trying to do! It's just great and I can still use this in my project! Thank you very much indeed. Chris

Hi Dan, Thank you VERY much for this tutorial and explanation on creating the blinds. I just completed several versions, and my mother loved these final attached versions. One with Santa Claus and blinds, and the other a landscape without blinds. I've learned a whole new skillset that I can use for many other projects and now I don't feel so rusty anymore. I really appreciate your taking the time to do this. I appreciate everybody that helped me here as all suggestions were wonderful. Thank you Timbe_2-I.pdf Timbe_2-Santa_Brighter.pdf

Hi Thomaso, Good to see you. I'm alway grateful for your help. I'm very rusty at this, and under pressure to get this done asap. So, I'm assuming I trace around a window with pen tool, then click Selection then mask. Then I'm lost as to what to do next. I can't even seem to make a good selection to maintain the outline of the windows and don't have any time to practice. I was thinking either of the two images above with Santa and his sleigh or the holiday village image would work. Here's what my screen looks like. Thank you so much.

So, I'm still not understanding how to make this work so I can try some different scenes. I've put a selection around the window with a pen tool and tried to click delete, but it won't delete. How do I put the image in the window? Is there an easier way to make an accurate selection of the windows as a whole and then replace the scene rather than using the pen tool? I'm just not understanding why clicking delete doesn't make the scene go away so I can put in the new scenes. Sorry for the hassle. Thank you for walking me through this. Chris timbe.afphoto

Yes, Garry, thank you, you are correct in that I wanted some realism. The problem is that I am not sure how to keep the blinds in there? I'm still learning. My mom is anxious for me to get this finished for her so she can have Christmas cards printed. So I thought if I could maybe remove the blinds and keep the sills looking good, that might work, too.

Hi Carl, This is SO good. Exactly what I wanted to do. Thank you very much. LOL on the thought bubble version. It's my mom's dog and she dresses her up and makes a Christmas card each year. This is going to be a great card this year. Really appreciate your taking the time to demonstrate this! Chris

Hi Garry, I don't need to keep the blinds. I thought it might look cool, but I just wanted to put something in the window and not sure how to do that. I haven't decided on the exact image I want to put there yet, I was just using it as an example so I could learn the technique to put something there. Thank you so much for your reply! Chris

Hello, I'm trying to put a wintery scene, maybe something like snowflakes in the windows of the attached picture in hopes of turning the picture into a Christmas card. I also attached a sample image to put inside the window. While I know how to use the pen tool to trace a window and turn it into a selection, I'm not sure how to proceed beyond this and change the scene outside so that it looks somewhat realistic. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you, Chris xmas 2021.afphoto snow.afphoto

That's a great idea, Callum, that points me in the right direction! Thank you so much for the idea. I'm on it now!

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!