[Can this hair be "fixed" or better looking in AP?]

I am still not seeing the paintbrush paint anything smadell.  I have the mask by itself under the group and it is not applied to the other layers in the group.  When I go to paint the hair with the brush I see it on the mask icon in the layers panel but do not notice anything in the image.  I did not apply a black and white layer like you did in the video.

-paulw

[Can this hair be "fixed" or better looking in AP?]

Am I supposed to see the white brush when painting over something?

-paul

[Can this hair be "fixed" or better looking in AP?]

Thanks!  I am going to try it in a few minutes but I think I am going to get interrupted for the rest of the day.  So you may see a reply from me in the morning 🙂

I also just found this YouTube video from Affinity Revolution where she totally changes the gals hair color.  Very interesting.  Lots of techniques new to me!

"How to Change Hair Color in Affinity Photo"

-paulw

[Can this hair be "fixed" or better looking in AP?]

Hi!

How did you mask the entire group black? And then "I painted the hair only with white, bringing those adjustments onto the hair (but not onto other areas"?

-paulw

[Can this hair be "fixed" or better looking in AP?]

That looks better!  I am reading up on how to do that right now.

I can also try and figure out Peter Dam (Photography-RAW) stuff too.  I thought maybe I could draw some hair somehow but the gals do not want any fake PhotoShop look to the image.

Thank you,

-paulw

[Can this hair be "fixed" or better looking in AP?]

Hi,

Their hair looks matted down and blurry.  Is there something I can do to enhance it?  It also looks "fake" and washed out.  I didn't take the picture but not that it would have made a difference 🙂  Probably a cell phone picture.

Thanks

Paul Williamson

[How to make a women's photo less "busty" in Affinity Photo?]

Wow!  I am so impressed with AD!

I have more of a side/side-front view but I will give those tools a try!  One gal is standing next to another in a white shirt.  The other one has a colored one so I think I can use the freeze tool.

Thank you so much!

-paul

[How to make a women's photo less "busty" in Affinity Photo?]

I've never liquefied anything in AP before.  I can't figure out how to use the Punch or Pinch tool. I do not see any difference.

-paulw

[How to make a women's photo less "busty" in Affinity Photo?]

So if you happen to have a picture of Dolly Parton wearing a white crew neck t-shirt hanging around, how would you give her a "breast reduction".  Well sorry.  I could not think of a better way to describe what someone asked me to do (a relative so I don't want to post a picture). 🙂

-paulw

 

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

10 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

I have no use for it - you might get the idea:

 

2Churches.afdesign 952.92 kB · 0 downloads

Thanks!  Very, very helpful!  Honestly, I was going to get around to redrawing it!  Really!  So what you did is great!

The darn pen tool.  I really need to take that AD pen course that I bought on Udemy a long time ago!

-paulw

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

4 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Hit "P" for Pen Tool and draw lines. Hit esc to end one and start a new. etc.

 

okay!  I will give it a go!  Thanks

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

7 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

I´d use vector:

 

That is what I want to do!  How do I do that?  I was in Designer, not Pixel Persona.

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

14 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

The church image needs either a color fill inside or (more flexible) a color filled drawn shape behind (grouped for easier movement). Makes sense?

Or in a destructive way go in Pixel Persona and erase the overlapping part from the underlying image. There are more possibilities like masking eg.

Or draw a few vector lines for scalability.

Got it!  That explains why I could do what I want with the default circles filled in!

Thanks!

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

37 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

Mmmh - I don´t get the picture honestly. Do you know how to draw circles? and how to move objects? Layer Arrange can be used to change z-order.

I duplicated the first church and moved it next to the first one, overlapping it.  I moved the second one back one.

I still see part of the 2nd one behind or overlapping the first one.

-paulw

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

Hi,

I don't know anything about power duplicating.

I would like to hide part of the 2nd image that is behind the larger one and then so on.  Like stacking or z-order I suppose.  The second image would just "peek" out from behind the first one,...

Thanks,

-paulw

[How would I put one object behind another then another behind that one and so forth in Affinity Designer?]

Hi,

I tried changing the orders of the layers but that didn't do it.

Say I had four circles, one large one and three smaller ones.  How would I put one smaller circle behind the larger one, then the next small circle behind the smaller one and then do the same to the other one?

So they would overlap each other.

-paulw

[How do I make this image transparent?]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Did you set the document to have a Transparent Background in Document Setup, Color tab?

Totally forgot Walt!  Now it's transparent!  Thanks.

[How do I make this image transparent?]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

An EPS file is a vector file, and depending on how it is structured it might already have either a transparent background, or a separate white background layer that you can simply hide. However, many EPS files on the web were produced using Adobe Illustrator (AI), and those files often have some proprietary AI data embedded in them that the Affinity applications cannot read. So you don't really know what an EPS file will give you until you try to use it.

But if they provide an EPS version, it might work for you without you needing to work to remove the background from a raster-based image. it's worth downloading that version (if you've already paid for it) and trying.

Thanks again Walt.  AD did open the EPS but it has a white background.  No layer for the background, just for the branches and leaves.  So I guess I will have to use it for a white document or web page but maybe the background may show up a little any way.

[How do I make this image transparent?]

No Patrick.  I did not think of that.  I purchased some similar seasonal trees that came with transparent png files so I am all set.  But they are not as "cute" as these.

Thanks,

 

>>Have you contacted them and asked if they can make you a transparent PNG version?

[How do I make this image transparent?]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

There are several sets of terms that apply to different uses. Where did you find that set?

I purchased it at creative market.  From now on I will make sure anything has the versions I want or I will not buy them or alter them.

[How do I make this image transparent?]

17 hours ago, Alfred said:

In addition to the JPEG there’s a layered EPS version. Doesn’t that give you the transparent background you’re looking for?

How so?

-paulw

[How do I make this image transparent?]

Are only self-made designs allowed to be posted here? 

I didn't occur to me that the image could be used by others.

 

-pw

[How do I make this image transparent?]

55 minutes ago, Wosven said:

Sorry to be a killjoy, but isn't this copyrighted materials?

https://fr.123rf.com/photo_132090086_quatre-saisons-printemps-été-automne-hiver-arbre-d-art-magnifique-pour-votre-conception.html?vti=ngjz09p7aymz0gggtv-1-10

https://www.tenstickers.fr/stickers/sticker-arbre-printemps-605

I bought it from Creative Market yesterday.  Commercial license.

Four seasons - spring, summer | Pre-Designed Vector Graphics ~ Creative Market

Thanks for checking!

-paulw

[How do I make this image transparent?]

Wow!  Amazing stuff in such a short amount of time!  Thank you all!  I learned a lot!

-paulw

[How do I make this image transparent?]

LunaPic did a decent job too.  Amazing  for an on-line tool!