Mountain King

Hi Affinity Photo users,
 
After a brief hiatus we have another set of videos for you, courtesy of James Ritson (docs team).
 
Channels for Alpha Masking
Target tonal ranges using alpha channels and filter masking.
 
Maximising Raw Latitude
For Raw enthusiasts, we'll switch off Develop Assistant for tonal flexibility
 
Vector-based Retouching
Apply vector techniques to clean up and stylize surfaces.  
 
Start to Finish: Vector Architecture
Taking vector retouching further...
 
Hope you enjoy!
Affinity Documentation

Hey guys, hope you enjoy this tutorial. It's how to make a neon sign effect in Affinity Designer.
 
quylt.com/news/2015/9/26/tutorial-neon-sign-in-affinity-designer  MOD Comment NO LONGER AVAILABLE
 
Keep on creating!
 
- QUYLT

Hi Everyone,
 
Thanks for the kind words about the video tutorials, which seem to be well received.
 
I need to come clean though. We're lucky to have James Ritson here in Affinity Towers to produce and publish these Photo tutorials so I'm not taking credit for his hard work! I'll keep you informed of video updates though, while I strive to deliver accurate Designer and Photo Help along with my other colleague Nat Ravenlock, who's equally valued here :) .
 
While i'm on..
 
Here are another two videos to get those tastebuds going again...
Swirling Bokeh Luts for Tonal Adjustment  
Thanks
Andy Capstick
 
Affinity Documentation

© = Option + g

Cats have class. All love cats, especially the guys in here Affinity team. In order to use the tool "cat", you have the menu for molding tools with pressed ALT. The Affinity-cat is now waiting at the end of the list for you.
 

it's not possible at the moment but our devs are looking to improve the EXIF panel. More info here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/4838-need-to-add-metadata-to-image-and-add-export-to-adobe-lightroom/

Hi designs247,
Welcome to Affinity Forums :)
This is a forum for Affinity software users. I'm not sure if a Photoshop tutorial will gather much attention here.
Have you tried to create one in Affinity Photo? 

Hallo,
 
ich habe ein neues Tutorial zu Affinity Photo auf YouTube hochgeladen.
Mit Binärcodes erstelle ich ein Cyber Thema.
Dazu benutze ich ein "Selfie"  :huh:
Achherrje....
Egal.
Also viel Spaß beim Ansehen.
Eure Projekte und Fragen dazu könnt Ihr mir gerne posten.
 
 
Euer
CTU Jack Bauer
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvwG-eTPBLo
 

 

To get your weekend off to a fun start, why not run through these new videos? Hope you enjoy.
Shadows/Highlights Split Toning and Selective Colour Displacement Adding Bokeh Export Compression Efficiency Andy Capstick
Affinity Docs

Hello all! I threw together this social media template based on recommended sizes for 2015—largely based on Constant Contact's recommendations. It doesn't include quite everything, but it has slices already set up as well to help expedite most needs. Enjoy! :)
social-media-template-2015.afdesign

Hello all,
 
Three new videos for you this week (I'm clearly slacking), the master list has been updated with these:
 
•    Exposure Merging
•    Non Destructive Inpainting and Cloning
•    Layers Nesting

OK, so a car driver buys a caravan and car and has a panic attack cause he can't drive. Surprised? No! This is you, all the kit, none of the training and all of the regret.
 
Stop, take a breath and tell us a few things:
What do you want to do with your photos? Remove red dots from peoples' eyes? Cut the photo to a certain part of the image. Maybe you want to create new montages (Think Sgt Pepper by the Beatles). 
 
What camera do you own? Canon, Nikon, fuji etc. Is it a phone camera, bridge camera, 
What Mac do you own? MacBook Pro/Air, or a desktop model.
 
These new found skills won't happen overnight. It takes about 2 years to be so familiar with a brand new computer/operating system (Windows to Mac OS/Linux/Android etc), that you can teach a newbie from scratch. Cameras not so long. Play with your camera daily, make mistakes, just use the automatic setting first. Train your eye!
 
Read the instruction books; print them out, if they aren't on paper already...read on the bus, bath, lunch break at work. Study one facet, say the rule of thirds. This will become instinctive, your camera should show you this noughts and crosses/tic-tac-toe grid in the view finder/display screen.
 
See pics below. This simple tip, will give instant confidence, as your photos will look a lot better, with zero effort.
 

 
Now go out and photograph the beach/coast or horizon. Then post them on the forum, the good bad and the ugly!
Learn just one new task per week, practice every day and watch your confidence and ability grow. Then once you've mastered that, then you can move on to the next lesson.
 
This is the bit where we can help. Give us questions like, how do I add a sepia effect to a picture? How do I turn a colour picture into black and white? What is exporting? What is RAW? Keep it simple, keep it basic and we'll get you up to speed, before you know it. Some of us are dying to fill the gaps in your knowledge. If your unsure ask me, I might not know the answer, but I'll find out who does. 
 
Try it
 
HTH
 
peter
 
PS there is only one stupid question in this forum: Isn't Adobe's Cloud subscription scheme a wonderful idea! 
 
Remember: save and backup, backup, backup. Lost memory cards/cameras/phones (on the beach, bus or bar), are a curse, deleted files can be rescued!

Hi,
 
I did a quick test replicating a PS tutorial.
(It's only the disintegration part)
 

 
* Photo from Pixabay
* Brush from Brusheezy
* Original PS tutorial
 
Cheers :)

DEPRECATED THREAD
The Photo tutorials listed below have been refreshed and moved. Please see this new thread or use the Affinity site Photo Desktop tutorials webpage
 
In support of our fantastic photo editing app, please use this comprehensive and structured set of videos for accelerated learning!
The video tutorials are available on Vimeo and YouTube via these links:
 
Vimeo - http://affin.co/PhotoVids
YouTube - http://affin.co/photoyt

We now have a specific Beginners Series of videos tailored to absolute beginners, with a more manageable pacing and focus on concepts and straightforward procedures. They all include subtitles to aid understanding.

The tutorial set includes:

Beginners Series
Opening & Saving -  YouTube / Vimeo Layers - YouTube / Vimeo Adjustments - YouTube / Vimeo Filters - YouTube / Vimeo Exporting - YouTube / Vimeo  
Introduction
Discover Affinity Photo Getting Started Technical Benefits  
Basics
Document Setup Layer Concepts Layers Overview Live Filter Layers Scaling and Transforming Cutting Out Understanding DPI Accessing Help  
Transforming
Document/Image Resizing Canvas Resizing Cropping: Practical Cropping: Aesthetic Straightening Images Cropping: Golden Spiral Cropping: Options Aligning Images  
Selections and Masking
Making Selections Refining Selections Pixel Selections from Layers Quick Masks Mask Layers Exposure Merging Clipping vs Masking Vector Masking Using Adjustment Layers on Masks - YouTube / Vimeo  
Correction
Adjustment Layers Levels Curves Shadows/Highlights Split Toning and Selective Colour LAB Colour Mode Defringing and Chromatic Aberration Live Perspective Haze Removal FFT Denoise Removing Lens Flares Changing Eye Colour Graduated ND Filter Effect Salvaging Underexposed Images Dual Perspective Correction Perspective Skew Correction - YouTube / Vimeo (New: 20th April)  
Retouching
Cloning Inpainting Frequency Separation Liquify: Retouching Vector-Based Retouching Enhancing Landscapes/Architecture Vector Architecture: Worked Example Enhancing Camera Phone Photography Making Images Pop Revealing Sky Detail Bringing Out Water Detail Quick Inpainting Crooked Horizons - YouTube / Vimeo  
RAW Development
Raw: Discover Develop Raw: Developing Images Raw: Overlays Raw: Redeveloping Images Raw: Noise Reduction Maximising Raw Latitude Custom Tone Curve Raw Development Quality 32-bit Raw Development - YouTube / Vimeo Raw Colour Quality Automatic Lens Corrections Raw: Recovering Overexposed Highlights Raw: Exposure Bias  
Getting Creative
Lighting Creative Gradients Creative Black & White Sepia Images Brushes Blend Modes Blend Ranges Liquify Persona Sky Replacement Adding Borders Text: Branding/Watermarking Diffuse Glow Displacement Circular Bokeh Swirling Bokeh Simulating Ambient Occlusion Texturing with Blend Modes Creating Atmosphere Creating Light Beams Vector Lighting Simple Gradients Technicolor Emulation - YouTube / Vimeo Creative Painting Colour toning with shapes Infrared Emulation Radial Blur Regular Tone Mapping Compositing Landscapes Adding Extended Borders Creating Photo Collages Abstract Ideas #01 Abstract Ideas #02 Enhancing Low Light Trails Light Painting Compositing Tone Mapping Portraits HSL Tonal Separation - YouTube / Vimeo Orton Effect - YouTube / Vimeo  
Design Aids
Snapshots Modifiers Designer/Photo Interworking Pixel Accurate Design Placing Documents Useful Keyboard Shortcuts Non Destructive Inpainting and Cloning Layer Creation Behaviour Layer Nesting Exporting 3D LUTs LUTs for Tonal Adjustments View Points Global Cloning Subtle Toning Multiple Colour Formats Scopes Curves Picker Non-Destructive Dodge & Burn Flexible Defringing Edge Detection for Masking Split & Mirror View Batch Processing Clone Sources Pixel Art Resize Direct PSD write-back (round tripping) Freehand Selection Tool Undo History Importing .abr Brushes Undo Brush with Snapshots Quick Toggling Panels - YouTube / Vimeo Light UI - YouTube / Vimeo Brush Stabilisation - YouTube / Vimeo  
Channels
Channels Channels for Alpha Masking Channels: Creating/Storing Selections Editing Single Channels Channels: Greyscale Blending Channel Packing  
Filters
Live Filter Layers (Also in Basics) Apply Image Apply Image: Equations Equations Filter Dust & Scratches Filter Halftone Scanlines Effect Mirror filter Diffuse Glow Filter Defeating Filter Limits  
Panoramas
Panoramas Tricky Panoramas Panorama Distortion Correction  
HDR (High Dynamic Range)
HDR: Merging & Tone Mapping HDR from one exposure - YouTube / Vimeo HDR: Tone Map Presets HDR: Panoramas HDR: Preprocessing HDR: Advanced Editing HDR: Ghosts Removal HDR: 32-bit Editing  
Focus Merging (Focus Stacking)
Focus Merging Focus Merge Retouching Focus Merging Bracketed Exposures  
Live Stacking
Maximum Stacking Big Stopper Effect Light Painting Blending Stacking: Long Exposure Simulation Stacking: Noise Reduction Stacking: Object Removal Stacking: Exposure Merging Stacking: Star Trail Effect  
Live Projections (360 editing, perspective projection)
360 Live Editing - YouTube / Vimeo 360 Advanced Editing 360 Retouching 360 Multiple Views 360 Roll Correction - YouTube / Vimeo Live Perspective Projection  
 OpenEXR/32-bit
OpenEXR Multichannel Import/Export OpenEXR Import Options Editing 32-bit 3D Renders OpenEXR: Using Alpha Channels & Association  
3D Render/Texture Work
Seamless Textures Clone Sources: Texture Creation Enhancing 3D Renders #01 Enhancing 3D Renders #02 Tone Mapping 3D Renders 3D Relighting with Normal Map Passes - YouTube / Vimeo  
Colour Management
OpenColorIO Setup OpenColorIO Adjustment Soft Proofing Printing on Mac Printing on Windows Wide Colour Profiles vs sRGB - YouTube / Vimeo  
Macros
Macros Macros: Equations Macros: Layer Behaviour Batch Processing with Macros  
Finishing Off
Sharpening Selective Sharpening Exporting Export Compression Efficiency  
Plugins
Installing Nik Plugins (macOS) Installing Nik Plugins (Windows) Installing & Using Nik Dfine  
Projects
Nature Portrait Supermoon Product Shot Retouching #01 Nighttime Architecture Workflow - YouTube / Vimeo Portrait Retouching Workflow - YouTube / Vimeo  
Bonus Content
Uplift Epic Skies (1.6 Bonus Content) - YouTube / Vimeo  
Windows Workflow videos
 
In addition to the regular tutorials, we've also got some workflow videos shot on the Windows version of Photo that cover using a variety of features to edit an image to completion. These tend to be released on a more informal basis.
Hadrian's Wall Tiled Building Portrait Retouching Monochromatic Architecture Canary Wharf Banded Demoiselle  
 
Please let us know about areas you think need covering, have problems with, don’t understand, or just tell us if we’re on the right or wrong track. Simply reply to this pinned topic.

Have fun with Affinity Photo!

Best wishes from the Affinity Documentation Team!

After seeing quite a bit of demand for long shadows in Affinity Designer, I took it upon myself to throw together a basic tutorial to get you guys started with flat icon design in Affinity. My example isn't perfect, but it should be enough to get you going. You can view the tutorial here. Let me know what you guys think!
 

I feel the same. I think Affinity is the best software i purchased since long and i do want to try and learn to work with this program.
 
But i am also a very beginner - have never worked with PS or some kind. And i get stuck a lot of times trying to follow the tutorials...  :o and i can't always figure out what i am missing out exactly.
 
So my tactic is to follow all the tutorials and try to reproduce them. What happens most of the time is that even if i follow the steps very closely, the magic happening in the tut vid's do not happen on my photo :( .
 
For instance, i am now trying to reproduce the Frequency Separation tutorial with a photo of my own. Around 1:50 in the video the healing brush is used, in the low frequency filter. The spots i see on the skin of the person on my photo just don't go away?! I even don't see anything happening. No spot is being removed, no change at all.... 
 
My question is: can i download the used photos in the tutorials to use those to try to reproduce the tutorials.
So i know the problem is not that i am using an inadequate photo?  :)
 
Any ideas to enhance my beginners tactic?  :rolleyes:

Here is a quick look at using mockups within Affinity Photo and Designer. Slightly different from using PS, but still possible and a great way to display your's or a clients work.
 
 
 
Allan
 
 
https://youtu.be/aOKsS9HqsEk

Nice tut, Allan!
I really appeciate it. 

Hi mcsilver,
 
Looks like a really good effect, batch processing is on our feature roadmap for a future update. Once this has been included, we may need to to some testing first, just to make sure everything works as it should.

Hi, and welcome to another quick lesson.
 
In this tutorial we look at compositing inside of Affinity Photo. Have fun and upload your work.
 
https://youtu.be/yMofjzSXv5w
 
 
Enjoy...
 
 
 
Allan

Hallo,
ich habe auf YouTube mein erstes Affinity Photo Tutorial hochgeladen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gQyl7UGgQ

Ich erstelle dort ein plastisch wirkendes Bild. Bisher benutzte ich Pixelmator, wozu es das gleiche Tutorial gibt. Daher kann man sich ein Bild von der Software machen.
Ich werde in Zukunft weitere Tutorials senden.
Ihr könnt mir auch Eure Ergebnisse und Tipps zu dem Effekt posten oder twittern.
Viel Spaß.

Hi, I'm newbie in AP since two days, and so I'm strolling through the boards to catch up all these interesting discussions and topics.
 
However, I don't use Designer, and due to the many posts and no differentiation between boards for AP and AD I wonder if others share my opinion to seperate discussions regarding the two products by a corresponding forum structure would be a good idea.
 
Regards
Olaf

yes ican i will make  other  tutorial whit afinty photo

Now that I have redone all of my styles to use editable gradients, I decided why not provide just the gradients used as a palette? So here you go. Hope you enjoy it.
Find this and more at https://dscape-llc.com/affinity

 

I'm in the process of creating (almost done) a collection of brushes with nature motifs. Thought it could be useful for more Affinity users so I decided to share one sample, the brush regarding the common ivy. Let me know if you like it and if it’s worth sharing the full collection :)
 
Common Ivy Brush.afbrushes.zip