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Those settings are in the Export dialog of GIMP. Didn't do it for a long time, but as far as I remember, those are global settings only. There are also different options to optimize the layer stack for GIF-animation-export. This means e.g. that redundant parts will be removed to get smaller files. And if you really want to drive it to the max, you can install GAP, the GIMP Animation Package. That is a package containing a lot of scripts and plugins for animations. It had much more content in the past, because as GIMP 2.10 came out, many of the old scripts and plugins didn't work any longer. Not all are updated yet. In the past there was e.g. a plugin or script for animated morphing in this package. And also one to export animations as MPEG-files. Very cool, but as I said, I haven't used it for the last time. So I don't know what is in the package actually. Except GAP, there are also some other plugins and scripts available for animation or that are usefull for animation. E.g. features to handle layers. Edit: By the way, there is a function n GIMP by design, that I miss in Affinity Photo and Designer. It allows to invert the layer stack with only one click. A useful function, not only for animations.
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You don't really need a timeline to create GIF-animations. But it is of course nice to have one. GIMP doesn't have a timeline too, but you can create very nice GIF-animations with it. I don't know if it is easy to add the necessary code for GIF-animations to Photo. Krita, as far as I know, doesn't have this option too. Even it has a timeline and it once was a split off of GIMP. And its developers are very busy.
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Strange! I'm on Windows 10 too, but whatever I do, my Designer Brushes are limited to 1024 pixels maximum. The limit for brushes in Photo and Designers Pixel Persona is 4096 pixels in my case. But I can thicken the stroke of the pencil tool much more than 100 point (not pixels). You have to type the value by hand or set the cursor into the field and press the Up-Arrow-Key repeatedly. Edit: And I can thicken the stroke of the brush afterwards with the Stroke Setting, seemingly unlimited. Is that what you mean?
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Hast Du Callums Tipp mal ausprobiert? Ich würde das zwar auch anders verstehen, aber vielleicht hilft das ja. Also Menü Bearbeiten > Einstellungen > Allgemein > "Speichern" für das Überschreiben importierter PSD-Dateien ermöglichen anhaken. In dem Fall würde ich sicherheitshalber aber von der zuvor bereits gespeicherten Datei noch ein Backup machen.
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Doch, eigentlich schon. Als PSD zu speichern sollte in anderen Programmen als Photoshop eigentlich ein Sonderfall sein. In Affinity Photo wäre da eher Exportieren angesagt. Kann es sein, dass Du versuchst auf ein externes Medium zu speichern? Externe Festplatte, Cloud... Da soll es nämlich Probleme geben, habe ich gelesen. In dem Fall empfehle ich auf die lokale Festplatte zu speichern.
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Seems that it doesn't work in my Designer-version. I tested an image of a size nearly 4000x4000 pixels as brush, and it still has only a maximum size of 1024 px. Even if I type the bigger value by hand. It is, by the way, the maximum limit for solid brushes too. I'm on Windows. Possibly it is different on Mac? But it is different with Photo Brushes. They can be much larger.
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The quality of the elements in a PDF-file depends on the settings it was created with. E.g. it can happen that vector graphics will become rasterized at the moment the PDF was created. Or text can be converted into curves and will no longer be editable in that case. You can also adjust if PDFs shall be created for use on the web or in print, what will result in different qualities, because pixel images don't need a high resolution as images for print, but they should not have too large file sizes. So you can't say that in general. Generally you should know that PDF is not made as a kind of storage for graphic elements, to extract if you need it. Initially PDF was meant to be a file format to send layout-files reliable and immutable to a print shop. Today you can do a lot more things with PDF, but it is tendencially more a final format then one to work with or use it as source file. By the way, to use PDFs e.g. downloaded from the web, extract elements and use them for your work could also cause legal problems (copyright).
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OK, I will see my breakfast with different eyes in the future. Thanks for that! 😄
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That is of course cool. But I thought that you were looking for a solution to do it with Affinity Photo. I'm a control freak, so I usually prefer to not let machines do the creative work without being able to do some adjustments that influence the result. I'm also no friend of One-Click-Filters in most cases, by the way. But different people have different preferences.
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For my eyes it works pretty good if I desaturate the image first (HSL-Shift, Saturation Slider to zero), then Posterize to as many Posterise Levels as my palette has colours, and then apply the Gradient Map to it with the colours swatches from my palette. One advantage of this method is that you can adjust the dispersion of the colours a bit by dragging the points on the gradient axis.
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You could combine the Gradient Map with Posterise and HSL-Shift. But this would not give a precise result. The easiest way I can tell you is to use GIMP. IT has Indexed Colour Mode, and you can choose your own palette there, if you created one before. I think that is exactly what you are looking for.
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Yes, I stumbled upon it too some time ago. It is not really taking the colours from the document, but it computes average colours from it, as it seems. And the resulting palettes always contain less than 70 colours. It is the same with the script "Translate to palette" in GIMP, by the way, but the palettes are more extensive there (I think 256 colours maximum).
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Do you know that G'MIC also exists as a 8bf-plugin for Photoshop and Affinity Photo too? I usually prefer to use it in GIMP, because I noticed that some filters don't work in Photo or even do it not as fluid as in GIMP. May also be because I used to do it in GIMP for years before I purchased Affinity.
