Affinity Jack

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo Tutorial I'll show you how you can achieve the fairytale Orton effect in different ways.
The photographer Michael Orton invented the effect in the era of analogue photography.
I show both its classic variant and variable methods.
I wish you fun!
Your
Affinity Jack
 

In this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to use abstract motion blur artistically. Technically, this is not motion blur, but rather zoom blur, because a vanishing point must be observed.
I'll first show how to apply the zoom blur to just the train. Then I'll show how you can do it exactly the other way around. This requires some preparation, such as determining the vanishing point, creating a selection, and of course, understanding the difference between motion blur and zoom blur.
Of course, you can apply the effect to anything that moves: a car, a dog, a projectile.
I wish you much fun.
Ciao Jack
 

In this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to use abstract motion blur artistically. Technically, this is not motion blur, but rather zoom blur, because a vanishing point must be observed.
I'll first show how to apply the zoom blur to just the train. Then I'll show how you can do it exactly the other way around. This requires some preparation, such as determining the vanishing point, creating a selection, and of course, understanding the difference between motion blur and zoom blur.
Of course, you can apply the effect to anything that moves: a car, a dog, a projectile.
I wish you much fun.
Ciao Jack
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show a typical situation:
The photo of the sunrise or sunset has become disappointing compared to reality.
Simple techniques are shown here on how to bring back colors and dynamics.
The Video-Tutorial has english subtitles. (You can activate english subtitles with the gear icon in the YouTube window.)
 
I wish you fun.
Your Affinity Jack
 
 

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to photograph and edit a small waterfall.
The waterfall is small and romantic, but at the same time mystically located in the Lost Place.
Since it is only a small waterfall, it obviously has to be processed differently than a large one (there will also be a tutorial on this).
I wish you fun and inspiration with this video.
Ciao
Jack
 
 
 

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to photograph and edit a small waterfall.
The waterfall is small and romantic, but at the same time mystically located in the Lost Place.
Since it is only a small waterfall, it obviously has to be processed differently than a large one (there will also be a tutorial on this).
I wish you fun and inspiration with this video.
Ciao
Jack
 
 
 

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo V2 tutorial, I show how you can correct a failed white balance with correspondingly incorrect colors.
Another main content is the brightening of shadows with two different methods.
Other processing techniques are also shown.
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao Jack
 
 

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo V2 tutorial, I show how you can correct a failed white balance with correspondingly incorrect colors.
Another main content is the brightening of shadows with two different methods.
Other processing techniques are also shown.
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao Jack
 
 

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show a typical situation.
When you go on vacation, you want to have nice photos of it.
You will often be disappointed with the result if the midday sun makes the whole photo look hazy and bland.
In this tutorial I'll show some steps on how to improve these photos mit Affinity Photo V2.
 
I wish you fun
Ciao Jack
 
 
 

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show a typical situation.
When you go on vacation, you want to have nice photos of it.
You will often be disappointed with the result if the midday sun makes the whole photo look hazy and bland.
In this tutorial I'll show some steps on how to improve these photos mit Affinity Photo V2.
 
I wish you fun
Ciao Jack
 
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to create a manipulation of a noble monkey.
This effect also works with your own photos, maybe pets or people.
For a kind of art or for funny effects or for a gift ...
I wish you fun with the video.
Ciao Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show you how to improve the contrast and coloring of a low-contrast photo on a rainy day.
For me, this day was emotional but the photo was disappointing because of the rain and the low light.
So I found a way to rescue some of my impressions of my hiking day.
I wish you fun.
Ciao Jack
 
 

What bothers me a bit is that the added clouds don't have the same blue cast as the captured one. 

Thanks for tutorial!!

Hi,
this my first tutorial with the new Affinity Photo V2.
A rather bland photo is edited.
I remove the haze and realistically enhance colors and contrast.
In doing so, I will go into the new features of Affinity Photo V2.
I wish you fun.
Ciao Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to remove haze while preserving the fog and getting the colors back.
The haze filter got over the years a new and improved engine and adjustments.
 
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to remove haze while preserving the fog and getting the colors back.
The haze filter got over the years a new and improved engine and adjustments.
 
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to remove haze while preserving the fog and getting the colors back.
The haze filter got over the years a new and improved engine and adjustments.
 
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to remove haze while preserving the fog and getting the colors back.
The haze filter got over the years a new and improved engine and adjustments.
 
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to remove haze while preserving the fog and getting the colors back.
The haze filter got over the years a new and improved engine and adjustments.
 
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi,
In this Affinity Photo tutorial I show how to remove haze while preserving the fog and getting the colors back.
The haze filter got over the years a new and improved engine and adjustments.
 
I wish you fun and inspiration.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi,
 
in this tutorial, I show you to solve a typical problem in autumn:
You see beautiful autumn colors but the sun is extremely bright, and therefore the colors seemed to burn out, meanwhile the shadows are too dark.
I show how to fix this situation.
I wish you fun with the video.
Ciao
Jack
 
 

Hi All,
Well, it’s been a pretty crazy week since the launch of V2!
This has been a real labour of love for us over the last year or so, and I can’t even begin to describe how hard the development team have worked on it. Not only getting the V2 apps launched, but also of course finally bringing Publisher to iPad. 
With this being our first paid-for upgrade there has understandably been a lot of feedback / questions around future updates and our pricing policies. I thought it was worth addressing / clarifying our position on some of these personally...
Updates to V2 moving forward
Buying V2 not only gets you all the new features you have seen, but we have various updates planned – including many more new features and improvements – which you will get for free. This will continue until such a time that V3 is released. We’re not sure exactly when V3 will be, but I can confirm we are not going to move to anything as regular as an annual upgrade cycle as has been speculated.
It’s worth saying too that V2 does include many under-the-hood changes to our underlying technology, and we have also been investing in several new areas of research recently. Some of these haven’t manifested themselves into new features yet, but overall V2 does give us a better platform to develop on moving forward and I’m sure you will be pleased with the updates V2 will receive.
Updates to V1 moving forward
While we did say on the FAQ that V1 would no longer receive any updates, I want to clarify that was about new feature updates. We will be updating V1 to fix any critical problems caused by operating system updates in the future. So if the next version of macOS breaks V1 we will endeavour to fix it. There will be a point in time when continuing to maintain V1 in this way will not be tenable, but certainly for the foreseeable future we will continue to patch. In fact, we have an update to V1 queued up for release very shortly with some fixes for Ventura and issues caused by a recent Windows security / quality update. 
We will update our FAQ shortly to make that clearer for everyone.
Offer period
In case you didn’t see, I’m pleased to confirm we have decided to run this initial launch offer until 14th December to give everyone the best chance possible to get it if they wish / have a decent amount of time to trial it. 
Upgrade pricing
It’s been really hard to see some of the comments about us not looking after our existing customers – we’re pretty devasted that anyone feels like that to be honest. But the fact is we felt our hands were tied somewhat with being able to offer upgrade pricing in a fair way. The main reason for this was App Store customers (which make up around 35% of our userbase). The problems with that are two-fold: firstly, we didn’t have a way from within V1 to validate an App Store purchase receipt to reliably ensure customers who were entitled to an upgrade could get one; and secondly, we could not find a good way for people to get that discount via the App Store. Us pushing upgrade customers to go exclusively via our own site (including customers who were previously acquired via the app stores) may also have put us in violation of App Store Ts & Cs which we were obviously concerned about.
I’m not saying that these issues were completely insurmountable, but any solutions we came up with would be messy, and most importantly could have resulted in some bona fide V1 customers struggling to get validated and claim their discount. We certainly don’t have the support resource here if we ended up needing to manually validate tens of thousands of receipts for example.
The only option we felt was safe to move forward with was a general launch offer, which would guarantee that every V1 customer could get the discount, whether they purchased directly through us or the App Stores. We knew a side effect of that would mean some new customers would end up receiving that same discount – but we felt that was a better option than V1 customers missing out. It’s also worth saying that while there has been some good press about V2, all our main marketing has been via email and through social media to our followers. In other words, we felt ok about it because we knew the vast majority of people who would find out about it or take advantage of the offer would be existing customers. I would be surprised if over the offer period customers upgrading from V1 didn’t make up more than 90% of our sales.
Overall I do believe us giving a 40% discount, along with the addition of the new Universal Licence of course, is offering fantastic value for money for those who want to upgrade. 
However, taking on board some of the feedback there is something extra we can do – we will offer a new free bundle of content exclusively for V1 customers upgrading to V2 as an extra thank you for your support. I’ve seen this suggested by a number of customers and it’s a great idea as it does remove the App Store conflict entirely. 
We’ll need a little time to put something together, but all customers who previously registered or purchased V1 and have since upgraded to V2 will receive a voucher code for this via email as soon as we can.
A comment on no subscription
I do want to say that some of the points above are exactly the reason why software companies move to subscription. Whatever you do with upgrade pricing, you still have the issue of customers who bought the previous version 3 months ago vs. those who have had it 2+ years. Offering perpetual licences also gives the additional overhead of needing to maintain the previous version longer than you would if everyone was on subscription / generally always on the latest version.
We are a small team so some of these complications are not ideal — all we really want to do is focus on developing our latest codebase, push out regular updates and continue with our mission to make great creative software accessible to everyone. 
But it does need to be funded somehow. We know you love our no-subscription model, but there also needs to be a level of appreciation that the alternative is having paid-for upgrades from time to time. That unfortunately comes with its own problems.
All of that said, I have to say we have been blown away with the response to V2 - around 3 times as many people have upgraded in the last week than we expected - and we really can't thank you enough for the support you have shown. More than anything the success of this upgrade puts us in a great place to continue investing heavily in development which is ultimately what it's all about, and we’re super excited to crack on with some great updates coming next year!
All the best,
Ash

Hi,
in this Affinity Photo Tutorial I show how to create a calm and idyllic mood with these boathouses on the lake.
And this despite the fact that it is a tourist hotspot that is always well attended.
I wish you fun with the video.
Ciao Jack
 

Hi,
I created an Affinity Photo Tutorial to show how to use the Tone Mapping Persona for the HDR effect.
I wish you fun and inspiration with the video.
 
Ciao Jack