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So, I am trying to use a font with a colored back ground and keep the blue in the small areas of the letter. When using the selection tool, When I hit the "Refine" button to clean it up and create a new layer of the letter to be used some where else the whole screen goes blurry and the letter turns blue and the background purplish. Never experienced this before. How do I fix this?

Haha, It is the app. One more question. is there a tutorial how to use it or just play around and create things?

It is the app I need?

Sorry, I can't share what the work is. Just know its a body of water and I want to try and give it a crystalized look effect. Kinda like a sparkle effect. I would even be happy with the image I shared

You are exactly right in your interpretation. I bought all of frankentoons brush kits hoping to score something. But, no luck. Again, not sure i have the skill or knowledge to pull off tweaking these effects to get the crystalized look I would like. That's why I am hoping I could find like an overlay to layer over the water and give the effect lol Not sure I'll get that lucky. But you are right, I am investing some time researching and playing around. Thanks

I have a client that asked for a design. So I have the design and now she is asking if i could put crystals in the image. I have loads of brushes but cant seem to find the right one to create the illusion of a crystals. The picture has blue water in it. So I was thinking on giving the water the illusion it has a crystalized effect. anyone got a tutorial, suggestion, etc.? It might be I just don't have the skill to pull it off. But guidance would help. lastly, I was thinking of maybe a translucent layer that I could put over the water to give the effect? I don't know I'm stuck. Kinda frustrated. Need to win this person over. they could bring me alot of new people.

I feel like at this point, I have hundreds, if not a thousand fonts. Is there a way to organize them so I am not just scrolling through them all looking for a good choice? Like bold fonts, cursive fonts, abstract fonts, etc? I see fav, recent, etc. but it would be better if I could organize a different way. Is that possible? Thanks!

I took a chance and bought it. 1: let me start by saying... wtf, who zip files every file!? Literally almost everything filed was zipped and even when I opened that more zip files. freaking headache. 2: Vector images are trash you can get for free on any clip art site. 3: I'd say 80%, and thats alot, is unusable without photoshop,etc. 4: But, there was a ton of fonts. I did see a bunch of family fonts. but there were literally a lot I never seen before and I currently hold more than I can count of fonts. 5: all in all I guess the $20 was worth the fonts but the rest I cant do anything with unless i get photoshop. **** them! lol

I been seeing alot of graphics bundles, etc. online for sale that I could use alot for my hobby. Unfortunately, most of the time its always photoshop compatible. I was wondering if anyone on here knows where I can find bundles that are Affinity compatible? Example: https://graphindustry.com/products/the-mega-complete-bundle Hope I am not breaking any rules? Thanks!

Yes, a shape with the effect of border. want the center to be transparent. How would one use a stroke instead of a effect? not really skilled at drawing free hand to make a perfect border as why i went with effect. Never mind I understand now lol

I am using affinity photo, but I can also use designer if its easier?

Could someone help me figure out how to do 2 things? Did a goog search and couldn't find the exact way to perform it. 1: the circle is a shape witht he border down in effects tab. instead of leaving the center a white circle, how can I turn just the white part transparent so I can layer in photos, fonts, etc? 2: I bought a file and the objects are all separated as you can see in the image. how do I weld them together so when I print it out it wont have the little lines in the lettering going through it? Thanks!

I am using this shape to curve fonts. Problem is, after 30 minutes of trying I cant get the words "WHO FAN" to go across the bottom and face the correct way so its readable. Any help would be appreciated. I want it to read from left to right along the outside of the bottom line of the shape. Thanks!

So I used the selection tool to get this owl out. but when I go into the "refine" tab and put black background on to see the white out line better, I see these flares of colors. I tried using the refine tool to smooth out the flares but it only makes it worse. I have this object selected pretty much perfect around the outer perimeter. Not sure why I am getting this and how the heck do I erase them? Anyone? Thanks!

So I know how to take basic shapes "circle,square, etc" and weld them together in order to make one shape and fill in with color. using the "geometry tool and ADD. Now I'm stuck trying to take the shape of a football helmet. by using the "selection tool" and creating that as a shape and duplicating it and putting a bunch of them together in order to weld them together and make one shape. The Geometry/add wont let me do it. Anyone know to take a football helmet or any object and turn it into a shape so you can duplicate multiples to weld together and create one large shape and fill itin with any color? Thanks!

Wow, Thank you so much for that tutorial! alot of great lessons here. Using the channels, I found that it left a white background. So that at least let me know it wasn't going to be easy. I tried a couple of the other options you made available and they worked. but, unfortunately the image I want to keep has white in it as well so it was removing that too. So I took the long hard way and did it manually using the selection brush tool. It took about an hour and a half to complete. but overall I am happy with what I got. Definitely saved this post in my tutorials list. Thanks again!

I downloaded a image. But, the white background cant be transparent. even when "background transparent" is selected it still stays white. Whether in jpg or PNG format. So, is the selection brush tool my only option for cutting out this image that's in the picture? Thanks!

huh?

Thank you, I already own copies of your software. Just trying to figure out if I should lay down the $80 for the site.

Did this ever get figured out? Looking to use the site, if I can work with in Affinity.

This is not placing an image inside a shape. I basically have a picture of a thick book on a table. I want to take a picture of my friends book cover and place it on top of the other book cover perfectly to fit. 1: how do I get her book cover to merge with the book on the table and... 2: her book cover picture is basically a rectangle shape image. how do I shape it to fit perfectly for it to cover the cover of the other book? The book on the table has a slight angle. it is not square. 1 hour of google and clicking insanely, I can't figure it out. Help! Thank you

That's what I needed to know. Thank you. i did notice when using my yoga laptop and drawing on the screen i had to flip my keyboard out to make a change. Don't remember what. But it was an inconvenience. Guess I'll have to think outside the box cause I cant see paying the price of a ipad for such a small screen. i was hoping to carry something around 14-16" I can't draw crap with a mouse. I need a pen. especially with my none existent skill level. The mouse is to jittery and gets caught on the pad or I run out of room, etc, etc, etc. Thanks for the knowledge!

Wait, are we talking, only the AD software is design to work fully touch screen with ipad? as in, the windows version of AD doesnt have full touch screen capabilities? Is this what you guys are telling me?

When you say full touch screen, can you explain? I have a Lenova Yoga 2 in 1 laptop touch screen. What is the difference between the 2 as far as full touch screen? Was thinking about this model https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x1/X1-Yoga-G6/p/22TP2X1X1Y6

What if I am not a Apple user. Any 2 in 1 laptop will work that has touch screen?