[Downloaded Picture Quality Issue,Recommendation Needed]

Sorry mixed up different apps,it wasn’t affinity

[Downloaded Picture Quality Issue,Recommendation Needed]

Hi,

 

I’ve been finding reference pictures to download for some projects to trace some things.The image quality(high resolution)is good when I download them but when I bring them into Designer to use they mostly get pixelated to the point where it’s impossible to make out details.I was wondering if there’s a fix for this

[Can’t find context tool bar in Affinity Designer]

Hi

 

 

I was trying to do a wave text from a YouTube tutorial and when I went to do a step I noticed there’s no context toolbar.I went through the settings and don’t see it.Can someone help me

[Am I doing this right ?]

1 hour ago, William Overington said:

I am wondering if you might like to try the gradient the other wy up too please, that is, solid at the top then the top of the letters C, l and b would be over a pale part of the BEACH lettering rather than over a solid part. Also, I don't know but I suspect that people will read each of the letters in BEACH from the top, so having the gradient the other way up might make it easier to read. But that is just my thoughts, I am not a trained graphic designer, so this just hobbyist comment not a professional designer level comment.

The placement of the word Club with its relatively small yet noticeable overlay of the word BEACH looks good to me.

William

 

Yeah Im not a professional graphic designer either.I did the gradient that way due to the fact that most references have that light to dark order although they’re mostly in the synthwave style which I’m trying to avoid.I was more wondering there was a noticeable difference between the colors in the Beach letters as there is in the Club.The blues were easier to make a clear distinction between color but I don’t know if it’s clear that with the oranges.I could clearly see it when I had them in the color palette but when I added them to the letters not so much.I also didn’t want to go too dark with the bottom .

 

32 minutes ago, Alfred said:

When you say “solid”, do you perhaps mean “dark”? The fill for the word BEACH is all solid, but it’s yellow (i.e. relatively pale) at the top and orange (i.e. relatively dark) at the bottom.

I think it looks good as is. It seems logical that it should have the sunny yellow part at the top and the sandy orange part at the bottom.

Thanks.That was the look I was going for with the Beach letters.

[Am I doing this right ?]

I am doing more experimenting with text and I’m not sure if this text came out right.It’s a test for a series of 80’s style lettering designs.I’m wondering if anyone has any critique as far as the gradient or the text placement.

[How can I recreate this in affinity designer ?]

I did it on a curve instead of slant.I wanted to see how it would work with something more difficult.I don’t know if it looks right.

[How can I recreate this in affinity designer ?]

2 hours ago, NotMyFault said:

And the name of the font is?

It’s called Far Out

11 hours ago, thomaso said:

Isn't it just 3 text frames, with a little offset and different colours?

 

I’m new to Affinity so this is all new to me.I’ve seen it but never actually had someone breakdown the process

[How can I recreate this in affinity designer ?]

Hi

 

 

I was looking for a tutorial on YouTube that would help but couldn’t find one that was close enough so I decided to see if anyone here could help

[Having Pixel Persona vs Designer Persona Drawing Confusion]

Unlike many people I’ve seen doing drawing or design videos recently I prefer drawing out ideas rather than retracing a paper sketch.I’ve noticed a lot of Affinity tutorials showcase pre drawn work being redone by using either the pencil or pen tool. I personally prefer to draw everything out from start to finish which brings me to my issue with using Pixel or Designer Persona.Sadly Affinity doesn’t have near the variety of brushes found for Photoshop or Procreate.I’ve seen a lot of work online done by artists with raster brushes designed specifically for Pixel Persona. Ive seen people suggest using Pixel Persona to start and then finish in Designer but I’m confused how that would work if the brushes aren’t available in Designer Persona.Also I’ve asked these questions to others and the answer seems to be to vectorize in Photoshop which seems to defeat the purpose of using Affinity 

[Tips Needed On How To Hand Letter]

I’m interested in doing some hand lettering but the tutorials I found are basically showing how to use tools like the pen tool to vectorize work done on paper. I was wondering if anyone use the app for this and if they have any recommendations besides drawing it out on paper first 

[Need tips for sketching on Ipad]

14 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

I've been watching a number of tutorials lately, and one approach I've seen several times seems to be sketching with simple brushes in the Pixel Persona, and then refining the sketch later using the vector tools in the Designer Persona on a new layer. Then hiding or removing the original pixel sketch layer.

I haven’t really seen that.It’s been hard to find videos that aren’t about using the tools, there’s way more drawing videos for Illustrator and Procreate.There also aren’t a lot of commercially available brushes for Affinity compared to other software.The two major companies I’ve seen created some of their better brushes for pixel persona which to me defeats the purpose of using a vector program.

[Need tips for sketching on Ipad]

I’m completely new to this program so  I was basically thinking I could draw with any tool like I used to in others.

[Need tips for sketching on Ipad]

I ditched Adobe over a year ago for Affinity due to the price and the lack of compatible mobile app. I got Affinity designer recently because it seemed  as close to Illustrator minus the trace feature which disappointed me but I was willing to overlook.My issue with drawing is being able to free sketch. I prefer to draw out ideas like I would on paper which I’m finding to be annoying with Affinity due to the nodes. I’m wondering is there a better way to go about this or do I have to draw in another program like procreate and import it.I have a lot of brushes I’ve gotten for Affinity and it seems like a waste not being able to use them.