Zacatzontli
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On 5/1/2019 at 5:03 AM, walt.farrell said:
raster_brushes.propcol
That's handy. I did the opposite and installed raster brushes into Affinity Designer. I found the file here C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Designer\1.0\user\raster_brushes.propcol. I moved it to C:\temp and tested again and sure enough no more numbers in the import. Of course, have to remove file again after test.
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13 hours ago, Hangman said:
Check the Flow setting for the brush you are using. If Flow is set to say 10% then you will need to paint over the same area ten times to create 100% of the solid colour, if it's set to 20% then five times to create 100% of the solid colour and so on. Set Flow to 100% and see if that gives you what you need...
Thanks for this. It was set to 100% and I tested it at 36% and could certainly see how that could produce a similar result. I've learnt something new.
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8 hours ago, PaulEC said:
and the Blend Mode should be set to Normal!
Now set to Normal. Prior it was Don't set blend mode which I thought wouldn't impact the tool and once I set the wet edges to OFF I saw these settings of Don't set... actually have some kind of setting, possibly automatic which I'll have to look into. Thanks for this.
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9 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
Also check the Wet Edges setting and make sure it's off. And Opacity should be 100%.
That's the one! Thank you. The default was Don't set wet edges which I thought would default to off.
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There's probably a real simple answer for this that escapes me.
I'm cartooning and colouring in different sections of the image. When I have to change brush size to get into the corners I find that overlapping what I've already coloured in increases the colour strength like if I was using watercolours. Like each stroke adds a 33% opacity until I get a solid colour (see grey coloured area in attached image). I'm using the Basic brushes.
What is the setting for brushes which paints the 100% final colour every time I brush an area so I don't get the overlaid brush stroke effect?
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20 minutes ago, SamSteele said:
I suggest you get a decent size stand-alone monitor to go with your new computer and calibration software. A drawing pad is handy, too. You might also consider an external drive for backup to your backup.
Sam
Yeah, I also bought a Huion Kamvas 13 Graphics Drawing Tablet and an Acer RG271P Nitro 27inch 165Hz FHD IPS HDR Gaming Monitor. So much better now I can draw on a tablet where I can see what I'm drawing on and the screen shows so much more detail.
Set for success 🙂
Now I've got to get my routine back to put time into my graphics.
Oh, backup. I was using Google Drive but I have a couple of 2TB drives full of movies and docos from TV I haven't watched in years I might just clean them up and use them. That would be better.
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On 12/31/2021 at 11:32 AM, v_kyr said:
Real gaming computers have easily the punch and power therefor (no matter if 2D/3D graphics processing, photo editing or video rendering), since most nowadays actual games on the market do have a very high demand on a very good graphics performance ("2D/3D rendering, particle engines ... etc.) and thus the need powerful GPUs. Gaming computers are pretty similar to higher end business workstations here, if sometimes not even more powerful, though when good equiped they do price wise also play in similar categories here!
Hi v_kyr, so finally, near the end of financial year I can buy my gaming PC and add Affinity designer, a drawing tablet etc to the mix. I'm looking at the gaming PCs from Scorptech and now I'm spoilt for choice and my brain froze 😂 It's purely for graphics and video work now, I'll be throwing in JWilder etc too. This is what Scorptech sell below
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/ready-to-run-pcs/gaming-pc?page=1
I was looking at https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/ready-to-run-pcs/gaming-pc/95038-ss-void3070ti for $3249 .00 to reduce the government taxing the crap out of me. What do you reckon? -
2 hours ago, RichardMH said:
Gaming PC's work well for photo editing and are well priced due to the competition. I have a Dell XPS 8940 with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super GPU, which is OK for what I do (photo editing with AP). Now I know a bit more about it I'd look for a better graphics card. Have one SSD drive and another normal hard drive built in.
I thought about gaming PCs and wasn't sure if they did the same job in terms of photo processing. I could check out gaming PC specs and upgrade the graphics card. Bit of research to do but good call on the gaming PC.
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9 hours ago, v_kyr said:
The critical factor here will be always the GPU due to the fact that Affinity software has a bunch of GPU based hardware acceleration problems with most GPU vendors OpenCL drivers
Great, I'll Youtube that. I want decent algorithms for processing graphical data.
And SSD sounds like the way to go over HDD. Makes sense I'm just not used to it except on high-end virtual machines for databases in the cloud.
So, in summary, it's simply a case of price-point and functionality among the brands available. I had wondered if there was some magic combo.
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My used-to-be-the-most-powerful laptop back in the day is now labouring under my graphics work. What should be done in a click of the trackball button is now a click, up to 1 hour and several cups of green tea later. Truth to tell, I bought the laptop for programming and database development and it's not cut out for high resource using graphics. So, I need to start planning for a powerful desktop for my Affinity Software and digital art etc.
I'm a Windows user for many reasons (only had an Mac G5 once and that was for programming on a Mac) so looking towards a mostly Windows solution.
What hardware do other Affinity afficionados use and would recommend?
What experiences have you had with different types of hardware (graphics cards, CPU, RAM, SSD vs HDD)?
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Aaaaah. Okay, so is it that the tools change in the Persona but the brushes are the ones available to Publisher. Tut! Just thought of that which means I can import the brushes into Publisher.
Which I've just done successfully. So, this topic may or may not have any value depending.
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I've recently bought some Frankentoon Nature brushes for Photo and they installed via the Photo app. Great brushes BTW! So, today, I was in Publisher zining and decided to change the background using those brushes so flicked over the Photo persona and the brushes are not listed under the Persona. They still appear within the Photo app. I might not be understanding the purpose of Persona but if there's an issue or something I must do to see the brushes here are some details of the apps and OS I'm running on.
Affinity Publisher
- Bought via Microsoft Store
- Version: 1.10.4.1198
Affinity Photo
- Downloaded and installed from Affinity website
- Version: 1.10.4.1198
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
- Version: 10.0.18363
- Build No.: 18363
- OS Architecture: 64-bit
- Install date: Thursday, 20 February 2020 00:05:21
** Not a big drama as I can just create what I want in Photo and copy the layer across.
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Nice! That first one is quite a challenge. There are a few tricks I can see there used to remove the tourists and I'd say it's a bloody good job! It's looks so much better without the tourists hahaha.
The second one is great. I love the way the tourist on the steps AND THEIR SHADOW has completely vanished. The tourists by the wall further away have disappeared and even on zoom it's hard to tell there was anything else there. I can just make out the outline of the tourist by the gravel at the bottom of the steps. I'd be tempted to select the some area of the old phot where the gravel is and either copy and paste and stretch it out to the straight line edge, or select with a marquee and clone the gravel back into it.
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Thank you MKGö for raising this issue and Walt for providing insight into the applications. I was having a similar issue when making a banner for my Etsy shop which was to be located in a PDF I was creating under Publisher. Thanks to the discussion I opened the banner in Publisher, rewrote the slogan in the same font and it was perfect. I then removed the previous pixel layer and saved as an SVG and reloaded into my PDF using the Image Place Tool and exported and it is perfect when opening in the PDF. 👍😊
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Hi, my name is Duane Hennessy, I'm a Digital Artist and Printmaker who also draws cartoons. I live in Australia. My day to day work has been a mix of Programming and Database Administration and digital art and cartooning. The former still pays the bills and bought our house and now I'm looking to transition to my arts career, finally!
In the past I used Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Painter (both when they weren't subscription based, so a while ago), GIMP, Inkscape, Clipart Studio Pro (used to be Manga Studio 5 which I'm still using for cartooning) another one I can't remember the name of and I once even wrote my own Graphics App in the Python programming language.When rebooting my arts career I checked out all the reviews on Youtube etc and I was soooo impressed b Affinity products and even more impressed as when I bought and used Photo and Publisher. Wow! I already have artwork ready to roll and plans for zines.
Love your work! 😍
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7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Look in the Text Frame panel (View > Studio > Text Frame) and check the column width setting, and the left-indent setting.
That was the solution. I set them all to zero and the cursor appeared in the top left corner. The times it was staring me in the face and I didn't equate it with smaller Text Frame.
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Hi,
I'm using Publisher I've added a Text Frame to a Master Page and from the menu have chosen Text-->Insert-->Fields-->Page Number . For whatever reason I cannot actually write anything within the Text Frame and when I enter a number or any text, aka Page Publisher is putting the text outside of the frame and writing downwards. I took a screen snippet to explain it better.Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong and/or how to fix this so I can write my page number into the Text Frame like 'Page #' ?
Can't see new brushes in Affinity Photo
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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Awesome. Thanks 🙂