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Erase White Paper Tips and Tricks.
Affinity Photo video tutorial showing several ways to use the erase white paper filter.
 
 
 
 

hey there, Tutorial making an Egg Part-1! using Affinity Designer on Ipad pro
cheers!
 

Learn how to paint beautiful light effects in Affinity Photo.
Highlights and soft light glows that turn any picture into a magical experience.
In this video, we are going to use a recolor adjustment layer to add a wonderful shine of light to the highlights of our subject. An additional Soft Light Gradient Layer will help us to turn day into night. This will make the lights more obvious and add a beautiful night Ambiance to our image.
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Howdy from the Western mountain US, I’m Bear (my college nickname) and I lecture professionally and train graphic artists and provide technical consulting for the publishing industry.
I am an old Adobe Illustrator 1.1 user and was one of the pre-Adobe users of photoshop.
I am disgusted with Adobe and the lack of improvement and excessive price and hoping that eventually I can start to soapbox and promote Affinity for professional use to my clients and students.
To say that I’m excited about an “Illustrator/Photoshop killer” for the industry is an understatement, after Adobe killed Freehand and then switched to the monthly robbery model I can tell everyone I am just drooling at the possible opportunity to promote a lean and competent competitor.
Features we need to work in our industry:
Illustrator “like” Spot Color use and then “Adobe separator” printing features including “registration color” and listed print with LPI and halftone angle and shape color separation printing.
Photoshop “like” channel spot color generation and DCS 2.0 comparability for printing.
 
Please knock the fat greedy lazy pathetic arrogant monthly robber Barron off the top of the hill.
 
Bear

Walt, thanks for your patience. I revisited my problem, and I don't know how I got all my problems, but I did discover how to set point size and leading. Once I discovered the identity of the proper icon, I no longer had difficulty setting the proper leadings, which is a function of paragraph settings (like Quark). I am amazed how good publisher is. I just have to adapt to the UI which, I know, can't violate the "look and feel" of the established applications.
I am already using Designer and Photo with Quark Xpress. The printers have been able to use my PDFs. I will now finish with Publisher and see how that goes.
Process work will not be a problem. Black and one or more spot colors may be. Duotones are not possible with anything but process colors. I think. I hope I am wrong about this this matter too. Again, I thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge.

If I understand Petar's request #1, it's that all Global colors be labeled with their respective color components (CMK or RGB.)
That's a minimum. I would prefer ALL swatches be thus labeled… and possibly editable to give the color a reference… all leaves, all pencils, etc..
In addition there must be a way to select a spot PMS color by typing its reference#. And the document swatch file must be available in list form with labels at all times.
Color overprinting should be on an object-by-object basis. Or the object selection should override the swatch designation. Or both.
Full-color printing or video art are not as demanding as spot color or flexographic art where every object is a specific ink or combination. AD should be as suitable as Illustrator.
I would like AD to do simple jobs accurately. Affinity photo does a good job at refining photos, but right now, I find Affinity Designer makes simple print jobs more challenging
than necessary. I would love vector blending and envelope distortion, but Designer has to handle color(s) better. Or at least let me know where I can find out what I'm missing.
This is not in criticism of Perar's observations. His are more sophisticated and include things that Adobe has recently made available
 

Super!! Thanks!

I would add support for spot color duotones. I don't believe a photo can be printed in, lets say, metallic gold much less gold and black. This is a necessity in packaging, flexographic printing, or high-end graphics. Not everything is just cmyk or rgb. 

I would add support for spot color duotones. I don't believe a photo can be printed in, lets say, metallic gold much less gold and black. This is a necessity in packaging, flexographic printing, or high-end graphics. Not everything is just cmyk or rgb. 

Here is a tutorial for how to do a simple drop shadow using affinity designer....figured I would share 
 
drop shadow working file.afdesign

Thanks. Another good thing to know.

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This short video is about how to create offset paths in Affinity Designer.  Offset paths are a powerful tool that designers use to create exact duplicates of a vector object shape and then use these duplicate as individual vector objects.  With the ability to create an exact size for your offset, you've have a powerful tool to create fantastic eye catching layers in you digital art. Creating offset paths in Affinity Designer is quick and it's easy. I show you how to setup the keyboard shortcut and with one click you are ready to create offsets for any object, shape, text, or line.  Offset paths are one of the secrets that designers use to create stunning computer graphics.  Create your own website graphics, digital art, blog posts illustrations, instagram images, and go ahead and brag on twitter!  Happy Creating :-) Jen
 

The video 'Nature portrait start to finish'
has also a long part about frequency separation, starting at 1'07''

I'd suggest hours of meticulous use of the clone tool, along with some repainting of missing elements by hand.
 
Sorry but there is no magic button.

How do I achieve a color within a black & white in Affinity? I have tried the Selection Brush choosing the parts I wish to apply that adjustment to, but I am not getting a very sharp finish.
 
Update: I have discovered the video, and just as I suspected, it is with the use of the Selection brush, but the tips I got from the following video makes it more manageable using the brush. Very helpful:
 

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Hi guys,
 
I can't for the life of me workout (or find any tutorials) on converting a marque selection into a path and vice versa. In Fireworks this is easy, and I use it all the time, you just create a new marque (based on colour range selection, say) and use the Selection menu too Convert Marquee to Path and to go in the opposite direction use the Modify menu and click "Convert Path to Marquee". Job done.
 
I just can't find/see any way to do this with Affinity Designer or Photo.
 
Typical example of what I use this for: find a flat pixel graphic that you want to convert into vectors to recolour and scale up etc. I'm trying to create some new maps from some older pixel maps right now.
 
How can/do I do that?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Q.

A glyphs panel would be soooo  much more useful. You can sort the glyph by alternate character and decorative characters, symbols, etc. AD's solution is very incomplete. 

Under the Swatches selection type drop down, I get this.
 
 

Hi -
 
I like the ability of being able to change the rotation center by holding down cmd. It would be nice to have an option to rotate objects in a group independently around their own axes by holding down some additional keyboard modifier, or maybe hitting a button in the context menu.
 
Is there already another way to achieve this?
 
Thanks,
John