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Hello everyone!
 
This is my first post here. I wanted to share the logo to represent my professional identity/brand, that I designed using Affinity Designer.
 
Any feedback would be appreciated.
 
Regards,
Haroon Q. Raja

Based on a character I found in the web by Amanda Tapie.
 
 

Hi!
 
I'd like to share the last painting I made.
I sketched the scene and the "cat" directly on AffinityPhoto using my pencils (that can be downloaded here)
 
    This is the value painting step, I used some Gouaches from the available set and new ones I created for this specific work.     And at the end colours! I was looking for a movie-like toning. For this step I used only Recolour and Curve Adjustment layers clipped by painting layers (Foreground/Lion/Fog/Background/Sky) and applyed a bit of sharpening to enhance strokes.  

I was trying to record the process of creation in AF and AD for this new character to share on social media.
 
I manually scrubbed through the history whilst recording a section of the screen with Quicktime. Then created the gif with GifBrewery.
 
Got me thinking - making recordings form history and sharing could be a very cool bonus feature.  :)
 
 

Hey there!
 
Here's a quick tutorial/demo on how to mix vector shapes and bitmap textures in Affinity Designer. Here I'm showing a simple but pretty useful technique I'm applying to almost all my vector artwork nowadays. 
 
FREE SAMPLE PACK!
I'm also giving away a small sample of my recent brush pack for Affinity Designer called Texturizer Pro. With this sample pack you can have enough to play around and get an idea of what the full set is about. 
 
Click on the image below to download this FREE sample pack and watch the video tutorial!
 

 
Hope you guys enjoy and find this useful!

\working for me nicely now and getting faster. Could do with a brush resize keystroke or mouse function though.

In fact, after a simple copy/paste, the way to resize object in AP works like smart object function in Photoshop BUT you don't have to pay attention to the update of the file. Some people could think it's a silly way to work but I've never made a mistake by having forget a update of an object ... I use my head instead of let the machine do. (^_^!)

And another detail : packshots are on another hard drive. They are archived on a bluray for my jewels library (+2500 objects), and catalogs of a year are archived on a "customer's bluray" ...

Hi everyone,
This is another project that i have been working on this week. A slightly different but equally simple style ;) I am creating a whole bunch of people to populate a village scene.
 
Thoughts this week:
 
This is already turning out to be my go to app for character illustration. I was using illustrator this week for an old project and I found myself thinking I wish i could do a simple alpha grad :) and i was also missing the functionality of the select tool in affinity and being able to click to add points without juggling with keyboard shortcuts.
 
Because I like the illustrating workflow in Affinity i decided to try doing some packaging artwork, but I quickly discovered that I have quite a few Postscript Type 1 fonts :( do you have any idea when/ if these will be supported? It's a shame because i really like the way the text tool works to drag out a size when you first click. Also because I do a few iterations of the designs I found myself really missing illustrators art boards. So I think I will be sticking with illustrator for packaging design …for now.
 
Pen tool - when i am drawing out straight edged shapes it would be handy if when i click and drag on a line it could drag the edge instead of bending it. The bending is really cool for curves but when working with straight edged shapes it gets in the way. I guess the behaviour should be determined by the node type i.e if smooth then bend , but if sharp then move the entire edge.
 
I'm really looking forward to a wacom friendly zoom method, the mouse wheel works just great when using the mouse, but I was working in Affinity for about 6 hours straight yesterday and the RSI was starting to kick in a little ;)
 
Anyways… as always great work guys looking forward to the next update (fingers crossed for any of the following zoom shortcut, rounded corners, eraser tool, art boards)
 
Have a good one
Dave
 

Ok, Last one. I got to get some sleep! I gotta say though Affinity Photo is equally as much fun and addicting as Affinity Designer! I already thinking about how to cancel my plans tomorrow evening to tinker a bit more. lol

In this image I tried  too mess with color selections, color balance, selections, Adjustment layers, tone mapping and tonal adjustments to create this illustrative look.
 

 

 
 

Hello guys!
 
This is Jixie Bubblegum, a quick character I made last night using Designer and my Texturizer Pro brushes. Hope you dig!
 

Bought AF for windows a couple of weeks ago. Really impressed.

Hello I am a huge fan of both affinity designer and photos, and own both of them! I just wanted to share some of the work that I have done using the new symbols tool in the Affinity Designer beta. When I got into sacred geometry mandala illustrations, I used smart layers inside photoshop. In the last month, I've recreated some of my past works and created new designs using the new betas.
 
I'd love to thank all their development teams for creating such incredible and intuitive vector applications. You allow me to effortlessly create designs in Designer and quickly export them to Photos to add nice image/gradient masks and effects before submitting the final render.
 
Here's some of the works I've created. I have them all on my Instagram as well (@garetmckinley).
 
 
 

The Ice Cream Rave Van...January Blues so needed a dose of Neon cheer this week.

Good news for us !

Perhaps I'm not the fist one but I found the way to use all the plugins of the Nik Collection in Affinity Photo.
After installing the Nik Collection by following tutorials, we all have the same problems : Viveza 2, Sharpener Pro 3, Dfine 2 et Selective Tool doesn't work. The problem come from the Windows format of the config file of each plugins. In fact, this file is a text file format with the .config extension.

Analog Efex Pro 2 - natively works
Color Efex Pro 4 - natively works
Dfine 2 - you have to replace the Dfine2.config
HDR Efex Pro 2 - natively works
Sharpener Pro 3 - you have to replace the SHP3.config
Silver Efex Pro 2 - natively works
Viveza 2  - you have to replace the Viveza2.config (after a quick test, this one doesn't work very well, because of a color problem - I'm not enought competent to solve it)

Selective Tool - can't works in AP because it's a sort of scripts panel to call Nik plugins with different ways - We could create similar actions with AP Macros.

How and where replacing the .config files ?
Go to the folder you create before installing the Nik collection / Google /
In Dfine 2 folder > replace Dfine2.config (you have to login)
In Sharpener Pro 3 folder > replace SHP3.config (you have to login)
In Viveza 2 folder > replace Viveza2.config (you have to login)

If you didn't erase the way to access to these plugins in AP's preferences, they works now.

Enjoy it !
configs files.zip

Hi,

As I explain it in my previous post (MacOS + AP + Nik Collection FULL FONCTIONALS ...), Selective Tool plugin can't work in Affinity Photo because it open a scripts panel in Photoshop ; but most of then can be reproduce with simple macros in Affinity Photo ... So I did it !

1- At first, you have to install Nik Collection plugins for Affinity Photo, some YouTube videos explain clearly how to do it.
2- You have to correct *.config files has I explain here.
3- Install "NIK Collection Selective Tool.afmacros"

How it work ?
Generaly, the "real" Selectiv Tool copye and merges all the layers, then it creates a full mask (black) befor calling the plugin you select with it. When you've finished to work in the plugin's panel, you go back in the editing software and you just have to erase parts of the mask with a white brush to reveale the effect ...
NIK Collection Selective Tool.afmacros works exactly the same way.

Note : you don't have to use Selective Tool to work with Nik Collection plugins ; this tool is just a "plus".

Enjoy it !
NIK Collection Selective Tool macros for Affinity Photo.zip

Hi,

As I explain it in my previous post (MacOS + AP + Nik Collection FULL FONCTIONALS ...), Selective Tool plugin can't work in Affinity Photo because it open a scripts panel in Photoshop ; but most of then can be reproduce with simple macros in Affinity Photo ... So I did it !

1- At first, you have to install Nik Collection plugins for Affinity Photo, some YouTube videos explain clearly how to do it.
2- You have to correct *.config files has I explain here.
3- Install "NIK Collection Selective Tool.afmacros"

How it work ?
Generaly, the "real" Selectiv Tool copye and merges all the layers, then it creates a full mask (black) befor calling the plugin you select with it. When you've finished to work in the plugin's panel, you go back in the editing software and you just have to erase parts of the mask with a white brush to reveale the effect ...
NIK Collection Selective Tool.afmacros works exactly the same way.

Note : you don't have to use Selective Tool to work with Nik Collection plugins ; this tool is just a "plus".

Enjoy it !
NIK Collection Selective Tool macros for Affinity Photo.zip

Good news for us !

Perhaps I'm not the fist one but I found the way to use all the plugins of the Nik Collection in Affinity Photo.
After installing the Nik Collection by following tutorials, we all have the same problems : Viveza 2, Sharpener Pro 3, Dfine 2 et Selective Tool doesn't work. The problem come from the Windows format of the config file of each plugins. In fact, this file is a text file format with the .config extension.

Analog Efex Pro 2 - natively works
Color Efex Pro 4 - natively works
Dfine 2 - you have to replace the Dfine2.config
HDR Efex Pro 2 - natively works
Sharpener Pro 3 - you have to replace the SHP3.config
Silver Efex Pro 2 - natively works
Viveza 2  - you have to replace the Viveza2.config (after a quick test, this one doesn't work very well, because of a color problem - I'm not enought competent to solve it)

Selective Tool - can't works in AP because it's a sort of scripts panel to call Nik plugins with different ways - We could create similar actions with AP Macros.

How and where replacing the .config files ?
Go to the folder you create before installing the Nik collection / Google /
In Dfine 2 folder > replace Dfine2.config (you have to login)
In Sharpener Pro 3 folder > replace SHP3.config (you have to login)
In Viveza 2 folder > replace Viveza2.config (you have to login)

If you didn't erase the way to access to these plugins in AP's preferences, they works now.

Enjoy it !
configs files.zip

Hi,

As I explain it in my previous post (MacOS + AP + Nik Collection FULL FONCTIONALS ...), Selective Tool plugin can't work in Affinity Photo because it open a scripts panel in Photoshop ; but most of then can be reproduce with simple macros in Affinity Photo ... So I did it !

1- At first, you have to install Nik Collection plugins for Affinity Photo, some YouTube videos explain clearly how to do it.
2- You have to correct *.config files has I explain here.
3- Install "NIK Collection Selective Tool.afmacros"

How it work ?
Generaly, the "real" Selectiv Tool copye and merges all the layers, then it creates a full mask (black) befor calling the plugin you select with it. When you've finished to work in the plugin's panel, you go back in the editing software and you just have to erase parts of the mask with a white brush to reveale the effect ...
NIK Collection Selective Tool.afmacros works exactly the same way.

Note : you don't have to use Selective Tool to work with Nik Collection plugins ; this tool is just a "plus".

Enjoy it !
NIK Collection Selective Tool macros for Affinity Photo.zip

Tiens, un p'tit frenchy !
 
Je suis graphiste freelance pro depuis 18 ans, même si j'ai fait des études en Bac Pro P.F.I. (ne cherche pas ça n'existe plus) ; j'ai surtout fournit un travail personnel colossal en cherchant à me dépasser à chaque dossier (même les plus bidons).
 
Je vais te donner 3 trucs :
 
1 - Constitue-toi une solide connaissance des références dans les domaines artistiques : cinema, musique, graphisme et histoire de l'art (plus tu auras de références en tête plus tu seras précis et exigeant dans le rendu de tes travaux), surtout ne bloque pas sur quelque chose sous prétexte qu'à la première approche tu n'aimes pas ; il y a toujours du bon à prendre ...
 
2 - Prend du recule sur ton travail, même pour une maquette ou un exercice : si tu penses que ce que tu as fait est passable, tu recommences jusqu'à ce que ce soit parfait selon la vue de ton esprit et n'hésite pas à faire des brouillons ou des tests avant de commencer (personnellement, je griffonne des dizaines de feuilles avant de faire un logo par exemple).
 
3 - Ne recule JAMAIS devant un obstacle sous prétexte que tu n'as pas la connaissance ou la technique ou je ne sais quoi ! Un bon graphiste ne baisse jamais les bras, il cherche des solutions techniques et esthétique et ça le rend encore plus fort. Ça signifie que tu ne dois pas hésiter à sauter d'un logiciel à un autre en les utilisant pour ce qu'ils sont simplement : de simples outils.

Tu démarres bien. Bon courage pour la suite !

Hi all,
Some fun while exploring brushes, the layerstack and blending in AD win.
Congratulations to the affinity team with this awesome release, looking forward to the Photo win release.
Hope you enjoy.

 

Wow! Great Work man. keep it up.

Hi all,
I'm thinking of ways that I can use old illustrations of mine and give them new life. I have all my acrylics artwork scanned and archived. A2 Poster: Coffeebot. Approved by the US Fed. Bureau of Caffeine Control and HM Ministry of Beverages. 
 

Wow! Great looking work. :)

Nice retro tone and feeling!