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I am quite fascinated by the YouTube post on letterpress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyFvZFtJC9U&t=663s That's why I tried my hand at it and wanted to realise it exclusively in Affinity Photo. Of course, this is only a plagiarism, but you have to start with something.

The two points at the end of https://support.dxo.com/hc/en-us/articles/5091760579869-How-do-I-install-Nik-Collection-for-use-with-Affinity-Photo- are important, "During the “Compatible Host” step, click on + to create a custom plugins folder in your preferred directory (use the combination shift+Cmd+n if necessary), then click Open. We suggest creating an empty folder beforehand. At this step, just select this folder on your computer."

I think I understood the principle well and tried to implement it in my picture. So thanks a lot to the experts @AffinityJules and @dannyg9 What I noticed is that the light direction of the bushes is different from that of the Buddha and the sheep. But I do not have a simple and quick solution for this. I have to consider this fact much earlier in the process.

The shadow looks very realistic .

@AffinityJules, many thanks for your tutorial. I will try to make it part of my toolbox for shadows. 👍

Thanks @AffinityJules and @dannyg9. Why didn't I think of that?

Thank you for the wise words, you are probably right and I will edit and change the image a few more times....

Refined the shadows as @dannyg9 suggested, many thanks for the hints.

@dannyg9 thanks for the tips, I will try to apply them.

Also today AP run in this issue again. But because of the tip here in the forum it was only I opened the file and added a level adjustment, immediately tried to save … beach ball

Composing on theme „stones“, all done with AP.

Small composing on the theme "Peace" with AP. Pictures from Pixabay and from my archive. Have a nice weekend...

After one week working without this problem, today it occurs again 😞 So its not a problem with waiting for external drive, as far as I can see

As you can see in the screenshot the option is enabled

The live filter "Median Blur" creates black corners. AP 1.10.5