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Playing with the mirror filter

Playing with the mirror filter

Using Focusstack and the mirror filter in APbeta 1.7.0.112

Using Focusstack and the mirror filter in APbeta 1.7.0.112

Using Focusstack and the mirror filter in APbeta 1.7.0.112

Using Focusstack and the mirror filter in APbeta 1.7.0.112

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

This is the time of year that Amaryllis (aka Hippeastrum) bulbs burst into flower. This is the second flower from one bulb. The first has rather gone over and the third is not quite open.  I photographed this full face using 13 images in a stack, focusing on the tip of the stigma and progressively down into the throat of the flower.
I found that using the jpegs resulted in the white parts of the petals being rather blown out, so I used the original raw (awr) files. Using the merge, I cropped it, then duplicated it and  made a selection of the flower itself and deleted it. I then inverted the selection and applied a Layer > New Live Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with Preserve Alpha selected.  Restoring the flower from the bottom layer gave the finished image.

John

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

Very nice. You have the group of sporangia nicely focussed with the background suitably OOF.
My normal reaction to a focus stack is to ask why is it not all in focus. However I think you have got it right here.
John

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

49 Shots, the rest made in Affinity Photo Beta (112)

They already have...  we get the opportunity to buy and use a product which is that much better than it would have been, not to mention a sneak peak into said upcoming product.

Hi Chris,
I tried again but could not see the effect anymore. Sorry, but I will inform you if I see it again. 

Hi Chris,
I can also get the same effect with the Live filter after setting the range to 100%, but then using the Adjustment Layer makes it much more worse. 
 

It must be an init problem, starting on an retina display works even i move the beta to my eizo. I can open and work with the HSL dialog. Closing the file and open again on the non-retina display crashes the beta.

With version 1.7.0.100 HSL dont crash anymore and my short test shows that HSL is working. Congrats  and thanks.

Nothing special with my MBP, only a EIZO CS240 as external monitor and a Wacom pad.
Überblick über die Systemsoftware:
  Systemversion: macOS 10.14.1 (18B75)
  Kernel-Version: Darwin 18.2.0
  Startvolume: Macintosh HD
  Startmodus: Normal
  Sicherer virtueller Speicher: Aktiviert
  Systemintegritätsschutz: Aktiviert
  Zeit seit dem Start: 3 Tage 4:58
Hardware-Übersicht:
  Modellname: MacBook Pro
  Modell-Identifizierung: MacBookPro11,3
  Prozessortyp: Intel Core i7
  Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 2,5 GHz
  Anzahl der Prozessoren: 1
  Gesamtanzahl der Kerne: 4
  L2-Cache (pro Kern): 256 KB
  L3-Cache: 6 MB
  Speicher: 16 GB
  Boot-ROM-Version: 149.0.0.0.0
  SMC-Version (System): 2.19f12
 
If its helpful the graphic here is:
 
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M:
  Chipsatz-Modell: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
  Typ: GPU
  Bus: PCIe
  PCIe-Lane-Breite: x8
  VRAM (dynamisch, maximal): 2048 MB
  Hersteller: NVIDIA (0x10de)
  Geräte-ID: 0x0fe9
  Versions-ID: 0x00a2
  ROM-Version: 3776
  Automatischer Wechsel der Grafikmodi: Unterstützt
  gMux-Version: 4.0.8 [3.2.8]
  Metal: Unterstützt, Funktionsset macOS GPUFamily1 v4
  Displays:
Farb-LCD:
  Displaytyp: Integriertes Retina-LCD-Display
  Auflösung: 2880 x 1800 Retina
  Framepuffertiefe: 24-Bit Farbe (ARGB8888)
  Synchronisierung: Aus
  Eingeschaltet: Ja
  Rotation: Unterstützt
  Helligkeit automatisch anpassen: Nein
CS240:
  Auflösung: 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA - Widescreen Ultra eXtended Graphics Array)
  UI sieht aus wie: 1920 x 1200
  Framepuffertiefe: 24-Bit Farbe (ARGB8888)
  Hauptdisplay: Ja
  Synchronisierung: Aus
  Eingeschaltet: Ja
  Rotation: Unterstützt
  Helligkeit automatisch anpassen: Nein
  Verbindungstyp: DisplayPort
 
I've attached a complete crashreport.
Crash_ap_beta.txt

Here I have put together 10 tips for Affinity Photo. I hope you find them useful
 
 

Of course not but to be real, Photoshop and Affinity Photo are both intended for the exact same thing. No one wants to be using both so one or the other will have to suffice which in most cases, people will stick to photoshop because they know it well and it has more features.

Some people will *replace* photoshop with Affinity Photo and those people expect to be able to get the same out of the software one way or another. Even if their favourite feature in photoshop isn't in Affinity there needs to be an alternative, non-awkward method of achieving the same results.

i use split toning for brown-ish tone like that.

Hi everyone, here is my latest illustration made in Affinity Designer for iPad. Connect with me on Dribbble if you are Dribbbler: https://dribbble.com/shots/4859882-YOLO
Thanks for your time!!