j3rry

The font was Unique Regular.
 

Nice effect! What font did you use?

If a screw is loose, life has a bit of play.
Playing with paper strukture and dissolve filter ...
Paper from Pixabay

This is the first watercolor portrait that I've created in Affinity Photo. I think the result came out not too bad.

I've covered this in both my original reply, and in the clarification to Hangman above;

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

It is certainly not the cheapest option - a perpetual license is still available though.
By the way, it's worth knowing that some camera brands have some of the market's best natural renderings of RAW data (others render more sterile and 'digital'), especially Fuji and Olympus, and with their accompanying software, you can develop your images into TIFF or JPG individually or in batches. The software is often dreadful and slow, but the rendering and colors are exactly the same as in the camera. Here you can adjust details, lighting, highlights, noise reduction much better. I even think that both or at least one of them with the more expensive camera models supports the camera's image processer for development (via USB), but it's a bit cumbersome. However, it's also free, so if you're not satisfied with Photos or LibRAW's rendering but don't have money for the expensive programs, then it's definitely a way to go, for free. So the beautifully developed image largely depends on the camera manufacturer's algorithms or the software's special algorithms, which are part of the companies' brand and definitely not random.
All this special quality and aesthetics can be bypassed by choosing software that relies solely on LibRAW, it's like basing all your bread on a dull generic bread mix. Whichever bread you choose, it's not really... special.

Yeah, I think a lot of people don't understand what a photo management application is and why it's so valuable.  Even my cousin in the industry just uses bridge and he keeps telling me to teach him Lightroom one day - and he owns it!  But I guess the key someone mentioned here (and adobe clearly realises with their photographer bundle), is a photo editor is not enough on its own.  You need some way of managing the photos and organising them, rating them and then you know what?  Add some basic adjustment capability and for the rest of it, integration for a full blown editor.  I don't know why this concept is so hard to grasp.  If you're going to have a photo editor for photos, those people are going to have lots of photos and they need something to manage them with.
 
I've bought all of Serifs products, both v1 and v2 including for iPad - though I never use the iPad stuff.  Mostly I use the photo editor - I'm not an artist.  And I combine the photo editor mostly with Exposure, though I've been trying out digikam again lately, it's pretty good.  Serif would make such an awesome and more polished version and I think looking at their pricing model would quickly become the defect standard, perhaps even becoming the catalyst for the photographer crowd to move away from Adobe.  One things for sure, they won't do it if there's no photo manager, cause it's so crucial.

I recently illustrated a Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly (Protographium marcellus) for my brother. He wanted a photo, which I did not have, so I decided to create an illustration for him instead. I used AD v2.31., but spent a lot of time in the Pixel Persona. I also made a few trips to Affinity Photo for a few features that AD does not support. Hope you like it. 

DAP messy felt tip painting affinity photo file imported from PSD.
Each layer will demonstrate how the artwork is compiled based on an original photo.
The Affinity Photo file is half the size of the imported PSD and yet retains all the detail.

This should be enough to illustrate its usefulness as part of an Affinity Work Flow. Enjoy playing with the files.

061218k0024_DAP_ALL__FeltTip_V7(FeltTip_V7_Messy).afphoto

@j3rry Lovely!

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

@TrentL @v_kyr @AffinityJules @firstdefence @carl123 @iconoclast Here is a new preview of the composite. I added a bowl of assorted candy and removed the two buckets. I also added shadows underneath the cups for the juices. I also updated the depth of field to make it look better.

Hope you all like it,

Like this @TrentL

I want to try to make it look more like early evening, just before the kids go out trick-or-treating. I'm also deciding on if I should make it look more like the front room, or the dining room or someplace else. I got to try to find some vintage 1980s decorations. Plus if I make it the dining room, I'm considering adding a couple of black cauldrons smoking from dry ice with a greenish liquid and a red one to show off a couple of Halloween drinks the mother makes

I have started a new photo composite of a scene in my fanfiction where the Denbroughs and their relatives pose together for a family photo on Halloween. This is a preview to see if I done ok on getting the characters into position and matching the right perspective. I wanted to get them into the right spot before starting to alter the lighting, and changing any colors. This is the closest image I could find that matches the basic look of the image: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/happy-family-mother-father-children-costumes-1512368018
 
Here is the preview:

Good job.

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

Hi All,
We have just made a new build available of the 2.4 beta live - version 2.4.0.2294 - which will be available to you on auto update shortly. The fix list for this build is here. 
Ash

The Artistic Text Tool in Affinity products is great for short amounts of text such as titles, headlines, and logos. This video is applicable to Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, and Affinity Photo. 
 
 

In a recent discussion, within the forum, about Affinity Designer vs Illustrator, I was asked what I’m able to achieve using AD that I wasn’t able to do using AI. This has nothing to do with what each app is capable of it’s purely the way I’ve gelled with AD. I personally always found AI frustrating and usually ended up exporting my line work to AP and finishing off illustrations in that. I’ve never been a fan of using raster art with its many restrictions. So when I discovered AD and found I was able to do all my illustrating in the one app I was overjoyed.
So anyway, now that I’ve bored everyone silly, here’s an example of my AD work with an additional enlarged section.
Please excuse the watermarks and lack of the entire image. This is still a work in progress, one page, of about 30, from a book I’m doing. So I don’t want to give everything away and I’m somewhat concerned about all this AI art indexing, or theft as I prefer to call it.
 
This is 100% vector. No brushes or raster elements used.