NapaArtist

So, I found these instruction for Adobe photoshop to create a pencil sketch, but I don't know why they don't work in Affinity Photo. Simply, you create layers to Desaturate, Invert in Color Dodge blending mode, apply Gaussian Blur, and the slider can give you anything from a faint sketch to a nice value study. Plus, another adjustment layer - levels helps strenghthen it. But I can't get past the Gaussian Blur step with Affinity Photo. Here is the link to the instructions if you'd like to try it: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/photography/discover/photo-to-pencil-sketch.html . I've been trying to avoid using P/S, but I've had to keep it on my desktop since there still seem to be things Affinity can't do.

My searches of the Forums are not finding anything recent on standard templates for Avery labels. Do such things exist, and if not, why not? Avery address labels are industry standard and it seems odd to make eveyone recreate their own. Specifically, I'm looking for the two major Avery templates for Avery 8160/5160 Address Labels and Avery 8871/8371 Business Cards. These templates exist on the Avery website so is there a suggested way to import them into Affinity Designer? They have pdf, ps, .ind Adobe formates available. Thank you, Ann

Is there a place to set the default units to inches? I'm constantly changing all the tools from pixels to inches.

I'm just wondering if there is a manual. I'm excited about Affinity Photo, but I really hate video tutorials. They take way too long. I just need to quickly read how the crop or gradient tools are controlled, being an advanced Photoshop user. Thanks,