AdamStanislav

Hmmm William, are you secretly working with SciShow? Or is it mere coincidence that a mere day after you started this thread, they quickly covered the topic:

It is a very bad idea to post your email address in a public forum. Unless, that is, you want to get flooded with spam.

Oh, thanks. I just opened the image in my old Photoshop CSS 12 and did it in a few seconds. I have never upgraded from that version because Adobe switched to a monthly subscription. I am still learning Afinity Photo, so I am sure I will eventually find my way around it.

Thank you, though it still does not cover how to constrain the selection to the 16:9 (or any other) ratio.

Still, I have yet to be able to do things in AP I used to do in Photoshop. Such as select an area that is exactly 16:9 (width:height, not absolute size), then crop everything else out. Maybe it is possible, but in Photoshop it is obvious how to do it.

Looks like he deleted my comment. Wow!

Thanks, Jenifer. I followed your advice and posted the following comment (my YouTube handle is RustyTube if you want to see it under his video):

Not sure this is the right section of the forum, so please move it wherever it should be. I just finished watching a video about the best digital art software, in which he dismissed Affinity Photo as not dedicated to art (right about 20 seconds in). I was wondering whether to post a comment under the video and mention that Affinity is an entire suite of art tools, so it is not fair to dismiss an individual affinity app. But I wanted to hear (well, read) what you think, so here is his video:

See for yourself, GoldenAcademy.svg

I suppose those so ignorant had to stay in the cave.

Oh, and it means essentially Ageometer, no admittance. I suspect the hidden meaning was that if you do not know geometry, you’re not smart enough for higher education.

t the entrance to Plato’s Academy, a sign said ΑΓΕΩΜΕΤΡΗΤΟΣ ΜΗΔΕΙΣ ΕΙΣΙΤΩ, or if you prefer lower-case letters, αγεωμετρητοσ μηδεισ εισιτω. I just did this in Affinity Designer. Alas, the SVG export looks horrible, so here is the PNG version.

As the author of Bézier Circles and other shapes I have to say the only nodes that image needs are at the maxima and the minima of both, the x and the y, axes.

Confused about the whole thing. How can there be a color of the year? Are some colors better than others? And who decides which ones they are? And even if some colors were better, why this one? What is so special about it beyond some company wanting to sell it?

I was just reacting to the new Omicron variant and to express it as an artistic variant, I mean LUT. I called it Oh my Cron! This one is best seen on a picture of a person, but I am getting an error message when I try to upload the before and after pictures. So here is just the LUT, OhMyCron.cube.

Very nice!

It’s not unusual for an OpenType font to have that extension. OpenType evolved from TrueType, so as the biologists say, we still are what we have evolved from, not just humans but apes, and mammals, and animals, etc. In that way an OpenType font technically still is a TrueType font, albeit it evolved.

I am surprised it does not kern the long s followed by the o in some. It looks more like s ome.

Now I have a new problem. When I click on refine (talking about a selection), I carefully paint to select sections of the image that need to be selected. I do it with the image zoomed in. When I am satisfied, I scroll to a different part of the image (e.g., to the left or up) and paint overt areas that need to be selected. Then I scroll back to where I started originally and all that work is gone! Everything I painted over to be in the foreground is now in the background, and even something that was in the foreground to start with has been turned into the background. How do I prevent this? I have been trying this for two days now, and the software does whatever it wants. Once I have told it to make something the foreground, I want it to stay in the foreground!

That is awesome.

Here is my first attempt at using Affinity Photo to separate a subject from the background. Took my several attempts but here it is exported as a silhouette.

Thank you so much. Now that I have done so, I can see the mask itself, and I can see some gray areas in it. Is there a way to make them white? I mean, without having to paint over them, as in just applying some effect that would turn everything above a certain level of gray into white?

I have been playing with Affinity Photo that I bought yesterday, and produced a mask of the foreground of an image but wanted to be able to refine it more, so I saved the selection to a channel (whatever that means). I reversed the selection, deleted the background, added a layer below the image and flooded it with a color. Instantly I noticed there were a few leaks, so I clicked on the selection menu but saw no option to load the selection from whatever the channel it was saved to before. So, how do I load a selection from a channel? I should add that I was able to get back with a bunch of Ctrl-Z presses and then saved the selection to a file. But if I had not, I would be very frustrated right now, so I would like to know how to load it from a channel for future reference.

Nice work.

Excellent. I have just bought Affinity Photo and the book), so now I have all three Affinity products. Thanks, Alfred!