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Michail
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On 12/5/2022 at 5:21 PM, Tim Parsons said:
I currently use PS CS6 for DOF effects from 3D render still images and I was wondering how to do the same in AP2. I've attached a YouTube link to share the process in CS6 and hope to be able to do something similar in AP2 but for the life of me cannot figure out the recipe. I'm hoping somebody here would know the secret.
You can do it with gradient masks. But the quickest way to do it is with the depth of field filter.
The filter can be found in the menu Filter > Blur > Depth of Field, or in the Live Filters:
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19 hours ago, NotMyFault said:
Even more l dislike how color panels work (there are so many in different places to be found), the UI is relaly confusing wrt foreground / background / stoke / fill colors, fill tool and gradients, swatches, dependency to selected tool and/or layer, opacity vs. noise toggle, color vs. layer vs. fill opacity etc
I agree with you about the use of colours. It is a bit confusing at times. For example, the adoption of the colour model when recording a colour as a colour field is a bit puzzling.
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19 hours ago, NotMyFault said:
You can. This is one of the most misunderstood features. For all adjustment layers, filters, and the fill layer, you can use the brush tool to paint on the inherent mask of that layer types.
Unlike you, I actually like the principle of integrated masks. What I meant was not masking, but painting with colours, which logically cannot work on a fill layer. Colours are interpreted as greyscales in a mask.
I am still not convinced that this coupling is necessary. However, there is one point that could be the reason for the coupling:
When you change the colour of a fill layer, you change the primary colour of the colour selectors at the same time. This therefore changes one of the two mask grey values. I have to think about how to get around this.The tool coupling mentioned above will probably not change. I now use the "H" key to switch back and forth.
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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:
If you have the Brush selected, how is the application supposed to know that you don't intend to keep painting, and instead want to adjust the parameters of the Fill layer? Either scenario is possible, so it picks the more likely one: with a brush you're going to paint.
What difference does it make?! I can't paint in a fill layer anyway!
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13 hours ago, ,,, said:
When a raster brush tool is active, colour controls affect the paint that will be applied to a raster object (Pixel or Mask or built-in mask of a Fill/Adjustment/Filter).
When another type of tool is active, colour controls affect the fill/stroke of selected non-raster objects - a Fill is a non-raster object with fill, no bounds and a built-in mask.That is already clear. But if a tool is active, that does not necessarily mean that I want to work on a fill level with it.
It may be that I am painting in another layer ("painting brush"). If I now switch briefly to the fill layer to change the colour, this does not work. It is annoying that in these cases I always have to select another tool before I can do this.I am not sure if this coupling is absolutely necessary.
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The colour of a fill layer can only be changed if certain tools are selected. For all others, the colour remains unchanged.
It works for example with the "Gradient Tool", the selection tools or "Remove Blemishes". It does not work with, for example, the "Paint Brush", "Clone" or "Repair Brush".This also applies to V1.
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@thomaso, I just wanted to put the absoluteness of your statements into perspective
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8 hours ago, Artsketch said:
For the professional creative design community, Linux is not significant, neither Windows. Apple is still the choice, if money doesn't matters.
Many still believe that if they put an Apple in their room, they will automatically be seen as creative by others.
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1 hour ago, thomaso said:
"Open" always creates a layer of type "Pixel" ...
That is not quite right. An image is opened as it is. If it does not contain a pixel layer, it will not have one after opening. The command "Open" does not create a layer either. It simply opens the picture. And if the image has 100 layers, then it has 100 layers.
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3 hours ago, max1josef said:
I tried it with pixel layers and layer masks.
Perhaps another app on your computer uses a key combination that includes "ö" or "ä".
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2 hours ago, friedgoldmole said:
Just upgraded to version 2 of Designer and really disappointed to find the boolean operations are still broken and unreliable, trying to add two shapes together, one derived from text which was first converted to curves and ungrouped, with the correct layer order and tried with both Alternative and Winding fill types both result in a black box when using the Add boolean, not the expected result. Looks like I will have to go back to inkscape for this seemingly basic feature.If I try to do an intersect join with a simple box and one of the numbers as a workaround everything just disappears.
I don't know exactly what you want to achieve and whether the Boolean operators are the right means. If your goal is to get a single object on a single layer, here's what you do:
- In the Layers panel, drag the text layer over the penultimate layer.
- Select the last two layers and choose Layer > Geometry > Subtract from the menu.
- Select all remaining layers and choose Layer > Geometry > Merge Curves from the menu.
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2 hours ago, max1josef said:
The default keys "[" and "]" for changing brush size dont't work (and are by the way not comfortable to type on a german keyboard: "AltGr"+"[" and "AltGr"+"]"). I haven't changed anything in the sortcut settings so far.
I can confirm that. If I remember correctly, I or someone else reported this a looong time ago.
2 hours ago, max1josef said:This works, but when I press "ö" or "ä" twice the whole layer or mask I'm working on gets deleted! Not only the content of the layer/mask but the layer/mask at all!
It seems to work as expected for me. Does this happen with all kinds of layers and masks?
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This seems to be the chief accountant among the vultures - because of the many drawers
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50 minutes ago, David in Mississippi said:
When I add Selective Color Adjustments to a test photo (a layer-from-selection in the photo), that dialog box does not appear, and after more than an hour of searching, I can find no way to make that dialog box show up.
Welcome to the forums here
Does this only happen with the Selective Colour Correction adjustment, or also with the other adjustments?
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Yes @patrick_h_lauke, it is a bug because it works, but not as expected. Either you click once briefly, or you drag a short distance before continuing with the shift key pressed. Neither is acceptable.
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36 minutes ago, Ron P. said:
Double-click when you want to terminate the stroke you're making and/or want to start a new stroke.
I had not read that you had written about the pen tool. But this thread is not about vector tools, but about painting tools!
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40 minutes ago, Ron P. said:
I think it's By Design. You can
double-clickfor your end-point or release the Shift key.Ok, went back and checked again, I'm so accustom to releasing the Shift key, I do it without thinking about it. This does work differently for the Pixel tool. With the Pen tool you can double-click to mark the end.
Can you describe a little more precisely what you mean by the double-click?
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20 minutes ago, patrick_h_lauke said:
is this documented anywhere? i looked over the help files, but didn't spot anything about connected lines
I don't know.
I assume that the connected lines are intentional. Such connecting lines can be useful. So there must be another technique for the unconnected lines. There is still the possibility of the timing of the shift key. This is also how it works in Photoshop. -
5 minutes ago, patrick_h_lauke said:
@Michail yes, I know, but the point is that it shouldn't need to be done this way, no?
I agree with you there. Normally it should work like this:
- If you press the shift key before the mouse button, you get connected lines.
- If you press the shift key after the mouse key, you get separate lines.
Maybe this problem has not yet reached the developers.
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- Draw a line.
- Without holding down the Shift key, click once on the place where you want the new line to start.
- Now press the Shift key and drag the line while holding down the mouse button.
The procedure takes some getting used to, but it works.
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10 hours ago, June Yap said:
Usually you can put an object directly at the top of another object by cut and paste it to the destination object after you apply "insert at the top of the layer" to the destination object. This function is not working on the latest update (2.0.3).
The behaviour has always been like this. The object is placed at the top of the layer stack.
If you want to arrange an object above a certain layer, first select this layer and then insert it (Ctrl+V). You do not need any of the paste buttons in the toolbar in this case. -
5 hours ago, P3Ci said:
From V2 I cannot direct programs to insert (open) files directly into Affinity photo..
Or you can wait until Serif provides an exe installation file.
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29 minutes ago, Maciej_G said:
Sure feel free to have a look.
Thank you. Scaling works perfectly here. What irritates me most is the connection with the additional keys.
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@Maciej_G Welcome here to the forums!
I cannot confirm this behaviour here with a new document. Do you mind sharing the document with us? That way, we might be able to see if it's your documents or your technology.
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Può descrivere il problema in modo più dettagliato? Che cosa non funziona esattamente per voi?
Can you describe the problem in a little more detail? What exactly is not working for you?