Phil_rose

Thanks, both. I will check these out. I was searching for Paste Into and, of course, that's the PS name for it. My Google skills, she sucks!

Hi all, I have pasted some clouds into a selection (see screengrab) and I want to resize the pasted clouds but I can't find a way to do so as it just resizes the selection as well as the clouds when I use the Move tool. Can anyone help me work this out as I'm sure it must be possible? Thanks in advance!

That looks very helpful too. Thanks!

Ooh ooh, that looks hopeful. I'm at work right now but will try it later. Thanks so much!

I'll be your fairy any time. Slap me up there!

You may notice it is thinker at top than bottom. This is because I was shaved to have my gallbladder out. Half grown back. You ain't seen the half of my hairniness!

If I manage it you'll be the first to 'ear about it.

Well, I'm armed with AP but I need a leg up to use its full potential. Um... other body part puns!

Eeek. This is all getting above my knowledge threshold. Bump maps? Displacement filters? Gah. Will have to look into all this. Thanks to all though. If anyone wants to flesh out some techniques that would be very useful and would result in much appreciation! And the pic of me gives the lie to my profile pic which was taken in about 1988!

Hi all, I have this self portrait as sadly-not-up-to-snuff Michelangelo's David and I want to overlay a marble finish on it. I think I could make this happen in Photoshop but I can't work out how to do it in Affinity and I ain't going back to Adobe. As you will see, I have added a layer with marble but I can't make it cover just my body whilst also leaving all the detail in the body. Does that make sense? If anyone has any help to offer I would be very grateful and I hope no one is horribly offended by my image! I have a STAR!! If this is beyond the pale let me know and I'll delete that image since hopefully it might make sense without it. Phil

I too would love to see lens flare addition filters!

Hi all, This was a part of another question that I had that seem to get a bit lost in the details of the second section of my question so I thought I'd reposted the separate thread here in the hope of getting some help. I am a photographer and so I am not really likely to use slices in the sense of slicing up an image since I don't really do much web design work but what I would like to do is that output one image in a range of sizes and/or formats to subfolders. I can set this up in the Slices panel as you can see from the first of my attached screenshots. Having set this up I would love to save this is a batch export setup so that the next photograph I open I can export to 3 locations (in this example) as a full-size JPEG, a JPEG is 1000 pixels across and a PSD. But when I hit the drop down as shown in the second screenshot the options are greyed out that would allow me to do this clearly I'm doing something wrong. Actually, I just see that if I draw a slice of a particular size within an image I am then able to create an export preset stop does that mean that it's simply impossible to do what I'm hoping? Thanks, Phil

That's brilliant! Makes Total sense! Thanks so much. Not quite sure what the difference between 500h and 500p would be. Surely if you put 500 H it wouldn't matter whether the image was portrait or landscape in orientation? Either way, wouldn't it and about 500 pixels high? Have to do some experimentation. Now, my second question seems to still be troubling me. If I set up a set of outputs with one of them being a full-size JPEG into a folder called JPEGs and another one being a full-size PSD into a folder called PSDs and so on I would love to be up to save that and the preset to reuse and choose it from a drop-down at a later date but I can't seem to do anything to make the drop down change from being greyed out. I wrong about what this refers to to? It seems that "create export setup preset" or to do just what I'm looking for. Am I wrong? Thanks for sticking with me on this. Phil

I actually put in 1/2 and it converted to 0.5. If it only takes an integer that would mean you can only INCREASE the size. Can that be right? Thanks! Phil

Thanks so much. So I guess this is where I should be adding a resize? I am having trouble since I don't know what the words would be to put after (for instance) 1000 for pixel width. Is there a resource for that somewhere,do you know?

Thank you so much for this. It's beginning to make sense. I do however have some more issues with it. The directory thing makes complete sense but I tried adding 0.5 to the user scale field as you will see in the screen grab and the exported image was still full size. I hoped that it would reduce it by half. Is that not a correct assumption? Secondly (and I'm sure there will be many other questions too!) Is that when I had set up my outputs as per the second screen grab I really hoped I would be up to save their as a new default but the default button is greyed out when I hit the drop down. Why would that be? Thank you very much for any more help that you can offer. Phil

Thanks so much all. I will try to work through all this in a while but I am suddenly snowed under with photo clients and must work on one man's shiny head! But I haven't forgotten!

It does indeed. I drag the slice name over, close that dialog then hit Export Slices.

Unfortunately I'm a photographer rather than a programmer and this is just gobbledegook to me.Ah well.

I'm sorry, yes, the latter. The two formats I have got down. It's exporting to two locations that I can't work out on my PC.

I think I'm still on the same question of how to use this interface!

I have a Playstation 4. Will that help?

Yeah, I was really hoping to be able to output to two directories at once as I can in ACDSee. I just remembered I have a Lynda.com trial month right now. Should see if they have anything on this. I'm assuming no one here knows how to help me? Is that right?

Sadly you've totally lost me as this is beyond my understanding. I wonder if anyone else can explain it in the Windows context or even show screenshots? Thanks a lot for your help and sorry I'm not really technically minded enough to understand what you mean.

Thanks for this. I'll have to do some testing since it seems pretty confusing. Let me try to see if I can work it out. I'm not quite sure what you mean by your location information above. Might it read something like this? C:\Users\phil_\Dropbox\The Really Temporary Folder? Actually, when I do what is in the attached screenshot it still asks me where I want to put the file when I hit Export Slices. I'm clearly doing something completely wrong but I really don't understand what it might be. Can you help me fumble my way through this?