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thanks ! rasterize to mask option from Layer menu does the same job ? Im in this stage with this tut. I only need a way to add something like the Poster edge artistic filter from PS. He also changes the opacity for halftone and poster edges which are "smart filters" independently from the layer hes applying them to. Need to find a workaround for that.

bump for the live filters roadmap

on bigger monitors thumbnails at the current size are very small and pretty useless especially in Affinity Photo. On Photoshop you can increase their sizes.

so Im having a lot of hassle trying to recreate this PS tut on Affinity Photo. https://youtu.be/1pM7-9JO1fk starting at 8:18 he is selecting the black and white texture image, copies it, deselect it, unlinks the mask from the image in the below layer, alt+ clicking the mask icon to enter the mask editing mode then paste it inside the layer mask. How to do that thing with AF ?

these are great but we need some practice tutorials on some amazing effects and manipulation. You can barely find a couple on double exposure and dispersion effect but they are not on the same level as the Photoshop ones.

there is also quite a bit of masking there and if I duplicate the layers to apply the filters on them ( though the "poster" one is not on Affinity but anyway) things get really complicated. then he duplicate the layers wuth smart filters applied and plays with both blending modes of the filters and layers themselves. Can you try to recreate the effect in AF pls? so frustrating Affinity doesnt get these crazy and fun tutorials that are also given good quality results. There are more on retouching which is not of interest for me.

so, the eternal question: is on the roadmap? what other frequently used filters are not live ? what plans for those ?

Halftone is not live from what Ive red here ?

he converted the layer around 3:42 then apllied some filters (halftone and some others)

how did you apply the halftone filters (that is not a live filter in Affinity) or the photoshop patern .pat file ?

trying to follow this guy awesome tutorials with PS but working in Affinity. Lots of his tutorials make use of (convert to) smart objects like in this one https://youtu.be/1pM7-9JO1fk any way these things can be done in AF ?

do you know if PS tutorials that contain " smart objects" can be (easily) recreated in AF ? this one for example and many others from his channel https://youtu.be/1pM7-9JO1fk

thanks happened to have watched most of the Youtube ones.

so I had some hard time to find some awesome creative tutorials with Affinity Photo. You might find some double exposure effects, dispersion ones etc o but they arent on the same level as those you might find with Photoshop. So unfortunately still have to rely on the last ones. If you ever tried to follow a PS tutorial while working on Affinity Photo and noticed its quite easy to do this pls post that tut here.

Im not on Mac. Do you mean you can easily change the UIs icons? If so how to do that on WIndows?

so again you implying that everybody is working on everything and the further flattening of Illustrator UI prevent them for adding new features or that Users are given the chance to choose between features and UI style. Illustrator its already in it late stage of development and even for huge companies like Adobe new features take years to implement. Same UI changes happened to Indesign and Dreamweaver with the cc 2017 and the reason is pretty obvious: they wanted to make their Ui's more consistent with Phothosop one. This is by principle the right thing to do. I dont like the extreme design cases adobe is proposing for their UI (completely flat and monochrome) and doubt they will keep it this way for too long. so do you happened to know some good examples of recent icon designs that make the best compromise between function and look? Pretty all main software companies in creative, design and developing fields (Microsoft, Corel, Adobe, Google, Atlassian, Techsmith, JetBrains, Autodesk, The Foundry, Maxon etc) have adopted this style so I couldnt really find better examples.

this and blend tool the only ones that keep me completely switching from AI.

I would not tangle with these guidelines cause like I said modern design come in lots of flavours and its changing which is good. Its easier to check various works from various designers done these years. The key words are clean, minimal, geometrical. This however doesnt exclude colourfulness and depth (3d and shadows) but these are also very subtle and realised in a manner that doesnt affect the first basic principles. The same for gradients. They are very subtle and apply to very geometrical shapes. I think photorealism its not among these principles. The thing is you dont really see the style of these Serif legacy icons anymore in works of designers or even in UIs of the actual software (professional or not). Its a remnant of old software (I mean very old) or/and some open source programs that havent changed their designs in decades. Even those had to do the switch eventually.Gimp will finally be a clone of photohsop and it will actually copy its UI style in the 2.9.4 version https://www.gimp.org/news/2016/07/13/gimp-2-9-4-released/ and MS paint will get new reincarnation with Windows 10 new designs (you can get a taste of it in the "Paint 3D" app ). The rebranding of the products icons that happened in 2015 is one of the best Ive seen in the recent years. Only if those designers will get free hand to continue their work on the tool icons as well... https://www.behance.net/gallery/32700567/Affinity-App-Logo-System-Redesign-Project

you sounded like everyone is working on everything like software enginneers and coders should design the icon style. Those new features take years . We already have a roadmap and already "worried" about those long time ago. Totally diff subject and area of expectation. Meanwhile yes a light UI and other refinements for a software designed for artists are more than welcome to alienate the waiting. And not surprisingly at all youll find the same reluctant reaction when comes even to these new features you are talking about like: " why you even need that, an artist doesnt need that" or "stick to Phothsop or Illustrator if you want the x function", "thats a feature for lazy persons" etc. lol

thats predictable. Would have been the same if someone would have point this thing when came for the affinity product logos/icons. And still they have been rebranded and look much cleaner and proffesional now.

thats was just a figure of speech. I don't need to explain myself every time as it becomes tedious.

there is nothing subtle or simple with these icons. Thats the point.They are just downsized versions of full sized bucket, brush etc drawings. Icon design is way more than that.

The modern design was not something brought by CAD, 3d or programming software.On contrary these ones implemented it quite recently. The " visual arts" programs adopted it first. Yes this is a software for visual arts but not for doodles. This is not MS paint to say at least which will also get a new UI style with Windows 10 feauture builds btw. The thing is you have this "next generation of graphic design apps" marketing (seems like company really knows what they're doing and going for), a super modern product website, some killer techy professional trailer videos and the new rebranded logos into this more abstract/techy stuff in 2015 http://www.creativebloq.com/software/affinity-new-branding-61515327 and when you first open the app you see these amateur icons youll not find even in Paint or Gimp anymore. The contrast is grotesque. They are not the best icons on this style either. There are tons of icons there on the same style that that are a lot more expressive and visible on bigger monitors. The hell icon resources are not smth we lack and this is supposed to be the next generation of graphic design apps. They can surely produce smth super friendly but still sharp and clean enough that will not "intimidate" new users lol.

you very comfortably missed all my other arguments. I said I like (not prefer) one (among lots of other variations) a recent example of modern UI,s. And you sounded like Autodesk and other companies/dev teams with very reluctant userbases for these kind of fancy changes rely on ones personally prefferences when comes to designing/redesigning their UI's.

The thing is you have this "next generation of graphic design apps" marketing (seems like company really knows what they're doing and going for[/size]), a super modern product website, some killer techy professional trailer videos and the new rebranded logos into this more abstract/techy stuff happened in 2015 http://www.creativebloq.com/software/affinity-new-branding-61515327 and then when you first open the app you see these cartoonish icons youll not find even in Paint or Gimp anymore. The contrast is grotesque. if Serif is marketing its Afinity suite as the next generation graphic design software for creative professionals some portions of their products UI would need some further refinement. The current icons from the tools bar are very cartoonish. You would still see these kind of icons on some old open source software or those targeted to amateurs. This is not entirely true anymore since it seems new versions of Gimp and other porgrams alike will finally made their switch to more clean professional looking icons. They are not the best clip art icons either since on big monitors they are hardly visible and the monochrome theme makes the things even worse. If Serif wants to step away from its legacy products should pay more attention to these design elements.Its very predictable that the ex Serif product users would be more comfortable with this style of iconography but they should let the UI Design teams of both products to do the right job in fully repurposing/rebranding them. The rebranding of the products icons that happened in 2015 is one of the best Ive seen in the recent years. Only if those designer will get free hand to continue their work on the tool icons as well... https://www.behance.net/gallery/32700567/Affinity-App-Logo-System-Redesign-Project Modern UI icons come in lots of flavors. I personally like the approach some very old and complex programs developed by Autodesk took with their recent release with their flat but color coded icons. Just check the screenshots for 3ds Max and Maya most of the people commenting on this video review expressed their preference for a more clean icon set https://youtu.be/SGojM3A5t-g