Hanzz

It was great for painting.
But after some time painting( half hour to an hour ) evrything started behaving heavy, slower.
I also found that after the painting time, and after closing AP, the whole system acted up somewhat.
After restarting my iMac, everything went back to normal.
 
But all in all, a fun job to do.Though I have some personal troubles with the likeness, I am interested in painting some more stuff in AP.
Great work ,and congratzz to the programming team.
 
I intend to place all my paintings in this topic, to save up the space of the forum.
 

I have used Calibre to convert the HTML help to an .epub file. This is my first attempt at the conversion, so there could be some errors - please ignore the poor cover :)
 
Let me know what you think.
 
 
Affinity Photo Beta Help.zip

I have been able to convert the help to an epub file which opens in iBook. I will attach to this thread later today.

Purpose: Features / Improvements / Fixes
Status: Beta
Requirements: None
Mac App Store: Not submitted
New beta sign-ups: https://affinity.serif.com/photo
Update: Run the app to get the link
 
EDIT: Uploaded new build (23663) to correct brush issues - apologies for the inconvenience.
 
Features / Improvements / Fixes
 
- Inpainting improvements for CMYK mode. - Selection refinement improvements. - Patch tool improvements, especially CMYK. - JPEG / PNG DPI imported correctly. - Crop tool improvements - including absolute sizes and presets. - Develop supports import profile as well as output. - Develop exposure is in stops, not %. - Significant help improvements. - Perspective tool - history and clipping support. - White balance has a tint slider. - 8bit LAB TIFF import support. - Fixed many adjustments which were applying incorrectly in CMYK mode. - Fixed bugs importing read-only images. - Brush resizing improvements. - Resize document / Resize canvas improvements. - Can set defaults for new documents. - Pen tablet improvements. - Assorted text improvements. - Floating UI panels will drag right-snapped as well as below-snapped panels. - Many localisation improvements. - Many new cursors and icons. - Undo redo menu items include descriptions. - Flood select / fill tool improvements. - New “Edge Aware” brush in develop. - Numerous stability and performance improvements.

Matt, that's a good trick, Save As multiple times to compress native file format... Got me thinking, might be a good idea if the app does that multiple pass save automatically...? That's quite a size difference!!!
 

Testing a newly made brush, based on the tuturial provided by PAOLO (http://www.paololimoncelli.com/bristles-for-affinity-designer/ )
 
Mixing goes well. This one was a caricature I started in Mischief, and abandoned.
I won't completely finish it, but it gave me the drive to do a good one very soon....
So keep an eye open on this space... ;)
 

Thanks, MattP. i'll try this ASAP
 
 
EDIT: just did what you suggested, and the file is now 127MB.
 
I have now 4 files on my disk.
#1=587,4MB
#2=487,6MB
#3=188,3MB
#4=127MB
 
This can not continue, without loss of quality ,I guess?

These are the brushes I used. 3 times the same one, but at different flow settings
 
Hope someone likes it a bit....
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/scsepxu87dolv4h/HANZZ_Paint_brushes.afbrushes?dl=0

Testing a newly made brush, based on the tuturial provided by PAOLO (http://www.paololimoncelli.com/bristles-for-affinity-designer/ )
 
Mixing goes well. This one was a caricature I started in Mischief, and abandoned.
I won't completely finish it, but it gave me the drive to do a good one very soon....
So keep an eye open on this space... ;)
 

I guess you'll need an app that converts the jpg in a vector file. For now it is not, as far as I found out,yet in Afintiy Designer.
Here is a tutorial that explains stuff , but done with Inkscape. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/convert-images-to-svg-format-with-inkscape/

These are the brushes I used. 3 times the same one, but at different flow settings
 
Hope someone likes it a bit....
 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/scsepxu87dolv4h/HANZZ_Paint_brushes.afbrushes?dl=0

Great great great ! I absolutely love it.

+1 for the Option to have a lighter color for the UI and also for an option for larger icons.  My older eyes no longer do dark and fiddly that well.  And I agree with Scott Dutton that a neutral gray gives you a much better idea of color values.  

Awesome work Hanzz, and many thanks for the brushes! :)

It just occurred to me: to save memory, I have set the amount of undo's to 64..... So it won't be of any use I guess to save the history ?
I thought I would save me some time with not having to record the proces ,or take screenshots every time....
Any thoughts? Is there still a way to recover these steps ?
 
Mayor stupidity on my behalf here...... <_<

A landscape inspired by... 
 

 
 
 

Wow! I bow down to your excellence! Now that right there is a man with some serious skills! Wow jus Wow! Amazing work Hanzz!

You have marvellous skills, Hanzz! Congratulations on great work. Hope we see more :)

Testing a newly made brush, based on the tuturial provided by PAOLO (http://www.paololimoncelli.com/bristles-for-affinity-designer/ )
 
Mixing goes well. This one was a caricature I started in Mischief, and abandoned.
I won't completely finish it, but it gave me the drive to do a good one very soon....
So keep an eye open on this space... ;)
 

It was great for painting.
But after some time painting( half hour to an hour ) evrything started behaving heavy, slower.
I also found that after the painting time, and after closing AP, the whole system acted up somewhat.
After restarting my iMac, everything went back to normal.
 
But all in all, a fun job to do.Though I have some personal troubles with the likeness, I am interested in painting some more stuff in AP.
Great work ,and congratzz to the programming team.
 
I intend to place all my paintings in this topic, to save up the space of the forum.
 

Wow, beautiful use of tones! I really love the texture on his skin, and the way you drew his features and their proportions is just brilliant! Keep up the awesome work and keep sharing it with us!! 

So I had to deal with the urgency of this double character design for an e-learning game.
I used AD to refine the blue pencil sketch.
 

 
 
Traced and refined shapes
 

 
 
 
And now I'm searching for values that work 
 

 
Soon full colour version!
Much faster than in AI days...

It is in Designer (beta) but only for pixel brushes (i.e. in the Pixel Persona)
 
I intend to add it for vector things in the future

It was great for painting.
But after some time painting( half hour to an hour ) evrything started behaving heavy, slower.
I also found that after the painting time, and after closing AP, the whole system acted up somewhat.
After restarting my iMac, everything went back to normal.
 
But all in all, a fun job to do.Though I have some personal troubles with the likeness, I am interested in painting some more stuff in AP.
Great work ,and congratzz to the programming team.
 
I intend to place all my paintings in this topic, to save up the space of the forum.
 

Ronnie, go to frenden.com or do a search on "frenden" on YouTube. Ray Frenden has done a lot of reviews and such with other brands (read not-Wacom) of digital tablets.
 
Myself, I wouldn't use a Cintique if I was given one. I like drawing on a tablet and having full view of my art without my hand/arm blocking part of it.