CH Trippe

Thank you, toltec! I didn't even check to see! Will do that! I was sure it was something simple. Not sure that was mentioned in the tutorial---but I might have missed it. There are still many things I am learning. ;)

I thought I had used the selection brush before, with success---maybe once or twice---but today I could not get it to work. I had the image layer selected, and selected the brush and dragged it over the part of the image I wanted to transform---but nothing happened! I tried this on a couple different photos---nothing. What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

Thank you! As a Mac user, I was only too happy to switch from PE Elements (8) to Affinity, but one thing PE did have was an extensive selection of crop shapes. I have to confess I only got around to using a couple of them before I made the switch to Affinity, but now that I actually understand layers, the possibilities are quite intriguing.

It's especially nice for some of the black & white drawings I use in my books, which I also tone towards sepia to warm them up, by changing the white balance---the bleed effect is very appropriate. Is it possible to also add an inner or outer glow withe gaussian blur effect? I tried, but the effect seemed negligible, even with color. I can live without that, since the blur effect is sufficient---but it's fun to experiment. ( Have just discovered some fabulous things I can do with the mirror filter, to create page embellishments, etc. ! )

I'm using only Affinity Photo, not Affinity Designer, which may have more crop shapes, but I would love to see some additional crop shapes (in addition to ellipse, star, heart, etc) in Affinity Photo. Different edges, & a variety of other object shapes. Or am I missing something? Thanks!

Got it! Thanks again.

Watched the video---but I can't see to get it to work with my image, so I must be doing something wrong, or misunderstanding something essential. I imported my image into Affinity, then placed a rounded rectangle over it (as though I were making a border) and got that placed behind the image, and added a new fill layer---which the video didn't mention---it just showed an image on a black ground, and I need an off-white one to blend with the page color of the book I'm making---but when I tried the Gaussian Blur effect, nothing happened. What detail am I missing?

Thanks, MBd! I'll have to try that. Caroline

Not sure if that's the right terminology---it's not exactly vignetting---but is there a way to "soften" the edges of a photo so they sort of bleed into the page? I have viewed most of the Affinity tutorials, but don't remember seeing one the showed how this might be done.

So I figured out how to select a color from a background image and have it show up in the color picker. But is there a way I can use that exact hue to colorize an entire image? I was playing around with the mirror filter, and got a fun design, and managed to change its overall hue with the color changer, but would like it to be closer to the color I selected from the background of another image. I thought I could maybe do this with the Add Preset option, but I can't figure out how that actually works, and couldn't find anything in the tutorials. Any ideas? Or is what I am trying to do not actually possible?

Well, I figured this one out for myself, in case anyone else was baffled. Turned out to be easy after all, once I remembered what I needed to do. With paint mixer brush selected, option/click on color of image and it appears in the picker, and the RGB numeric values are shown as well. For anyone else who may have been baffled. Why need the numeric values? In my Blurb books I might want to choose a page background color to "match" a color in an illustration, for greater harmony.

Hi Again, it's me---Caroline. I just had to create a new account because I could not access my original one---wouldn't let me sign in with my previous user name and p'word, tried to get a new password, but got locked out completely, it said "your account will automatically be unlocked in *** minutes," but it wouldn't--- so had to use a different email address! So, I don't know what went wrong there, but I'm back in as CH Trippe. Now for my question--- Is there a way to use the color picker to select a color from the background image? I have tried, but can't seem to make it work. I could do this in my old PSE 8 editor--click the color picker on any part of the image and it would present a screen where I could choose the hue and value---say, for a border. This may be really simple, but I haven't figure it out yet. Thanks!