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DavidDoesAffinity reacted to a post in a topic: How can I make the inside of an ellipse transparent while keeping the text around it black?
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Lisbon reacted to a post in a topic: Help with a roof tiled in Moire!
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I have tried to find a suitable FFT Denoise tutorial but other than the manual (yes I did RTFM) I cannot get anywhere. I was asked if if I could advise an Estate Agent who was putting together animated stills of a property and it was under attack from Moire patterns. Front aspect of property with tiled roof. It has now turned into a "mission"!!!! I was sent samples and was surprised that they had done nothing wrong. Both video size and data rate were good. The stills were razor sharp so my first port of call was to put the still in my old Photoshop and use the deinterlace filter. It certainly showed the problem whether Upper or Lower field was selected (in PS filter). (I don't think such a filter exists in A Photo). I then turned to tools within my Video editing software to animate and was able and to tame the problem, using a cocktail of two filters. However, as I was now on a "mission" I turned to Affinity to see what I could do with the original pic. The problem is the tiled roof so any filter I needed to "Paint" on the tiles only. At that stage I was out of AP skillset!!!! The Deinterlaced file (PS filter) shows the inherent problem. Thanks for any links, advice etc. As I said I can resolve in my video software but want to explore all other remedies.
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G13RL reacted to a post in a topic: Saving to My Presets - a Senior moment ??
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Hi Walt Apologies for the delayed reply. Colour space would have been the default profile from a template I made when I started using Publisher. Attached Printer is a Brother Laser L8260. Sadly there are black holes in my knowledge of print colour space. Video ... 35 years experience but sadly a local print shop that could have helped me sort this, closed last year ironically 3 weeks ahead of the Covid lockdown. EDIT: As a test this morning I printed the sleeve in 3 layers. 1 Background in colour, 2 overlay "watermarks" in B&W and 3 the rest of the layers in colour. PIA for sure BUT it now looks as we envisaged it
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Here I am trying to be subtle, designing a DVD sleeve for a project nearing completion and the idea was that a couple of old photos would be used as what I would call watermarks. Using Publisher and Photo on the PC the screen image is sublimely subtle, or in Essex speak "looks well bloody good". The print out produces images much darker and have a red tinge. I have tried reimporting them as Grey 16 but they still are way less than acceptable. Any words of wisdom or should I scrap subtlety and change the design and have a beer? I would add that the background across the whole page is a silk texture that I have switched off. ie it's currently white.
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Scanning
DavidDoesAffinity replied to NormanStanley's topic in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
I came across this scanning "shortcoming" recently. I thought I had missed something and used the scanning utility (PC) that came with my Canon MF scanner. Are there any advantages by using VueScan or SilverFast over the Canon utility? -
DavidDoesAffinity reacted to a post in a topic: when i open psd and then text layer can't edit. what can i do?
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I should have been in Publisher...but for whatever reason I wasn't. I'm a PC user whose Braincell must have been on Windows 3 when I opened the file in Photo. I guess it's one of those errors you do once and don't do it again... without the "alarms" flashing.😁 Had the text frame been the right colour I may not have even realised I was working in the wrong app.😋