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pixelrain

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  1. @Engine44

     

    The examples you attached are called "photo manipulations" ( picture it as various images or parts of an image arranged together on a page then each one is modified in order to "fit" one general atmosphere / theme; if you are curious about the process you can search that term on youtube where you'll find lots of examples videos; the workflow is the same even if they use another software ).

     

    Affinity Photo is the tool you would want use for this, as it has more image/raster based tools, filters and adjustments.

     

    You have some examples of works like this in Affinity Photo's welcome screen (in the view samples tab).

     

    @dutchshader

     

    Those examples are of digital paintings, that implies a little different approach; where you create the image with just the brush tool and layers; closer to how you would work with traditional media on a canvas; showing that AP/AD are decent at doing both. :lol:

     

    Of course there is no rule that stops you from combining both techniques in one.

  2. Short answer, yes.

     

    Long answer, you can either create it by using a vector shape ( manually tracing the girls contour ) or as a selection which you extract from the girls image and then color it gray or with a slight gray - darker gray gradient then skew and transform the shadow layer and place it behind the layer with the girl. You can then blend it or airbrush the shadows as you desire to give it more realism.

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    well AP is not looking very well on 6 or 8 core processor utilization either to be honest 

     

    just looked at it again, I mean a 8 core i7-5960X is currently the fastest performer and also has an efficiency of 54 which is pretty good for a windows built so that is not a bad utilization 

     

    8 and 6 cores are at a 40 efficiency whereas 2 and 4 cores are at a 50 efficiency averaged between Mac and win

    although the data on 6 and 8 cores is thin, counting only 4 machines (anyone here running one?)

     

    Oh, oh, i have 6 cores, that would be me, what did I win ? B) 

     

    Strictly in my case, compared to other similar apps, AP/AD do seem to like to max all my cores. I can easily get 99% percent CPU usage with simple tasks; the only apps that manage to approach the same CPU utilization percentage are video encoders and CPU stress test apps.

     

    With other similarish software it's rare to see more than 35-40% CPU usage, and in that scenario a faster core will provide more performance, one of the reasons why Intel's do good in PS.

     

    Less cores = higher Mhz vs more cores = lower Mhz per core. Blame it on size, power and temperature targets :P

     

    If you have a 4core CPU with 5ghz and a 16 core with 2,5ghz, and a software that only uses 2 cores; its not rocket science to determine which one will have an advantage in that app. The situation will change 180 degrees if the application does know how to use 16 cores; that does not make one or the other a bad CPU just unsuited for that specific scenario.

  4. With memory its pretty simple, if your stuff fits in it you're good, if not, it will access the storage disks and you will experience slowdowns and thus should buy more of it; "more" has never been "too much" with computers. ;)

     

    16gb of decent 3000mhz ddr4 goes for ~120 bucks so there is no reason for less especially with content creation applications in these 4K / soon 8K times.

     

    If your data does not fit in RAM it will use the internal disk and things like file read/write, history, backup, saves also use it often, so its also important that what you have there is fast both in speed and access times. 

     

    So, basically, what I'm saying is that you have to decide which combo (CPU/RAM/DISK/GPU) you think it will suite your usage best for your budget; and that purchase should be something that is balanced performance wise in all important areas; because the "slowest" part in your setup will be the cause the performance "bottleneck". :rolleyes:

  5. Yes, blurry exports are a thing. But it requires some steps to reproduce.

    Let's take TonyB's post as an example :P

    1. Web page screenshot of his post (a print screen cropped to .png, 24bit, no compression)

    post-44528-0-01583100-1489690770_thumb.png

    2. Screenshot opened and added a little raster brush play (see end of post) and exported to .png with default settings. All is well.

    post-44528-0-98290500-1489690789_thumb.png

    3. Created a blank new larger document and dragged the screenshot in it, then, exported to .png with default settings. All is well, again.

    post-44528-0-33034000-1489690823_thumb.png

    4. Same document but this time we crop the document to a smaller size around the screenshot layer, and export it to .png again with default settings. And now we have Mr.Blurry Export !

    post-44528-0-61406300-1489691043_thumb.png

    Notes:

     

    - Done with Photo 1.5.1.54, simple document export, not export "Persona".
    - This is just how I've come across this; exports might also appear blurry in other scenarios.
    - It does not matter if image layer is rasterized or not.
    - Different export resample algorithms do not help.
    - Image layer import reads dpi instead of resolution !? :blink:

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