Gregory-CJ

Here I demonstrate  4   principle elements that make up a successful digital portrait.
These include:
How 3D form is structured,  Facial landmarks, Colour Luminosity Comments welcomed .
Instagram> @clarkejohnsen

 

Here’s a look at my Affinity Photo setup, using two views of the same painting that I am working on gives me the flexibility of zooming in on one image to work the details while being able to see the immediate impact on the whole image. This approach really works well given I am using a 5K iMac monitor. Comments welcomed.

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@Gregory-CJ Ah, okay! Thanks for telling me.

It seems like Separated Mode is a Mac exclusive thing, since I couldn't find it on my Windows version. : (

Yes. The closest thing we Windows users have is via Window > Float or Window > Float All. You can also, of course, float Studio panels by dragging them out of their docked positions, and float the Tools bar by turning off View > Dock Tools.

Yes, as Aammppaa pointed out rotation = View>left or right and I mapped these  to the Expresskeys  of my "old" wacom tablet.
To get the floating tool bars go  under the window menu > Separated Mode.  You will have to scale the image to fit your monitor size. 
If you want to work with two of the same image then open up  a new view  under View> new view.  Now both images can be scaled/positioned as you want.
Works like a charm.
Here is the final digital painting.  I broke my procedure down into a few categories (3D form, Color, Facial landmarks,& luminosity) and will make a new post for that. I didn't keep record of the time it took to paint it  which was too long in my opinion , but now that I got AP working for me.. blending /painting brushes etc... things shouldn't take so long.
 
 
 

I'd like to chime in on this as well. A choice of larger font/icon sizes would be great. Out of the box it was the first complaint I had about the program, which is AMAZING!

YES please ....
For people (like me) who wear glasses, this can indeed be a handicap. For example, I myself wear glasses with a built-in prism and +11 diopter, and am obliged to increase the scale and layout of my screen to 125% in order to work comfortably.
But if I record my videos with that setting (125%), a lot of shortcuts no longer function !!
So I first have to reset my screen settings to 100% scale, which is very annoying and tiring.

Thanks Serif for your brilliant AP software version 1.7.
Would it be possible to offer  an Extra Large  Font UI size option for the many of us who don't have the best of eyesight.
 MY experience on my 5K iMAC monitor  is that the UI fonts with  the  two options of default and large font are still too small to read comfortably and I need to get very close to the monitor to read the  menu text.  Extra large Font UI would help greatly.
Thanks
Greg

Thanks Serif for your brilliant AP software version 1.7.
Would it be possible to offer  an Extra Large  Font UI size option for the many of us who don't have the best of eyesight.
 MY experience on my 5K iMAC monitor  is that the UI fonts with  the  two options of default and large font are still too small to read comfortably and I need to get very close to the monitor to read the  menu text.  Extra large Font UI would help greatly.
Thanks
Greg

Here’s a look at my Affinity Photo setup, using two views of the same painting that I am working on gives me the flexibility of zooming in on one image to work the details while being able to see the immediate impact on the whole image. This approach really works well given I am using a 5K iMac monitor. Comments welcomed.

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Here is my latest digital painting , hand painted in AP.
Comments welcomed.
 

HI  everyone.
Here are a few images from my digital design  goddess theme .
These images were hand painted in Affinity Photo.
Let me know  what you think.
Gregory CJ
 

Here is my latest digital painting , hand painted in AP.
Comments welcomed.
 

Ah Ok if it does what you need that's fine.
Hmm hard to tell, I don't know and thus can't speak for others here, but programmers are more used to it, due to variable naming conventions and the like in several prog languages.

Affinity photo is such a great tool and I would like to see an image/ thumbnail based UI for the Share your work portion of this forum.
Right now with the text based forum presentation, it doesn't really lend itself to browsing , in my option.
A richly, decorative  page with the current  thumbnails of images created by the users would be very attractive and would invite more participation within the share your work forum.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. see attachments.


 
 
 
 

Affinity photo is such a great tool and I would like to see an image/ thumbnail based UI for the Share your work portion of this forum.
Right now with the text based forum presentation, it doesn't really lend itself to browsing , in my option.
A richly, decorative  page with the current  thumbnails of images created by the users would be very attractive and would invite more participation within the share your work forum.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. see attachments.


 
 
 
 

Affinity photo is such a great tool and I would like to see an image/ thumbnail based UI for the Share your work portion of this forum.
Right now with the text based forum presentation, it doesn't really lend itself to browsing , in my option.
A richly, decorative  page with the current  thumbnails of images created by the users would be very attractive and would invite more participation within the share your work forum.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. see attachments.


 
 
 
 

Affinity photo is such a great tool and I would like to see an image/ thumbnail based UI for the Share your work portion of this forum.
Right now with the text based forum presentation, it doesn't really lend itself to browsing , in my option.
A richly, decorative  page with the current  thumbnails of images created by the users would be very attractive and would invite more participation within the share your work forum.
Your thoughts would be appreciated. see attachments.


 
 
 
 

Here is my latest digital painting , hand painted in AP.
Comments welcomed.
 

Here is my latest digital painting , hand painted in AP.
Comments welcomed.
 

Hi Gabe,
Thought that you might enjoy seeing my latest digital painting.
hhttps://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/81071-beautiful-lady-in-purple/
 

Okay, a preamble before I tell you what I have found.
I use blending a lot in my artwork and what I previously found is that the AP smudge tool does  a relatively OK job on large areas of blending but doesn't do well on any blending
with a brush size smaller that 75-08 pixels. ( which I need)
After receiving a response back to my forum  posting about getting  a better AP blending tool,  I revisited AP and its smudge tool  with the hope of uncovering something I missed.
 
What I found  holding back the performance of the smudge tool was the type of brush it was set to.
Any brush setting with a texture or/and grain  produced an OK blend for large areas but fell short of anything acceptable for smaller blend areas , if the smudge brush was less than 75 pixels.
The solution, I found, was to make sure that the smudge tool was using a brush that had no built in texture or grain.. ie. use the basic set of brushes.
For the IPAD version of AP: I found that the Basic> large Round Brush  works the best
For the Desktop version of AP: I found that the  Basic> Round light brush works best.
Of course you have to you have to play with width, flow and strength settings.
So there you have it.. Buried within the AP toolset is a wonderful Blender for digital painting!
Now the smudge tool works perfectly and can stand next to Procreate's blender.
The first image is something I did in AP on the Ipad, with the basic >large round brush as the blending tool. ( okay, I got carried away by the fun of using my newly found AP blender)
The second image done on the Mac desktop using the AP round light brushes.
 
If there is enough interest in seeing this blending technique in action, I could create a video of the process.
Enjoy!
Gregory Clarke-Johnsen

 

Here is the final painting that I have been working on for some time. It's  entitled " Goddess of Light"
The entire piece was painted using Affinity Photo.
Comments are welcomed.
Enjoy!
 
 

 

 

 
 

Here is the final painting that I have been working on for some time. It's  entitled " Goddess of Light"
The entire piece was painted using Affinity Photo.
Comments are welcomed.
Enjoy!
 
 

 

 

 
 

HI  everyone.
Here are a few images from my digital design  goddess theme .
These images were hand painted in Affinity Photo.
Let me know  what you think.
Gregory CJ