ralphlambiase

Hey fellow Affinity friends!
 
Have some new styles – fresh of the press. :)
Played around with styles today and came up with
the idea of the letterpress effects.
 
A bit desdaturated, but these are just the presets. Obviously you can try different
blend modes, colors and backgrounds. This is how the four different styles look
like if you use them directly on text or vector layers.
Use on path-based layers recommended, the effect doesn't show off well on pixel layers …

 
And this is what they may look like after fiddling around with perspective and
some further effects applied.

 
Anyways, the afstyles are packed as a zip – have fun messing around! :D
 
Letterpress & Embossing.zip

New little set. Playing again.

Wood Styles.afstyles.zip

Just the rust styles (grunge rust textures):
 

   
The old rusty compressed styles file:
rust-textures.afstyles.zip

So, I fell in love with Affinity after about an hour of playing with it. I bought it and started bringing my favorite assets over from Photoshop and Illustrator, including some styles I have been using for years on my web projects. I thought perhaps others could use them too, so here they are with a bonus set of sticker styles.
 
Enjoy if they're of interest to you. 
 
UPDATE: New version 2.0! This time the gradients and strokes are tool editable. No more trips to the Effects Panel. This gives better and easier control of the styles.
 
BONUS: By request, 4 atmosphere styles. Included is the AD file with all styles applied for you to play with. Will likely only open in the latest beta. Sorry.
 
BONUS: Dream Metals styles! Aluminum, Gold, and Copper.


 
Find these and more at https://dscape-llc.com/affinity
 
 
 
 
 

I am a registered user of both Designer and Photo and would REALLY love to get rid of Photoshop and Ai, but currently I have hundreds of layer styles in Photoshop that I use constantly - if I could use those styles in either Designer or Photo, that would be excellent. I have imported .psd files with boxes of many of my current styles but very few make it through the import process. Being able to use my existing ".asl" plugins in either of your apps would be great - I know that ".asl" is most probably a proprietary format triple copyrighted by Adobe, but, it is worth asking. I live in hope.
 
If that is not possible, is it possible to source 'style' plugins for either/both of your apps.

Most of the styles I have come from:

https://photoshoptexteffects.com/

Now, he (John Forsythe) may or may not be interested in converting his styles to your format, this of course may not even be possible - just letting you know on the off chance that...
 
Thanks
 
Greg Olson-Hyde