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No, I altered it to prevent future misunderstandings on seeing your comment. Thanks. BTW Pencil Portrait works very well too.

Sorry, I should have said export rather than save. I prefer using PNG to prevent encroaching JPG artifacts creeping in. PNG uses lossless compression. You might want to experiment with other black and white gmic plugins. Multi layer etch and pencil portrait may offer alternatives to the engraving style. You could also experiment with the stack function in Affinity Photo instead of the HDR Merge. It offers more subtle adjustments.

Here is a version of Lincoln Cathedral using the stack function with mean pass-through instead of HDR merge. Contrast and exposure altered in the Develop persona with a little boost of black point and vibrance.

Another Unsplash picture of Lincoln Cathedral given the HDR engraving treatment.

That makes sense. Thanks.

Of course, we could just ask them what numbering system they are using.

Yes, I thought of that. They could be using Decimally coded Hexadecimal. After all, have you never heard of Binary coded Decimal?

Well, we do not know what number base they are using. For all we know it could be sexagesimal, or at least base 16.

I recommend playing with the engraving GMIC plug in to get the best detail effects by tweaking coherence, density and radius. Also getting a higher resolution original image will help maximize the detail of the output. PhotoZoom is a very useful tool for quality enlargements.

Here is an Unsplash Image of Lincoln Cathedral given the gmic Affinty Hdr treatment. Use the original image ... Then use the G'MIC plugin and save different versions of the image, always beginning with the original image, using ... Color - Autobalance Artistic - Illustration Look Black and White - Engraving, Export each image separately. I recommend using PNG for lossless compression. Then using HDR Merge, import all the separate images including the original and allow Affinity Photo to create the composite image. Use the Tone Map as detailed or dramatic. Then adjust the image in the develop persona tweaking the Black Point +10, then tweak the vibrancy and saturation until you get the colour effect you desire. Then develop the image and save it to a format you prefer. Voilà ... and you will get the illustrated effect as shown.

If you look at the Avebury Manor post there is more information there

Here is my latest illustration created using the HDR Merge and GMIC plugin technique (autobalance, engraving). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mrs-4a2fzrAdBsWS2oZVRoEmn3g26GZB/view?usp=sharing You can see the full size version at the link above.

Using the Affinty Photo HDR Merge facility and the G'MIC plugin (Auto balance, Illustration, Engraving) here is an illustration I created of Beamish Museum Durham.

Using Affinity photo, I managed to turn a source image into an illustration using the G'MIC plugin and HDR merge functions. Used G'MIC Engrave and Autobalance, HDR Merge with dramatic tone map.

That is a very good idea. Then when the Affinity applications support a media library you will be able to integrate the folders more easily. I wish Affinity Designer had a batch function to allow converting of vector files into different vector formats. Photo only allows conversion into raster formats.

Yes, I have tried drag and dropping multiple items into the document but the amount that come across successfully can problematic. It works for a few items but not hundreds. The place tool, while a little slower, is more robust when dealing with many files (hundreds). I find this to be the case in Windows 10 anyway. WMF files can be tricky. Importing into Affinity Designer seems to be a little snappier than in Affinity Publisher, so that could be an alternative,

You might be able to drag them onto the document itself, but they don't always come across when you drag a group of them. The Place tool seems a more robust method.

WMF. I got the little No-Entry icon on the mouse pointer when dragging and dropping onto the Assets panel.

I tried that but it didn't work in Windows 10. I tried that but it didn't work in Windows 10.

I finally worked out how to achieve importing clip art as assets in Affinity Publisher. First of all, create folders on your computer to store the clip art files you wish to include in your assets. Each folder should be a different category. Then copy across the clip art files into each of the folders according to their categories. When you have amassed the files you wish to include, you are ready to fire up Affinity Publisher. When affinity Publisher has loaded, simply start a new blank document. Then, using the Assets panel, use the menu to Create a new Category and rename the category to one of your collection category’s names. You may also wish to use subcategories for related collections. For example, if you have an anatomy category you may wish to have subcategories of organs, eyes, ears, limbs … etc. When you have created and renamed your categories and subcategories according to your own taste and requirements you are ready to start the import process. Make a category active by selecting it from the assets panel. Then use the place image tool to import the images you wish to use for assets from the folders you have set up. You may multiply select the files from within to folder using the shift key in windows to select a range of files. When you have selected them, click on the open gadget/button and Affinity Publisher will attempt to import the files. When it has done so you will see the place tool panel with your images ready to import. Now the slow bit, repeatedly simply click on the blank document to place the images one by one on top of each other. They will appear stacked upon the page. Now select them all in your document using CTRL-A. Then go to the category panel and use the menu item Add from Selection. Affinity Publisher will import them all into the category automatically. You may then delete all the items which are stacked on the document page. Repeat until you have imported all your images. You may wish to export your assets files for backup purposes or importing them into other Affinity apps. If someone wishes to convert this into an official tutorial for users then be my guest.

I finally worked out how to do this and thought I would share my method with you, Method for adding Assets to Affinity Publisher based on clip art Collections you own. First of all, created folders on your computer to store the clip art files you wish to include in your assets. Each folder should be a different category. Then copy across the clip art files into each of the folders according to their categories. When you have amassed the files you wish to include, you are ready to fire up Affinity Publisher. When affinity Publisher has loaded, simply start a new blank document. Then, using the Assets panel, use the menu to create a new Category and rename the category to one of your collection category’s names. You may also wish to use subcategories for related collections. For example, if you have an anatomy category you may wish to have subcategories of organs, eyes, ears, limbs … etc. When you have created and renamed your categories and subcategories according to your own taste and requirements, you are ready to start the import process. Make a category active by selecting it from the assets panel. Then use the place image tool to import the images you wish to use for assets from the folders you have set up. You may multiply select the files from within to folder using the shift key in windows to select a range of files. When you have selected them, click on the open gadget/button and Affinity Publisher will attempt to import the files. When it has done, so you will see the place tool panel with your images ready to import. Now the slow bit, repeatedly simply click on the blank document to place the images one by one on top of each other. They will appear stacked upon the page. Now select them all in your document using CTRL-A. Then go to the category panel and use the menu item Add from Selection. Affinity Publisher will import them all into the category automatically. You may then delete all the items which are stacked on the document page. Repeat until you have imported all your images. You may wish to export your assets files for backup purposes or importing them into other Affinity apps. If someone wishes to convert this into an official tutorial for users, then be my guest.

I discovered this website for public domain clipart which may go some way to providing assets for Affinity Publisher for standard Desktop Publishing tasks ... https://www.pdclipart.org/

That must be why PagePlus had a separate graphics library which you could import selected assets into. I realised that one would have to be selective on which assets to install due to speed and memory usage. Maybe a separate graphics library to import from may be a better option. It is a shame that the media library idea has been dropped.

The place tool is very powerful for importing multiple images into a document, they can be placed one after the other in the document. This can be good for importing images which can then be added to the asset libraries. It would be very useful if we could have an option to place multiple compatible images directly into the asset library for the purpose of building our own libraries for personal use. Maybe an import images to directly to an asset library option could be included. Then we would have a reserve graphics library similar to the ones that were available in Pageplus.