toltec
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23 hours ago, Karina said:
The funny thing is though that I scanned an A4 drawing at 300 dpi (output size A4), and the tif file has 2975 x 4094 pixels. Almost twice as big as the intended size, so I will have to downscale quite a lot even with this approach.
As a former printer who used to operate drum scanners and an imagesetter, I would always scan at 300 or 350 dpi for the largest size (for printing the poster).
I would work on that, then resize it down for the smaller size and never had any problems. Believe me, my customers would have complained quicker than you can say "resampling".
The most important thing I found was to apply unsharp mask at the very end of the process for each size. So work on the larger size, resize it to the smaller size, then apply unsharp mask to each.
That worked perfectly for me for thirty years or so.
P.S. The reason I would sometimes scan at 350 dpi was because some printing was done using a 175 lines per inch screen, although most is at 150 lines per inch. A factor of two 'dots' for each 'line' is always best.
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36 minutes ago, msdobrescu said:
but I enjoy discussing this
I can understand that. You are a Linux user, you must be feeling a bit lonely and isolated
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1 minute ago, msdobrescu said:
Well, 2-3 are more than enough, you included :).
I'm not willing to pay for the Linux version.
So down to 1 or 2 then
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2 hours ago, msdobrescu said:
They are willing pay for this service.
Who is this "they" you are talking about.
So far about 20 or 30 people.
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If it is a Windows machine, press Ctrl + U. That is the keyboard shortcut to open the HSL Adjustment.
Do as @owenrsuggests and move the slider to the left.
You can tweak the colours while you are at it.
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3 hours ago, msdobrescu said:
What I don't understand is why you say Serif tries to build a company as long it is for decades on the market, as was stated here already. I am so sorry to tell this, but they state they have the knowledge to build for Linux too. I am sue they have the means also. It is simply their choice not to. I am not saying to come here and do what I say. They should listen to their community, though.
Lots of companies have the ability, but why should they waste time on a poor, quirky loss-making market? Ask Corel about that one.
Serif's "community" is their existing customers, surely?. I think you will find that their "community" would prefer them to continue to improve the existing products rather than waste years developing a product that would almost certainly lose them money, just to please a few 'non-community' people who use Linux and regret it because their "community" has no decent software
I agree, Serif should listen to "their community"
Of course, Serif have said many times they have no intention of developing a Linux version, and why. Maybe the Linux "community' should listen ?
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11 hours ago, pwfp-2018 said:
All of my tools and assets that originally came with Affinity Designer are completely gone. The assets list is empty and none of the tools are there. Tried deleting and downloading the app again, nothing seems to bring them back.
If you have no tools, if you mean the Studio on the right? If so try View > Studio > Reset Studio.
If you mean the Tools panel on the left go View > Show Tools.
If that fails, quit Affinity, then press and hold down the Control key while you start the app up again. From the Clear User Data panel that appears, just press Clear. Leave the first three options ticked (they already will be) but don't tick anything else. Neither of those would affect your Assets.
However, you deleting the App probably did lose them. Not a good idea, sorry
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I would select the water, then play around with the Haze Filter until you are happy.
You don't want to overdo it though, it still wants to show the Heron is in water.
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I don't say Linux is flawed. It is pretty good at what it does but it is very limited for professional use (outside of a very few pro uses). I do say the Linux market place is flawed, very flawed!
I was running a photo studio 10 years back and fancied trying Linux. No drivers for any of my 3 printers, no specialised plug-ins (green screen software) plus lots of similar problems. In fact I couldn't use it for anything except web browsing and a firewall. I even had help from a mate who was a Linux expert, but he couldn't write printer drivers or plug-ins, obviously.
As far as I can tell, it has not moved on in 10 years? I honestly don't think it will, unless Microsoft release Microsoft Linux. Then they will only wreck it.
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30 minutes ago, Beany said:
Just don't want another post that doesn't get answers again.
I have answered your question. Your file is being compressed. The data does not go anywhere, it is compressed.
LZW normally compresses by about 4 times. So a 160 file .raw file would end up as about a 40 mb TIFF, which is what you have.
It is very easy to compress raw camera data because it has absolutely no compression to start with and is full of very repetitive data.
As a very simplistic explanation, a large black area that was described in .a raw file as black, black, black, black, black, black, black, black, etc, etc, etc would be described by LZW as ‘all black’. That saves a lot of space!
If you still don’t understand, try googling LZW compression.
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I though it should remember it (sticky) if not try Edit > Defaults > Save
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18 minutes ago, msdobrescu said:
Actually, perfect snapshot of the mindset of somebody claiming knows how a Linux user thinks.
I’m a Linux User (10 years), a Windows user, a MAC user, an Android user and I would tend to agree with @InfoCentral. The ‘typical’ Linux user (based on the ones I know) is proud of not paying for software. But this is counterproductive, because free software is nearly always inferior. Hence the “typical” Linux user we get on here asking for Affinity. But does that type of ‘typical’ customer base make a good market?
Anyway, be careful of what you wish for. If Serif did release Affinity for Linux and it became a huge success, before long others would follow, until eventually there might be a Microsoft Linux. No so far fetched, look at Apple.
Then before long it would just be another version of the mainstream OS types and would lose it’s independent appeal.
Like an unknown beach that suddenly gets known. Before too long there are multi-story hotels, paid for car parks, McDonalds, litter all over the place and binge drinkers.
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First of all, resolution has absolutely nothing to do with file size, so what are you actually worried about, or asking? Also, what format are you saving the Affinity file in?
Affinity Photo does NOT change the image resolution or quality (unless saving as JPEG).
Resolution is the number of pixels in the image. File size is the space the image occupies on disc.
A picture with a resolution of 4000 x 4000 pixels could be
40 megabytes,
20 mebabytes
1 mebabyte
The difference in mebabytes) would be the type of file format it is saved in, with .raw camera data being the biggest, JPEG being the smallest.
You are wrong about compression.
If you save in TIFF format Affinity always and only saves in LZW compressed format. This is much more efficient than RAW but the image quality and resolution is exactly the same, as LZW is a non-lossy compression format but the size on disc (in megabytes) is very different. But open both files up and they are identical.
JPEG is lossy, so although the image resolution is the same, quality suffers.
File size displayed in a program is only a guess. If you decide to save in TIFF format or JPEG with a high compression ratio, the difference in saved file sizes between the two would be huge. So the software actually has no idea. It just guesses, so best to ignore it.
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1 hour ago, SRZ said:
I selected the picture but nothing is still happening someone please help.
You are actually changing the Opacity of the colour on the Colour panel. That affects the Opacity of paint as you paint with the brush etc.
To change the Opacity of a whole layer, you need to User the Opacity control for the layer, as @carl123describes.
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6 hours ago, okaymotion said:
Everything has been working with no problem until last week when I opened a project on my iMac. I was trying to mask a layer, I press B and the Painting Brush was a SQUARE instead of a CIRCLE. It started acting weird. I don't know why. I don't have that issue on my MacBook. Everything works fine. I tried uninstalled it and installed it back and still had the same issue.
B is a toggle (or cycle?). Pressing B once activates the Paintbrush, pressing B again activates the Colour replacement Brush, pressing B again activates the (square) Pixel brush then another B starts from the Paintbrush again, and so on. Although from your picture, you have the colour replacement brush selected, which seem odd???
Try selecting the Paint brush on the Tools panel (in the same group as the Color Replacement Brush) or pressing B until it cycles to the Paint brush. Failing that, try clearing the user data. Press and hold Control down while you launch Photo. There will be three options already ticked on the Clear User Data panel. Just press Clear.
P.S. If you have another tool active, pressing B will select whichever brush of the three I mentioned above, depending on which one you used last. Pressing B for the second time starts to cycle through the different brushes.
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5 hours ago, gdenby said:
I've seen adds for gloves that help block the signals from the rest of the hand other than the first 3 fingers. According to one vid, you can make on from an old sock.
Anti-fouling gloves. I have one that came with my graphics tablet and it’s very good. They are only a couple of dollars from eBay and are nice and soft. I would have thought an old sock would soon make your hand get very hot and depending on what they are made of, there might be a static build up issue. Don’t really know.
46 minutes ago, simongg said:I get very good advice from you. But i can't remember password more than 6 digits.
Refer to shapes that built in , how can I break them? What is the curve function?
Well, if you can remember a password like ‘simon1’ double it. Use simon1simon1 but don’t actually use that or I would know how to break into your account
Everything you draw is really a curve, even a straight line. It’s just a term for, er, something you draw.
Convert to Curves turns a shape (which has special dynamic editing properties) into a simple curve, then you can break it and edit.
Are you using Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo? they are a little different in converting to curves.
There are some very good (and short) videos available from Serif. If you are an absolute newbie they would give you a starting point and some basic grounding.
BTW I agree with you about the iPad. It is definitely NOT easy to use. Only if you are tapping on a browser link maybe. Everything else is much harder and takes longer without a keyboard and mouse. I much prefer Android.
I also find Apple’s insisting you use the “cloud” for transferring files really stupid. A “portable” ? Device that is permanently in need of an internet link or lots of difficult setting up (airdrop etc). I can’t use that on my PC!
Whereas my android tablet can be connected by a cable, no matter where or when.
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24 minutes ago, Electrolytique said:
Which ties nicely into my point if this is the case then our number of requests should remain insignificant and easy to ignore. There is a lack of data to suggest that it would of wouldn't work however a community showing interest is still something that Serif could choose to consider if it did reach high enough numbers.
I think I saw on a Serif video somewhere that Affinity sales across all platforms have reached 1 million. There have been 20 or so Linux users “crying out” for Affinity on Linux.
Still a way to go then
Maybe you should start a forum (please don’t take it as an invitation to post on questions). Maybe when it reaches 100,000 or so Serif will reconsider. Although I doubt they have enough staff/time to develop it.
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8 hours ago, thomasbricker said:
I am in the middle of doing a project that involves extensive curve shape creation. This is for the sake of an accurate mask for a pixel layer. I am accustomed to using paths in Photoshop and I am quite good at it. I have been trying to use Affinity Photos pen tool to create curves for the same purpose, I am finding it incredibly challenging to get it to work correctly. I have gotten the hang of moving node point around and adjusting. What is escaping me is the ability to join the end of one curve with the beginning of another curve. Sometimes simply doesn’t work.
There must be a trick to it, that I am simply unaware of.
There must be a trick to it, that I am simply unaware of.
Does anyone else have this problem?
If you join up a curve (to make it closed) you have to look out for the tiny black circle that appears at the base of the Pen Tool nib. That indicates closing a curve.
To join with the node tool, drag one end over the other end until it snaps in place.
I normally have snapping on, but if the Pen tool goes yellow, that doesn’t join the curve. You need the little circle. It does join with with the Node tool though.
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3 hours ago, Electrolytique said:
There are many people in the Linux community who are crying out for software like the affinity suit.
That reminds me of a few decades back when people either bought VHS, Betamax or V2000 (I think that was the name) video players. Probably before your time
The problem was, all the Hollywood films were on VHS format, so although VHS was the worst technically, everybody bought VHS machines because the bottom line was, people just wanted to watch films. The other formats just died out because 99.9 recent of people don’t care about the technology running the technology, they just want the technology to work and benefit them when they press the Start button.
Linux appeals to the .01 who prefer playing with technology than using it. Generally speaking, they are very poor customers. Surely the smart move is to buy the machine that plays the content, rather than buying the wrong machine and crying out about bad hardware (or software in this case) buying choices because it doesn’t play the content?
BTW, I still have a Betamax machine in my loft, if anyone wants one?
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Click on the curves adjustment panel Picker tool, then click and drag (a little bit) on the image with the mouse.
No need to hold anything down after clicking on ‘Picker’ just click and drag the mouse on the image.
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19 minutes ago, It123 said:
Hello Affinity. In the desk top version of AF should you be able to use the picker tool in the curves panel to match up with the various tones in an image? I was expecting that with the picker tool when clicked would show corresponding points on the curves line, am I missing something here. Thanks
You do have to click and move the mouse very slightly for it to register and place a point on the curve.
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1 hour ago, EAP2k17 said:
Hello!
I would like to design materials for school, so I purchased clip arts and fonts to design the materials I'll be selling. I would like to export my documents as pdf and want them to be protected, so when purchased by customers, they cannot change, alter or add anything to my work. How can I do that? Thank you very much for your precious help!
There are lots of utilities to do that, or you could spend hundreds on Adobe Acrobat
Here is one for a PC (you didn’t say what you are using). It’s free for non commercial use, which would exclude you but it’s only $30 dollars.
Cropping
in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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This is so much easier if you make an empty document to the exact size you want. Then place the image in it. You can then resize the placed image inside the document, which crops it to the document canvas as you resize the image bounding box.
No calculator required.