Depa

I’m pretty disappointed that ‘Move Data Entry’ (Duplicate & Move) wasn’t added to the iPad platform…
Why?

Collage of a moon in a rose, created with Affinity Photo.

. . . a little foretaste of the 2024 VW Beetle calendar I'm curently working on . . . 🖌🖍(mainly witth Affinity Designer) . . . more to come in December📅
 

New work - Our Lady of Brighthelmstone.
This was my recent submission for a call to artists put out by a new gallery opening in the city of Brighton & Hove - sadly rejected.
The theme was metamorphosis, so I painted the city morphed into a fabulous drag queen, in the style of an Uber-kitsch religious painting (taking “Our Lady of Guadeloupe” as my main inspiration - Brighthelmstone is the old name for the city of Brighton).
There are a total of 33 visual “easter eggs” contained within the picture, some architectural, some cultural. If any of you are familiar with the place, have fun spotting them!
(Created on Affinity Designer 2 for iPad)

Yeah another Alfa! Just showing where I started blocking in and doing a few bits all over the place and then a week later. Can't decide on the lady so not quite finished either, perhaps a different pose, facing the car? Not sure. Anyway will update when I've decided and I'm done.

Found a really tiny reference photo and thought I'd see if it still looked like a car once I'd finished with it. I'm probably going to add a background as it's boring but not decided what yet. I will update when/if I do. No blurs in this one just gradients.

This my first artwork totally using Affinity Designer and Photo. I've converted from Adobe as I'm now retired and just producing pictures for my own pleasure (mainly motor racing).

This is the late Carlos Pace's Martini Brabham BT45 at the German GP in 1976. Based on a photo by the brilliant Rainer Schlegelmilch.

created with Affinity Designer 2 in reflection of a real VW Beetle Convertible driving around. Serves a Logo for a TShirt.

Next, a steam locomotive passes on a bridge around 1920. This was hard work the original photo was small, dark and very unsharp so had to search internet for another pictures of the right type of locomotive and the bridge, there are almost no bridges of this kind anymore. (the lines above behind is for telephone if any wondered what it is)
 

Hey, buddies!

This is an artwork inspired by artists who do miniature with resin and other craft artifacts.

I’ve done a while ago, using Affinity Designer 1.x.Hope you guys like the result ☺️

Oh, if you like this kind of work, please, consider follow my YouTube channel 🙏, soon I’ll upload more content.

Thanks Affinity ❤️
 

About 40 years ago I had a Matchbox catalog in my hand, in which I saw an illustration similar to this one. It was probably part of an advertisement for a new series of miniature cars. I remembered it because I really liked the concept. Unfortunately, I don't know where exactly I saw this picture. I searched the brochures available on the web but couldn't find it. So I decided to recreate it from memory. The old ads were fantastic!
 

Five hundred cookies and 128 rum buns out of the oven (not all at once) and here is my feeble attempt at a Christmas card.  Since I couldn't draw my way out of a paper bag, I decided to use the Paper Cut Woodlands Assets with Designer 2 and the wonderful Warp Group, for this year's magnum opus.  Hooray for the eye dropper!
Thank you to all of the wonderful people at Serif who have worked so hard to give us all the new things in the three V2's.  And best wishes to everyone for a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

 

I really hope you change your mind @VectorVonDoom. Your contributions here have often been the highlight of my week. I'm extraordinarily impressed by what you've achieved, and have pinned this post for others to see what can be accomplished with Affinity Designer.

my last post. I’m posting on instagram (yuk) and twitter (2 followers so Elon will be getting worried!)  if you can find me! Also in the private Facebook Affinity Designer group (the biggest one).
Two quick ones. Did the astronaut then he had to have some transport. The rocket is a bit closer to futurist I guess. Rocket one needs a tweak or 10 but didn’t take too long.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi Depa
Thanks for the file. This has been fixed for the next beta.
Cheers
Justin

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Available
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first build of Affinity Photo 1.8.4 for macOS.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.8.3 version recently released to all customers (though it installs parallel to the release, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes Since 1.8.3
 
- Integrated x3f-tools project, significantly improving support for X3F RAW.
- Added ability to show folders as icons in the layers panel.
- Added option to always show folders as “small” in the layers panel.
- Improved dragging behaviour in the layers panel.
- PDF import performance improvements.
- Document save performance improvements.
- Detect Edges improved on 32bit documents.
- Lens profile popup might report incorrect state.
- RW2 files can cause a crash.
- Text performance improvements.
- Selection brush width is not remember after being changed using modifier keys.
- Placing RAW files now produces Pixel layers, as opposed to Image layers.
- Fixed reading of XP metadata under certain conditions.
- Fix for Nikon D90 RAW loading issues.
- Fixed High Pass filter when using LAB colour.
- Assorted small bug fixes.
- Help improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
 
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Hi Depa,
I've moved this thread from the Pre 1.8 Beta Bugs section to the active/current one and bumped the report/log yet again.
Hope it helps move things forward. Thanks for keeping at it.

Hi all, I believe this was identified and fixed when the beta was first available, I was getting it with my Sony ARW files. I believe it was a mixup with the input colour profile—check out the next beta when it's available and hopefully the issue will be sorted. I'll double check with the developer that the fix was implemented for multiple camera formats and not exclusively for Sony raw files.

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
Requirements: Purchased Affinity Photo
Mac App Store: Not submitted
Download ZIP: Download
Auto-update: Not available.
EDIT: Link fixed (was pointing to an old DMG, not the new ZIP). Apologies..
 
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the first beta of Affinity Photo 1.8 for macOS.
Photo 1.8 is a significant change to the currently shipping 1.7 version, so, as ever, I would strongly urge users to avoid the 1.8 beta for critical work. This is a pre-release build of 1.8 - we will release more builds before 1.8 ships. Things will be broken in this build - please use it to explore the new features and not for real work.
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
It’s also worth noting that we aren’t done yet - we are still working through reported bugs from previous releases and hope to fix as many as possible before the final release of 1.8. We also plan to add more features prior to the 1.8 release.
With all that said, we hope that you will enjoy the new capabilities introduced in this release and we look forward to any and all feedback you give to us.
Many thanks (as always),
Affinity Photo Team  
 
Changes This Build
- Overhauled the “File -> New” dialog - user templates are now supported.
- Implemented unified toolbar for appropriately modern macOS versions.
- Updated PANTONE palettes to include new Solid and Bridge sets.
- Renamed EXIF panel to Metadata and added support for user-editable fields, including IPTC).
- Added ability to read metadata from an XMP sidecar file (enable in Preferences).
- Added native CR3 support to the SerifLabs RAW engine.
- Added a new lens profile selector to Develop.
- Reimplemented the HSL filter's HSV option.
- Improved quality & file size of results when exporting JPEG.
- Switching to a mask node will now automatically switch to the grey colour slider.
- Improved lens correction of RAW files coming from lenses with fixed focal length.
- Improved unsharp mask “threshold” slider.
- Improved selection refinement performance & quality.
- Improved the noise reduction filter result when applied to JPEGs.
- Improved precision of Gaussian algorithm (to reduce banding).
- Improved reporting of file load errors (could previously report file corruption incorrectly).
- Improved performance of operations with large selections.
- Improved memory use with alternate futures and when replacing image layers.
- Improvements to Photoshop plugin support, notably for DxO plugins (but also for many others).
- Fixed Styles to show styles that would normally be invisible.
- Fixed crash when loading some corrupt JPEGs (valid image data, but corrupt following data).
- Fixed deletion of brushes / styles / etc. not reducing disk usage correctly.
- Fixed PSD export of hidden layers.
- Fixed angle cursors when the view has been rotated.
- Fixed “Create Palette” from CMYK images resulting in RGB colours.
- Fixed Pixel Selection appears incorrectly when started near page edge.
- Fixed rasterising a fill layer goes wrong after changing document size.
- Fixed Marquee Selection not constraining to a square if you drag across the right diagonal.
- Fixed mis-identification of some Tamron lenses mounted to Canon bodies.
- Fixed failure to load some PSB files (and failing to report errors).
- Fixed missing EXIF data for CRWs.
- Fixed crash importing PSD files containing embedded colour profiles with unicode characters in their names.
- Assorted other small fixes and improvements.
- Localisation improvements.
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Hi Karl-Heinz Muller, Tom Scola,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
This is a known issue we are looking at. We should have a fix for it soon. Thanks for your report/feedback.

Can we hope that the function "edit with" Affinity Photo in Apple Photo will be ok in the release 1.7.1 ?
note: it was ok in the 1.6.7

Hi j3rry
Good spot. This has now been fixed.
Thanks
Justin

Hi Depa,
There's already a report regarding colour issues with Sigma 3XF files which wasn't fixed yet. I've added your file there and updated/bumped the report to bring it to devs attention.
Thanks for your support.