cayenne

Hello and thank you for the reply. Alright, you completely lost me on this one...never heard of a procedural texture filter. I don't see it under filters...? Can you give me some insight how and where to find and use this? It appears to somehow be able to do some coding within Affinity Photo 2....but I've never seen anything like that that is user accessible.... Thank you in advance, cayenne

Ok, after playing with this some more...I may have it working, although not sure exactly how...again, I'm used to doing this in PS as described above. But I added the noise as a layer of the group where I had painted with a brush...in this examples colors.... And then I took the group itself and made it a clipping mask (is that the right term with Affinity) to the rectangle below, which would generally be the image I was trying to correct by painting things in/out....it seems to work...? I know Affinity can do pretty much ANYTHING PS can do...and I do this one often. But whew...it does somethings SO differently, it's hard to figure out the secret Mickey Mouse handshake you need to make it work. But I think this is close.

But...what he is demonstrating...isn't that exactly what I'm trying to do...with his HSL and halftone...clipped to that group of two objects he has...it is only affecting those areas...I believe that's essentially what I'm trying to do with noise. I notice it has been quite awhile since I brought this up...I'll fire up Affinity 2 and see if noise now works when used as a clipping mask to a group. cayenne

Hello, I'm trying to emulate something I used to do all the time in PS. Basically at times cleaning up an image, I just open some layers and paint things out and in.... I then group those paint layers together in a group. Then when done, I need to add a bit of noise to where I painted to match it to the noise natively in the image. I usually create a fill layer of 50% gray. I apply the noise filter to get it to approx the same size noise that the regular image has. I then would clip this to that group of paint layers and I think the blend mode was "Overlay"....and by doing this, I'd be able to apply noise only to the areas that were painted which does a great job of hiding your tracks. I have Affinity Photo 2. I've created my noise layer, but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to "clip" it to the group that contains the paint layers. Can someone give me a quick idea what to do, or point me to some links? Thank you in advance, CC

Hello all, Ok, I've been away from Affinity a LONG time...and having to not only relearn my basics that came from PS days..but also with using Affinity Photo 2 tools which at times are a bit different..although the concepts are the same. Anyway, I'm working on an image and I want to use a curves adjustment tool with an elliptical mask to basically increase the highlights in a tiny part of the image. I checked and my colors are Black and White. I started with the curves layer and drug up the mids to lighten things up, and see where my mask was, etc. When I did the elliptical gradient...the mask did appear, however it wasn't want I expected with the mask being an elliptical white area fading quickly into black....it is apparently white fading into medium gray. For the life of me, I kept trying to figure why my entire image was being lightened...till I examined the mask isolated and it dawned on me that rather than black areas...it was grey....which would make sense that it would lighten fully in the small white area, but would still lighten everywhere else a bit where it was gray. I've attached a part of a screen shot to show the mask and my settings. I'm sure I'm missing something simple, but I can't seem to find what the deal is...I'm wanting to dodge and burn a lot of areas in my images....and need to figure this out. Thank you in advance, cayenne

Do you know offhand where on the file system (OSX) that AP keeps its brush files by default? Thank you in advance!!

Oops...update, I stand corrected. It appears that Affinity installed all #2 versions in parallel to the #1 versions...that surprises me, not sure why you'd want the old version? Anyway...in this case it might give me hope that the old signature brush is there. Anyone know where in AP1 it kept the default brushes? Thank you in advance,

Well, I believe the install of AP2 installed over the old AP1......so, not sure... Would the install have overwritten brushes there..custom ones? That doesn't sound right. Not sure where to look...this is on OSX....anyone know where AP1 might have kept my brush? I"m pretty sure I didn't create a special category for them, just kept it in the default brushes....

Hi all, I'm a bit of a noob, and it has been awhile since I used AP. I created a signature brush in AP1...and when I needed to "sign" a PDF document, I could open it up and use the brush to sign it. I used to always be able to find that brush. I've upgraded to AP2...and for the life of me I don't see my old sig. brush. Can someone help me know where to look in AP2? I've looked under the basic brushes where I thought I had put them....not there. Thank you in advance, C

THANK YOU!! OH man, I love Affinity Photo...but man, the dearth of information and documentation out there just kills me when trying to find out little things like this that stump you dead on a workflow. Thank you both again!! C Ps. Hey, is there a way to mark an issue "solved" so that others later might see that when referencing something?

Any suggestions? Thank you, C

Thank you!! That's a great help!! The red quick mask did disappear after I made a change to a slider...not intuitive, but it worked!! However, I've run into a new slight problem. The object I"m wanting to work with..is small...the moon in the distance. The red disappears, but the "marker" for the radial mask tool is there and obscures the moon that I"m wanting to see. Is there any way to make that disappear too? Thank you VERY much for your response and help!! cayenne

Hi there, When doing touchups or reconstruction on images, I would often in PS use the simple brush tool and quickly sample and paint in the image, by just using (on a Mac) Option+Click on the mouse or pen on table to quickly and very rapidly sample and paint, sample and paint..to blend and reconstruct areas in a picture. I know in Affinity Photo, it is almost that, but rather than just simply clicking where the pointer is, you have to click and drag which really slows things down. Is there a way to add an option to allow the brush tool to Option (or Alt on windows) click to select the color without having to also drag to emulate the efficient and quick way PS does it? This would go a LONG way to completing my migration into AP only, as that that is a technique I, and from what I've seen many others, use.... Look at starting about 9:20 here on this video from Phearn: How to Remove Anything from a Photo for an example of how quickly this can work when rapidly removing objects and replacing them by painting in. This is about the only thing I have on my Affinity Photo wish list at this time.... Thank you, cayenne

Hi all, I'm playing around with doing some various exposure HDR with AP and am in the Tone Mapping Persona. I have a spot (the moon actually) in an image and have outlined it with an elliptical mask....the trouble is, it is marked the mask like a typical quick mask with red...I cannot see under that red to be able to see what the adjustments are doing there. I've tried hitting the "m" button to see if that would turn the mask highlighting on/off....didn't work. Any suggestions out there as that I can't find much in the way of documentation or YT videos showing use of the mask on the Tone Mapping Persona.... Thank you in advance, cayenne

I saw something similar in a photo I was editing in affinity photo...subtle tearing lines in mine that wouldn't go away and appeared out of nowhere. I shut down AP, and restarted, and the image came up normal again.