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DuctTape reacted to Mithferion in Free 1000 Photoshop Brushes
Adobe is giving away 1000 Brushes by renowed artist Kyle T. Webster, in ABR format. If anyone is interested (they don't behave exactly the same, tested on Photoshop Elements 10), here is the link for the download page:
https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/brushes.html
Best regards!
P. S.: I hope there are no legal problems with this.
[UPDATE] I copy here my answer about Licensing for these brushes:
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DuctTape reacted to smadell in 38 Gradient Maps for Color Grading
Today, let’s have fun with Gradient Maps…
Gradient Maps are a great way to color grade photos, since they map dark, light, and midtone values according to a pre-defined gradient. This can easily define a “look” for photos that might otherwise be hard to accomplish.
Although I am not a user of Photoshop, our “arch rival” has a wonderful group of gradient maps called “Photographic Toning” that are specifically designed to color grade photos. Although you have to drill down through a few panels and dialog boxes to find them (and you sort of have to know they’re there in the first place) they are a truly nice addition. Also, they are easily obtained by anyone.
But, as they say, there’s the rub. Affinity Photo cannot import Photoshop gradient maps. Affinity Photo can store pre-defined gradients in the Swatches studio, but for some unknown reason the stored gradients are not available from the Gradient Map studio panel. Gradient Maps can be stored as presets, and can be chosen from the Adjustments panel, but I don’t believe they can be easily exported from one computer and brought into a different one.
So… after a long couple of days of transcription, I have created a set of Macros that apply each of the 38 Photographic Toning gradient maps. Since macros are easy to store, and to share, I am making them available for anyone who wants them.
There are actually 2 sets of Macros included - each as an easy-to-import Category from the Library panel. The first group of Macros is called “Photographic Toning Gradients” and these are named according to the gradient map they apply. Each macro creates a Gradient Map layer, applies the appropriate color values, and names the layer according to the gradient map it applied. The second set of macros is called “Photographic Toning Gradients - reduced.” This category also applies the gradient maps in a similar fashion, but then reduces the opacity of the layer to 30%. This reduces the effect of the Gradient Map, and produces a much subtler effect.
Here is an image that shows the full-strength versions of all 38 gradient maps.
And here is a photo to which I’ve applied a full-strength gradient map, and also a reduced-strength gradient map.
These macro categories are included in the ZIP file attached to this post, along with a Letter sized JPG that includes samples of the gradient maps. Also included in the ZIP file is another macro category that includes one more macro. It’s called “Obama Hope Poster” and, as you might have guessed, it turns any photo into an Obama Hope-style poster. Just because…
Please enjoy them!
Photographic Toning Gradient Maps.zip
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DuctTape reacted to MEB in Q: new doc DPI
Hi TheFeralOne,
The DPI is irrelevant when you work with images for web. Only the pixel dimensions matter so it defaults to 72 or 96 (the common values for Mac and Win).
When working with print documents or layout/UI's for mobile devices the DPI does matter and its adjusted accordingly depending on the selected device.
The document presets are just that, a set of pre-defined values for most common uses, you can still customise them if you want setting the fields below as you wish.
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DuctTape reacted to MEB in Colour Matching?
Hi The FeralOne,
No, not yet. We have a relatively small team which is already doing their best to fulfil users requests and add all planned features, but as you can guess by the number of requests it's simply not possible to address them all. Please bear with us while we continue improving the app.
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DuctTape reacted to kirk23 in Brush Manager ?
Brushes itself needs alot of improvements . Old Draw soft had a nice feature of alternating picture fragments along curve brush. Same as in Microsoft Design/ old Expression soft. Was very cool feature.
And for pixel brushes a super coll improvement over Photoshop ones would be an ability to do a brush stroke on several specified layers at the same time. With specified dabs for each layer. For example one dab for "color"layer , other dub for "normal map" layer etc.
Maybe just same brushes Corel Painter or Art rage both have painting extra depth channel beyond regular RGB+ alpha.
Would be nice to have a few brushes making GPU particle simulations on the fly, Something like Rebelle or Expresii , also depth/surface aware.
Brushes that are "painting" some real world phenomena : rust , color drips. scratches in proper places through automatic depth masking etc and not just drop pixels on an artificial "layer".
All this is extremely necessary nowadays to be considered an innovation and be really competitive IMO.
Then a cool brush manager would be nice too of course.
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DuctTape got a reaction from John Rostron in AP 1.6.6 crashing
sorry not use to my new hours 0200 to 22:00
I got it thank
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DuctTape reacted to IsabelAracama in Time-Lapse Video
Hi all
I bring a time-lapse more than a tutorial for this week. However, I explain how to slow it down so you can follow along if interested. You can also ask me how I did this or that, as usual.
Kiss!
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DuctTape reacted to Henry Stahle in #affinityphotoillustration
So far... nine illustrations made using Affinity Photo (and a little Designer). They are to be found on my Instagram (henrystahle) and I am using #affinityphotoillustration to show they are basicly all bitmap illustrations. The latest are from my recent project, an interactive app for Android and iOS. Me as an illustrator + a coder (LUA + Corona) that also animates and such. In Affinity I can use the slicing function for exporting, that is a big thing, it makes the work work, and easy exporting... Happy for that.
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DuctTape reacted to Henry Stahle in #affinityphotoillustration
Hi, I just started a new hashtag on Instagram: #affinityphotoillustration. I decided to do that because I am working on a picture book / app starting to use Affinity Photo instead of Photoshop. I will show some of my illustrations, all bitmap, no vectors, done in AP. It would be nice to see more illustrators using AP presenting art under the same #affinityphotoillustration tag. To get to now about you, to learn how you use this software and to get inspired from each other. See you on Instagram!
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DuctTape reacted to retrograde in Brush Manager ?
Users need some sort of simple way to organize and save favourite brushes in their own panel. There are now hundreds of brushes, all in separate panels. It's becoming counter productive and I think some sort of system is needed to get the most out of all of these great resources.
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DuctTape reacted to Hofnaar in Affinity, we need clarification: are you or aren’t you working on a DAM?
I think a "We" stands for a bunch of people here in the forum and out there on the net.
So yes, the question is important for many users incl. myself.
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DuctTape reacted to Novakane in Official DC Comics 375 Color Palette by J-Skipper
I used this palette a lot so I decided to make an Afiinity version and share it if other people are interested Have fun with the color :) Original palette here
DC Comics 375.afpalette
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DuctTape reacted to jef. in Tone Mapping Presets [FREE]
I have made 10 free tone mapping presets. I have not seen any tone mapping presets for affinity photo so I made some for anybody who might want them. Of course they will not all work with every photo like all presets but I hope someone finds them useful : ) To upload them just click on the zip. file, then in the tone mapping persona on the presets menu; click "Import Presets", Enjoy!
Thanks!
Hanan Edwards Presets.zip
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DuctTape reacted to Mithferion in Public Domain Pictures
Hi there!
I just wanted to share a list of sites that offer Public Domain Pictures in good quality. Some of them are listed in this thread, but I wanted to add more and publish a list of this kind of content (CC0 License, and also a High Permissive Licenses sites). Also, consider that there may be additional restrictions implied on these pictures, like brandings, buildings, people, etc.
Also, please read each site's Licensing in order to ensure what can and can't be done.
Edit: Since I crated this Topic, some things have changed, so: I removed non-working links and added a few more:
[CC0] http://freeforcommercialuse.net/ [CC0] http://publicdomainarchive.com/ [HPL] https://pixabay.com/ [CC0] http://jaymantri.com/ [CC0] https://magdeleine.co/license/cc0/ [CC0] https://isorepublic.com/ [CC0] http://www.1millionfreepictures.com/ [CC0] http://realisticshots.com/ [CC0] http://startupstockphotos.com/ [CC0] http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/?medium=image [CC0] http://jeshoots.com/ [CC0] http://www.designerspics.com/ [CC0] https://negativespace.co/ [CC0] https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacex/ [CC0] https://www.pexels.com/ [HPL] https://unsplash.com/ [HPL] https://barnimages.com/ New:
[HPL] https://pikwizard.com/ [HPL] https://gratisography.com/ [HPL] https://www.splitshire.com/ [CC0 and HPL] https://burst.shopify.com/ [CC0] https://libreshot.com/ [CC0] https://picjumbo.com/ [HPL] https://goodstock.photos/ Best regards!
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DuctTape reacted to dmstraker in Blend modes notes (52 A4 pages)
Attached is my complete set of notes about blend modes, now spread across 52 pages of A4.
These are significantly updated from the previous revision, with lots more 'recipes' and organisation of these under main topics, hopefully to make them more usable.
Enjoy.
Blend modes notes V5.pdf
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DuctTape reacted to photogeek in Photo Geek's Toy Photography
So most of these are just photos I took and edited in Affinity Photo, however the Jason vs Jason does have a new background put in. I know these are dark, but I was going for a darker mood when I edited these.
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DuctTape reacted to A_B_C in Photo to Painting
You should check out this pretty neat technique … :)
Source: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/34014-oil-painting/?p=168752
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DuctTape got a reaction from matisso in Affinity Designer Workbook
I was thinking of purchasing the AD Workbook, BUT with 1.6 just over the horizon does this mean a new workbook will be coming out?
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DuctTape reacted to James Ritson in Malta 2017
Hey again, just adding a few more that I edited over the weekend - includes some more portraiture, light painting and long exposure composite work... you can see some more on my 500px profile, I've just picked a few of the favourites. Thanks for looking!
Rabatador by James Ritson on 500px.com
Splendid Guest House Rooftop #02 by James Ritson on 500px.com
Splendid Guest House Chillout Room by James Ritson on 500px.com
Sun Waves Goodnight by James Ritson on 500px.com
Piercing Cat by James Ritson on 500px.com
Thunderstorm in Mellieħa 02 by James Ritson on 500px.com
Sassy in Sliema by James Ritson on 500px.com
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DuctTape reacted to James Ritson in Malta 2017
Hey all, just wanted to share a few of the (many) photos I took during my holiday last week in Malta. We previously went to Malta in May of this year and liked it so much we went back! This time I brought some camera gear that I didn't chance taking last time, including a tripod, flash gun and portable light, so I was able to get some shots I would have previously struggled with.
First up is a long exposure panorama of Valletta from Sliema Bay:
Valletta at Night by James Ritson on 500px.com
Then, on our last night, having wound down and packed all my gear up, we were treated to one of Malta's occasional thunderstorms. I quickly unpacked and went up to the rooftop of the guest house to capture several long exposures, which I then composited into this:
Thunderstorm in Mellieħa by James Ritson on 500px.com
We also got a ferry across to Comino, which was absolutely packed with tourists. A short walk later to the more arid areas, however, and I saw some tiny lizards:
Suspicious Lizard by James Ritson on 500px.com
Now, my partner is a bit of a poser (something she'll admit herself), but she doesn't usually like standing around to be photographed in the UK because it's quite cold. Give her some blistering heat, however, and she'll model all day!
Test of Strength by James Ritson on 500px.com
We ended up doing quite a few photoshoots (I've only edited two or three images so far):
Not Impressed by James Ritson on 500px.com
Rabat Arch by James Ritson on 500px.com
And finally for now, we visited the National Park which is an interesting little place in itself, but I discovered what seemed to be a disused rail yard across the road. I got a few photos of the area, but this one jumped out at me because of all the textures:
Rusty by James Ritson on 500px.com
Anyway, just wanted to share a few photos, I'll possibly add some more when I get around to editing them (there's quite a backlog...) - thanks for looking and hope they give you some ideas!
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DuctTape got a reaction from Benjamin_Peake in Affinity Designer Workbook
I was thinking of purchasing the AD Workbook, BUT with 1.6 just over the horizon does this mean a new workbook will be coming out?
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DuctTape reacted to garetmckinley in Mandala Designs with Affinity Designer Beta
Hello I am a huge fan of both affinity designer and photos, and own both of them! I just wanted to share some of the work that I have done using the new symbols tool in the Affinity Designer beta. When I got into sacred geometry mandala illustrations, I used smart layers inside photoshop. In the last month, I've recreated some of my past works and created new designs using the new betas.
I'd love to thank all their development teams for creating such incredible and intuitive vector applications. You allow me to effortlessly create designs in Designer and quickly export them to Photos to add nice image/gradient masks and effects before submitting the final render.
Here's some of the works I've created. I have them all on my Instagram as well (@garetmckinley).
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DuctTape reacted to Mensch Mesch in AD - Ivy vector brush tutorial
In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to create an Ivy vector textured image brush in Affinity Designer with support of Affinity Photo in image processing.
Link to the tutorial on YouTube
You can download the Ivy vector brush from the tutorial here.
Keep on drawin'
Norbert