AffinityJules

Nah. You know what actors are like. . .some never take off.

Apart from a couple of my own photos I sourced Unsplash for essential elements. 

Very enlightening, thank you.

I just wanted to say hello! I'm kind of new here. I'm a 30-year Adobe user and bought every Affinity product as soon as they came out. But I never really made the switch until Publisher came out with 1.8 and became usable to me. I love Designer and Publisher. They are now my go-to's. I just need a little more time to get comfortable with Photo. Anyhow, I thought I would share with you a couple of vector illustration that I built entirely in Designer. This is something I could never do as well in Adobe Illustrator. The Red Strat was built in 1.7, and the Les Paul I recently did in 1.8.

Set the accumulation to 100%

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.4
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.4 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.3) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
X3F: Fixed uninitialised crop areas in release builds  X3F: Fixed non-sequenced reads from files (was preventing any X3F file from being loaded in CL release builds)  X3F: Apply Black and White in Develop Persona when the Monochrome flag is set Fixed redo always being a step behind in Develop Persona Fixed import of PSD files with extended blend modes Fixed Hasselblad RAW files loading thumbnail preview only Fixed occasional crashes loading RAW files  Allow Saving a document with history to be in recorded macros Fixed crash when making some selections Fixed Voronoi reset not matching the default Changed mask thumbnails to use black, not transparent Improved LAB defaults for selective channels in the document view Fixed OCIO transform being removed when the window is moved or minimised Fixed Character Panel's Decorations colour box displaying in RGB  Fixed Layer Effects Gradient Overlay sliders not working correctly Changed brush parameter shortcut from Alt+RightMouseButton to Ctrl+Alt (same as macOS) Fixed flickering brush preview with tablet input Fixed spurious lines being drawn with tablet input Fixed Alt+Drag colour picker getting stuck when using tablet input Fixed crash when failing to load an X3F file (some files will still fail to load, but won't crash) Fixed gradients not changing when Global Colour is modified  Improved support for Canon EOS-1D X Mark III colour data.  [Installer] Prevent installation into non-empty directory Added EOS 1D-X Mark III to list of known CR3 cameras  Fixed Flood Selection Tool is offset with 'All layers' enabled Stopped Image quality dropping after exiting an edited Equirectangular image Minor CR3 tweaks Fixed CR3 from a Canon EOS-R opening with a purple haze Fixed Develop Persona Red Eye Removal Tool crash Improved support for X3F files Removed units from the Crop Tool ratio option Fixed rotating a raw file in Develop Persona darkens it  Fixed adding guides in Develop Persona darkening image Removed "Windows Ink" option, and replaced with high precision WinTab support Fixed AI import incorrectly identifying as EPS when it was actually a PDF with extra data at the front Fixed PDF import for documents with extra data at the front Fixed PDF export for some Asian fonts that support many glyphs Fixed Layers panel dropping of items of right of thumbnail in expanded parents Fixed right-click context menu to disable Merge Down when attempting to merge a Pixel Layer into a shape Fixed PDF import crash due to infinitely searching for fonts Fixed HSL ring displaying incorrectly when returning to the adjustment  Fixed being unable to drag afassets into the app  Changed PDFs to open as restricted if we don't have permission to edit, copy or print them Fixed PDF export accidentally outputting all RGB images at 16-bit. Fixed RAW files appearing too dark Fixed High Pass filter for LAB colour Fixed Detect Edges after developing a RAW file in 32 bit Fixed NEF import from Nikon D90 rendering incorrectly Fixed CTRL+M with a node selected to not show the curves dialog. Fixed handling of ' XP ' EXIF data from Luminar 4 exported files  Fixed placement of RAW files to apply default settings Fixed Selection Brush Width not remembered if changed by Right mouse button + Alt modifier Fixed layer blend modes not scrolling with arrow keys  Improved performance of font loading (and tried to improve behaviour with font managers) Improved PDF export support for 16-bit and 32-bit images Fixed SVG import of elements with closepath not followed by move Fixed SVG export of curves with large bounds Fixed incorrect sheet colour in PSD export (following import) Fixed incorrectly enabled control on Text Style decorations Fixed click to select items with group crops Fixed locked layers being selectable via Marquee selection Fixed PDF import of certain unicode characters producing the wrong character Fixed SVG import to ignore spurious quote marks in "url('#identifier')" references Fixed SVG import to treat gradients with one stop as solid fills Fixed SVG import having wrong default for gradientUnits Fixed crash when importing an invalid SVG due to negative heights or widths Fixed hand cursor getting stuck after panning  Fixed crash when pressing V with Alignment flyout open Fixed font names always displaying their English names Fixed PDF export with embedded ICC profiles Fixed SVG import of booleans Fixed SVG import of documents with multiple <svg> elements Fixed fill aspect ratio for Radial and Conical to be maintained unless the correction handle is visible Fixed text edit handles to allow auto pan ability Fixed changing tool while the Align Panel is open (if the next tool supports the alignment options, it will remain open, else it will close) Fixed crash when dragging items in the Layers control Improved performance of PDF import Improved performance of text when rendering text Fixed vector export of text occasionally filling characters Fixed crash when closing floating document  Fixed New Document dialog previous document selection highlight not being remembered Fixed Procedural Texture rendering different to macOS applications Fixed Ctrl+M with nodes selected to not bring up the curves dialog  Fixed crash when docking a panel with the Brushes panel Fixed PNG export not displaying the size warning if the export dialog was previously closed with a different preset  Help and Localisation improvements. Earlier changes and fixes in 1.8 made since 1.7 (including the new 1.8 features) are listed in some detail in this 1.8.0 update announcement and  this 1.8.2 update announcement
 
UPDATING TO THIS VERSION (Free for existing customers)
The software version can be seen on the splash screen and the About dialog (in Help > About Affinity Photo).
If you’ve purchased from the Affinity Store— each time you start the Affinity Store software it will check for updates and offer any available update. The latest update will install over the top of any earlier version, with no need to uninstall. You can download the latest installer by logging into the affinity store here and find the order in your account and use the "Download" button in there. Alternatively, this new release (and previous versions of Affinity Photo for Windows) can be downloaded from this link. (that installer is NOT for Windows Store purchases and needs a product key).
If you’ve purchased from the Microsoft Store— Microsoft Store updates are done automatically by the operating system (each time you start the application). If this does not happen for you, open the Windows Store app and click the three dots in the top right corner of the app and then go to Downloads and Updates. Click Get Updates. This should hopefully force the update to show.

Apart from the backdrop (virtually gone) this image was created with photographs of water.
With help from the liquify persona and blend modes I was able to realise this particular visual experiment.

"Hell hath no fury. . ." seems a nice girl.
This got really complicated as it developed - different layers with different blend modes & opacities. The problem with doing something like this is: when you want or need to merge certain layers they never merge as you expect them to; the layers never keep their individual properties but default to the highest setting and then the effect you had is gone.
Time to undo and stop playing with fire!
 

Apart from a couple of my own photos I sourced Unsplash for essential elements. 

Apart from a couple of my own photos I sourced Unsplash for essential elements. 

What to do on a boring rainy weekend? I thought I would try and get some more milage out of the UFO pictured in "Contact" and revisit "Close encounter" by adding oodles of detail to the Conny.
The Conny herself is from a picture I took of the Breitling Conny at her base in Basel. I think it turned out well.

I'm with smadell on this one. Using a 50% grey layer is my choice and it's totally non destructive in the sense that if a mistake is made, you simply paint over the grey layer to erase it.

Ask 5 people how to dodge and burn, and you'll probably get 7 different answers. The answer to the question about a preferred way to dodge and burn is that it's the method you prefer.
That having been said, and despite all the possible complications that can be added, I almost always dodge and burn using a single 50% grey layer set to Overlay blend mode. I brush in black and/or white with a low flow soft brush (usually 100% opacity, 1-2% flow, 0% hardness) and build up the effect slowly.
I never use the Dodge and Burn tools because they are, at heart, destructive tools. Sure, you can use them on a duplicate layer. But you still can't go back to fix a mistake (at least, not easily) without undoing lots of work in between. I prefer to do things non-destructively whenever possible, and that's what doing dodge and burn on a separate layer accomplishes.
It's also been stated that the 50% grey fill in the Dodge and Burn layer is superfluous. You could just add an empty pixel layer and do the black and white brush strokes there. That's true, but I find that when it comes time to actually look at the dodge and burn layer, having the 50% grey background lets me see what I've done much more easily.

Nice! One bit of criticism I have about the composition is that the shadowed sihouette of the woman isn't properly mirrored. The mirror image and the woman are facing the same way which is unrealistic since a mirror is supposed to flip them to be opposites, as in right is left and vice versa. It is especially noticeable with the hair and shoulders which are facing the same way as the mirror image.

I'd say the reflection is correct...

Yes it's you. 😛

Apart from a couple of my own photos I sourced Unsplash for essential elements. 

Apart from a couple of my own photos I sourced Unsplash for essential elements. 

You found a way to weave suspense into the bits. Kudos. 

Nah. You know what actors are like. . .some never take off.

absolutely wow!

What? No Peter Sellers or Shirley MacLaine??

Apart from a couple of my own photos I sourced Unsplash for essential elements. 

Very enlightening, thank you.

Hallo Affinity Jules,
Ursprünglich habe ich alle meine Bilder in Photoshop CS4 Ex gemacht, aufgrund eines Festplatten Fehlers vor 4 Jahren würden fast alle Bilder Zerstört.
Und zur Zeit bin ich alle Bilder die es wert sind, wieder herzustellen oder neu zu gestalten mit Affinity Photo.
Zu den Glaseffekt dieser würde mit Hilfe der Anpassungsebene Verlaufsumsetzung gestaltet. (Siehe Making of X Bilder)

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Hello Affinity Jules,
Originally I took all my pictures in Photoshop CS4 Ex, due to a hard drive bug 4 years ago almost all pictures would be destroyed.
And at the moment I am all pictures that are worth restoring or redesigning with Affinity Photo.
For the glass effect this would be designed using the adjustment level gradient conversion. (See Making of X pictures)
Making of X01:
Making of X02:
Making of X03:
Making of X04: