AffinityJules

Namaste,
During the time of Quarantine mode, I planned to learn new application Blender.
Here is a artwork made with Blender, Octane Render & Affinity Photo.
 
Check out my other artwork on Instragram : mohitsanchaniya

Very warm and charming images, I almost expected Ethel & Ernest to be included in one of the pictures.

The other day I suddenly thought I ought to make something to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, remembering the Allies' victory in Europe in the Second World War. Unusually for me, the design came into my head in almost finished form, illustrating lines from the chorus of Vera Lynn's famous song, (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover. I thought I'd share it here before I post it on social media.
I Googled a few photos for guidance as I'm not brilliant at drawing completely from scratch, and made up some vector illustrations almost entirely with the Pen tool (rather than starting with shapes, my usual method), switching between Designer and Photo and back as I went along. The wavy text I made by rasterising Artistic Text and applying the Mesh Warp tool: turning on the grid made sure I applied the distortion evenly. The leaves and clouds are simply Cloud shapes, while the flowers I did with a pixel brush on layers clipped to their vector layers. Finally, the VE Day 75 logo is easy to find online, but only in pixel format, so I downloaded one and made up a vector version. The letters are Arial Black, but the numerals aren't: I couldn't find a close enough match in the fonts I have, so I made them as vectors too. 
(BTW, I'm not forgetting the war against Japan. I'll see what appears.)
This was originally A2 in size, but I've reduced it for posting ...


 
 



VE-DAY-LOGO.afdesign

I like the genre above all else.
I'm forever mucking about with different pictures, some turn out good while others are so-so. But regardless of all that, as long as I'm enjoying myself then that's all that matters.

Time for some space art, does anybody else like this genre?

“Bernadette” is a semi-realistic drawing that I created with Affinity Designer. AD is a (truly) excellent tool for vector graphics, but it also offers the best conditions for creating drawings and digital painting in the pixel range.

 
more about this work:
https://www.bodobe.de/zeichnung-mit-affinity-designer/
Best regards, stay healthy 😌

Gets my vote. Sensible is as sensible does. You can't argue with a one click reset function.

Another update so quick after the last one.
You guys rock.

Another update so quick after the last one.
You guys rock.

We are pleased to announce an update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.3
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.3 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.2) are as follows:
Fixes & Improvements:
Fixed layers getting clipped to embedded documents would not get clipped Fixed Procedural Texture rendering differently to macOS  Further boolean operation improvements  Tweaks to Alignment Fixed misidentification of Sigma 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary when mounted on a Canon camera Fixed line caps on strokes with pressure profiles that have sharp pressure changes at the start getting incorrectly expanded Fixed PDF export failing due to colour profile being rejected wrongly Fixed rendering artefacts with small radius filter effects Fixed some Pentax lenses being listed as "Pemtax" Fixed crash when switching between Panorama documents Fixed PDF export to honour gradient map's colour space Fixed autosave failing to work Fixed crash opening empty (0Kb) files Fixed PDF export failing with embedded LAB document Fixed PDF export of images to preserve their colour space Fixed PDF export failing when a document contains an empty clip Fixed cropped result when creating a selection from a mask Fixed sporadic selection failure when invert selecting with Move tool Fixed sporadic PSD import crash Fixed floating panels being clipped when collapsed  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.
 
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.

I'm not that bothered about total visual accuracy, but rather the overall effect of all composited components which create the picture.
I think you did an admirable job. 

To stave off the boredom, I'm working from home. even though I've been retired for nearly four years! I saw a post on Facebook the other day, which I'm pretty sure was 'photoshopped' as it looked too good and the 'artist' was kneeling on his artwork. It was well made, but of course, I thought 'I can do that!' and I have.
Credits: girl by Analise Benevides on Unsplash, pavement by Mabel Amber from Pixabay, Girl with pearl earring by Vermeer from Wikipedia, pastels from Google.

Good fun -- I shall try another one in the near future.

This is the last drawing I’m going to do in AD, mainly as I’m so fed up of the layers panel, I’ve just had enough of it. Perhaps it’s only me but I must waste so many hours during a project because of it. I’ve a few in progress which I may possibly finish off sometime but will probably just start them again in something else. I’ll do some more styles and start on some brushes instead. Anyway…
This was a sort of a quickie. I was really more interested in drawing the Ektachrome box but really had to do the camera too, well sort of. I couldn’t find any decent quality references so normally would have given it a miss but decided to try anyway even though it was taken with Mr.blurry cam and only about 2k square. Of course I couldn’t find the fonts for the box so used the closest and edited them. The markings on the camera body are the regular Braun font, Akzidenz Grotesk. The digits and text around the lens are hand drawn guesses as it was just too blurry and so are fairly dreadful if you zoom in, so don’t!
 

Hello,
 

Sounds fair to me. It also shows that you put some thought into it.

Sounds fair to me. It also shows that you put some thought into it.

I did, but I preferred it being off-centre, gives it a discordant edginess which I think conveys the girls mood, deep in thought, trying to deal with a tough choice, having a strong internal dialogue. I also like how the hair sits over her eyes, giving the illusion of them being open, when you first look, she looks as though she is staring intensely but viewing it closer her eyes are closed. There's a battle being waged in her head, who will be victorious? that is why I made the wings twisting as if her conflicting emotions were resonating through them. 

Used a few effects from the ever awesome Filter Forge 9, such as the flaking paint wall, and the wavy effect on the wings.
The wings are from Pixabay uploader zorro4, and the main image worried girl woman waiting sitting by Ryan McGuire
Edit: Noticed a few mistakes, so did a bit of refining, Id misaligned the light rays and I'd missed some erasing on the girls legs.
This is the original afphoto file if you want to play around with it: Fight or Flight.afphoto (55.5Mb) and these were the afbrushes I made for the light rays: Light Rays by Dex.afbrushes (1Mb)

Here’s a silly thing which I was messing around with today.
There are various things that aren’t quite right but I’m fairly happy with it as a bit of play.
The masks are graphical devices that are used on quite a few “Art Of Noise” album covers.
You can find my source material here: https://www.discogs.com/Art-Of-Noise-And-What-Have-You-Done-With-My-Body-God-Best-Of-The-Box/master/1303042

The original photo from the woman is from Timothy Krause.
Added some public domain sky and a swan, and mixed it together

End of part 1


 
OK ten thousand words, is it worth continuing? Or shall we just hit delete? Open to critic. 


 

Up and running with version 1.8.
The Affinity roller coaster rolls on!

<EDITED> Please note, Affinity Photo 1.8.2 for Windows is now live so this thread is locked </EDITED>
We are pleased to announce a major update for the Windows release of Affinity Photo, version 1.8.0
Changes in this build
The changes in Affinity Photo for Windows 1.8.0 (over the last release Affinity Photo for Windows 1.7.3) are as follows:
New Features & Improvements:
Template support – save documents as template files to re-use time and time again, share templates across all apps and even access files on multiple devices through cloud storage. New document dialog – it’s now simpler than ever to find, create and manage document presets with customised, saveable presets and thumbnail previews. Updated PANTONE© library – work with a seemingly endless range of colours, including updated PANTONE© Color Bridge and PANTONE© Formula Guide solid palettes (coated and uncoated). Lens correction improvements – benefit from manual lens correction override in the Develop Persona, take advantage of the newly added ‘recently used’ and ‘favourites’ lists, and enjoy improved lens correction of RAW files coming from fixed focal length lenses. Big plugin support improvements – experience the power of a range of plugins in the app, including Nik collection by DxO. Better metadata handling – new support for user-editable fields in image metadata, including the IPTC standard for copyright and other information, plus, save and import metadata files (XMP)[enable in preferences], batch whole folders of images and tag with appropriate ownership info, and more. PSD smart object support – any smart objects included in PSD files can now be imported into Affinity Photo as embedded documents [enable in preferences], letting you easily edit layers within any smart object and maintain a non-destructive workflow into Affinity. Canon CR3 RAW support – open and edit your highest quality photographs in Affinity Photo. Many other improvements and fixes. Fixes
(some of these are phrased in the negative but nevertheless fixed)
Develop stability improvements. Fixed issues when printing/exporting live filters. Fixed crash loading certain JPEG files. Double click to edit embedded docs from layers panel. CMYK TIFF import improvements. Filter effects now support high intensity colours in 32-bit mode. Text field expression improvements. 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. 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 PSD export of hidden layers. 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 crash importing PSD files containing embedded colour profiles with unicode characters in their names. Colour Picker fails to average when click dragging Cannot drag objects into Assets Right click does not function for surface pen Strokes not printing correctly Printed line is not correct thickness Crash: Include colour bars with a certain file Wacom Tablet starts drawing straight line after changing focus. Print dialog isn't removing the red overlay on a scaled image User file: missing elements when importing EPS Tools disabled when starting the app with hidden UI Motion Panoramas from a Samsung Galaxy Phone crash the app Unable to alter Mask's visiblity options in Export Persona Open folder in explorer should be greyed out until you've saved the file Changing DPI using Anchor to Page resizes document Create Palette from CMYK images imports as RGB Allow drag-drop of .afmacros files onto UI for import (and automatic Library panel toggle) Flood Fill Tool: Missing Source attribute (consistency with Mac version) Flood Select Tool: Missing Source attribute (consistency with Mac version) Flood Fill Tool: Missing Blend Mode attribute (consistency with Mac version) Procedural Texture > Scrolling up/down in the value field crashes the app Halftone dialog is cramped Flood Select Tool: Refine button missing from the context toolbar on Windows Choosing a specific page in the print dialog prints all pages Brush Outline missing when using Tablet/Surface Studio panels can be wrong size after reset Pointer device triggers straight lines when using the mouse Focus doesn't go to active document when multiple documents are open Extend the limit on the number on favourite fonts New document panel should select Letter as default in the US. Show Left Studio / Show Right Studio need adding to Studio menu Clicking the 'gear-icon' in Panorama Persona locks the app up Unable to set Arrow Keys as shortcuts Tablet cursor jumps about when using High Precision Input  Software now requires Windows ink for pressure to work Levels Adjustment, histogram is grey Assorted other small fixes and improvements. Localisation improvements.  
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.

I like it.
If one can recognise an object for what it is - without explanation, then the creator has been successful in my view. Ok, it's not perfect, but anyone and everyone will see this for what it is. . .a record.
Good job.
ps: All you need to do now is create a label.

Inspired by the vinyl record centre label posted on Sunday I thought I have a go at trying to create a reasonably-decent vinyl LP.
It’s not perfect by any means but it’s probably usable for most general one-off at-a-glance cases.
I haven’t measured anything so the proportions are probably a bit off but it’s just for fun.
(It looks a bit ‘smudgey’ at some viewing angles on my monitor so I don’t know how it will look for you.)