AffinityJules

Hi All,
after all, I really consider Affinity a really good piece of software.
Some polishing up:
See you with nice photos
Klaus
 
 
 
 
 

I suppose that's ok just as long as he remembers to pass it around. The one on the left looks tripped out.

Started this painting in Corel PhotoPain(t) until it began crashing beyond repair. Continued in Affinity Photo (that has much better dynamic brushes). Inspired by a painting made by Howard Terpning. The bloke sitting second from the right is preparing a huge joint.
 

Poison
So impressed with AD....had to resort to embedded files with this one but handled 1000's of vector objects brilliantly..
Again based on a sketch from 2017 Inktober Project
All vector
420 x 200 mm 300dpi 
 

This is a wacky contraption I designed for a Moshi Monsters game. My first professional use of Affinity Designer.

Two best companions set out on a journey full of twists and turns. Their next stop - mysterious Motel.
 
I've had a lot of fun doing that manipulation. I hope you enjoy it.

Excellent.

Here is the final image that I was having the crashing issue with a couple days ago. 100% iPad Pro with Affinity Photo. Hope ya like.
 
 

Portait of the German writer Thomas Mann, created with afphoto (various brushes). In exile (USA) he fought against the Nazi state, and there he said: Where I am is Germany. Thomas Mann was born in my hometown Lübeck, where there are also many facilities and memories of him (Buddenbrookhaus).
 
http://b-bertuleit.de/portrait-watercolors/

Where's Granny?
Made with Affinity Photo and other 3D software. Just a sample from my new book which is in the making.

Not exactly a movie poster or DVD cover, but it is film related. Quite tame for my standards.
There was a Gerry Anderson event in London, a friend of mine's old English teacher (pictured middle) plays in a group that covers ALL the theme music from Gerry Anderson's TV shows. It was quite a big event - especially for fans.
Anyway. . .a friend of theirs, who likes the sauce, had a bit too much so he asked me to perform a head transplant just for fun.
The unsuspecting fan (bottom middle) became the unwitting recipient of the joke. 

Not sure how this one stands up, but I don't think of Sigourney as a bitch. . .honest.

well i gave it a try:
 

Not exactly a movie poster or DVD cover, but it is film related. Quite tame for my standards.
There was a Gerry Anderson event in London, a friend of mine's old English teacher (pictured middle) plays in a group that covers ALL the theme music from Gerry Anderson's TV shows. It was quite a big event - especially for fans.
Anyway. . .a friend of theirs, who likes the sauce, had a bit too much so he asked me to perform a head transplant just for fun.
The unsuspecting fan (bottom middle) became the unwitting recipient of the joke. 

Not exactly a movie poster or DVD cover, but it is film related. Quite tame for my standards.
There was a Gerry Anderson event in London, a friend of mine's old English teacher (pictured middle) plays in a group that covers ALL the theme music from Gerry Anderson's TV shows. It was quite a big event - especially for fans.
Anyway. . .a friend of theirs, who likes the sauce, had a bit too much so he asked me to perform a head transplant just for fun.
The unsuspecting fan (bottom middle) became the unwitting recipient of the joke. 

Ha!
Well. . .another sub forum could be created called "Share your risqué work here."
Now that would be an eye opener!
But seriously. . .I make them for my own personal amusement, and amusing they are! Mainly wallpapers which I distribute amongst friends.
 

Another project done. I love transforming these rather bland pictures into something that can please one's eyes (or at least I hope it does ).
 
For anyone that's interested in "making of":
First I made a dark-coloured background, put my model on top of it, duplicated the model two times, used motion blur on both of these new layers with blend mode set to Lighten, and then adjusted it with curves to bring some colors, darken the shadows and make the highlights shine more through the blur.
Next step involved masking some unwanted elements like blur around the face. I only wanted the light trails coming from the motion, which I then enhanced with low flow, 0% hardness brush. Also, an HSL adjustment on the second copy of the model.
Smoke was created with simple brush from Brusheezy.com.
After that, I created new layer filled with 50% gray, set to Overlay mode, and then played around with dodge and burn to make the image more "dramatic" .
It looked somewhat blurry due to all those effects - fortunately High Pass(created from yet another model copy with Overlay blend mode, 5 px radius) and Clarity filters did the job just well.
From that moment it was a matter of balancing the composition (all layers merged together) with Curves, Vibrance (Normal mode, 100% opacity) and Black&White (Multiply, 50% opacity) adjustment layers. 
For some finishing touches I used two Gradient Maps - first set to Lighten with dark blue and pink colors, second one black to blue, opacity 50%, blend mode Overlay. Tweaked with a bit of masking.
 
All in all, it took me about 2 hours.
 
This is before:

 
 
This is after:
 

I'm not sure why I made this and I'm even more uncertain as to why I'm posting it here I feel as though it helps to have a fun thread every now and then  If anyone else has done face swaps using Affinity I would love to see them and yes that is my real body.
 
 

Testing new brushes and different styles.
 


 

I managed this one of the Orion Nebula three weeks ago. Pretty washed out in the centre but still beautiful.
 
I stacked this in DSS and edited with Affinity Photo.
 
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This is Carina Nebula. 04/03/18
 
Completely stacked and edited in Affinity Photo from 12x180sec RAW guided images from same kit as above. I do know that proper stacking software does create a cleaner sharper image but takes about thirty minutes. Affinity all done in about a minute.
 
Edit Settings:
Vibrance up all the way
Brightness up 24% - increased nebulosity
Contrast up 41% - reduced the noise (blackened black)
 
Thats it! Just mucking around finding out what adjustments suit. 

OK second try
 
This was my first crack at guided astro - Flame Nebula and Horsehead Nebula in Orion.
 
Mount:        SW EQ6R
Telescope:  SW ED 80 APO Esprit
Camera:     Canon D760
Image:        5x60 sec
Software:   Affinity Photo
 
So all the editing that I did was to increase the exposure setting and the Brightness and contrast settings - very minimal.
 
 

Did I laugh or what.
Yes. . .I giggled all the way through this.

Did I laugh or what.
Yes. . .I giggled all the way through this.

Yeah. . .I thought you were adding to my example; keeping it fun is the all important thing.
Thanks for your generous comment.