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Daniel Finch

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    Daniel Finch reacted to NathanC in Removing white background of JPEG   
    Hey @Daniel Finch,
    I would suggest using the Flood Select/Magic wand tool set to 'Contiguous' and at a low tolerance value (~5%) for your initial selection, and then use the Selection brush tool after set to 'Subtract' mode to clear up the areas on the Santa Hat/Deer which were also selected before outputting to a mask, if any bits have been missed you can edit the mask using standard brush tool.
     

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    Daniel Finch reacted to RendCycle in Merging a few shapes into a single shape/object (not grouping)?   
    Got this answer from StackExchange which worked for me:

    "If there are 2 pixel layers. Select them both, group and then rasterize. The result is 1 pixel layer."
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    Daniel Finch reacted to Alfred in Making text so it fits the creases of newspaper   
    I don’t think you can do this natively in Affinity Publisher, but you can add a ‘Displace’ filter in Affinity Photo. If you add it as a live filter, you can adjust it in APub instead of having to ‘round trip’ to APh.
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    Daniel Finch reacted to firstdefence in Making text so it fits the creases of newspaper   
    Displace won't work with this file, using the mesh warp via the Photo Persona would be a better option.

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    Daniel Finch reacted to MEB in Resolution of some parts of graphic (Blurry)   
    Hi @Mark Clifford,
    I'm afraid the maximum sizes allowed by these social media services are not large enough to display your image with the map/text clearly legible. It's too much detail for an image that will be exported at just 1600x1300 pixels. In Designer you can zoom in and see everything clearly because all is composed by vector objects but when exported to a specific raster size it will only be sharp/legible when the image is viewed at 100% (zoom). Less than that the image becomes blurred, more than that and it becomes pixelated. 

    While working in Designer in documents which will be exported at the same size as the document always check your design at 100% zoom and also enable Pixel view mode or Retina pixel view mode (if you are using a high def/retina display) in the main toolbar so you can have a precise idea how the document will look after the export/rasterization process. If you open you file, set the zoom to 100% and enable Pixel view mode you can see that the map/text is not legible. Even the smaller text on the bottom right above the SnowWatch logo already suffers a bit with the rasterization. You should always design with these limitations in mind if you must export to a raster format.
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    Daniel Finch got a reaction from walt.farrell in Sometimes rasterizing a layer blurs it   
    Thanks for your reply. After playing around I discovered Layer > Geometry > Merge Curves  which solved my problem. I was wanting to merge several map layers together and rasterise quality was awful.  
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    Daniel Finch reacted to nwill in ArcGIS for Affinity Designer   
    Gosh, I would like to strongly support this suggestion. As a user of Illustrator and (the very expensive) MAPublisher for making maps using OS Opendata, I too would find it really brilliant if Affinity Designer could import Shapefiles or Geopackages.
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    Daniel Finch reacted to GeoVictor in ArcGIS for Affinity Designer   
    Let’s hope someone from Affinity see it and think about it. 
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    Daniel Finch reacted to GeoVictor in ArcGIS for Affinity Designer   
    I don't know if the Affinity developers are aware about the usage of Illustrator, Affinity Designer and similar softwares to draw maps. It is very handy and the final figure are best than when we draw in GIS softwares. MapPublisher is a plugin that link Illustrator and GIS softwares. I highly recommend that Affinity think about to build something similar. I am sure they will bring many geologists, cartographer, ... to the Affinity users.
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    Daniel Finch got a reaction from AlanPC in Document Templates   
    Templates would be great. Just to learn how to use publisher if not anything else... 
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    Daniel Finch got a reaction from mrtymcln in Document Templates   
    Templates would be great. Just to learn how to use publisher if not anything else... 
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    Daniel Finch reacted to fde101 in Sections within Publisher   
    You could also try a 3-column 1-row table and set the color of the individual cells.
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    Daniel Finch reacted to dutchshader in Masking out icons without background   
    only used the flood select tool set to add

    20190425_141104.mp4
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    Daniel Finch reacted to AffinityJules in Masking out icons without background   
    Select CHANNELS and view the COMPOSITE RED/GREEN/BLUE CHANNELS. Select the channel which gives the best contrast - in this example I used RED CHANNEL.
    I used the FLOOD SELECT TOOL and dragged it to the right (which increases tolerance) until I had a reasonable selection. You will see marching ants on all parts selected.
    I then switched to the SELECTION BRUSH TOOL, made the brush size small and selected all the parts the FLOOD FILL missed.
    Copy & paste the selection to a new layer (this will happen automatically).
    Note: You will see that there are spaces between the coloured parts where the font was ( your example didn't have them so you will have to worry about that).


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    Daniel Finch reacted to v_kyr in Masking out icons without background   
    To select all the darker orange colors at once, "Selection > Colorarea > Red tones" should detect just those.
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    Daniel Finch reacted to gdenby in Masking out icons without background   
    Hi, Mark,
    I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to A Photo, but here are 2 things to try. Make the selection brush smaller, and turn on snap to edges. That should grab contiguous areas of the flat colors. Alternatively, use the flood selection tool, set it to a small tolerance, maybe 2%, and turn off contiguous. That should pick out any area in the image w. the sampled colors.
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    Daniel Finch reacted to nammr in Merge Layers   
    My way
    1. Select your layers ->
    2. Right click ->
    3. Geometry ->
    4. Add
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    Daniel Finch got a reaction from pruus in Document Templates   
    Templates would be great. Just to learn how to use publisher if not anything else... 
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    Daniel Finch reacted to Steve2 in Document Templates   
    I have two matters that I would like to raise in connection with document templates:
    If Affinity Publisher is going to be supplied to customers pretty much as it is in the beta version, then it looks to me that it is going to be supplied without a selection of pre-made templates. I would like to suggest that consideration is given to setting up a number of pre-made templates for customers to either use as they are or which can form a basis from which they can create their own documents. Apart from assisting customers to get started with their own documents, it would enable Affinity to showcase the capabilities of its product.  I would like to be able to design and save a basic structure of a document to be used as a template, such as a newsletter. With the template set up, then other users could take the base template to create an updated version of a document without the risk of the original template being overwritten. At the moment, I believe that the only way to do this is to design and save the base document and then open it for use when needed. My concern is that it will be easy for the base document to be overwritten or amended as people start to use it.
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    Daniel Finch got a reaction from Wosven in Merging Images together   
    @Wosven Thank you so much for the attachment. It helps A LOT! 
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    Daniel Finch reacted to Wosven in Merging Images together   
    A solution is to use 2 maps: one with strokes for the details, and a white one below with big areas on which you can clip colored parts.

    royaumeuni23.afdesign
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    Daniel Finch reacted to firstdefence in Merging Images together   
    I think my brain has gone to mush to be honest lol, long day at work lol!
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    Daniel Finch 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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