peter

Try this:
 
Create a new layer.
Enter your text on that layer.
Change the all of your text from black to white (it is the background colour).
Then using the blend mode as mentioned by Alfred, keep your white text selected then use Contrast Negate.
 
Job done. B)
 
HTH 
 
peter

Number 8 is my favourite.

maelstrom
noun
1.a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool. 2. a restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs:the maelstrom of early morning traffic.  
3. (initial capital letter) a famous hazardous whirlpool off the NW coast of Norway.   or   Your film's new title and main character: featuring a mutant who has a very destructive temper, who lets her heart rule her head, when things get bad.    

maelstrom.afdesign

I've finally entered the world of creative advertising, by submitting my entry to The Chip Shop Awards for judging next spring.
Not a cheap hobby.
Being allowed to create something witty, close to the knuckle and quite apt is something I've wanted to do for a very long time. This is my entry.
It is an ointment manufacturer, helping out the seasonal homeless down under, buy their product and they'll donate the proceeds to a charity.
Of course it is full of puns, some of you know me well enough by now!
Its called How can you sleep when the Bush is burning?
Pungent: noun. a bloke with rotten jokes!🤢
The photo is from the web.
The packaging was done this Spring in AD.
The skewing, backlighting and montage was done in APh.
 
Wish me luck.
 
Peter
 
(The Drum Chip Shop Awards celebrate pure, unadulterated creativity. It's a platform where anything and everything is allowed, an awards show with no rules and no boundaries meaning the possibilities are endless!) The prizes are not glossy statues or metallic masks: they are a resin bottle of vinegar and an oversized chip.
 
 

Thanks lad.
The ideas are easy, the entry fee is so-so, rejection isn't.

Commiserations.
Better luck next time!

I've finally entered the world of creative advertising, by submitting my entry to The Chip Shop Awards for judging next spring.
Not a cheap hobby.
Being allowed to create something witty, close to the knuckle and quite apt is something I've wanted to do for a very long time. This is my entry.
It is an ointment manufacturer, helping out the seasonal homeless down under, buy their product and they'll donate the proceeds to a charity.
Of course it is full of puns, some of you know me well enough by now!
Its called How can you sleep when the Bush is burning?
Pungent: noun. a bloke with rotten jokes!🤢
The photo is from the web.
The packaging was done this Spring in AD.
The skewing, backlighting and montage was done in APh.
 
Wish me luck.
 
Peter
 
(The Drum Chip Shop Awards celebrate pure, unadulterated creativity. It's a platform where anything and everything is allowed, an awards show with no rules and no boundaries meaning the possibilities are endless!) The prizes are not glossy statues or metallic masks: they are a resin bottle of vinegar and an oversized chip.
 
 

There's a plane out there somewhere missing its cockpit!

There's a plane out there somewhere missing its cockpit!

Officially "Tractor, Heavy, M1", U.S. Artillery Tractor of WW2.
Originally a 20-year old "Jasc. PSP" vector graphics, imported as png into AP and heavily weathered therein.
A welcome occasion to test and polish my skills and, most of all, reveal my deficiencies. 

Here's the layer structure and my brush collection :

Great crazy design, this should be a series, as the green guys are really funny.
Heeellllllp! There's two of them drowning.
That poor dog doesn't want to end up on the barbecue. Run boy! Run! 
Their spaceship looks like an egg; so does that make it a frying saucer then?
Is that the same alien that ate Thomas Dolby's Buick?
The ten pin boiling team on the tram roof: are they training today?
 

Inspired by beach style resin crafts I saw on the internet I thought I would re create the effect as a text effect in Affinity Photo.  I used seamless repeating images as pattern layers and the text is still editable.

Because I used pattern layers I can easily change the font 😁

Another Text effect that incorporates pattern layers.  There is one on the background too.  This time I went for a kind of vintage 3d look  I chose soft muted colours in tones of pink and yellow .
 

There's a plane out there somewhere missing its cockpit!

There's a plane out there somewhere missing its cockpit!

Here's my first Instrument Panel done mainly in Designer. There are a few imported Photoshop elements from previous panel illustrations. These are used as training aids for student pilots.
The individual instruments an be configured to represent a particular flight attitude, too.
I am staring to get used to the 'thinking different' that Designer takes, compared to my lived-in-for-thirty-plus-years Photoshop.
Enjoy!

If only everybody read this, then simple documents would be a pleasure to read.
 
If only the people who do small print would pay heed to this simplicity.

I thought it may be of help to those new to Affinity Publisher to produce a brief guide to Typography. 
The focus of the guide is to highlight the importance of using typography settings to allow for repositioning and sizing of page elements when finally deciding on a page layout design. Hopefully, it will be of use to those who may be unfamiliar with the typography settings in AP.
The guide can be viewed HERE. If you want to download the PDF, click on THIS LINK

Vector portrait of Robin Williams, created in Affinity Designer. Available in my webshop in Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/If-you-were-right-I-d-agree-with-you-by-communicats/61549761.G2CME?asc=u Progress sequence and info in my portfolio blog: https://communicats.blogspot.com/2020/11/vector-portrait-of-robin-williams-used.html

 

 

 

 
 
 

Mucking about during Covid downtime. This is a combination of AD and Cinema 4D.

No filters or adjustments here, just got lucky. I set my camera to one of the automatic modes.
The second one was only a few minutes later, again no filter, that hill looked like it was home to a giant searchlight.
Well worth the drive, it was a gut instinct decision. 
Definitely worth it.
Shame about the pub being shut.
Meow!

What started as a hunt for a decent picture of red kites (because they all took off and flew off) turned out to be a photoshoot of my partner's amazing handy work, a multicoloured acrylic scarf.
A wing like pose, to make up for the lack of avian interest.
Another cloudy and chilly day: at least it was dry.
Paparazzi  allergy perhaps? I wouldn't mind; but this field is home to two dozen of the flying-road-kill-diners.
Crochet 1: Ornithology nil.

Shy_as_a_kite.afphoto

A rare sunny day: Easter bank holiday and all!
That blossom really shone in the warm sun.

Spring_blossom.afphoto

I thought you'd discovered a new nebulae cluster.