[Photoshop text effect blend/make in affinity]

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[Photoshop text effect blend/make in affinity]

It is not yet Available (the blend part).

you can use power duplicate or „move data entry“ to create layers,  but cannot change colors or blending them.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/whats-new/#2-2-move-tool-data-entry

[LUTs not saving info]

As far as I know (might be outdated) you can create LUTs by 2 methods:

1. add several adjustments on top of a base image, then export LUT
2. infer LUT by comparing the current opened image with another external file

i‘be never seen exporting a LUT directly from RAW edits.

[Crop individual layers]

When I have good daylight, I set exposure to 1/2000 to avoid any motion blur, or even manual 1/2000 and aperture 1/8 for sharpness and consistency between shots, and let the iso chosen by camera to get proper exposure.

When developing in Affinity Photo, keep the RAW files as flat as possible (no denoise, not sharping). You may do some basic denoise.

Then develop and do the rest of editing in Photo Persona.

This allows to treat blue sky and bird totally different. Use a good mask (take your time, may use pen tool to create a perfect vector mask).

• sky: denoise heavy, but to not sharpen. Inpaint distracting areas like lens flare, distant birds, etc

 

• bird: denoise only mildly, and use blend range to limit on lighter pixels. Try which sharpening works best, e.g. unsharp mask, highpass filter
• try using tone map with local contrast (again on birds only) to really bring out details.

For shooting:

take a series of test shots to check if image stabilization (of lens and/or camera) actually helps or not. You. May get sharper images at 1/2000 when IS is off.

[Raster not accurate]

Hi,

 

this is not a bug. Search for „thin lines“ or similar to find older posts.

To remove those lines:

 

[radical colour change when exporting webp]

both images look identical (as uploaded to the forum, rendered with Safari).

We would need some more context in which app you see color differences.

2 minutes ago, Mr Lucky said:

If I export to jpg the Cours stay very good, however expecting to weep seems to cause a drastic difference (less red) even though the colour loos fine in the preview.

 

This sentence looks garbled. Did you mean:

If I export to JPG the colors stay very good (observed in what app?), however exporting to WEBP seems to cause a drastic difference (less red) (in what app?) even though the colour look fine in the preview (of what app?)

[Crop individual layers]

Nice Images 👍🏼

 

[Crop individual layers]

There are many ways:

• create a rectangular shape, and nest it into masking position of the bitmap layer (drag and hold rectangle layer in layer stack, let go at the thumbnail of the bitmap layer). Rectangle can be resized any time to adjust crop.
• optional: rasterize and trim 
• use the rectangle as parent layer, and move bitmap layer into child position. Caution: resizing the rectangle will resize the bitmap layer, unless you activate „lock children“
•  

 

[Af.design for IPAD PRO or AIR]

I love the smaller up to 10.5 inch iPads for travel, but better get a full sized one. Some UI elements are cut off from smaller screens.

Focus on M1/M2 iPads who support pencil 2.

 

[Constant stutter when using graphics card vs WARP renderer]

Di you use windows default driver, or Nvidia driver? Switching to latest release of Nvidia driver may solve the issue.

[Colors or details reduced in JPG/PNG/TIFF export]

To avoid any misunderstanding: I’m not speaking for Serif/Affinity. Just a regular user. So stepping out of this thread and leave it to @stokerg to answer.

[Layering issue using Symbols for repeat patterns]

 

[Layering issue using Symbols for repeat patterns]

If you want to use rectangular tiles, combined with objects like circles which should show up at edges, you need to copy those objects and put them into the correct position. Use a rectangular shape as bases for clipping.

i made a template long ago making this easy, let me search the archive

[Files not converting correctly]

As explained earlier, this type of edits are much simpler in Publisher. Spending the one-time cost for an universal license may save you more time.

[Unlearning Photoshop and learning AffPhoto]

Don’t worry. Do whatever fits best for you. If you ask questions, just continue to add an indication about your current level of experience.

we can always try to find a solution using methods you are familiar with.

So go with that of @RichardMH.

[Unlearning Photoshop and learning AffPhoto]

Official V1 tutorial 

 

[Unlearning Photoshop and learning AffPhoto]

1 minute ago, Furry said:

"Underlyning Composition Ranges". 

spot on.

It’s a different name for the same thing. Depending on Version and platform (PC, Mac, iPad) different names were used.

 

[HDR merge presets]

Or save you Studio Lay-out as Studio preset, then reset Studio to default. 
 

https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/customizingWorkspace.html
https://affinity.help/photo2/en-US.lproj/pages/Workspace/customizingToolsPanel.html

[Unlearning Photoshop and learning AffPhoto]

Even simpler, in case you don‘t plan to manually edit the mask later (e.g. with brush):

• add levels adjustment
• click on the cog wheel symbol to access blend range settings. In the „destination“ area, click on the right node, and drag it down. This will restrict the levels to darker areas.

So 2 steps instead of 8.

 

Stepping this up further:

•  you can edit the inherent mask of the adjustment layer and use blend ranges,
• but a unfixed bug does not allow combining blend ranges and additional, separated mask layers

[creative focus merge]

No, focus merge is a one-trick-pony, just the opposite of creativity, intended to deliver maximum sharpness and eliminate the regular blurriness from depth-of field. It will virtually beat the devil of creativity out of you images.

If you find something creative, please share. Surprise us.

[HDR Merge: Poor, blurry results when using RAW files]

Well, please consider:

• some companies like camera vendors, Adobe, Apple, and a handful of independent software companies develop their own raw engines, or license some proprietary code from those. Adobe and Apple are big $$$ companies with virtually unlimited resources 
• Affinity uses free software, LibRAW, with a few tweaks (for Canon CR3, now irrelevant). 
• Any more questions?

The only advantage of SerifRAW is ability to use linked/embedded RAW, and you can disable lens corrections which comes handy in exceptional cases. In almost all quality aspects, Serif RAW is inferior, to Apple RAW and Camera vendor RAW engines.

[HDR Merge: Poor, blurry results when using RAW files]

How did you create the tiff files?

[Convert or copy greyscale image into a selection mask?]

Many you have chosen „selection from layer“ which sounds similar but works totally differently (using the alpha values instead of lightness values to create selection).

[Always noise in gradient.]

Thanks @telemax, but I did not invented this trick. Still works in V2.

more important:

The setting in

On 7/13/2023 at 9:44 AM, GarryP said:

Have you tried switching “Dither Gradients” OFF in Preferences / Performance?
See attached image for an example.

In V2, it’s the same setting but in Settings rather than Preferences.

 

Does only impact rendering in Affinity. If you export, the export will contain dithering! Even when this setting is off.

and regarding the title you the thread:

Dither is not noise. It only swaps positions of pixel colors, using the old color values which differ only slightly. In contrast to noise, it does not randomly change color values (it will never create „new“ color values not already in the file).

[Convert or copy greyscale image into a selection mask?]

Hi,

https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Selections/selections_fromlayers.html

To create a pixel selection from layer intensity (luminosity):

Do one of the following:

• On the Select menu, choose Selection from Layer Intensity.
• On the Layers panel, click the chosen layer's thumbnail while pressing the  OPT and  CMD keys