Dmitri Rabounski

Thank you very much! Not all persons like video lessons, but prefer written help instructions like those embedded into Affinity Photo help. Your instructions are very welcome therefore. Contune the manuals as possible, please.
 
Many thanks, again!

Yes, we use real film grain scan. We use Affinity Photo to superimpose the scan over photo images and then somehow making the images consisting of the scanned grains (how to make is the subject of my question).

Does someone know how to make an image consisting of film grains in Affinity Photo?
That is, we overlay a film grain pattern (scanned from a real photo film) on an image using the Overlay blending mode. In this case, we get just a "pockmarked" image. However we need to have the image CONSISTING of film grains (like any scanned real film image).
If applying Gaussian blur, say, from 1 to 3 px, to the image, the image becomes really consisting of film grains, but becomes very blurry.
Is there another way to make an image consisting of film grains, i.e., looking like a scanned photo film?
Thank you.

Thank you very much! Not all persons like video lessons, but prefer written help instructions like those embedded into Affinity Photo help. Your instructions are very welcome therefore. Contune the manuals as possible, please.
 
Many thanks, again!

You produced very good video tutorials, especially in surveying special details. I found many interesting for my photo development. Thank you!

Great tutorials. Very useful. Thank you very much! Continue your tutorials please.

Dear Paul,
The aforementioned problem with Affinity Photo print manager does not depend on the method defining paper size. I tried different ways with the same bad result. See two following step-by-step screenshots where I predefined A4 paper size, for example.
So... setting up A4 paper

We obtain... the same non-aligned form:

 
I did not check this issue on EPSON pro-grade printers just because having no EPSONs in the use. But all that has been said above is true for Canon pro-grade printers. Supposedly, the problem is hidden in that fact that Affinity Photo print manager does not properly export information from the printer drivers. Developers of Affinity Photo should know better the source of this problem. But, surely, Affinity Photo MUST work properly with two leading pro-grade families: Canon and EPSON. Think: editing in Affinity Photo then printing from Photoshop thus purchasing Adobe license for only printing purposes... this way would not be considered as something healthy...
 
This issue is important. Believe me. This is because, due to the above problem, Affinity Photo still remains an "editing only" software without a possibility of professional quality printing... Surely, this gap should be removed by a substantial upgrade of Affinity photo print manager. Otherwise how to compete with Photoshop without a possibility of normal printing?
 
Sincerely -- Dmitri
 

When printing a fine art image from, I say, your catalogue (targeting sales at a gallery etc.), you need to make the same size as mentioned in the catalogue. That is, if the artwork is mentionwd as 26.4 x 34.7 cm, you must print it only in this size.
 
In Photoshop, its print manager manifests both per cent of the image scale and also the physical size of the scaled image. That is, for example:  typing 26.4 cm in the Photoshop print manager, we get the desired size of the printed artwork.
 
It is impossible to do in the cirrent version of Affinity photo :-( 
Yes, Affinity Photo print manager provides the possibility of scaling percentage. But no one person even a mathematics genius can guess how many per cents shoild be typed therein to produce, I say, the desired 35.7 cm or 21.4 cm. I maybe missed something important in Affinity Photo print manager, but it sems that the said above is unfortunately true :-(
 
This is a serious gap in Affinity photo from the viewpoint of a professional. We print not travel photos at a Kodak Express, but photo-artworks targeting collectionners who like pay many hundreds of Pounds for each of the offprints (also, reproductions of Medieval engravings are considered). So, the printed size should match the same size as mentioned in the catalogue of artworks made by Duerer or Bruegel or a contemporary fine art photographer.
 
I sure that this gap should be imprived in Affinity Photo print manager as soon as ppssible in the next release. Otherwise, those who migrated to Affinity Photo from Photoshop (migration to Affinity Photo is a very popular among professionals) may go back to Photoshop due to the impossibility of printing exact size from Affinity Photo.
 
Thank you for your time. I hope on your help.