evtonic3

Hello everyone!
I've made a macro that will make it much easier to create intensity brush from a selection.
Now, to make a brush of intensity, it is enough to create a new layer, draw a brush shape on it. Then use the macro.
Video instruction is attached below:

Create Intensity Shape Brush from layer.mp4 Create Brush.afmacros

Hi @evtonic3,
Thanks for your report.
We are aware of this and it has already been logged with our developers. 

I've used VS and it's pretty amazing and I agree with you that the wait is going to be forever (It's almost getting close to 10 years after this year, 2014 is Designers birth year) and that is something that a lot of people probably can't stick around for to get features that we've been waiting patiently for. Personally, I am really at a crossroads with Affinity suite. Love it but I can't stand to see others make leaps over and over it. From UI, smart tools, sky replacements, AI tools, warping, pattern making, Text distortions, etc. we've seen all these things, some in even the seemingly smaller companies making strides-see Vectornator, Amadine, heck Polarr even has a simple AI engine. I'll get off my soapbox now. For the record I've been a loyal supporter of Affinity since the beginning and continue to be.

It would be nice to be able to flip or reverse vector brush direction.

Many thanks for your recording! I can see your iPad was locked at the start of this recording, how long had the Affinity app been inactive?
As far as I understand it, once 'left alone' for a certain period of time in multitasking, the app will enter a 'suspended' state as to not use up processing power/battery from your iPad, so when returning to the app it will need to re-initialize before the app can be used.
As I can see from forum threads on the Apple forums (be sure to select 'All Replies'), it appeared this was made 'more aggressive' around iOS 13.2s release, as this isn't something the Affinity apps control -
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250812051
I hope this clears things up

Easiest way of doing this is to convert to curves and then choose a node and break the curve there. You will have two nodes, one on top of the other, and the brush will extend past each.
I would suggest using a duplicated layer for this and hide the original just to be safe.

Thanks must have been a weird day. All good.

Displace uses the lightness values of other imagery to displace what you're working on. The explanation in Photo's Help dropdown is pretty good.
Basically you have two options. You can load an image (what I did above) or use the imagery in lower layers in your working file.
I've attached a file using the second method. It's using a Perlin Noise pixel layer as the displacement.
I also included a vectorized object done in Inkscape..... A pretty easy roundtrip.
Why this nothing ~600px by ~600px file is 14mb I have no idea.
Displace_and_vectorized.afphoto

Well I did find a workaround- contrast negate blend mode. Just paint over the mask in the paint blend modes drop down when you have selected the brush tool. Works pretty good. Not what I think I should have to do but it’s available.

Thank you. The artboard was preventing me to see the bleed. But since I almost always work with multiple artboards for a promo, I would like this functionality even with artboards.

In Designer, Is there any way I can view what's in the bleed? Like I can in Publisher.

Is there a way to invert a mask? I see the right click menu only has these options. It would be awesome if you could tuck this functionality right in here with the others.

I often have to rasterize layers to clean them up but I can only do that one layer at a time. Can you please add this functionality?

Also Experimenting with Colour overlays
EV01

EV02

 
 

I checked it and it seems fine now. Thanks.
 

You might get better results by using the 3D effect with multiple light sources, adding an outside vector stroke to extend the effect beyond the fill, and then fine tune all parameters until it fits & sits:

But then again, perhaps it's faster just to duplicate layers and compose them by clipping/cropping/nesting/grouping etc.
Also, it always depends on what your intended output format and medium will be.

Because obviously that's the 3D nature of the Bevel/Emboss effect.
Also, all other parameters matter as well.
This is possibly close to what you're trying to achieve, right?

Note the depth and direction values.

Thank you once again!

Status: Beta
Purpose: Features, Improvements, Fixes
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Hello,
If this is your first time using a customer beta of an Affinity app, it’s worth noting that the beta will install as a separate app - alongside your store version. They will not interfere with each other at all and you can continue to use the store version for critical work without worry.
This beta is an incremental update to the 1.9.3 version recently released to all customers (although it still installs parallel to the released version, as described above). We recommend that you use this beta in preference to the store version if you are affected by any of the issues listed below.
Thanks again for your continued support!
Many thanks!
Matt

 
 
Changes This Time
- Potentially huge performance improvements for large documents. We've spent a long time looking at this and have improved performance many-fold for large documents and improved scalability. If you have particular documents that still appear 'too slow' then feel free to share them with me and I'll do my best to look into them
- Memory handling improvements
- Fixed PDF Export group opacity potentially being applied twice
- Fixed potential crash when quitting with layers still on the clipboard
- Localisation improvements

It was supposed to bring good vibes to the forum! FAIL! Lol

It was supposed to bring good vibes to the forum! FAIL! Lol

That's because unlike in PS CC, you can't isolate the layer effects by clipping the ink structure layer to the parent group only.
As a consolation though, you can't do that in PS CS5.1 either… Must be a newer PS CC feature. (Mmh… I wonder if it would have been worth the hundreds and hundreds of bucks I would have paid to Schmadobe in the past eight years…?)
But…
… forget about pixel masks!
We have other workflows which will yield much better and essentially non-destructive results than masks, at only minor additional "expenses":
Linked layers!
duplicate the text layer as linked disable all links but "Text content" disable all effects on the linked layer clip the ink texture with the linked text duplicate (optionally either lock or unlock children via toolbar checkbox) all text content remains fully editable and in sync on both text layers if you need to move the text but not the ink texture, make sure to select both text layers while having Lock Children checkbox active
aph_apu_grunge_stamp.mp4 Now…
That's all fine and great, but there are still a few other issues:
The biggest issue being that the Affinity's Fill Opacity does not affect the Hard Mix the same way as PS does, where Hard Mix is one of the "magical eight" blend modes. While at least six of those fill opacity blend modes are replicable in Affinity by other means, I haven't found anyone on the world wide Intervebz who would have figured out how the math of the "Hard Mix Fill Opacity" in PS works. For sure is that it's not the same algorithm as the regular Hard Mix Layer Opacity.
Anyway… tl;dr, don't bother trying to reproduce this fine-tuning trick in Affinity, it won't work.
The good news is that you can apply a variety of other effects, live filters or adjustments to achieve somewhat similar results. Be creative! The other issue is that Affinity displays and exports antialiasing pixel-wide artifacts caused by the Inner Shadow effect on the text. Can be a problem. Still looking for a workaround.

It was supposed to bring good vibes to the forum! FAIL! Lol

I meant "the same" as in: It will always open in Designer first, regardless if embedded or linked.
Correct, but…
You can then simply reverse the workflow:
File > Edit in Photo double click the embedded document edit away close the edit window/tab File > Edit in Designer – and you're back  

It was supposed to bring good vibes to the forum! FAIL! Lol