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Love it. So many variants of this painting over the years, but I love the updated version you've created.

Fantastic. I suppose to some with far more advanced skills in vector art than myself, that this may be fairly simple. To me it's genius and a learning moment.

I dreaded illustrator as I always felt it was like drawing with mittens on. I'm much more comfortable in Affinity Designer and I'm not sure if its just me but it feels much better than Illustrator and seems far more intuitive.

These are absolutely brilliant! Love the Red Strat (I've got one myself). Love the Les Paul as well and I like the fact you chose tobacco burst instead of the standard cherry sunburst. That said, how easy is it to change the burst coloring?

They remind me of the original Disney sketches for the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

Love the smoking beret man. I can see that developing into a series of characters.

I sent zipped files to the original Dropbox you provided. Let me know if you receive them.

I think you should have a bunch now.

Hope these work. Not quite sure what happened with Dropbox. Let me know if the attachments work.

I uploaded about 15 fonts to the provided link. This is a fraction of the fonts I'm having problems with. Exocet, Coop Latin, Fink Roman, Fink Bold, Frankie, Halfway House, Huxley Vertical, Industria, Stakehouse, Strawhouse, Warehouse, Helvetica Neu (about 16 variations), Helvetica Compressed, and Helvetica Condensed.

Semi-update. Using TransType, I converted a Postscript 1 font to an Open Type version, and activated that (FontExplorer Pro), and that worked. Of course, this is based on one example, but I'm going forward with the undertaking of converting and updating my font collection (Oh, only about 7,000. I've been collecting for decades).

I replied to a previous post in regards to Activated Fonts not showing up in both Photo and Designer. Since that post I've upgraded Photo, Publisher, and Designer to versions 1.8.4. Publisher, to my experience, has no font problems. I activate a font, it appears. Photo and Designer are still not showing active fonts. I could understand if Publisher didn't show them as well, and I would therefore question the fonts themselves. Even QuarkXpress 2020 and Motion are showing all active fonts and fonts that I activate while in the program and also through auto-activation. I've restarted my Mac (MacBook Pro 2012 running Catalina 10.5.6), reset fonts under preferences in both Photo and Designer and the problem persists. I know I'm not the only user experiencing these problems as is evident from the previous thread.

That's true in some cases for me. The other end is that I have thousands of fonts and most of them are ps type 1. If you find a reliable program or resource that results in stable conversions, it would be much appreciated if you posted your solution.

I agree. I like the Black and White better, but for whatever reason, the client wanted the sort of sepia tone. I actually think that the original is black and white and if I remember correctly, older prints had what seemed like a film over them (probably just the paper delaminating). I think the photo was yellowed with age and possible water damage.

I'm having this same problem with Affinity Photo. No problems with Publisher. I reopened a file previously created in Photo and half of the fonts are showing errors and while the fonts are activated, they are not showing in font menu. I have tried both FontExplorer Pro, Version 7.1.0 and Typeface 2.6.4 (not simultaneously) on MacBook Pro running Catalina 10.15.5 to activate and deactivate fonts. All sorts of restarts of programs and the entire computer. I have reset fonts in Photo's preferences. Same problem. This seems to be recent but to pinpoint it, this issue happened within the past month as that is the timeframe from when I created the original Photo file with the fonts in question (no problems at time of creation) to when I opened the same file today.

I like what you did. A little dark overall but even that lends itself to the time period when the flash bulb of an instamatic camera would illuminate the center focus and render everything else dark. I think you're of the same thinking. We can keep looking at these images and continue to refine them, as options truly are endless. I'll definitely play around with the file you attached.

Smee, I believe the client said late 50s to mid 60s so you're pretty spot on.

You’re eyes do not deceive you. I converted it to grayscale and then to CMYK for digital printing as per the client’s request. The original had yellowed quite a bit, plus there was water damage and spotting.

Thanks Steve! I never bothered with subs. Staggered along with CS5. Was pissed when they dumped Fireworks instead of using that to replace Illustrator. Went back to QuarkXpress for a bit. Since Publisher went full version, I've not used Quark and everything else is Affinity. My machines are Adobe-free.

Photo retouching/restoring. Client asked "See what you can do." Could use a little more refinement, in my opinion, but the client had ZERO expectations and was blown away by the results. He said where it was at was fine. This is the first real retouching job I did with Affinity Photo so it was learning as I was going. Never looking back at Adobe. The future is Affinity.

As the saying goes, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I like it. It's not how I draw but that's what makes it unique. Each of us have our own style. Styles evolve. That doesn't mean something you did 9 years ago is invalid or bad. If you hone your skill to a definitive style, then clients or individuals will seek you out to create something in your style that fits their objective or provides the visual solution. Conversely, you can spread your illustrative skills across a myriad of styles and can be called upon to create solutions for a broad spectrum of inquiries. Don't confuse helpful criticism in the form of helping you hone you skills and master the software, with personal opinions stating negative comments about the work. Sometimes that's a fine line. With the piece you posted, I can see an entire set of custom emojis and the simplicity lends itself to easily adapting the figures and expressions. Great job.

Very cool. I love these sort of juxtapositions of items that have no apparent reason to be together.

Love them! Nice blending of the older icons and the present ones while looking ahead. I only wish Publisher wasn't named so.

One of the first spreads I created using Publisher, back in January 2020. Prior to this, I was using Publisher for single page items like flyers, ads, and stickers, basically familiarizing myself with the program and learning where everything was. I was building up to a full issue of Skin Art magazine which I've previously posted here. This layout was originally for Steppin' Out Magazine and was later picked up by Outlaw Biker magazine. SOJeffBlanchardJan2020.pdf

Thanks! I thought as much but wanted to be sure.