-
Posts
2,140 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Everything posted by jmwellborn
-
In anticipation of a rather rare wintry day here in the "Sunny South" I created the sorrowful scene below from an image that (I must confess) I found somewhere two or three years ago. Unfortunately I cannot provide appropriate attribution to the original image, which I think came from Unsplash. A little selecting, a little Quick Masking, some Refining Selection, some cutting and pasting, some brushed birds, and some Snow Overlays by Paper Farms (assets) and behold! A truly dreary aspect.🥶😀
-
You are very welcome. And welcome to the Affinity forums, as well!
-
@BRalphB Welcome to the Forums!😊 You will probably get useful answers to your question much sooner if you will post it in the section Affinity Support and Questions, Frequently Asked Questions, Affinity on Desktop Questions. Sometimes people don't check this section as often. I cannot help you, but know that there are others who surely can! But I do know that you should certainly find Affinity Photo a delight to use as you become familiar with it!
-
@R C-R In both Photo and Designer I don't seem to be able to sort the entire list (categories) of color palettes alphabetically. If I choose a single category, I can definitely sort its colors either alphabetically or by color. Am I missing something? I think that is what @Jayko Blanco trying to do? Or did I misunderstand his question?
-
Welcome to the Forums! The Appearance Panel can be added to your desktop in Designer by clicking on VIEW>STUDIO>and adding a check mark in front of Appearance Panel. It should then be added as a tab in your right Studio. I hope this will help as you manoeuver your way with all of Designer’s possibilities!
-
Not a chance!!!!😄 I love them both. I contacted Apple Tech Support before buying them and was strongly advised to go for the 16 GB memory. It seems to be the trick because not only do the apps open in 2-3 seconds but also I can do all sorts of fiddling with filters, adjustments, colors and styles, grouping and ungrouping, changing personas in midstream, and otherwise giving the apps a potential nervous breakdown, and they just consistently sail through. (With periodic Saves, naturally.) I purchased my first copy of Photo from the MAS in 2017. I deleted it and repurchased Photo along with Designer and Publisher from Serif. Worth every penny!!
-
@v_kyr What elegant views!!! Wonderful colors!!!!!
-
@v_kyr. They are “keepers” in my Assets Panels. 🥰
-
Welcome to the Forums @HardyG and Merry Christmas! I just tried creating a bookmark on my iPad from one of the official Affinity Photo tutorials. It opened through Safari and plays perfectly. If you create your bookmarks ahead of time, hopefully you will be able to do the same thing. Hope this helps.
-
@chile9 You say "I place my newest curve in a group that I want my next few elements to live in..." If you mean that you are starting a new group, then you need at least one curve or shape layer which will appear at the top of your layers stack. You can then group that single layer, and it will show as the first layer in the new group. If you will then open either the new group or an existing group in which you have your curves, shapes, etc. and create a new curve or shape, it will appear at the top of the layer stack in the same group. If you close the group and then create a new curve or shape, it will appear outside the group. The trick is to be sure that the appropriate (Group) layer is opened. Top example is Designer. Lower example is Photo.
-
I have been working on textures to apply to text to imitate old illumination techniques -- perhaps with marginal success. Anyway, here are some styles and also a macro that I made and use to create a raised effect. If you apply the macro twice, you get an enhanced effect, as shown in the letter A below. texturized marble-1.afstyles textured marble-2.afstyles texture effect.afmacro
-
With many thanks to so many Forum members who have patiently taught so many of us! And especially to @Affinidesigner for the Subtle Sharpening macro (Resources), to @AdamStanislav for his elegant Modrina LUT (Resources), for the Falling Snow assets by Paper Farms, for the original image (Stephen-ellis-bc5UDvKty7M-unsplash) which I cropped, for the deer image I found somewhere ages ago and stored "just in case," for the little red cardinal who was sitting on my garden fence, and for Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer, which are a joy to use every day. Happy New Year, everybody!!
-
assets panel
jmwellborn replied to Don Roberts's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
@Don Roberts Can you please go to VIEW>STUDIO> and see whether Assets has a check mark beside it? If not, click on that. Your Assets Panel should then appear again. Hope this helps. -
@Brad Lawryk I have found a very easy way, thanks to Dave Straker @dmstraker to do this. It may be a wee bit fiddly, but for me it works perfectly. He posted this back on June 29, in response to the topic: Realistic Wet-in-Wet Watercolor for Affinity Photo: "When starting from a stock photo, try: File/New then just hit 'Create'. Doesn't matter what shape/size the canvas is. Find and drag in image from Stock tab. Document/Clip Canvas. Layer/Rasterise. "The Clip Canvas will automatically resize the canvas to fit the image." In order to get the image into the right size, I start with the blank new document. Then after his Clip Canvas step (3), I don't rasterize the image layer. Instead, I use the Move Tool to reduce the size of the image to something much smaller. Then I Copy that image layer, and move to the document in which I wish to place the image, and hit Paste. The image can be resized any way you like in the destination document. (Also rasterized there.)
-
@T V This has been one of my very favorite palettes since the day you first posted it. Truly embarassed. Should have thanked you then!!!
- 4 replies
-
- affinity publisher
- affinity designer
-
(and 3 more)
Tagged with:
-
UI too small
jmwellborn replied to mr.burns's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
Perhaps members of the development staff at Serif are wise enough to develop the next iterations of Photo, Designer, and Publisher without advertising to the world what they are doing. Adobe would love to know, so they can copy it as fast as possible. The support staff, needless to say, is or should also be dedicated to supporting Serif — not Adobe — by spilling the beans. As for magazines, no doubt they are like Google listings — they are known to praise what they are “encouraged” ($$$?) to praise and to list first what they are “encouraged” to list. I am fine with the UI, the size of the tools, etc. They do what they are supposed to do. Personally, I find the UI hands down a tremendous improvement over all those tickety-puckety little icons scattered over the screen in Photoshop and InDesign. To each his own, however. The Affinity apps have been and still are a breath of wonderful fresh air every day. And I have been breathing air for a ver’r’r’r’r’y long time. -
Resizing with Aspect Ratio
jmwellborn replied to Plasticine's topic in Pre-V2 Archive of Affinity on iPad Questions
@Alfred Ah ha! Do I spot one of my Swirls styles? (Old career as a sleuth, nosing it under the stairs. "Hamlet.") Honored. -
@StuartRc Woodland is breathtakingly beautiful! The trees are really elegant. And I have spotted some of my favorite brushes from your vegetation packs. Not to mention the colors. The two little creatures have a magical habitat!!
