jmwellborn

There is also a difference in the size of Princess Charlotte's left and right hand.  It looks to me as though her entire left arm and hand came from another image.  Notice the colour of the two sleeves.
But good for them, all the same! It is a loving and gentle picture in a presently-dreadfully unloving world!  I am so happy to have seen it here in the USA before it was so sadly removed.

I was going to say that I am fairly new to the Affinity Suite but thinking back, I guess that I started in 2019. I have used all three extensively since I found them. I am another one who moved away from Adobe after many years, which I started when it was creative suite 3 and I upgraded and subscribed all the way along.
I use Affinity just for fun now, since I have retired, but I still find much joy in being creative. I typically use Affinity to create images and whatnot for use in my 3D projects, as image wraps, and the like. I'll share two projects that share some assets.
The first is my sardine can. I created this after I spent time drawing a clip art fish as a challenge to myself. I did borrow two assets from Pixaby - the tomatoes and the sailing ship.
The second is my three fishes pub sign, also created in Affinity Designer.
I sure am glad that I happened across the Affinity products.
BTW, I am just posting to share my work and sort of introduce myself. I am not looking for critiques.

And time to bump this up again! This is a keeper!!

@smadell  Ah ha! I have been rooting through Typeface, and was pretty sure it was Goudy Old Style.  The tail on the '"y" is the giveaway.  Thank you so much!!  

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/search/&q="ten thousand feet"&quick=1&type=forums_topic&nodes=11

I like the "Displace-Filter" very much, have it used for painterly effects like this.

I like jaguars, they appear in my dreams. This is a work in progress. 100% vector, no pixels, no vector brushes (which aren't vectors). Most recent stage on top, vector outline view in the middle and jaguar in a virtual 3D frame at the bottom. After this, I will add hair texture with my Huion 620 Pro drawing tablet (not looking forward to that), which will make the vector outline of objects / layers difficult to distinguish. In my portfolio blog the various stages are included - https://communicats.blogspot.com/2024/03/vector-painting-of-jaguar.html  In the bottom section of this blog entry you will also find tips on how to make working in drawings that contain a plethora of objects / layers less difficult and time consuming.
 

 
 
 

 

 
 

I made this for a french festival using mix of vector & pixels with few time to do it.
(Using affinity suite since V1, I will never come back to Adobe suite. Evreything is quicker, easier and fits my needs perfectly : focusing on creativity and not struggling and wasting time to make things work as it should.)

If a screw is loose, life has a bit of play.
Playing with paper strukture and dissolve filter ...
Paper from Pixabay

Another one! You may know the old cowboy song, The Streets of Laredo, and you may even know of some other parodies, notably by the Smothers Brothers. This one is possibly older than the SBs'; writers' details in thevideo titles. All made in AD and Serif MoviePlus.
(I came across this version on the Mudcat Cafe (https://mudcat.org/), a great source of serious and humorous songs, and a great forum too.)
 
 

Do you think someone should call a doctor? 
I suspect you meant to say “You didn’t look very carefully.”

@TrentL Your videos are wonderfully clear and really helpful! There is just one thing in this one that you might not have found. At least on MAC it is possible to Insert filler text and edit it if you go to Settings>Text and check Insert filler text as text. The default is unchecked. This option is available in Publisher, Designer, and Photo.  When this is checked, one can change fonts from word to word, split the filler text into paragraphs, experiment with tab settings, etc.  Very handy and not immediately discoverable☺️! 
 

New version available for Publisher 2.4: I have uploaded a new version of my unofficial Publisher manual to the first post of this thread. This version has a chapter on images and picture frames as well as additional pages on exporting to PDF for digital publishers, the Tags panel, more OpenType features, and a few other features. Now 300 pages.
Most of the features are the same for Designer or Photo so you may find it useful for Designer and Photo, too.
Cheers
 

This is a quick and "dirty" method to achieve a feathered border around an image. This method has its limitations, but it is very fast to get quite nice results.
1) Create a shape and drop it onto the preview icon of the image layer in the Layers panel.
2) The image has now the form of the shape. Now select the shape in the layers panel and add / activate Gaussian Blur from the Layer Effects icon in the Layers panel for this shape.
3) Use a radius of your choice. Voila!
You can tweak the feather effect by adding a stroke for the shape. Vary the width here or use dashed lines (even with arrowheads).
Have fun with your experiments!

I recently illustrated a Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly (Protographium marcellus) for my brother. He wanted a photo, which I did not have, so I decided to create an illustration for him instead. I used AD v2.31., but spent a lot of time in the Pixel Persona. I also made a few trips to Affinity Photo for a few features that AD does not support. Hope you like it. 

@Alfred  Huge job! Elegant result. Lovely colors.  Thank you so much, Alfred, for your patience and stick-to-it-iveness.  This is a Keeper!!

@Alfred  Huge job! Elegant result. Lovely colors.  Thank you so much, Alfred, for your patience and stick-to-it-iveness.  This is a Keeper!!

The attached palette is constructed from the set of 159 colours listed at https://sanzo-wada.dmbk.io. I added the colour names shown on that page, retaining the American spellings (e.g. 'Ocher' instead of 'Ochre') but correcting a few odd errors along the way, 'Sulpher' and 'Pomegranite' being two particularly notable examples!
 
 
Sanzo Wada 159.afpalette

It’s one of those functionalities that is ‘hidden in plain sight’ but very useful once you know about it.
I read about these sort of things in the forums so often. Just one of the reasons why I think users should get more involved with the forums.
There’s so much to learn which isn’t obvious and it only takes someone to say “Have you tried <this>?” to set you down a new road of discovery.

Don't know if this works but I saved a screenshot from the webpage and placed it in publisher and had the swatches options to create a palette from document.
Also used the create palette from image option.

Wada Sanzo from image.afpalette WADA SANZO DICTIONARY OF COLOR COMBINATIONS.afpalette

@j3rry Lovely!

With Affinity Photo created, Soft Sketch Macro from James Ritson, Daub paper as Drawing paper

@jmwellborn @Return Thanks, those are both good points that I was not aware of!

Also, someone else told me that in Affinity Designer you can have Frame Text scroll across dis-joint areas, although the usability seems a little bit less than in Affinity Publisher. Below I created 2 rectangles, did a boolean ADD on them, then converted them to a Text Frame. 
 

@TrentL Your videos are wonderfully clear and really helpful! There is just one thing in this one that you might not have found. At least on MAC it is possible to Insert filler text and edit it if you go to Settings>Text and check Insert filler text as text. The default is unchecked. This option is available in Publisher, Designer, and Photo.  When this is checked, one can change fonts from word to word, split the filler text into paragraphs, experiment with tab settings, etc.  Very handy and not immediately discoverable☺️! 
 

@TrentL Your videos are wonderfully clear and really helpful! There is just one thing in this one that you might not have found. At least on MAC it is possible to Insert filler text and edit it if you go to Settings>Text and check Insert filler text as text. The default is unchecked. This option is available in Publisher, Designer, and Photo.  When this is checked, one can change fonts from word to word, split the filler text into paragraphs, experiment with tab settings, etc.  Very handy and not immediately discoverable☺️!