AlanPickup

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New forum member here. Just wanted to share some art, specifically an alternative movie poster I drew recently. I enjoy the hand-drawn and painted film poster aesthetic of days gone by. This poster is inspired by the tremendous poster by British illustrator Paul Shipper and so includes a few nods to his wonderful work. It is completely hand-drawn in Affinity Photo.
I had been experimenting with other apps (Procreate, Photoshop, Pixelmator Pro et al) and have found that Affinity Photo fits my needs and wants. I had a quick look at the forum and didn't see much hand-drawn raster art so thought I would share. Have included a couple of detail images as well.
Chris
www.theartofadventure.net

The Selection Brush tool is a powerful way to isolate objects in Affinity Photo. But you can get even better results with the Refine feature. We’ll look at both tools in this video, and also explore some extra tips for error-checking our masks. 
 
 

Perhaps you need to examine this Picture Frame option on the Context Toolbar?

I agree with MmmMaren, if you highlight an email address and then click create  hyperlink it adds the  https:// element to the text 
 
If you then change the url to email it then blanks the address box and you have to close the box and go back and copy the email address, then start again. I come across this a lot and try to remember to opy before inserting the hyper link. Previous versions left the email text insitu when you change the type
 

I agree with MmmMaren, if you highlight an email address and then click create  hyperlink it adds the  https:// element to the text 
 
If you then change the url to email it then blanks the address box and you have to close the box and go back and copy the email address, then start again. I come across this a lot and try to remember to opy before inserting the hyper link. Previous versions left the email text insitu when you change the type
 

Slice & dice your designs with the Knife Tool in Affinity Designer. In this video, we’ll look at how to chop up your vectors with precision and style. 
 

This was related to the same asset pack and slowed down the loading, did not try any actions before I detected what was the problem and closed that asset pack

It would appear that this is printer related as you exported the pdf and the margins appeared correct, but when printed the pdf the same shift to the right was experienced. This makes me think that the setting of the notch on the rear printer guide is the culprit. Glad the rotating the document cured the problem which again confirms that 6inch wide is a setting the printer guides align to.

I noticed in a previous posting it showed you used the rear tray for the supply, most printers have a click in notch system for sizes, it could be this is giving the problem. May be worth turning it on its head and try a 6 x 8 (rotating your image) to see if that moves the offset to the other dimension. You could then factor that into the design to compensate. Once you have got a design that works you can save it as a template.
The forum does not seem to let me upload adesign files of 5 or 6mb just hangs, so cannot attach, may be my security settings?

May need to share which Affinity app you are using Photo Publisher Designer and whether you are printing direct from the app or saving as a file and then printing through your printer app. There may be a setting in either the affinity print dialogue or it is picking up your printer settings. Attaching in a file is also good so the settings can be investigated even if using any image

Hi @AlanPickup,
I've just downloaded a copy of the original Mike's Styles .afstyles file and compared the import results between V1 and V2, it appears that many of the effects settings (Bevel, Outline, Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Shadow) which have a px value are dropped down to a fraction of what they should be, for example 'Outer Shadow' Radius and Offset has been dropped to 0.01px instead of the expected 9px. FX adjustments which don't have a pixel setting such as Gradient overlay are not affected by this which is why it's still intact.
Back in December I did log this with the developers but it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet and affects any FX adjustment with a pixel value applied, i'll update the existing issue with this example along with the additional findings.
 
Mike_styles.afstyles

Mike's Styles are missing certain FX attributes/settings when used in V2
Since they are a user created resource, I can't be sure if the problem is with how Mike created them or in V2
(But I suspect V2 and it may well be a bug)
 

You can see How to do this in my channel on you tube. Hope you like it. Thank you.
 

Less than 20 seconds here in UK

Less than 20 seconds here in UK

Less than 20 seconds here in UK

Do not have your language version but in Publisher Studio has been moved to Window

Ref: Luis Melendez - Affinity Photo stock brushes
 
 
 

There are some very bizarre results. However, it can be very interesting indeed.

I did not use the word "and" just tongue cheek, some interesting results

It takes a few attempts before you get something you can work with. Isn't the phrase tongue in cheek?

Tried to get an image from stable diffusion for Tongue and cheek as words do not cut it

https://youtu.be/krNiuOL6eF8
how i made this on https://youtu.be/krNiuOL6eF8
 

Thought I would try to do some food art , this is my 1st attempt at vector food took 3 hours to make ....