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The Paint Mixer Brush tool is a great way to realistically mix paint on your canvas. Today we’ll look at how to use this tool and what the settings mean.
 
 

What does the mysterious brush option “Protect Alpha” do in Affinity Designer and Photo? Why would we use it? Today we’ll look at this feature (also knows as “Lock Transparency” or “Alpha Lock”) and see some demos of how it can be used to make digital painting much easier.
 
 

Have you ever wondered what the Curves adjustment actually does? In this video, I’ll explain it and also show the basic curves adjustment that works in 99% of scenarios.
 

The spiral tool has been a highly requested feature in Affinity Designer. With the recently released version 2.3, it is finally here! This tutorial will show you the basics of this tool. Note: This also applies to Affinity Photo and Affinity Publisher. 
 

This needs to be made a sticky or whatever, bookmark, an excellent guide to understanding colour as well as blend modes. Thank you for doing these tutorials.

Fotosketcher 3.90 is now available with a new painting style and scripting support. It also has the ability to use multiple painting styles one after the other.
https://fotosketcher.com/1
 

This needs to be made a sticky or whatever, bookmark, an excellent guide to understanding colour as well as blend modes. Thank you for doing these tutorials.

Blend Modes are an essential tool in all graphics programs. In this video, we’ll look at ALL the blend modes in Affinity products: Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher.
 
 

Dual Lighting is a cool effect that can add some extra punch to your images. Today we’ll look at how to create such images in Affinity Photo (and Designer), and also check out how to create good base images in MidJourney. 
 
 

Written Tutorial issue 25
Affinity Photo v1 & 2
Subtly Alter The Colours Of Your Image
Using The Black And White Adjustment
A short 4 page tutorial looking at using the Black and White Adjustment to lighten or darken the colours in your image.
 
PDF – Dropbox Download Link
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jrutzogxc5mot682jd3a9/AFFINITY-TUTORIALS-VOL-025-Alter-Colours-With-Black-and-White.pdf?rlkey=4c1kg8cczlbshtipsw11eoup4&dl=0
PDF – Google Drive Download Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1stgq8f5FfBz63Dj2TXosiFBKsGTrQcV5/view?usp=sharing

I found this helpfull, well worth a watch to explain the different uses

Clone, Heal, Patch, Inpaint…which one to use? In this Affinity Photo tutorial we’ll look at the various tools for copying and removing objects, along with some image repair techniques. 
 
 
 

Here’s an interesting technique, if you don’t mind the result being rasterised, to create a ‘roughened’/distressed version of a shape, or some text, or various other things.
Note: Only for Photo (or the Photo Persona of Publisher), either V1 or V2.
Note: This only works well on simple single-shade backgrounds (because of the Gradient Map).
See attached video.
First add a Live Procedural Texture of Urban Camoflage – the higher the Square Count the smoother the ‘roughening’. Then add a Live Median Blur – setting Preserve Alpha to ON may produce better results. Then add a Gradient Map Adjustment – make sure both middle gradient stops are at the same position. (Maybe add a very slight Live Gaussian Blur on top to ‘take the edge off’ a bit.) Experiment: Try changing the Blend Modes of the various Filters/Adjustments to see what weird stuff you can make.

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The attached video shows how to make a jigsaw using the Vector Flood Fill Tool (only available in Designer).
Note: You can create the shapes in a different way to get different jigsaw pieces, I just used the pencil for quickness.
Note: I’ve used the “Max Fit” option to make the image fit to the edges of the puzzle.
Note: Once I have selected the image I drag the mouse pointer over all of the shapes, rather than just clicking, which would work but it takes more time.
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Phew! quite a lot of steps to follow but the end result is impressive for all that. Appreciate the time and effort envolved to share this.

Affinity Photo v2 - Written
Special Tutorial - A sequence of photos joined together v2 - Panorama Stitch version
This a follow up to a tutorial to one I have just done about making an action sequence image using various images.
This tutorial looks at first using the Panorama Stitch tool. To get a cleaner background to then add the main focus of the action sequence on to.
Dropbox PDF Download Link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/big1a4txaes5y0r/Special%20-%20Sequence%20image%20-%20v2-%20Panorama%20Stitch.pdf?dl=0
Google Drive PDF Download Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lqg42SaFZa0KlNxTepQMac7Xf6OFV7PH/view?usp=sharing

Affinity Photo v2
Special Tutorial Request
Joining together, a sequence of action photos
 
Google Drive PDF Download Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15WwlKTy-IiqNJDSC2vv8od2m9pU27jmr/view?usp=sharing
Dropbox PDF Download Link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4p2e47xmwqwglzh/Susan%20Couch%20Special%20-%20Sequence%20image.pdf?dl=0

Attached is a PDF explaining how the key tonal correction tools in Affinity Photo work. I previously had some confusion about exactly what each tool or adjustment did, both in the Photo and Develop Personas of Affinity Photo. My searches made it clear I wasn't alone. For example, what is the difference between Exposure and Brightness in the Develop Persona? I've answered that question and more in the attached PDF.
I spent a full day playing with the main tonal correction tools in the Photo and Develop personas of Photo v 2.0.4. I now understand what each tool does. More importantly, I know which tools I plan to use in each persona and why. This exercise cleared up a lot of confusion for me, so I thought I'd write up my findings and share it. I hope it is clear and helpful. 
Happy editing! 
Tonal Controls in AP.pdf

I show you here quickly in a screenrecording one way of how you can do it in APh, with 2x canvas resize and 2x applying a pixel layer which you then can fill with any color you want. - I've done & used basically the same steps for the above shown Macro, where I just recorded the performed steps in a macro.
The first frame added has again a setup canvas width + 30 px, canvas height + 30 px and the second one then actual canvas width + 300 px, actual canvas height + 300 px ...

how_done.mp4

Basics it may be but still a useful reference for many users.Good work appreciated.

Affinity Photo v2 – Written Tutorial
Motion Blur Background - Stunning fine art abstract photos
A conversion of a Photoshop tutorial by Andrew Lanxon Photography
Dropbox Download link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f61xjc4lzsjanyl/AFFINITY-TUTORIALS-VOL-004-Motion%20Blur%20Background.pdf?dl=0
Google Drive Download link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-9RDzo9W-2HjVirAFTYPNPn3sE_35na5/view?usp=sharing

I would like the release date of each video to be shown on the list on the first page.

In this Affinity Photo v2 tutorial I show how compound masks can be so useful in your workflow. I saw this tutorial done on Photoshop by Mood on YouTube, but without compound masks and thought about how much better compound masks makes it in Affinity.
https://youtu.be/vuRlbRMUA8k
Note I also have an iPad version of this tutorial on y channel

Here is a more visual representation of the colour chord options which are available within the Swatches menu after right clicking on a colour and choosing Add Chord to Swatch.
The text as well as used colours are from the documentation.

This is well presented and demonstrated with clear instructions and is a good refresher for people like me so thank you for doing these tutorials.