[How to create a Style in Affinity Designer]

Madame, setting fill to None, this is a good thing to know to remove styles, thank you! Timber

[How to create a Style in Affinity Designer]

Hi Lee, I'm not talking about deleting a style, but removing a style applied to an object. Removing all styles applied to an object. Hence the undo's to get back to before the style was applied. I did see the delete style in the menus, but thanks for pointing that out.

[How to create a Style in Affinity Designer]

I think what I'm unclear on is how to create a repeating pattern to simulate texture, i.e. shingles. I can create a basic style like a color, embossed, line specs, etc. but to emulate say the wood, or leather as in Dream Styles Organics, how is that done?

Also, I don't see a "remove any/all applied Styles" to remove styles if in trying them you don't find one that works. One's only recourse seems to back-step with multiple undos. It'd be nice to have a "remove styles".

– Timber

[How to create a Style in Affinity Designer]

Hi, looking to create a style, or a couple of styles, to simulate roofing textures in Affinity Designer. Starting with how to create a style at all seems like a good start. Getting specific about creating say a slate roof look, a cedar shake roof, or a tin roof style would be most helpful.

Note, the Dream Organic styles posted in Resources are terrific. Thanks in advance - Timber

[Straighten + inpaint]

Agreed, inpaint missing areas - this would make the crop/straighten tool so much more powerful, and it's logical to extend this capability here as well. This would be a wonderful and most welcomed feature to add to the default persona in Affinity Photo. Cheers – Timber

[Artboards revisited]

Hi MEB, thanks for the distillation of using Artboards and pasteboard area.

 

One thing I did note, is if you want to see text snippets in the pasteboard area, and your text is black, you'll need to not only set the View > View Mode to > uncheck Clip to Canvas, but in AD preferences you'll need to change User Interface > Background Gray Level to a lighter gray, or white, to see the text in black.

 

Best regards - Timber

[Artboards revisited]

So... if I want a place to store objects off canvas, so to speak, it seems that I need to create an art board for the primary workspace/size, and then I can create off to the side art boards to store images, or text snippets off the main work area. Is this the correct way of looking at art boards?

 

And I can also use art boards to create varying sized primary work areas, ie. a business card, and a letterhead and say a postcard.

 

Again, just trying to get the correct working with art boards in mind.

Thanks - Timber

[Applying same filter twice to an object]

OK, wondering if this can be done and if so, how?

How an object, even say a simple box. Apply an inner shadow to it. Adjust inner shadow settings. And then decide I want an additional inner shadow, but I want to change the angle of it vs the first inner shadow. This doesn't seem to be possible as going to Effects just brings up the settings for the initial inner shadow. Suggestions?  – Timber

[Changing color - but getting pixelation of edges]

Alex, so simple, but just what I wanted! Perfect – thank you! – Timber

[Changing color - but getting pixelation of edges]

Hi all, I have a png file that's OK quality for the web use it's been used at. It's a signature and I wanted to change it from black to a dark blue and thought I could use Affinity Photo, but when I select the signature via Select Sampled Color and recolor it, the edges become noticeably pixelated. See attached original and the recoloured version.

Suggestions? thanks – Timber

[Turning a portrait into drawing]

In Affinity Photo and/or Designer, does anyone have a step-by-step workflow for turning a portrait into looking like a hand drawn sketch or even a caricature of the portrait. A tutorial would rock!

 

Regards – Timber

[1957 Chevy Corvette Roadster - Affinity Designer Vectors]

Magnificent – both in showing the capabilities of Affinity Designer and the mastery/artistry of Isabel.

Wow a kind and beautiful soul you are Isabel – to offer to make a tutorial on how you achieved this stunning illustration.

I am so looking forward to the reveal of your magic!

Thank you ever so much for such inspiration! – Timber

[Plugins for AP]

Hi, I don't have any Photoshop plugins to try in Affinity Photo, but wanted to see if I could get a plugin to work in AP.

Are there any decent freeware or trial ware plugins that work in Affinity Photo that I could get to try out?

Thanks in advance, Timber

[Latest Beta 1.3.5.7 Photo Extensions]

Is this feature, 5 new Photos extensions - Miniaturise, Monochrome, Liquify, Develop and Dehaze, only something that works with Apple's Photos App in Yosemite forward?

I don't see this at all running Mavericks and iPhoto.

Thanks - Timber

[Tutorials - keep them coming! Great]

Dear Affinity Serif, Please keep the excellent tutorials coming. I'm am learning so much more that I can do with the programs via the tutorials. They are really well done and extremely valuable. More, more!

 

I thing I'd like to see is a suggested workflow for cleaning up photos. I know the de-noise filter was mentioned as a later item to be done in a workflow. What I'd like to see is a workflow suggested order where a photo is opened and then each helpful filter or adjustment is applied and in the most beneficial order.

 

Thanks again, and keep up the terriffic work!

[Fonts seem funky]

Oddly this happened right after a fresh install - no customization. Nevertheless I reset Affinity and the issue reoccurs. It's when one has selected Texr > Show Character and then one selects the font in the palletes on the right side of the screen. The name changes, but the font doesn't nor does the context toolbar reflect the change. Now, if I change the font in the context toolbar, the Character pallette reflects the change. But not the other way around. Hope this helps in tracking down this bug.

[Fonts seem funky]

I put in some text, highlighted it, changed the font in the font dialog on the right hand panel. Note it reflects Baoli SC, the Context toolbar shows American Typewriter and I think the font is Arial as it appears on screen. Not what I'd expect to see.

Affinity Designer Beta fonts.pdf

[Affinity Photo Export Persona]

Hi all, one thing that puzzles me, is that the Export Persona seems to be missing features that are in the Export menu item.

 

For example. I cannot resize an image prior to export in Export Persona, I can resize in Export menu item.

And, Export menu item shows you the file size expected of the Export, Export Persona doesn't.

Surely these features should be in Export Persona?

[Remove haze or fog Affinity Photo]

I could swear that I watched an tutorial video about removing haze/fog from an image, but I cannot locate this video.

Perhaps I imagined it. If anyone knows of such a video OR knows of a good process for doing this in Affinity Photo, please share. I know this is a feature on the road map, just need to know best way to do it now.

Thanks!

[Can I use Develop persona, my camera only saves jpegs?]

The Develop persona looks to have some great tools. My camera doesn't save RAW, only JPG, can I use the Deveiop persona?

[New Branding for Affinity]

Well, the new icons look busy and even less so tell one what the app does. I prefer the original older ones. They show more detail and the new one's looked rushed/pressured to be flat with less precision. The programs are great and deserve top flight icons. The newer icons just don't look "professionally done" to my eye.

[Revert to saved]

I want to add my voice, that a Revert to Save would be most helpful and save some steps, rather than closing without saving changes and then doing a File > Open. It would make life easier for when one trys a major change or several changes and just wants to get back to the starting point, without having to visit history tab and figuring out how far back to go. Quick and easy!

[Splash screen - add open recent menu]

Hi, on Affinity Designer, and Photo for that matter, on the opening splash screen that has the examples, one can view these, or start a New document. It would be nice to add a "Recent Items" menu to quickly go to recently worked in projects, Simple,  but helpful and it would save some steps. - Timber

[Vectorizing a jpg]

Hi, in trying to "draw" a vector outline of something simple, in this case a framing hammer, I've tried the Vector Brush Tool and the Pen tool in Drawing Persona, but my drawings look crude and wavy. No doubt that I need more experience with these tools, figuring how how and when to change the points and curves, and I'd guess work in refining the drawings/points/segments after i've drawn them.

 

I did switch to Pixel Persona and using the Selection Brush Tool, I can get a pretty good looking outline of the object I want to draw, see "matching ants" around hammer in the attached screen shot. However, I cannot figure out how to stroke this selection and save it as a drawing object? Perhaps it's not possible? If it isn't possible, it would be nice if it were, as it seems to capture the shape pretty well, or I'd love to see a detect and convert to vectors tool offered in Affinity Designer. So often I get low rez "logos" from people that want and really need a vector based hi-res logo.

 

If there any suggestions to do this better in the current release of Affinity Designer, please advise. I am using the latest/current Beta release. Again, I'd love to see a tool incorporated in AD to facilitate this work!

[Bug? - Color picker eyedropper not working for Outer Shadows]

Add Outline and Colour Overlay effects as to this behavior of the colour picker/eyedropper not working as well.