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Adding my vote.
I tried to sketch with default brushes but the outline didn't let me focus well.

Adding my vote.
Just tried to sketch with default brushes but the outline didn't let me focus well.

Is it possible to add Pexels to the Stock panel in Affinity Photo? This website has tons of free stock images that can be used commercially as well.

Hi!
I'm sorry if this was posted before. I couldn't find this topic on the forums.
I'd like to have "Radius by percents" for the Corner Tool. I'm currently having this problem where I can't use the Corner Tool with symbols of different size, because when I change the radius of a bigger symbol, its smaller copies get same amount of pixels in corner change, which makes it a dramatic change for a smaller object.

P.S.
Is there a workaround in the meantime?

Adding my vote.
I tried to sketch with default brushes but the outline didn't let me focus well.

Maybe this is what you're looking for:
How to Be a Graphic Designer

Yes. It's a really good book, but it's not a tutorial book. It doesn't teach you step by step how to create your own business card or a logo. Instead, it gives you a better understanding on how to use your current skills in efficient ways and how to improve your skills later. It also gives inspiration and shows real life cases. Are you totally new to graphic design? If so, you might leave this book for later and start with this and this (this one is mostly for inspirational purposes).

Hi guys. I want to take part in help for Affinity Photo. Here is custom make grass brushes and example, that was made by me. If you have any comments or ideas to add/fix them - i will adjust/update them.
Each brush - it is not only one image, but at least 3 different variations of it. So when you draw - it draws in series 1,2,3,1,2,3,....like frames in movies - so the grass texture looks more natural and random.
The brush rotates according to drawing direction/route. If you don't need it - got to brush settings Dynamic/Rotation jitter - and set it to ZERO %
 
2017.12.24 - Version updated to 0.2. See attached pictures for explanations   Also i attach small palette for green hues.
2017.12.18 - They are 4 brushes. First 3 - intensity brushes, and last one - image brush.
 
 
 


Antony - Grass v.02.afbrushes
Antony - Grass.afpalette

Hi folks!
It's time to update this thing... 
The same set, suitable for cartoonists, character designers and comic artists.



Now it is composed of:

4 layout tools
1 standard pencil and 3 layout pencils embedding typical colors like blue, red and green (you don't need to choose it from color picker).
Now with tilt for shading effect!

8 Inkers
G pens, trapezoid shaped and Sumi-e variants!
All these tools are sensitive to pen pressure and tilt.
Hope you'll enjoy it!
Grab it here!
 
PS. The old one is still here
 
 
DAUB_Comics Basic Set.zip

Here is a copic palette I created. Maybe it will be useful for someone.
Copic.afpalette

I believe once you Bake your corner(s) the corners are baked in at a percentage value rather than the shown pixel value
So if you change the radius of a bigger symbol's corner, initially the smaller symbol's corners will look wrong but once you bake the corner on the bigger symbol the smaller symbol's corner will update and will look proportionately correct
Unfortunately Baking is a one time operation, you cannot go back in later to adjust the corner radius easily, so make sure the bigger symbol's corner radius is perfect before you bake it.
Hopefully the Dev Team will add a percentage setting for the Corner Tool in a later update
PS If you are just dealing with corners on rectangular shapes in your symbols, don't use the corner tool just use the shape's own  corner controls which allow both percentage and pixel values to be used.
Hope that helps

I know this because when someone is crying that Affinity Photo is not even close to Photoshop, it's clear that they don't even know the software. To me it's like they jumped into a trial version for 30 minutes, didn't find their favorite tool in the right place and felt like the software is too far from Photoshop. I'm using this as an example because I've seen many posts on the froums from people asking how to do this and how to do that, while all of it is laying right in front of them just with different names. So they got used to Photoshop so much that they don't even understand that two differently named tools are doing the same job. They don't want to find a way around their workflow that they've been doing for years in the same software, so it leads them to saying that Photo or Designer is too far from Adobe's products.
By the way, the thing about the pen tool was just an exaggerated example to push the point.

Photo and Designer are the closest thing I've seen to PS and AI, followed close (in PS case, at least in certain areas) by PSP. In vectors,  I certainly liked too Xara and Corel Draw (even Inkscape). For my pro uses, definitely Photo and Designer are really good. I recon I combine Affinity with other ones, and plan to do it even more, with other apps.  I thought long ago I'd go for the "one ring to bring them all" concept, in software, but more and more am getting to use multiple UIs in a same project. Done always so, but seems it is quite practical with the present situation. Probably as in my profile as a game artist (is one of them, I don't speak from that perspective only, as indeed late years I am more of an illustrator, graphic designer and image editor) any pro needs to use more and more different software applications combined, and increasingly complex workflows (ZB, PBR stuff, shaders, high end rendering, compositing, etc), that my brain is adapting to the apps combos concept even more  than it always did. So, is not so terrible when I need a specific feature which is not in a specific application. Thankfully, there are very good low cost and mid cost tools being exceptional in particular matters where I see a lack in a main tool . My main raster tool is lately Clip Studio Paint, but I have used tons of applications, very heavily in all my professional life, and before as a hobbyist. I agree with those thinking Affinity line can do well, despite the issues, as it is often possible to find a work around, or use several tools combined.
I wouldn't agree tho in that PS or AI are crap. They are extremely good, but they have become ( * very * ) badly optimized in performance (well specially PS, not particularly AI, but yep also After Effects and some other from the CC ), and there's no solid reason for this, as even a PS CS 5.5 was extremely faster for the same tasks. The brush engine of CC 2018 is actually really good, and finally adds line smoothing (curious timing, it was recent the addition in A. Photo)   so, I would neither agree about PS and Adobe in general not improving lately. It ALWAYS improves, but certainly not in performance, while CSP rocks largely in performance, and in my tests, A. Photo is quite lighter than current PS, and that means a lot to me. What definitely  leaves CC out for me is the subscription system, and not only for the money. I'm ready to fight any obstacle instead of going CC (done so with way poorer open source tools, when not just pre alphas, and done full commercial projects with those, so....).  The hardware issues can be solved by purchasing the best possible hardware, but I am afraid not of the given point and situation in time (same fear with possible subscription fees increases...), but about the dynamic of things. If  its gonna go this route, always requiring the best machine in the market for what before was doable fast with a low end one, a 5 years old machine, then the trick will do for some months after you purchase a new brand machine, you will need to update way too soon your hardware, months later, so is yet another cost added, and not a small one, not very cost effective for any business or personal/freelance usage.  The sensible route is Affinity (it would be some of the alternatives per app if Affinity had not been created: I like some of the other ones, too...  I just prefer Affinity's take (and completeness) at it, and the Serif's company style, in general. IMO, not providing at least a purchase option in CC "might" have not been a globally popular solution. At least for a large percentage. The bad performance in hardware of latest CC versions can end up finishing that job....

I know this because when someone is crying that Affinity Photo is not even close to Photoshop, it's clear that they don't even know the software. To me it's like they jumped into a trial version for 30 minutes, didn't find their favorite tool in the right place and felt like the software is too far from Photoshop. I'm using this as an example because I've seen many posts on the froums from people asking how to do this and how to do that, while all of it is laying right in front of them just with different names. So they got used to Photoshop so much that they don't even understand that two differently named tools are doing the same job. They don't want to find a way around their workflow that they've been doing for years in the same software, so it leads them to saying that Photo or Designer is too far from Adobe's products.
By the way, the thing about the pen tool was just an exaggerated example to push the point.

Adding my vote.
Just tried to sketch with default brushes but the outline didn't let me focus well.

Adding my vote.
I tried to sketch with default brushes but the outline didn't let me focus well.

Adding my vote.
Just tried to sketch with default brushes but the outline didn't let me focus well.

As noted in the comments on that video, you can download the luminance brushes (and other freebies) by clicking on the ‘Download your free content’ link below the ‘Buy Affinity Photo now’ button on this page: https://affinity.serif.com/ipad-update

Wow! I always thought that offer was only for people that purchase the iPad version of the Photo.
Thank you!