KipV
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4 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:
And if I am not vastly mistaken, one can now edit Publisher beta stuff in the Designer beta. At least that is what happened around here just now. SURPRISE!!!
Interesting, maybe the first step to getting the designer/photo personas working. Pretty exciting!
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1 hour ago, jmwellborn said:
Smooooooth. And what a nicer 3-D icon! And fresher colors too!! And a nicer size!!! Lovely Christmas surprise!!!!
Thank you, Affinities! With best wishes to all of you for a happy holiday season.
I also thought the 3D icon was amazing! It's a subtle effect so I have to wonder if the people who said they prefer the old icon have noticed that. I liked it a lot more when I saw that.
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Nobody is talking about big icons. Time to catch up to 2012 high res monitor tech and now focus on issues that are worthy of discussion. Unsubscribed.
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People are way over thinking this stuff. Using an extra 1% of the screen isn't worthy of this much discussion. If that extra sliver of screen space is really that important then it's time to buy a bigger monitor. More important things to talk about.
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39 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:
And what about people who want 2 columns, or 3 columns of tools? I agree with fde101 that a potential "small"/"medium"/"large" might be a nice future option. Future. Just now, I am glad to have ANYTHING that isn't Adobe.
You can do two columns now. I generally don't use that format but it is currently available.
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And also it needs to be added in to the current version 1.7. High res monitors have been out for the better part of a decade.
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Doubling the size wouldn't be make them big though. It would make them go from microscopic sized to almost approaching medium size. When I read an article on the new Photoshop I saw that they were catching up with some of the exclusive Affinity features and also adding many options for change the size of icons so if this doesn't get addressed Serif might have some problems. The first retina display on a Mac came out about 6 to 7 years ago so this ultra high res tech is actually brand new at this point. I would have expected it many years ago. The current size is also wasteful on a 27" display. Nearly half of the toolbar is just blank so it would barely be taking up any more space!! The current amount of screen space is like what... maybe 2%? So doubling it would be going up from 2% to 3%?
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A good part of the release notes pointed out the changes being made to to the UI in 1.7. I sure hope the tiny icons on the left hand side of toolbar get doubled in size before 1.7 gets released. Programs like Graphic and Quark are much better sized.
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I must have forgotten about adding that shortcut. Going to the develop persona is usually the first thing I do so it made sense to set it up that way.
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If you type control+shift+R into the box I bet it will stop you in 1.7. It will probably work in 1.6
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It turns out something else is interfering which is what I would have guessed. Probably a new 1.7 feature has taken that shortcut.
There might be some other shortcut for develop in 1.6 Windows since Windows doesn't have a command key.
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I used to use a shortcut to get into the develop persona (command+shift+d ?) but it doesn't seem to be working anymore. Did that go away?
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10 hours ago, haakoo said:
Otherwise find online a texture and use this as overlay to get the effect
This works too, I just need to find the texture to overlay the image with.
10 hours ago, firstdefence said:A lot of early punk mags were handmade and photocopied using the copiers of the time and they were pretty basic affairs. It might be an idea to do the same and scan the result in for a more authentic look.
I have heard photocopiers can be good to get this technique as well. Another student I was doing this assignment with used the photocopier to warp text by moving the text as it was copying. It was a pretty neat effect!
17 hours ago, GarryP said:Topaz Studio - https://topazlabs.com/ - has a lot of effects that can be easily applied to images.
I look into it. If I had a decent selection of filters to pick from I probably wouldn't need Photoshop any more.
18 hours ago, firstdefence said:A lot of early punk mags were handmade and photocopied using the copiers of the time and they were pretty basic affairs.
The nice thing about computers though is that they give you some control over to what degree you want to apply an effect which is nice. The old tech way I am sure could bring up different great results.
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I can see halftone being used at some point. I don't think I would describe the images as low quality in the same way a low res image would be. With this album cover you have the text that has been spray painted on top scratched at bottom with an image that is leaving out just the amount of detail that the designer decided on in a filter. I know I talked about newspaper in the title of this topic but I should have said I am trying to find an assortment of dirty looking filter / effects that can be combined in several collages across the project. Just wondering too, are there third filters available for Affinity?
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On 11/25/2018 at 11:01 PM, firstdefence said:
Affinity on Mac and PS plugins are a bit more temperamental.
I wonder why that is? I would be nice to do more plug-in/filter work with Affinity.
That is a pretty neat magazine effect. The main look I am going is for a punk rock styled book (here is a few pages.) Basically I am just trying to make the images more rough looking whether that be through newsprint or other techniques.
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On 11/19/2018 at 8:14 PM, R C-R said:
That menu item is where you see any Photoshop plugins you have installed in Preferences > Photoshop Plugins that are properly installed & compatible with Affinity Photo.
Are there instructions for how to properly install the PS filters into Affinity? I couldn’t find how to do that under preferences. I assume that is a way to search for Photoshops filter folder?
On 11/20/2018 at 1:05 AM, firstdefence said:What about using the Black and White Adjustment filter set to Blend Mode: Contrast Negate and then the Threshold adjustment filter? you can make any adjustments you want and even save each filter as a preset.
I never knew you could get similar effects just by using adjustment layers! I’ll have to try experimenting with that. I am doing an assortment of collages using about five different filters. I wonder how much can be done with adjustment layers?
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It seems like there would just be a way to add filters in the menu? I noticed that at the bottom of the Filters menu is a menu item call plugins, I would think that is where you add additional filters that are not installed by default?
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I have been doing projects in Photoshop that use a newsprint style filter like the one shown below but I was wondering if someone could tell me where I can go to get these type of filters that work with Affinity? Also can Photoshop filters be brought across?
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The file is too large to post here but I noticed that as I shrunk the file down the problem went away. The original file was 1200 dpi.
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The inpainting tool also has this same problem in the photo persona.
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This is only happening with one photo.The cursor shows up when it is over the toolbar area and below the workspace but not when it is over the work area.
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By the way does the developer personal still have a shortcut to get to it?
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Red eye tool seems to be working fine in the photo persona.
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I am getting this problem when I try to aply red eye in the develop persona. It doesn't always happen but it almost seems to be deleting part of the image as it shows the checker pattern.
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I would assume that clicking save in designer/photo will save those changes back to Publisher?