Smee Again

Thanks Alfred. I just never think about Mac users. Oversight on my part. 👍

Nice job! You can really jack up those water droplets by:
Add a "highpass" live filter. Run the slider on the filter to the far right. Use the "linear light" blend mode. Press <CTRL> + "i" (this inverts the mask on the live filter to black) Paint on the live filter mask with a very soft brush and a flow around 25% loaded with white. Experiment until you get results that really make them pop.

Making a outline of a giraffe with the Engraving brush 03 with different stroke's.

Focus stack from 180 jpg shots, all post done with Affinity Photo

I was experimenting with doing focus stacking in AP and as I was shooting the individual photos one of my cats decided to join in the fun.  As per usual some of my most wonderful shots turn out to be the total accidents.  There's a lot of noise in it, still learning how to use masks and layers, but the subject and composition is just too good to resist.  Enjoy!

Just bought all of Affinity programs since they where om 50%.
Had to try to make something. Here is three different goes at it.
Here is my first go after having watching a lot of youtube.

Hi,
i am new user Affinity Designer who recently started trying to master the pen tool and create something visually appealing using vectors. I have no experience in that at all, i am quite good at Photoshop but vectors are totally new to me. Here is my atempt to create a luxury Maurice Lacroix watch.
 

Back in March, I had to "tie up" my car's muffler after one of the mounts broke. I grabbed some bailing wire that one of our autoshop guys had used to hold a door open on windy days. Didn't realize it at the time, but there was a Preying Mantis egg on one end. When I got the new mount and attached it, I was about to dispose of the wire when I realized there was an egg on it. My wife wanted to put it in our garden. I figured it was damaged after all the heat coming off the tail pipe. That was in March 2020.
Today, while I was in a Zoom meeting, she came into my room all excited and showing me pictures of her Preying Mantises that were hatching. As soon as my meeting was over, I grabbed the camera and took a look. Here's a couple of pics I got while she was "making groceries" (Cajun term for "buying foodstuffs").
Appears they are coming out one or two at a time. In second picture you can see some little heads that have broken through the shell but haven't exited yet.
 

Back in March, I had to "tie up" my car's muffler after one of the mounts broke. I grabbed some bailing wire that one of our autoshop guys had used to hold a door open on windy days. Didn't realize it at the time, but there was a Preying Mantis egg on one end. When I got the new mount and attached it, I was about to dispose of the wire when I realized there was an egg on it. My wife wanted to put it in our garden. I figured it was damaged after all the heat coming off the tail pipe. That was in March 2020.
Today, while I was in a Zoom meeting, she came into my room all excited and showing me pictures of her Preying Mantises that were hatching. As soon as my meeting was over, I grabbed the camera and took a look. Here's a couple of pics I got while she was "making groceries" (Cajun term for "buying foodstuffs").
Appears they are coming out one or two at a time. In second picture you can see some little heads that have broken through the shell but haven't exited yet.
 

Back in March, I had to "tie up" my car's muffler after one of the mounts broke. I grabbed some bailing wire that one of our autoshop guys had used to hold a door open on windy days. Didn't realize it at the time, but there was a Preying Mantis egg on one end. When I got the new mount and attached it, I was about to dispose of the wire when I realized there was an egg on it. My wife wanted to put it in our garden. I figured it was damaged after all the heat coming off the tail pipe. That was in March 2020.
Today, while I was in a Zoom meeting, she came into my room all excited and showing me pictures of her Preying Mantises that were hatching. As soon as my meeting was over, I grabbed the camera and took a look. Here's a couple of pics I got while she was "making groceries" (Cajun term for "buying foodstuffs").
Appears they are coming out one or two at a time. In second picture you can see some little heads that have broken through the shell but haven't exited yet.
 

I’m intentionally seeking to learn from some of my favorite artists by attempting to emulate aspects of their styles. This particular exercise in admiration is based on the flowing ribbons and gradients of @serdarduran’s work.
Created solely on Affinity Designer for iPad with Apple Pencil (including the sketch, which is a first for me).

 

Refinement of white inlay and better colour

A trio of Dallias.

From yesterday morning and this afternoon . . . getting the hang of this camera, I think. Two pictures of the same strawberry bloom: "Before and After" as Unmesh Dinda likes to say. Also a neat little wildflower I found in my yard (took a picture before it falls victim to the lawn mower).

Still on layoff, still with too much time on my hands, a new camera to learn, and Affinity Photo. So, here's a few pics from my experimenting. With all those megapixels, I can zoom in a little closer even when the lens won't quite reach out to where I would like to be.

When I showed up at work on April 6, 2020 I was informed that I had been laid off because of fears over the Corona virus pandemic. Well, that just gave me back about 11 hours of daylight to use until work cranks back up (or I decide to go ahead and opt for early retirement). So I went home, ready to file for unemployment.
When I got home, got a call. A local business saw this as a good time to invest in a new website, and I was his choice. It would require lots of coding, pulling out some of the few strands of hair I have left, and photography. So I grabbed my Nikon and struck out to capture the images I would need. However,  my old Nikon just didn't have the quality I needed for my web design shots. It showed when I got home and started editing the images.
I had already been looking at purchasing a used DSLR camera, but I hate to buy something someone else has already abused. So, figured I would kill two birds with one stone. I still kept the budget small (around $300.00 US) but made the jump, making the purchase with the income the customer paid down for me to start production.
Then I realized that, since I would be using the new camera for photos for web design, I would need (clears throat) to "practice" with the new camera in order to get proficient when operating it. This would also give me an opportunity to hone my editing skills because we all know that no matter how good an image is you will need to do some kind of tweeking before you can use it.
So, I guess it was a good investment. I know my images are working better. With less time spent trying to bring out detail from poorly recorded images, I'm able to spend a bit more time trying to be artistic with my editing.
Be safe, be well . . . make pictures.

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From yesterday morning and this afternoon . . . getting the hang of this camera, I think. Two pictures of the same strawberry bloom: "Before and After" as Unmesh Dinda likes to say. Also a neat little wildflower I found in my yard (took a picture before it falls victim to the lawn mower).

Bump.

Still on layoff, still with too much time on my hands, a new camera to learn, and Affinity Photo. So, here's a few pics from my experimenting. With all those megapixels, I can zoom in a little closer even when the lens won't quite reach out to where I would like to be.

When I showed up at work on April 6, 2020 I was informed that I had been laid off because of fears over the Corona virus pandemic. Well, that just gave me back about 11 hours of daylight to use until work cranks back up (or I decide to go ahead and opt for early retirement). So I went home, ready to file for unemployment.
When I got home, got a call. A local business saw this as a good time to invest in a new website, and I was his choice. It would require lots of coding, pulling out some of the few strands of hair I have left, and photography. So I grabbed my Nikon and struck out to capture the images I would need. However,  my old Nikon just didn't have the quality I needed for my web design shots. It showed when I got home and started editing the images.
I had already been looking at purchasing a used DSLR camera, but I hate to buy something someone else has already abused. So, figured I would kill two birds with one stone. I still kept the budget small (around $300.00 US) but made the jump, making the purchase with the income the customer paid down for me to start production.
Then I realized that, since I would be using the new camera for photos for web design, I would need (clears throat) to "practice" with the new camera in order to get proficient when operating it. This would also give me an opportunity to hone my editing skills because we all know that no matter how good an image is you will need to do some kind of tweeking before you can use it.
So, I guess it was a good investment. I know my images are working better. With less time spent trying to bring out detail from poorly recorded images, I'm able to spend a bit more time trying to be artistic with my editing.
Be safe, be well . . . make pictures.

Here is the second one in monochrome.  Was planning on entering it in a neat little challenge going on over at PhotoGenius while the covid quarantine is going on. This week's challenge was monochrome.
 
#PGWEEK6

However, I do love the shape of their blooms as they unwind but before they fully open.
The first image was taken in overcast conditions, while the second one was taken in the morning with the sun behind the blooms. Wish I had remembered to return the ISO to 200 or maybe 100 before the second shot. Sure would have looked better and possibly had better contrast and color. The second image is also a "focus merge" of two images.
Does anyone know if Affinity Photo considers the order of the images included in the merge? I tried it twice with those images, but when I picked the near bloom first and the far bloom second, the image looked different than when I chose the far bloom first (top of the stack) and the near bloom last (bottom of stack), which is where this image came from.

However, I do love the shape of their blooms as they unwind but before they fully open.
The first image was taken in overcast conditions, while the second one was taken in the morning with the sun behind the blooms. Wish I had remembered to return the ISO to 200 or maybe 100 before the second shot. Sure would have looked better and possibly had better contrast and color. The second image is also a "focus merge" of two images.
Does anyone know if Affinity Photo considers the order of the images included in the merge? I tried it twice with those images, but when I picked the near bloom first and the far bloom second, the image looked different than when I chose the far bloom first (top of the stack) and the near bloom last (bottom of stack), which is where this image came from.

Thanks Matt. I knew I'd miss something, checked and hadn't noticed, few bits of shading on front near wing.