Smee Again

I think you're on an (image) layer, right click on it and choose rasterise...

My wife wants to write in her blog website about Steve McQueen.
Problem:
All the best photos of Steve McQueen are copyright.
"No problem," I said, "I'll draw him for you..."
Out came Affinity Designer...
Problem Solved! 

There is a software program called Scanahand made by High-Logic, a Netherlands-based company.
https://www.high-logic.com/
I bought a licence for version 4 professional when that was the then current latest version.
In fact I have not used Scanahand very much, mostly because I do not have a scanner in use.
In fact I have only made using Scanahand one font that I use other than for testing. That font was, in fact, made using the beta test version of the original Scanahand many years ago.
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_chapter_046.pdf The font made using Scanahand is on page 2 of the PDF
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_the_novel_author_note_after_chapter_046.pdf The font is used throughout this document
However, although intended for producing fonts made using hand drawn hardcopy artwork scanned into a computer, it is also possible to produce, using Scanahnd, a font by saving an electronic copy of the unfilled-in artwork page and drawing the artwork using a software program. I had previously tried, a long while ago, using Microsoft Paint. I got fonts but it was difficult to produce the artwork and I only drew a few characters.
So this morning I tried using Affinity Publisher and the Pen Tool.
Although it was a test I am very pleased with what I produced.
I started by saving from Scanahand a one page unfillied-in artwork page and saved it as a png file.
I then, knowing that that form is A4 in size, or thereabouts, I started an A3 portrait document in Affinity Publiced and did a File Place... and got the form into Affinity Publisher.
I then went to CTRL 4 magnification and found the cell for the letter e and drew at the default line width which I think was 0.2 point, a glyph for a letter e, then using the tools to adjust the shape.
I then made the line 2 points wide. This was a first guess, in fact it worked well.
I the saved the A3 document and exported the form as a new png, with background.
I then used the filled in artwork to produce a font using Scanahand, then I installed the font, directly from Scanahand, and then tried the font at 18 point in a new Affinity Publisher font.
I then had another go, adding glyphs for p, a and l so that I could try to produce a font where a word such as the word apple could be spelled out.
Having tried the concept and got it to work I am hoping to start again and produce what I hope will be a nice font to use.
Scanahand has advanced features, so for a full attempt to produce a font I would produce an unfilled-in form that has light blue guidelines for baseline, x-height, ascender and descender, as Scanahand can disregard such guidelines when using artwork to produce a font.
I am including an image, exported from Affinity Publisher, yet please remember that this is from a proof-of-concept font.
The font is shown at the following point sizes: 8, 10, 12, 14, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72.

William Overington
Saturday 31 August 2019
 
 
 
 

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This is something I used to spend a lot of time with before my heart attack back  in 2015 and it's a subject that is dear to my heart. This effort was done between phone calls today, so it was a rush job and I'll likely rework it when I can get a decent sized set of images.
Some of the old architecture was so much more appealing than today's cookie cutter rubbish. Being born and raised in the New Orleans culture, there are lots of old structures that were removed to "modernize" the downtown area. by removing the old buildings that gave the city character and putting up some of the leggo looking structures that some folks see as an improvement.
This is a composite of an image from the turn of the 20th century (Southern Railway Station at the corner of Canal St & Basin Street, New Orleans, LA), an image from Google Earth (taken from about the same point on Canal Street as the old image). I combined the images using layers and masking, then I added some "colorization to the building matching what I was told the building looked like(I purposely did not colorize the people in the old pic). I personally did not get to see it because it was torn down and hauled away in 1958, less than a year after my birth it was no more. On a side note, Basin street was a one lane road designed for carriages with parking on one side, thus the street along the building has been narrowed accordingly.
Only posting it as it may inspire someone else to do similar work in order to remind people of what they've thrown away in the  name of progress, maybe even convincing some modern architects that buildings can be beautiful --- it just takes a bit more work than drawing different size boxes and connecting them. .

Nice work.
Dunno about this one though. The stars covering over the dark part of the moon are just out of place.

The last train leaving the station. Demolition had already started.
Black and white photo added to modern Google Earth image then colored. Actually found a color photo of the engine, so I know these colors are right.

Coffee is always a good idea! Want me to pick you up one while I'm out making groceries (Cajun for "going to the store")?

Is this freebie covered by a 100% money back guarantee?

This is something I used to spend a lot of time with before my heart attack back  in 2015 and it's a subject that is dear to my heart. This effort was done between phone calls today, so it was a rush job and I'll likely rework it when I can get a decent sized set of images.
Some of the old architecture was so much more appealing than today's cookie cutter rubbish. Being born and raised in the New Orleans culture, there are lots of old structures that were removed to "modernize" the downtown area. by removing the old buildings that gave the city character and putting up some of the leggo looking structures that some folks see as an improvement.
This is a composite of an image from the turn of the 20th century (Southern Railway Station at the corner of Canal St & Basin Street, New Orleans, LA), an image from Google Earth (taken from about the same point on Canal Street as the old image). I combined the images using layers and masking, then I added some "colorization to the building matching what I was told the building looked like(I purposely did not colorize the people in the old pic). I personally did not get to see it because it was torn down and hauled away in 1958, less than a year after my birth it was no more. On a side note, Basin street was a one lane road designed for carriages with parking on one side, thus the street along the building has been narrowed accordingly.
Only posting it as it may inspire someone else to do similar work in order to remind people of what they've thrown away in the  name of progress, maybe even convincing some modern architects that buildings can be beautiful --- it just takes a bit more work than drawing different size boxes and connecting them. .

Nice looking Job. Well done.

Very nice eye for detail and plenty skill to create a realistic image. A lot of functions were used. Kudos. I know from experience that coronary failure can disrupt life dramatically, but when allowed to remain in this dimension one tends to see many matters in a different light which may lead to more profound art. Stay healthy and creative! 

This is something I used to spend a lot of time with before my heart attack back  in 2015 and it's a subject that is dear to my heart. This effort was done between phone calls today, so it was a rush job and I'll likely rework it when I can get a decent sized set of images.
Some of the old architecture was so much more appealing than today's cookie cutter rubbish. Being born and raised in the New Orleans culture, there are lots of old structures that were removed to "modernize" the downtown area. by removing the old buildings that gave the city character and putting up some of the leggo looking structures that some folks see as an improvement.
This is a composite of an image from the turn of the 20th century (Southern Railway Station at the corner of Canal St & Basin Street, New Orleans, LA), an image from Google Earth (taken from about the same point on Canal Street as the old image). I combined the images using layers and masking, then I added some "colorization to the building matching what I was told the building looked like(I purposely did not colorize the people in the old pic). I personally did not get to see it because it was torn down and hauled away in 1958, less than a year after my birth it was no more. On a side note, Basin street was a one lane road designed for carriages with parking on one side, thus the street along the building has been narrowed accordingly.
Only posting it as it may inspire someone else to do similar work in order to remind people of what they've thrown away in the  name of progress, maybe even convincing some modern architects that buildings can be beautiful --- it just takes a bit more work than drawing different size boxes and connecting them. .

Oh, and yes those are trees reflecting in the glass. At the time this image was taken, there were still large trees in that part of the city, not many but some were reflected in this image. Using gradient mapping. The lighter colors were mapped to shades of blue taken from the modern image, darker colors were assigned to the green spectrum. Once the colors on the glass looked right, I inverted the mask on the gradient mask so that the mask was filled with black. Next I selected the panes with the lasso tool and flood fill with white.

This is something I used to spend a lot of time with before my heart attack back  in 2015 and it's a subject that is dear to my heart. This effort was done between phone calls today, so it was a rush job and I'll likely rework it when I can get a decent sized set of images.
Some of the old architecture was so much more appealing than today's cookie cutter rubbish. Being born and raised in the New Orleans culture, there are lots of old structures that were removed to "modernize" the downtown area. by removing the old buildings that gave the city character and putting up some of the leggo looking structures that some folks see as an improvement.
This is a composite of an image from the turn of the 20th century (Southern Railway Station at the corner of Canal St & Basin Street, New Orleans, LA), an image from Google Earth (taken from about the same point on Canal Street as the old image). I combined the images using layers and masking, then I added some "colorization to the building matching what I was told the building looked like(I purposely did not colorize the people in the old pic). I personally did not get to see it because it was torn down and hauled away in 1958, less than a year after my birth it was no more. On a side note, Basin street was a one lane road designed for carriages with parking on one side, thus the street along the building has been narrowed accordingly.
Only posting it as it may inspire someone else to do similar work in order to remind people of what they've thrown away in the  name of progress, maybe even convincing some modern architects that buildings can be beautiful --- it just takes a bit more work than drawing different size boxes and connecting them. .

You are quite right, I apologise. I had misunderstood.
Would yes be nice to get a proper fill slider definitely.
Best wishes,
Mark
 

There is also the thing with the special 8 blend modes. Some blend modes are useless workout fill. 

Look at Jpwday's example. There is a difference.
Look at my examples, all the same, no difference.
Watch the attached videos, BIG DIFFERENCE should exist.

If I were talking about opacity as being a desirable addition, it would be.
Opacity is simply the alpha value and has nothing to do with the fill, just as saturation is different from vibrance. Saturation, like opacity, affects all color while vibrance affects muted colors more so than colors that are already saturated.
In your video, all you are seeing is variance in opacity --- PERIOD. There is absolutely no affect on the fill of the layer.
Earlier today I posted 4 images. The first two used 20% as "fill opacity" and "opacity". Can you honestly say you detect a difference between the images? Why not? Because while one was done with "fill opacity" from the FX slider, the other was done with "opacity" from the opacity slider. BTW, they are both nothing more than opacity sliders. Neither one affects fill.
The third and fourth images are like the first two, but instead of 20% I used 50% as "fill opacity" and "opacity". Again, can you honestly differentiate between the two images? Again, you can call an apple anything you wish to call it, but it is STILL AN APPLE.
The reason the images are identical is because "fill opacity" and "opacity" are using two different names for the exact same process. There is no "fill opacity", it's just plain opacity with "fill" added before the name.

One more example . . . because fill and opacity behave differently with the special blend modes (like linear light, used in this example) this is a great example for portrait photographers as to why a "fill" option would be a nice addition. This video was released this morning.
This option is especially beneficial when using a solid color adjustment layer with the soft light, hard light, dissolve, vivid light, linear light, pin light, and hard mix blend modes.

Excellent. I was about to post my reply when you posted this.
It isn't going to make me angry if they don't add the ability, but it sure would make me happy to see it.

Better yet, four images, all using "Vivid Light" blend mode:
Image 1 - 20% opacity
Image 2  - 20% fill opacity
Image 3 - 50% opacity
Image 4 - 50% fill opacity
Do you see any difference between "opacity" and "fill opacity"?

@Smee Again is right. Quick demo using blend mode "color burn" on smartphone image at 100% (yuck):
 
Adobe Photoshop CC 2019:
Left: Colour burn rectangle with opacity 40%, fill 100%
Right: Colour burn rectangle with opacity 100%, fill 40%
Notice the difference between the two rectangles

Affinity Photo 1.7.2 desktop:
Left: Colour burn rectangle with opacity 40%, fill 100%
Right: Colour burn rectangle with opacity 100%, fill 40%
Notice there is no difference between the two rectangles