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William Overington

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  1. I realized that I had made a mistake in the first post in the thread, so I have changed it. I changed it in the title of the thread too. William
  2. Will Affinity version 1 Designer and/or Photo export 32 bit PNG with transparency please? I have had a look and I have not been able to find any way to do that. William EDIT after two replies received. It was 32 bits in total, 24 bits for RGB colour plus another eight bits for the A channel. I had originally put 24 bit but I made a mistake, but I have now retrospectively changed it so as not to leave anything wrong in place.
  3. An interesting idea. What would be reasonable rules? With a real reduction linocut, I think one prints first with a light colour ink, say, a semi-pale yellow, then with some other colours, then finally a dark colour, such as black or say, a deep blue. Alignment to pixel accuracy might be impossible, but that might not be critical if inks are 100% opaque. With a faux reduction linocut, say an A3 PDF document to upload to a virtual print house, I think that one can have that pixel accuracy. One could also have 100% opaque electronic inks. Yet should one use by choice, 90% opaque electronic inks? Or would that make no difference except making the print look as if it was done with inks of colours different from those actually used? It would not be like one shape printed over a different shape where the overlap would show through faintly. I am not sure at present but maybe a reduction faux linocut would be easier to do than trying to make a separate block for each colour. William
  4. Yes, if starting a new picture. I was modifying the first picture, so although I had thought of that I did not do so, because I would have needed to record x, y, width, height for each smoke item as text in, say, a WordPad file so as to get the same positions and shapes. In the event, once I had adapted two of the smoke items the others did not take long to do. Your suggested method would however have the advantage of precise copies of the first shape rather than my adjustment by eye. William
  5. That seems to work in a qualitative sense that the faux linocut 004a is an image that could have possibly been made as a real linocut. I gradually reduced the point size of the stroke that depicts the smoke 4, 3, 2.5, 2, 1.5, 1 as I went from smoke item to smoke item from left to right in the picture, finding out that it is not only whole numbers of point sizes that can be used.
  6. I begin my making a copy of the source file that I produced. I am not entirely sure how to complete the task at present. I am thinking, for each of the six smoke items, to make the line white and to have thickness, then convert to curves and then break the curve open at the lowest point. So I can try that to observe if that will give the desired effect.
  7. The picture is not meant to be photographic, but this locomotive in its rebuilt form inspired the picture. https://www.lner.info/locos/W/w1.php Please note that the faux linocut has a 4-6-4 wheel arrangement and an 8-wheeled tender. William
  8. Thank you. How did you draw the branches that are in the upper right part of the picture please? William
  9. Could you possibly say more about how you produced this picture please. I look at this picture and wish I could produce something that good. Yet I do not know where to start. So, for example, the background. Do you do that first then draw the bird on top of it, or what? William
  10. I notice that the version in your Share your work forum post is different. In that post > The 'Share your work' section of the Forums are designed for sharing work specifically created within or edited using the Affinity apps. The addition of the word "edited" is significant and helpful. William
  11. Thank you for doing that. I am not confused. If there is a stated rule then I know what is the rule and I will comply with it. Until that post of the lady feeding the okapi was hidden I thought that the scope was otherwise. I now realize that some, maybe a lot, of my posts from before do not align with the rule that is now stated. At the time I posted the thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/169391-language-independent-signs-for-art-galleries/ I thought that it was fine as a Share your work forum post. Yet it is in Affinity Designer use terms (only) setting out three items and producing a PDF document. I will, of course, comply with the rule that you have stated. William
  12. Thank you. Could that statement be displayed in the heading of the Share your work forum please? William
  13. In the post https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/197254-write-text-for-image-creation/&do=findComment&comment=1164074 there is a statement as to what can be posted. > The 'Share your work' section of the Forums are designed for sharing work specifically created within or using the Affinity apps. When sharing work, we ask users to provide an explanation of the tools/workflows they used with the Affinity apps, so that other members can have a better idea of the possibilities of the Affinity apps functions - though this is not a strict requirement. Please note the use of the word "or" in bold type. By that definition my post that was hidden was perfectly fine for posting in the Share your work section of the forums. William
  14. I have had a try but I have not been able to get a good result at this time. https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=4009#p4009 William
  15. A quick note in case this thread gets locked. Some of us are discussing Ai generated art in another forum. Art & Literature (Page 1) — Alfred's Serif Users' Forums (punster.me) I hope this helps. We are finding that the AI system will do some things well but will not do others. https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?id=537 William
  16. I used Affinity Designer. I used the Transform panel to accurately place the wheels, setting the numbers to be centred on the centre spot of the lower edge of the bounding box, so that the wheels each sat on the (unshown) rails. I made the body of the locomotive by starting with an ellipse, converting to curves, then I used the node tool to delete the lower centre point, then I made the two end points to become sharp corners. Then I added a point to make the back of the tender. I lined everything up using numbers entered into the Transform panel. I made the smoke from ellipses, gradually making them bigger and longer to try to show that the locomotive is running at speed and that the smoke dissipates, then using various levels of opacity to indicate the dissipation of the smoke. I realize that doing the smoke that way could not, as far as I know, be done with a real linocut, so I am thinking of trying to have another version where the smoke dissipation is done with white swirls that gradually have thinner white lines farther apart. I made the wheels first, then lowered the body of the locomotive all in one piece onto them after designing it further up the canvas. I grouped it all, then I added the black rectangle and moved it to the back then I coloured the locomotive and its smoke white. As I drew the picture I saved what I had done in case I made a mistake and had to go back. William
  17. Yes. Thank you to everybody who has participated in this discussion. William Overington Saturday 13 January 2024
  18. Thank you for posting the story of a lady in a green dress feeding a troll. Alas you have left, so I wonder whether you or an AI system wrote the story. Please don't provide the answer yet. William
  19. Well it does. The fact that it could also be done with software for which one has to pay an annual fee to continue using it and costs lots more for using it in England does not alter the fact that such a post of a poem in an A4 PDf document shows something that can be done with Affinity Publisher. However, if a customer who buys a licence for Affinity Publisher is inspired to write original poetry and publishes it in the Share your work forum then it is possible that being a participant in the Share your work forum rather than just viewing and wishing to participate could inspire the person to try producing art, first of all with the Pen Tool in Affinity Publisher then buying a licence for Affinity Designer and maybe as the person progresses buying a licence for Affinity Photo. The person might really enjoy being part of it all and this would all help Serif in its sales. Some people only look for obvious first order effects of things and do not consider the second order effects, yet second order effects can have huge consequences in time. So, alright, most people who have posted in this thread so far have taken a view that is very different from my view, so here we are. I consider that the Share your work forum should be for people to post anything they choose as long as it is not unsuitable for family viewing and has involved using Affinity software somewhere in the process. In that way people can participate regardless of their level of ability and there could be gentle encouragement. William
  20. They might like the picture. There are businesses that regularly publish greetings cards that artists have produced. https://www.art-angels.co.uk/ https://www.greenpebble.co.uk/ I know that I cannot produce art of that quality or anything near it myself. I feel that the AI generated picture that is in the presently hidden post is rather splendid, though I recognize that I feel that way because I requested a painting with certain features, namely impressionist style, a lady in a long green dress feeding an okapi and that is one of the images generated by the ai system. https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3876#p3876 It is quite fascinating because when I had previously asked for a pastel drawing I got the following. https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3873#p3873 If my post inspires one or more people to do that then good. I am interested to know how much detail can be in the text prompt to the AI system that it will incorporate into the picture. For example, I requested a painting in the style of Van Gogh of a lady reading haiku to an elephant in a field of flowering lavender with a Roman aqueduct in the background and the Bing Chat AI did it. https://punster.me/serif/viewtopic.php?pid=3902#p3902 Another time I asked for a painting in the style of Claude Monet and I included things such as a stegosaurus, a garden, a pond and lilies that are flowering and it did it. So I am exploring how much detail it will include. What concerns me about all this is that there may be some people who are using Affinity software and are deterred from posting in the Share your work forum because of the elitist requirements that are being made. My view is that if a CUSTOMER of Serif writes an original poem and uses Affinity Publisher to produce a PDF document with the poem in it, then as long as the poem is not unsuitable for family reading then posting it in the Share your work forum should be welcomed and encouraged. Written before seeing Walt's reply. William
  21. Well it was not intended as trolling at all. It was just sharing a document that I had produced using Affinity Designer hoping that the image would be of interest and the fact that it was generated by Bing Chat AI would be of interest. I hoped that some people might print the document and maybe frame it. It appears that all of this thread basically comes down to a group of people each of whom has an honestly held opinion of what they thought was the purpose of the Share your work forum. Not trolling at all. Just acting on what I thought was the purpose of the Share your work forum. William
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