William Overington

I I think that that is right. It is like on the face of the lady, and on her dress, and on the aquaduct. William

I have now opened the picture in Affinity Photo and used CTRL = to zoom in. The effect needed seems to be to have pixels of similar yet different colours in an area. Can one do that with Affinity facilities? William

I don't even know whether it would be best to use Affinity Photo or to use Affinity Designer possibly in the Pixel Persona. Do I need to use a brush? If so, which one? William

Well, there is a ban on doing it. Hopefully you will answer because you will probably see the picture linked from the post in the other forum. But this total ban on ai pictures here, with which I must comply as I obey rules, is just frustrating. William

I am wanting to learn how, using Affinity products, I can try to produce pictures of the art quality of some of the pictures produced by Bing Chat AI. I want to learn which Affinity products to use, which brushes and so on. Yet I am not allowed to post such a picture nor link to it. I am just frustrated that I want to learn but I cannot show the picture nor post a link to it because of the bans. I have needed to ask in another forum, when this is supposed to be the forum for questions about using Affinity products. William

Would the word counterchanged be a good description? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_(heraldry)#/media/File:DE-ST_15-0-83-230_Behnsdorf_COA.png William

Or he could have presented wearing a black Affinity top with the Affinity logo so as to give an impression of Affinity being a separate star in the Canva universe, or he could have presented wearing a business suit, a white shirt and a tie so as to give an impression of Affinity being more for top, serious, business people. So neither of those. Yet the white on black for Affinity was conserved in the stage set. I noticed later in a wide view how the white on black Affinity branding part looked distinctly different from the rest of the stage set. So perhaps an indication of an intention to keep Affinity distinctly different from other Canva offerings. William

But it does. That is how Canva management has chosen to publicly present Canva. William

What exactly was the testing that you were doing please? What are "the texts" to which you refer please? Is there a machine translation part to Canva or what? William

All this "hey hey" music and Affinity adverts. Is this "well-known" modern music or something especially for Affinity? Not the same ambience as when a perfume company used part of one of Beethoven's symphonies. William

A problem with the policy of not allowing any AI generated content to be posted in the Affinity forum nor linked to from a post in the Affinity forum is that I cannot display a painting generated using AI and ask how I can achieve such an effect starting with a blank canvas in Affinity Designer using only the tools in Affinity products. William

I wonder if the dancers are Canva staff whose normal roles are in software and such and when the company asked who would like to take part as a dancer for the day chose to volunteer or whether they are dance professionals who just do the dancing and know nothing about Canva. William

I like the Canva clothing fashion colours. William

I noticed the colour coordination of the clothes. No Affinity black top. William

I regard using AI as like using Google translate. For example, please consider this song in Slovenian. I can find the lyrics on the web. I can use Google translate to translate the Slovenian lyrics to English to get an idea of what the song is about. Because i can use my knowledge of English, my native language, to consider what Google translate presents to me. Yet I would not use Google translate to publish a Slovenian version of one of my song lyrics. Likewise when I asked Bing Chat ai to produce a painting of a lady in a long green dress feeding an okapi I could assess each of the pictures produced for me as to whether the animal depicted was like an okapi. In some of the pictures, the likeness was very good, in others it was way off. So I chose to go forward with what I considered a beautiful painting and buy a print and frame it, yet not using the other pictures. So, in my opinion, generative AI an be very good, provided one checks carefully the results that are provided. William

It is a topic that arose after a while in another thread. So I started this thread solely on this topic so as hopefully reach a wider audience and receive replies. William

In what ways do people make money by using Affinity products? This arises from a post in another thread to which I responded. So I thought I would ask more widely here please. William

Do managements know if this happens? If it does happen at the printing establishment, are customers told up front that the product for which they are paying money will arrive with each copy damaged? Printed beautifully then damaged by being tied up tightly with string, in what is described when I asked on the web as a traditional practice. William

Are they the same type of printing services? What are your printing services? What are Canva's printing services? I had not known of that until reading your post. Do they have the same minimum order value? Available in the same places? Do either deliver the printed products tied up tightly with string so that each copy has a notch in it? William

But it is like a lot of groups. For example, societies about heritage railways. There are some people who are there almost every weekend. There are lots who pay the annual subscription, receive the magazine, perhaps visit sometimes, maybe never, and renew their membership every year for decades. It is just how it is. I hope you don't mind me asking, but how do you make money using Affinity please? I am retired and only use Affinity products for my own hobby projects. I have often wondered how people make money using Affinity products. William

Well, Serif did have MoviePlus and this morning I started to watch a video made with MoviePlus, so maybe Affinity Video will happen. And there was the wonderful Serif ImpactPlus. Maybe Affinity 3DImpact will happen. I hope so. William

@Chills I got made redundant. I had specialist skills that were not what businesses wanted. I know what it is like. So I empathise. Yes. William

On the matter of AI, I have tried AI, just as an end user trying Bing Chat AI, and I have found it to be helpful and interesting, yet also sometimes being misleading. For example, I asked it to produce a sonnet in the Italian style, providing it with some information about the requested content. It produced a sonnet, a sonnet which I consider very good. Yet it purported it to be in the Italian style when it is in the English style of sonnet rhyme scheme. I asked it to produce a nineteen line poem, and it purported to have done this, but each time the result was always 16 lines or 20 lines, never 19. Yet when asked to produce a villanelle, which is nineteen lines, it did that well. I asked it several times to produce a painting of a lady in a long green dress feeding an okapi. Some of the results are excellent, yet some are way off. Long horns on the purported okapi for example. Yet a request for a painting in the style of Claude Monet of a lady in a long green dress feeding a stegosaurus in a garden with a pond with flowering water lilies is magnificent. Similarly a painting of a lady reading haiku to an elephant in a field of flowering lavender with a Roman aqueduct in the background produced by the AI is really good. Yet I could not persuade it to produce a painting including a gibbous moon. It always painted a full moon. Even if the word gibbous was not used and the phase of the moon was described as more than half full yet less than full. Some time ago I wrote a novel. I published it on the web in a collection of PDF documents. I produced the PDF documents using Serif PagePlus. I used PagePlus as a tool so as to produce the result that I wanted to achieve. I was not using PagePlus in order to study PagePlus and every facility it had. So if I can use AI to make a movie without actors, then maybe I can have a movie of my novel. The AI as regards paintings seems to work on the basis that it needs to include content and the more information that the prompt contains then the more like the prompt the output from the AI will be. So maybe an AI that generates video will work in a similar way. William

From my perspective, if someone is stuck and wants and needs the answer to a specific question then if someone else is able and willing to provide that answer and generously provides it free then that is good. William