William Overington

I have been experimenting with using at first black (0,0,0) at 20% opacity then 10% opacity then a grey (64, 64, 64) at 10% opacity on the right side of a copy of the image as we look at it to try to have that side of the face in shadow. Here is an idea, is it well-known or something new? When trying to go over an area with a colour at not 100% opacity, it is necessary to keep the mouse button or trackpad button down all the while so that the partly opaque effect is only applied once. A useful option on a computer running Windows is to use the mouse keys facility to tell the software that the mouse button or trackpad button is pressed and being held down, even though neither of them is actually physically pressed. Thus one may take time to draw all in effectively one go even though one may take one's hands away from time to time without needing to press down at all. William

It is no so much complaining as saying. I always use the Affinity programs on the light grey background with black lettering, and for a start I find tutorials that are black with white lettering difficult to read anyway, and the few that I have tried seem to be fast moving the pointer across the screen, displaying a menu and clicking before I can take in what is going on. I have only just started painting with pixels and I just looked for Affinity tutorials and they are all listed as for version 2. I have version 1. It seems it is like what I saw in a post somewhere once described as the great tsunami of only supporting the latest version. Well, it might appear like that to you and maybe others, mais c'est la vie! William

Thank you both. Which program or programs are those in please? William

How close is that to LNER Apple Green? Maybe the colours could be those of GWR, SR, LMS and LNER, giving them British style. William

I had not thought of doing that. I do not know how to do that. However, if I zoom in to the level of pixels being individually being clearly separate, the output produced by Bing Chat AI has lots of different colours, whereas the one pixel picture that I have done so far is flat with large areas all exactly the same colour. What I am trying to learn is how to get that "looks real" look in a pixel painting. William

I know that Welfare covers more situations that a healthy person being out of work, but in relation to unemployment, it seems to me that regardless of which party is in power, they can never decide whether to be kind and help people who are out of work or to be nasty and punish them. So they end up trying to do both simultaneously, For example, sending a standard letter inviting someone to a meeting where they will try to help and advise and so on, then at the end saying that if you cannot show evidence that you are making an effort to look for work that you could lose your benefit. So a mixed purpose meeting. William

I have produced a first picture and posted it in a thread in the Share your Work forum. I used rgb(255, 128, 128) then painted over most of it with rgb(255, 255, 255) at 20% opacity. Is there a formula known to end users of how, given those two rgb colours and the opacity of the second one, what is the rgb value of the thereby generated new colour please? William

It is not a need, it is a want. Not essential, just something that I want to do. Because the AI outputs a 1024 pixel by 1024 pixel images, and some of them, in my opinion, albeit not a professional art expert opinion, beautiful pictures. So as I can observe that the AI can produce such 1024 pixel by 1024 pixel images as electronic images, I wonder if I can do the same. For me, that is not the same as the alternative that you suggest. I have tried to make a start. Here are two threads. and William

But it does not need to be, it could be kind, empathic and eutopian. It is just policies and attitudes by people who were once new born babies. William PS No, that is not a spelling mistake, it is a separate word from the much more well-known one that has a similar, yet different, spelling and a different meaning.

A first attempt using the Pixel Persona in Affinity Designer @Alfred had kindly drawn my attention to the possibility of painting using less that 100% opacity. I started a new canvas by first setting measurement units to pixels and then generating a canvas 1024 pixels square. So I experimented, first of all by drawing the shape of a face all in red (255, 0, 0) and then using a Basic brush in white (255, 255, 255) at 20% and later 50%. This gave me experience of how it worked. I then started again, continuing to use the Basic brush, by drawing the shape of a face in a softer red (255, 128, 128) and then I painted over most of it, namely all except the lips and the nose, with white (255, 255, 255) at 20% opacity, having previously learned, and now applying that learning, to keep the trackpad down until I had completed doing that, so that the opacity effect would only be applied once. I then used various sizes of the Basic brush, using various colours at 100% opacity, to add the eyes. William

Those that came with version 1 of each program. I did buy a licence for some brushes from the Affinity store, but I might have got them on the old Lenovo computer that broke down. Maybe i can redownload them, I need to investigate that. I am not sure which program to use to start a pixel painting from a blank canvas. Up until now I have almost always done vector illustrations with solid colour areas. No. I had no idea of that being a possible technique to use. Can one paint individual pixels in an Affinity program? William

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