William Overington

Many electronic images of artwork produced using Affinity products are displayed in this forum. Do the producers of these artworks obtain one or more hardcopy prints? If so, by what process please, how many and what is one with them? For example, on one's own equipment, at a printshop, by an online service, or what? What sort of paper and ink? For example, put in a drawer, or a Solander box, or in a document pocket in a portfolio, or framed, or what? Do people sign the print, even if it is just for their own single copy? Do people produce certificates of authenticity? Do people put the date on the print? William

I decided to start this discussion thread and wondered in which forum to locate it. I consider that Share your work is the most appropriate of the forums available. I hope that it does not get moved please. As it happens, upon starting this new thread the content of the thread that I started most recently was restored, soi, rather than clear it I have retained the image. Hopefully readers will post other images. Here is the image and its original text. The text for this thread continues afterwards. ---- This graphic, newly made using Affinity Designer, is based as best I remember, on the design of the Colour Check page that I designed in 1977 and which was displayed on page 786 of the Post Office's Viewdata system. I saw it on a Viewdata equipped television set in September 1977. I do not know for how long that page remained on the Viewdata system. Please note that the design, in the teletext and viewdata format, is using lowercase letters e in graphics mode in seven colours. The design included eight different control codes, each a number of times. These eight control codes were the Hold Graphics control character and seven control codes of the form Graphics Colour, where Colour can be any one of Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White. Although designed to look as if three semi-filled rectangles, red, green, blue are overlapping, the design needed to have each of the areas encoded directly in the appropriate colour. William ---- This morning I received an email from an art gallery: not a personalized email, I receive emails from a number of galleries each as a result of my request to receive them. Some are from original hardcopy art, some are of prints of original art, some are of printings derived from original art often in the form of blank greetings cards, but collectable too. Anyway the email today offered as a "free with" an open edition print. I had not known the term "open edition" previously and I wondered what precisely is the meaning in art. I found the following. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edition_(printmaking). So I am wondering how the concept of Edition works with hardcopy art where the art content has been produced digitally, such as art produced directly into Affinity Designer or a digital photograph or a digital photograph that has been applied in some way in Affinity Designer. I have produced hardcopy prints of some of the artwork that I have generated using Affinity Designer, I used the online facility for photo greetings cards at the Papier website, which is possible as although the facility is marketed as for using a photograph to produce a card to send to someone else, as the print is from a jpg file and one can send the card to oneself. Staff at Papier have provded advice and support to enable me to do this. So I am wondering if anyone produces artwork using one or more Affinity products and produces prints, either for sale or otherwise, and if so does anyone number them and sign them (in pencil or pen?) and possibly add something like a small sticker with a hologram on it for provenance of authenticity, or emboss the paper with a seal such as some certificates use or even specially watermarked paper, or some other method. I am hoping to send for a print, in the form of a greetings card, of the above image, adding a note about it inside the card where the greeting is usually placed. I deliberately made the image the correct size and dots per inch to do that. My hope is to receive the card and to frame it. Initially as a one-off full-field print. How do people using Affinity Products feel about art that they produce please? I wonder if people are just producing electronic versions or are people making prints, either themselves or by having it done by a print house, are the prints being printed on art gallery quality paper with archival inks, are they being signed and numbered, are they being sold, are holograms or other authentication being added? Please discuss and talk around the subject, let the thread go where it goes without concern of being off the original topic. William .

I have found the following. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnehaha_(steamboat) William

Does that apply even when using a best quality jpg file, that is, when Quality is set to 100 when exporting a jpg file from Affinity Designer? The thing is I need to upload a jpg file to the Papier website in order to get a print of a custom greetings card to frame. William

I had not heard of layer blend modes until reading your post. Bearing in mind that I was needing to design as I went along, I started with a rectangle 24 pixels wide by 40 pixels high. Then I copied it and made the copy 20 pixels high and positioned it so as to give the basic graphic shape correspondimg to a teletext lowercase e. Then I grouped the two and by using copy and paste I gradually produced the design. Basically the hypothetical blocks of red, green and blue that hypothetically overlap are each twenty cells wide by ten cells high, so forty chunks wide by thirty chunks high. If I were starting it again now I would do it differently. I would draw a diagram in pen upon paper, divide it into rectangles, work out where the upper left corner of each rectangle is located, then make the blocks separately, then move them all to the desired positions. But having got quite a way into it I just continued rather than start again. I wonder if the original Viewdata page is archived somewhere. William

This graphic, newly made using Affinity Designer, is based as best I remember, on the design of the Colour Check page that I designed in 1977 and which was displayed on page 786 of the Post Office's Viewdata system. I saw it on a Viewdata equipped television set in September 1977. I do not know for how long that page remained on the Viewdata system. Please note that the design, in the teletext and viewdata format, is using lowercase letters e in graphics mode in seven colours. The design included eight different control codes, each a number of times. These eight control codes were the Hold Graphics control character and seven control codes of the form Graphics Colour, where Colour can be any one of Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White. Although designed to look as if three semi-filled rectangles, red, green, blue are overlapping, the design needed to have each of the areas encoded directly in the appropriate colour. William

I got back a copy from the forum and it seems good enlarged in Paint. So I will try to rename this thread and start a new thread with that image. William

Here is a full-size png version. It is fine in Paint even when zoomed in. I expect that the forum software will retrict its size. How does this look? William

I just made a blank canvas 2172 by 1572 and then did a copy and paste, in case it was a rounding error as 2171 is not exactly three times 724. The effect is still there. I wonder if a jpg would be better. William

The display in the first post of this thread looks fine to me using this computer with its 13 inch diagonal screen size. Yet there is something detectable in the image that I uploaded, so it does not seem to be anything introduced by the forum software system. What is the display that you are using please? William

No. The .afdesign file has no such problem. I have just looked at it at four times magnification and it is fine. I started off with a canvas 2171 pixels by 1571 pixels at 300 dots per inch, so that I can send a jpg file for a print as a greetings card that I can then frame. The image that I exported for this thread is a png at 724 pixels by 524 pixels. I always have a look at a graphic in Microsoft Paint before I upload it to this forum. It looked fine. However, now that you have mentioned an issue I have, in Microsoft Paint, zoomed in on the png image and I notice a problem that may well be the same as that which you noticed. So this needs investigating to try to find out what has happened. William

This graphic, newly made using Affinity Designer, is based as best I remember, on the design of the Colour Check page that I designed in 1977 and which was displayed on page 786 of the Post Office's Viewdata system. I saw it on a Viewdata equipped television set in September 1977. I do not know for how long that page remained on the Viewdata system. Please note that the design, in the teletext and viewdata format, is using lowercase letters e in graphics mode in seven colours. The design included eight different control codes, each a number of times. These eight control codes were the Hold Graphics control character and seven control codes of the form Graphics Colour, where Colour can be any one of Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White. Although designed to look as if three semi-filled rectangles, red, green, blue are overlapping, the design needed to have each of the areas encoded directly in the appropriate colour. William

I have now added the link, as suggsted. Wiklliam

It just did not occur to me to do it. I'll try to do it now. William

@Jenna Appleseed Hi I notice that you posted a 'Confused' comment, timed at three hours ago, to my post of 19 December 2021 that has 09:57 am as the timestamp.. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/154592-some-people-have-a-disability-detecting-colours/&do=findComment&comment=870878 How may I help? William Edited to add a link to the post that I mentioned, as suggested later in this thread by Alfred

What does the word FELIZ mean in Portuguese please? Does it mean 'happy' or does it mean 'merry'? Google translate seems to conflate the two. William

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha-ha I know, I know! 😀 William

Am I correct in thinking that in the update that when showing appreciation for a post that it previously had Thank you and now has Thanks Thank you, William

Following a discussion in the thread https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/154592-some-people-have-a-disability-detecting-colours/ I have produced a new version of the card that is in the first post of this thread. William

Comments are invited on the altered colour scheme please, from @Ali and everybody else too please William

Here they are for comparison. The original one first. William

My research is about communication through the language barrier. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/localizable_sentences_research.htm http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/ How about this version? William

No. I just don't follow how to choose two colours from those diagrams that will hopefully resolve the problem I am trying to help. If you say which two colours you would like then I can try to produce that version and ask if it looks good for you. I am stuck. William

I tried to find gentle colours to convey a peaceful message. My choice is to choose colours that allow you to view the message without problems. So please help me in that choice. I would have thought that those colours are muted. Would complementary colours be more likely to produce strange visual effects? Precision, not pedantry. William

@Ali Hello Ali Actually it was not me who raised the issue initially, it was someone who sent me a private message about it. Regarding the sort of strobing effect that you observe, what colurs would be better please? It would be good to know how many people observe that effect, though even it is only one person affected that is one more than I want, so I will gladly change the colours. William