William Overington
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This might be helpful.
https://www.evertype.com/alphabets/french.pdf
I have just now tried copying from that page and pasting an â character to a text frame in Affinity Designer. Just format as to size and font once pasted into Affinity Designer.
I pasted the â in this post from the clipboard too.
One of a collection of PDF (Portable Document Format) documents linked from the following page.
https://www.evertype.com/alphabets/
William
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3 hours ago, IanSG said:
.. The downside to buying the Affinity apps from the MS Store is that they're sandboxed and, so far as I know, can't be used as external editors.
Thank you for replying
I do not understand what you mean by an "external editor". Can you elaborate please?
3 hours ago, IanSG said:Win 10 S will only run apps from the MS Store. It's intended for school use rather than general use.
Yes, but, for example, at least some computers being sold by Currys to people generally have Windows 10 S on them.
There is no obvious mention of the limits of the S version, nor mention that one can remove the S limitation, but once removed cannot be reentered..
A couple of months ago this Lenovo computer lost its wifi capability and I needed to get a new computer so that I could continue to order grocery deliveries and connect to the internet generally to follow the news and so on.
The new computer has Windows 10 S. I have decided not to unlock the S part as ordering grocery deliveries is a priority. So I can use it for some things but not others.
However, I was able to use the new computer, a Hewlett Packard computer, to get a new copy of the wifi driver for this computer from the Lenovo website, copied it across to this machine using a USB memory stick and fortunately installing the new driver software restored this computer to having wifi capability and thus once again able to connect to the internet.
William
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You mention Windows.
If you have Windows 10 S and you do not want to irrevocably go out of the S protection, I think that you may need to buy the product through the Microsoft Store not direct from Serif.
I think that that is the case, hopefully someone will comment.
William
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56 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @AlexCreativ.
Are they the same colour depth?
How do you mean please? Colour depth: what is that please?
William
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I have now managed to get eight of these frames delivered.
Four grocery orders, four ordered each time, twice not available, twice delivered.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/303403803
I have also bought a packet of these labels, which I am hoping to use as labels to stick on the back, one for each frame, after I have added details of the image including the title, my name and the date of framing the image.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/285221953
One of the reviews describes the contents.
On television programmes about old paintings, there is often a framer's ticket (I think that that is the correct term), with a date, so I thought that I would do that, though framer's tickets do not usually have any details about the picture, just details of the business that did the framing and possibly the date.
William
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9 minutes ago, Alfred said:
The Affinity apps can ‘understand’ Smart Objects now, so they can use PSD files that include them, but I’m not sure whether a PSD export from Affinity can include layers that Photoshop will treat as Smart Objects.
It should be noted that any text in an Affinity document will not be rendered as editable text on export to PSD format.
Thank you.
When I receive the PSD templates I will try to have a go and try to find out what happens.
William
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3 minutes ago, Callum said:
Hi William,
All affinity apps can export to PSD so each should be suitable for producing a PSD template.
Thanks
C
Thank you.
Can they import a PSD document template sent to me from elsewhere please, so that I can apply it to produce a new PSD document?
William
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I have just learned of the existence of a PSD template.
I have found that they are associated with Adobe Photoshop.
Can any Affinity products be used to produce a PSD template please?
William
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8 minutes ago, Alfred said:
Everyone’s a critic! Why don’t you show us how it should be done??
But can it be done entirely using Affinity products at the present time?
Genuine question.
William
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4 hours ago, Kevin Fielding said:
I am still using WebPlus X8 which I like but ofcourse cannot use smart objects now. Can someone suggest how I can create a photo gallery either in another programme and then how to insert or is there some HMTL code I could insert.
You could try doing it directly in HTML using a program such as WordPad.
I have a small website and I always code pages directly in HTML using WordPad.
Are you wanting something like either of the following pages?
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/cowl0001.htm
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/cloc1001.htm
William
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1 hour ago, Alfred said:
.... In Affinity Photo the Crop Tool crops the entire canvas but in Affinity Designer it’s object-based.
Can you clarify that please? At present I do not understand what you mean, due to my lack of experience with the programs.
William
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On 5/8/2021 at 7:25 PM, William Overington said:
..., I am now trying to have a go at trying to gain experience of using acrylic brushes with the pen tool
William
Something interesting that I have just found out by experimenting, though maybe it is well-known to others already.
If one wants to make a curve produced with the pen tool have a finish with an acrylic brush such as when trying to make a full field image for a greetings card, say for doing sky or grass in the background, yet one does not want the end bits of the brush stroke as that would leave white canvas showing, then if one makes the pen tool curve start and finish off the canvas, then when one exports the jpg file, Affinity Designer clips the end bits off - it does not alter the drawing that is on the canvas.
A useful technique.
William
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3 minutes ago, Alfred said:
..., desk space permitting) ...
Thank you for your reply.
Ah, that is an interesting comment.
I had been thinking of holding it in my left hand and using the stylus with my right hand.
So perhaps not.
So how do people use a drawing tablet please?
William
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On 5/8/2021 at 10:40 PM, Alfred said:
The 2048 value refers to levels of pen pressure, not pixel resolution. The active area of the tablet is mapped to your computer screen, so the drawing resolution is determined by that.
A small Wacom Intuos tablet (active area 6″ × 3.7″, or 7″ diagonal) costs about £90. The medium version (active area 8.5″ × 5.3″, or 10″ diagonal) — as used by the creator of the ‘May the 4th’ painting — costs twice as much. Both of these models offer 4096 levels of pen pressure.
If you’re willing to consider alternatives to Wacom you can get a bigger tablet for less money. I bought my XP-PEN Deco 03 (active area 10″ × 5.62″, or 11.5″ diagonal) on sale for less than £60, but even at full price it’s only about £100, and its stylus offers 8192 levels of pressure sensitivity.
On 5/9/2021 at 6:55 AM, Andy05 said:I'd like to add my 2 Cents about pressure levels. In theory, the more the better. But in a real workflow, the difference between 2048 and 8192 is minimal (if noticeable at all), if you set up your tablet/pen driver correctly.
Pressure levels/sensitivity is one of the driver settings which one should definitely set to one's own liking as people use different pressure behaviour when drawing.
Thank you both.
As 2048 is levels of pen pressure, not pixels of the image, the following has a wider selection, not so expensive.
Although I may well try to use the pen pressure, the main reason that I am thinking of buying a graphics tablet is so that I can draw ands sketch much as if I am drawing on a piece of paper.
I am thinking about buying this one.
Does anyone here use one of these please?
An interesting thing about delivery by DPD in these pandemic times - an option not to open the door, but it needs a note.
https://www.dpd.co.uk/content/how-can-we-help/parcel-delivery-during-covid-19.jsp
One needs to click on each of the four + signs to display the details.
William
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So, having admired the image of the robot in the thread
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/141604-may-the-4th-be-with-you/
and learning it was done using acrylic brushes using a graphics tablet, but not having a grraphics tablet myself at the time, I am now trying to have a go at trying to gain experience of using acrylic brushes with the pen tool
William
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I am thinking of buying a graphics tablet.
There is a spin-off thread about this as follows.
William
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I am thinking of buying a Wacom drawing tablet
I have been learning to produce images using Affinity Designer.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/
I do not currently have a graphics tablet.
I am very impressed by the image of the robot in the following thread.
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/141604-may-the-4th-be-with-you/
Upon asking, I have been advised that a Wacom drawing tablet was used and the actual model used stated.
The easiest way for me to get a Wacom tablet is to have it delivered by courier from Currys.
So I had a look at what they have available.
Here they are, sorted from low to high pricewise.
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/search-keyword/xx_xx_xx_xx_xx/intuos/1_20/price-asc/xx-criteria.html
So what to get?
As a beginner and a hobbyist?
Is the 2048 resolution adequate or does one soon get that one feels it is in insufficient?
I am thinking in terms of producing artwork for greetings cards 2171 pixels by 1571 pixels, and 2048 is less than 2157.
But then, images often have plain border area, maybe of some colour, so making a slightly smaller image and pasting it on may not in practice be a problem.
So what size tablet and what resolution do users of Affinity products use please?
All advice welcome.
Thank you.
William
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50 minutes ago, plabill said:
I use a wacom tablet.
I am thinking of buying a wacom tablet.
May I ask what size and model of wacom tablet you have used please as I am wondering which to buy as a balance of cost and performance.
William
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38 minutes ago, plabill said:
Hope this helps. There are a few good videos online. Go on you tube and search painting with affinity photo.
Yes, thank you.
It was only when I read that final line that I realized that you are using Affinity Photo.
Though the thread is clearly tagged as affinity photo.
I had thought, clearly wrongly, that you had used Affinity Designer.
As it happens I got Affinity Photo when I got Affinity Designer, both at half-price some time ago but I have only opened Affinity Photo once or twice and just to have a quick look, so I am not used to it at all.
So, a more general question for everybody please, could this have been done in Affinity Designer?
If not, what is in Affinity Photo that is not in Affinity Designer please? Both as regards this project and more generally
William
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On 5/6/2021 at 12:13 PM, plabill said:
@sacboi thank you. Yes, some acrylic, oil painting experience.
Could you possibly say something about how you produced the image please?
The reason that I ask is that I would like to try to produce art that good, but I am a beginner and I have ideas but I do not know how to apply my ideas to get completed artwork of such quality.
Could you possibly mention some of the following please?
Did you use a tablet freehand, or a mouse unit freehand, or a trackpad freehand, or the pen tool and using precision placement of points, or what please?
Did you do this in the vector persona or the bitmap persona, or in a combination of both?
The purple edge around the top. How, what brushes did you use please?
The two-tone edge around the robot's head, and that two-tone onto the purple. How did you get that effect please?
The tones in the upper surface of the robot's head. How did you get that effect please?
Did you do it all in one, as if painting with wet paint onto a canvas, or did you have some way of doing the robot separately and then pasting it onto the background?
Is it all done using various layers in Affinity Designer or all in one as a wet paint on canvas painting would be done please?
William
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Were the letters intended to represent MOS?
Maybe they were meant to represent something different from MOS as such.
William
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This link may be of some interest to readers.
William
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3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
I'm not sure what you're expecting from "bringing it back to the top".
It's in the Feedback section, which typically the Serif staff uses for planning but will not comment in. As Feedback, it doesn't need to be "at the top" because its placement does not affect how it's used by Serif.
If you think you've found a bug of some kind, and are looking for a fix, this thread is in the wrong forum.
In the thread
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/138654-artwork-for-greetings-cards/
near the end of page 5 there is a link to a thread in the High-Logic forum and in that High-Logic thread is a link to this thread.
I brought it back to the top in case it might be of interest to some users of Affinity Publisher.
I have it in mind to have a look sometime at how the most recent version of Affinity Publisher reacts to this and maybe to have a go at making a font that has more capability with a view to making that font available as a free download.
So maybe the thread is now not in the best place for users of Affinity Publisher to see it.
William
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I thought that it would be interesting to bring this thread back up to the top.
William
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I have recently bought a graphics tablet and I am hoping to learn how to use it.
Could you add some notes about how you produced this image please?
William