William Overington

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

How do you mean please? Colour depth: what is that please? William

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 .

Thank you. When I receive the PSD templates I will try to have a go and try to find out what happens. William

@Callum 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

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

But can it be done entirely using Affinity products at the present time? Genuine question. William

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

Can you clarify that please? At present I do not understand what you mean, due to my lack of experience with the programs. 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

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

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. https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/wacom-computing-accessories/computer-accessories/graphics-tablets/318_3420_32060_160_xx/1_20/price-asc/xx-criteria.html I am thinking about buying this one. https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing-accessories/computer-accessories/graphics-tablets/one-by-wacom-ctl-672-n-10-9-graphics-tablet-10205357-pdt.html 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

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

I am thinking of buying a graphics tablet. There is a spin-off thread about this as follows. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/141780-i-am-thinking-of-buying-a-wacom-drawing-tablet/ William

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

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

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

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

Were the letters intended to represent MOS? Maybe they were meant to represent something different from MOS as such. William

This link may be of some interest to readers. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/75641-copying-text-out-of-a-pdf-document-when-the-font-has-opentype-ligature-capability William

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

I thought that it would be interesting to bring this thread back up to the top. William

I have found these threads, which I had forgotten about. The second one relates to Affinity Publisher. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4680 https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7815 William

How would contextual alternate be applied for these glyphs please? William

Yes, you are correct, so as I intend liga to be used I will edit the post to remove the word discretionary. William