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Your examples, and this wonderful app AP, have inspired me to have a go. I have tried several methods today, so far with mixed results. I find the Recolour Adjustment not very effective as it only vary's hues with limited impact on B&W. Colour replacement works reasonably well, but is 'destructive' in nature. Creating a pixel layer and changing the layer option to colour, selecting a brush and a colour, then painting onto the layer is giving me a reasonable result but is currently very difficult to do due to the bug in the beta version. The bug makes it very difficult to choose (and retain) a colour. I will post a result here but suspect I will need to wait for the next beta which apparently fixes the colour selection bug. You mention masking and toning to set initial colours. That sound interesting. Could you point me to where I might find more information relating to this technique? I would not wish to take up too much of your time but any information you offer is greatly appreciated by this beginner!

Hey, I love those stylized birds! Nicely balanced with some great coloring and simple design. What cereal box did you base the pattern from, out of curiosity?

Nice work with the birds, great color palette too. Someone is having fun with Affinity.... ^_^

Hi All I thought it was about time I started being a bit more active on here and shared some of the Illustrations I have made using AD. This is one of the Illustrations I have done for The Christmas Birds series (see more of the series on https://www.behance.net/jbrett)

Brilliantly done! Had a look at your behance Christmas Birds too...the collection as a whole was very well executed!

Yeah, I really like this! Great work! :) Just had a look at your Christmas Birds series on Behance - it's brilliant!

Hi Ronnie, I love this sweet birds - so flaushy :-) Thanks for sharing your work with us!

IMO, a user showing his/her artwork, photos, design, etc, should not be pressured to teach others how the piece was made. There are tons of tutorials out there, and most techniques are totally portable to AP/AD, as they are using totally the standards in 2D editing for the UI. Indeed, I myself made a tutorial that was mainly porting an old Illustrator (inking) technique, perfectly portable to AD !... Even more, there are already a ton of tutorials (and even sites dedicated to Affinity tools tutorials!). I for one would still need time to do artwork samples just for this gallery, as almost 99% of what I do am not allowed to show until published, and are very long term projects. Most forum galleries on inet, be it from an app's forum, or just art forums do not have any sort of requirement to explain tricks or stuff -which indeed, a lot of artists are not eager to teach- and demanding from them (us) tuts and work-throughs imo is a bit out of place. A kind request, maybe, but even that is a bit going over the line, IMO. Every single time I have seen that showing up -and I have been in a ton of art related forums- this ends up in artists not willing to post a thing, which is very negative for the apps and the community as a whole. Plus, nothing teaches faster than actually doing things, even better if complex and hard to accomplish.... An extremely wise statement from Seneca: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." I do not need either to see the before and after of any Velazquez or Vermeer picture to absolutely admire and enjoy those master pieces during hours... Even more, I want to find my own way to reaching there ! But yeah, that's my personal take at it. And when one is very stuck in a very technical problem, everything has been explained in all possible ways, in youtube there are tons of tutorials, and techniques are incredibly common across different applications. Of course, is best to just go to affinity's oficial tutorials (and documentation), and also users' made tutorials sites , video channels at Vimeo, etc, etc, etc. Just googling it, is amazing the huge options that there are now for this... I'm not a tutorials person, but just did made the test now, and the amount is crazy.... IMO, gallery should be just a safe place for artists to show their work, without any more extra requirements or conditions. The more art shown here, the best for the Affinity applications and their diffusion, imo...that's my 2 cents. Also, if at a forum there's more photography at a moment, or more design, I take it that forums are a bit like a wild animal, an organic being, one can't control it. Indeed, in past times I thought there was too much of photography in the gallery and little of painting or comic. (I still think there's too little of them all, for such a good pair of apps) . It will vary in the future in many ways, it's in artists' communities nature, nothing to worry about. A gallery is a gallery (there is a tutorials and a resources section for the learning material, IMO). The contribution is already made by showing what the apps are capable of. There are tons of tutorials already. These tools need to show the quality that they are capable of. A pic and "made with AP" (or AD) is already doing a lot of good (if the piece is good, of course) to Affinity, in my book.

With the 2 weddings I shot last month, I was shooting in RAW mode on the overwhelming advice from my photography colleagues here in Kenya - so that part is covered I understand about the part of photographing as much as possible in different scenarios - I'm trying to do that as much as time allows It's funny you should mention that - when I was a kid I couldn't afford to get a teacher teach me Microsoft office - so I taught myself through trial and error. I'm still learning office that way actually I was thinking yesterday that I might have to do just that, explore AP from beginnng to end - even though it may take me a couple of weeks to go through everything I've watched the tutorials, about 40% but most of them don't actually seem to apply to people photos but rather nature or landscape - plus the tutorials assume you actually know what and why you are adjusting that particular trait. I can't adjus something if I don't understand why I should do it Would you kindly share the edits you made? so I can see what I can and should do Thank you for your time

Yeah trees or nature in general can be tricky. Vector can be difficult with organic or "messy" subject matter due to it's clean and crispy character. That's where I try to stylize things up. I get some good reference that's similarly lit and study it to see how to simplify and stylize it...

Well even if someone tells me like a tablet or a device is bad, I will still try it out. It was the same for the Huion Tablet I have (Huion H610 Pro) or the Headphones I have bought in the past. A lot of peoples mention the good, the bad of every product, but what feels bad for someone, isn't that much for another person. Of course I do not have access to try like an iPad Pro 12.9 inch, however from the folks I have seen doing work on it, and the transition between iPad Pro Files > PC, it gets the job done, and it does it well. Couple of peoples that comes to mind that I seen using iPad Pro : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwQ0ySicc9jpUka4n3S2gaA https://www.youtube.com/user/axis432 https://www.youtube.com/user/zatransis https://www.youtube.com/user/nikolailockertsen But my main focus for the iPad pro is going to be : - To use it on the go (drawing in nature, quick sketches etc.) - Start a concept on it, and continue with it on the PC (if I am out in town) - Full illustration depending how effective it will be to do so on it At some point in the foreseeable future I will get a drawing monitor (cintiq unless some others gets into the market that is good ) I did look into on-screen monitors like the same brand I am using (Huion) and some other. I am not doubting your knowledge/review by any means, its just that whether there is good/bad feedback, each individual will have a different experience with a given product. The same way that happened with me to a headphone I bought called Plugged, it just wasn't fit for the weather conditions I live in, which made it hard to use, while it still had a lot of good feedback + bad feedback about the product. If I were in a much more colder environment it would have been a perfect fit. So I just gave it away to a friend of mine, since I knew he needed a headphone, he was going into a colder environment. Appreciate your response though. Thank you. PS: Unless there is like higher percentage of bad review of a given product, then I would consider multiple times before purchasing.

Good redesign with a clean look, a mother-nature look, and good use of color.

Hello, Affinity Photo HDR image, for me it makes a good job. The frame is from Google Nik Collecttion Analog Efex Pro works well. If there is interest I put one more from 5 pictures. Pollux 5 Pictures Something different than nature, 3 Pictures.

Very cool… colours, tonalities… brilliant! If I may, I see two light sources in this scene… really? The projection of the reflection of NATURE in the water is not justified by the perspective nor the water. …but these are the view of a photographer and may be totally irrelevant!

An interesting image of a ..... is it a species of pelican? Whatever it is, I find the processing not convincing. The tail reflection confuses, should it not be slightly deflected in POV by refraction and also not visible at exactly the same colour and density of the real tail? It presents to me as a bird on a log, with another tail sticking out from behind the foreground log, it's just not believable. Sorry if this critique is too terse, but for me this image defies reality. Photo editing of this nature requires an advanced knowledge of perspective and reflection. It's not easy to replicate without reference. If you had the reference in the first place, then PP would not be required . Anyone who has not got lengthy experience on top of formal art training is doomed to have a hard time with this kind of photo manipulation. That said, everyone has the right to learn by posting their work and receiving honest feedback. My critique is offered in that spirit and hope it is received as such. In my painting career I can remember too many times feeling totally pleased with work I had done (now I consider that feeling a red light), only to wake up the next morning, go into my studio, look at the work I was so pleased with and wonder who the hell littered my studio with such garbage. Good work comes from being your own harshest critic. There is a colour shift between the foot on the log and the reflected foot that is more convincing than the tail, try to replicate this in the tail reflection, morph the shape and rotate it slightly upward plus desaturating it to give more of a reflected look. Hope this helps.

Really, fierce? My teddybear nature would shine through had he used a proper camera… but this is what you get when I have to look at the wrong kind of lens! :P :D :P :D :P

@ jer, I spent a long time on this -I was at it something like two full days. That's partly down to the ad hoc nature of the composition. It was all self-motivated so I didn't have a client on my back -which does concentrate the mind. When I started it, there was another cat piloting which was removed to show only Moggles clinging to the tail because it's funnier and more tragic.

Pure quality. Love the BGs. Nature provides the light but talent renders the image :)

• My only talent in this regard was to recognize it… as Mother Nature lit the scene!

• HI JoseConseco, No Jose! I took the shot because I saw what it shows. I didn't ever expect I would have a weak spot for blue- eyed geese! ;) For the record… I optimize my renditions in a RAW converter only I would never manipulate a "nature" shot and the only thing I permit myself is to clean up debris… which will be eventually done in AP. I don't use any product from the maker of the sug- tested software. I understand you dig'm… can't resist either!

I actually hadn't seen it till now... (if I don't comment in every pic is only lack of time.. ;)) I've suffered those... and the the hypocrisy... let alone when literally forced (well, I made my own set of advanced tactics (only some vets can do this... heh) to avoid those) to make those deeply stupid team work empowering exercises (like playing with a ball or a potato and stuff... next day they'll betray each other like in any regular day...) that some management person read in a not so good bestseller as the "last thing" to increase productivity... You know the stuff, scrums, forcing someone to dress with a giant rabbit disguise, super silly slogans, etc... As if stuff was not evident already to need a graphical depiction.... BUT.... if it did bring food to the table, it is welcome ! 'A man's gotta eat'. Indeed, mother nature treats you extremely well, judging the photos she allows you to make... My own soul got a rhinoceros' thickness skin... Nothing of that can affect... And it doesn't make one worse... ;) having things clear in your mind... The day I see myself back into a company as employee and accepting to play with the freaking potato between noses, and dance hula-hop while shouting something about how great my company is, even in a convinced tone, that day I'll begin to seriously worry... Until then... you know, is just work... Your pictures remind a lot certain paintings of the romantic period. Those lakes...

Hi Kodiak 1. On a full-frame sensor camera, the zoom would have a focal length range of 70-200mm. The same lens produces a 1.5X larger image in proportion to the smaller APS-C (crop frame) sensor in my camera. 2. No thinking at all, really. Just liked the way a small saturation boost looked. BTW, I've enjoyed your nature photographs.

• I think I always was, and still am and ever be, a sneaky hunter in Nature Reserves… image hunter that is! Armed with big guns (600mm on D810 among others), I love the peace and quiet of a close by marsh where I shoot not to kill but to immortalize. Not much of a harvest for a whole free day but is was a great time! In Fall poor light conditions and most of the time at the extreme reach of my combo, these marsh habitants are playing hard to get. So the lens focal length and the high pixel count were pushed to the limits of their possibilities in terms of capture and rendition. AP's "Inpainting Tool" was used to clean up the water sur- face in some cases. C&C Welcomed!

Hey Dalia, thanks for the link. Good to know there are others thinking along the same lines. no offence to the Forums admins - but sticking with one forum for all platforms is lazy administrating. Yes people get things wrong - it's human nature (the last perfect person I heard of, got crucified nearly 2000 years ago :wacko: ), but surely it would be up to the admins to monitor and place the thread or post in the correct section? Isn't that one of the roles of a forum admin?

Thanks for the kind words. Alfred: Were my photos like this straight out of the camera, I wouldn't need Affinity Photo. That said, I try not to process too much (and I typically jot down notes when I take a photo like this so later I can dredge up what I thought I was seeing so I don't over process). In this case, here are the adjustments I made: I typically start by creating a number of luminosity masks for different tonal ranges. 1) used a curves adjustment to darken the shadows in the hills and trees (the camera captured too much dynamic range); 2) used a color balance to bring out the yellow highlights on the trees; 3) used a curves adjustment to lighten the top of the sky (above the looming clouds); 4) used a color balance to bring out some of the tint in the clouds in that light area; 5) used a high pass filter to sharpen the clouds (used a gradient to restrict it to the sky and a luminosity mask to restrict it to the darker clouds). In each case, the adjustments were light. Once I was in the right place (I had hiked about an hour up to the point) at the right time (I made a cup of coffee and waited about 20 minutes for this scene) and with my camera pointed in the right direction (I guess that goes without saying), I didn't need to do much. Nature had done all the hard work. Thanks again for viewing and for the compliments. Darin