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Hello, here is a link to my website, where I show some book cover designs (Print, ebook). All are created with aPhoto and aDesigner. For me, there are no better apps for this job. http://dein-buchcover.de/portfolio.html Looking forward to any feedback, thank you ;-)

I would love to see something like what Tandent Lightbrush supposedly does (see this article) implemented inside of Affinity Photo. It is basically like frequency separation, except that it separates illumination and surface detail instead. It could be implemented in conjunction with a blend mode that would re-combine these two passes, just like Linear Light re-combines the high-pass layer with the low-pass one for frequency separation. I don't know if the algorithm is described in a Siggraph paper or something like that, but I believe there have been several published approaches to estimating illumination and so on. I was fully expecting for something to show up in Photoshop soon after because it would be spectacularly useful for photo editing, but so far Adobe hasn't done anything in that direction yet. I'm not even sure if the original product is still around.

Hi All, So I just got affinity photo today and for one primary reason, I need to be able to remove the background from photos with images of people in it. I used to use WebPlus for this and they had a tool called 'Photo Editor' which would allow you to click on the background and it would remove blocks of colours up a different shade. For example a white background would be removed up to the outline of a persons arm/ body. How do I do this on affinity photo? Going round the outline of a person is fiddly and takes time so I am looking for a quick solution. Thanks for taking the time. George

I discovered a trick to export an .Affinity file into .PSD while maintaining the possibility of editing text. Lets go. It's quite simple: 1. Save your file in PDF (for export) 2. Open in Illustrator and export to PSD (while retaining text editing) Ready! Simple right? Here's a video showing you step by step. It is worth remembering that some things can get lost but if you simplify the Affinity file it will get easier to turn it into PDF and then PSD and keep all fonts editable. In my tests I had a group of texts inside a layer with opacity and this was lost, but if I take this text from the layers it is possible to keep editing (the video shows some tests) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-p3J1umYIg

Hit there, guys! I took these pictures of a grackle with my smartphone and tried to improve them with Photo. I'm just a hobbyst with no training in photography but I hope I managed to get some decent pictures. Tell me what you think! Any advice will be appreciated. Best regards!

-Survivor ​Another composite created in Affinity Photo for iPad, made up of about 7 images, went really dark on this one for some reason! *Edit: I've updated the image, this is version 3, I've made a few edits to the original Allan

As some of you folks are asking for more photos, here are a couple from my garden this week. Although the originals are biggish (22Mb) RAW files from my camera, I've bolied them down to 800 x 600 pixels to share on Facebook. I must get round to having some full-size printing done! OK, this is my bottle-brush tree (Callistemon), which is flowering for the first time in a few years. First is the finished photo as I developed it ... Next, I went back and developed the RAW file three times, setting the exposure to -2, 0, and 1.5, and processed them as HDR. I applied some tone mapping and a little local contrast (but didn't make a note of the values -- sorry!), applied a vignette with exposure +2, and painted a little extra white around the edges and corners to improve the vignette. Finally, this is an 800 x 600 px selection from the first file before I resized it, to show the detail of the flowers. There's quite a bit of noise, as you can see, even though I shot it at 100 ISO. Time to get a decent camera!

Hi, I decided that maybe it was time to share some of my AP work. I recently discovered some files I thought I had lost of photos I took in New York when on holiday a few years ago (shot on an EOS 400d, about 10mp). Surprised at how the pigeon came out, I was originally going for something quite subtle but out of curiosity put its through tone mapping. Can a pigeon be heroic? Any suggestions? whenever I tried to make them less extreme they lost all impact. Steve Edit: I've now made them smaller....

Dear all, I am very exciting with Affinity photo on iPad. Therefore, I will make video clip of everything i learn from it, and they are for sharing always. Mask Layer on Affinity Photo on iPad https://youtu.be/c-pfrXDBwvU Perspective Projection in Affinity Photo on iPad https://youtu.be/PAtHcKEyh-w How to use crop tool in Affinity Photo on iPad https://youtu.be/UQaPDo9tfTs Equirectangular Projection in Affinity Photo on iPad https://youtu.be/bS34wOmoLzw Convert any photo to pencil sketch https://youtu.be/3OYKRBJpPqA

The current Gradient Map feature is quite basic like the one in Photoshop, but in many ways, it could be a much more useful tool with the following additions: HSL Mode: Instead of going based only on Luminance, this would use the input hue or saturation as the lookup index. In combination with HSL blend modes, this would allow for some fantastic workflows like basically warping the color wheel to taste, similar to the "HSL Wheels" feature in Magic Bullet Colorista (Note: don't be fooled by the name of the feature, this is NOT referring to the three-way color corrector). Just use a gradient of the HSL spectrum and drag or re-define stops, set the result to "Hue" blend mode, and you have an extremely powerful color correction tool that gives you results that would be difficult to achieve in any other way. Circular Editor Option: Like the Colorama filter built-into in After Effects, this makes it easy to work on maps that are supposed to start and end with the same color. In combination with an input for a number of revolutions (cycles) to use, this would also make it easy to create gradient effects where a few stops are repeated multiple times across the spectrum (like, say, alternating black-white-black-white). This would also massively improve usability in conjunction with the HSL mode option suggested above. Access to swatches: This would make it easy to re-use gradients by defining them or recalling them from swatches as an alternative to using Adjustment Presets. Interpolation control: Sometimes the transition from one color to the next needs fine-tuning – this is something that Affinity's gradient editor already supports, but not in the Gradient Map dialog. A Constant Interpolation setting where the color would just be constant up until the next stop would also be useful since it would eliminate the need for duplicate stops in the same position, which are really hard to select. Possibly, the curve editor could also be re-used to define falloff using a Bézier or Catmull-Rom-Spline. Duplicate Stop option: Often, it is necessary to use the same color multiple times in a gradient. Adding a button for this and/or enabling Option+Drag to duplicate would be useful. Photoshop aggravatingly always inserts new stops with the same color instead of the color that is already there at that position in the gradient, but the (better) implementation of this in Affinity had the side effect that duplicating stops became harder. On-image sampling: While the dialog box is open, it would be useful to highlight the value under the mouse pointer in the gradient display to be able to place a stop exactly at the desired position. Clicking in the image would insert a stop. On-image highlighting: Conversely, when editing/dragging a stop in the gradient editor, an option to highlight the affected pixels in the image would be helpful. The options could be:off (nothing) all pixels that have exactly the value represented by the position of the stop (similar to focus peaking) the zone that will be affected in the image. The overlay would start at 100% intensity at the value represented by the stop and fall off to 0% on each side until the position of the next stop respectively, taking the falloff into account (see "Interpolation Control" above). Optionally, two different colors could be used to represent each side of the stop. Resizable dialog box for more precision: When editing 16-bit images or editing falloff from one stop to the next or when placing stops very close to each other, it would be useful to have more room to work with. Making gradient editor dialog boxes in the application resizable would alleviate this problem. Snap to Luminosity button: Sometimes, it is useful to place stops exactly at the point in the gradient that corresponds to their luminosity, especially when they are defined by selecting swatches from a color palette. Adding a button that moves all selected stops to that position would make this really quick. For instance, tinting an image with two tones while keeping black and white intact could be achieved very quickly by selecting a black-to-white preset, then adding two stop, selecting a color from the document color palette for each, and clicking that "Snap Selected Stops to Luminosity" button. Ability to move start and end stops. The values before the first stop and after the last one would simply use constant extrapolation. This would eliminate the need for duplicate stops, which take longer to create and are harder to edit since all operations need to be performed twice.

Hello guys, My site is ready and online My goal is to make all future products completely free, but for now, I can not keep the site without the paid products, so, some products will be paid, it will be free, so, My license is different from other markets all products are free To create your own HTML themes. I plan on upload something new every week, On Friday, preferably I hope you like it, please, feel free to contact me at any time, And donations are always welcome https://affinitymarketui.com/ Best Regards Heli Herrera

I need to expand some strokes.

Hello pixel pushers! Here is my latest effort in four chapters, hope you enjoy. Background edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvg--Fbjxyw Background -2 edit https://youtu.be/fq0v2yjmb-A Background-3 edit https://youtu.be/V22Tb9agDMc Background-4 edit https://youtu.be/aAZfAFkJDS4

As my laptop won't display RAW files, I run every new set of photos through a batch job to create jpeg thumbnails at 600 pixels wide. Because there's no tweaking done in development, I sometimes get some sad-looking results; fortunately, the RAW file will usually turn out OK with a bit of fiddling about. (Sorry -- that's a disrespectful way to describe the amazing capabilities of Affinity Photo! I mean, with some carefully considered image manipulation :)) So here's a very under-exposed photo of a toucan, shot against a very bright sky. If I'd still been shooting in jpg, I'd have been very disappointed: there's very little room for improvement. Now here's the fidd manipulated version. I resized it to 800 px to post on Facebook; I'll do it full size for my portfolio ... but not today.

Having gotten help from the wonderful MEB a better border and the image adjustments much the same as previously with a brighter feeling via curves. Regards. Sharkey

My wife took this image through a glass window on a canal boat with an Iphone5, I started to modify it in Photoplus but in January but decided to finish it in AP. The new sky is from Selsey Bill in Sussex. Although there is a slight yellow tinge in the image I am nevertheless very pleased with how its turned out. Hours of work to do this. John

One from me. Affinity contribution to this:- Sharpening the subject during Development. Colour balancing, increase vibrancy and localised sharpening for the web. Adding border (to learn technique from Vimeo) I would have loved a bit more sun for this shot or maybe use a bit more AP to isolate the subject from the hedges and houses I had to crop. Getting the whole man in frame without the suburban feel of houses across the road would have taken a step ladder and a lot more tenacious photographer :P . Regards. Sharkey

As per another Forum member suggestion about sharing a photo's I attach this one taken in my back garden just a few enhancements in AP. I have always been fascinated by cloud formations and have captured many of them over the years, I thought this particular formation looked more like an explosion than a cloud. If you look at the top of the cloud you can make out a plane emerging from the cloud. I am sure there are many more professional photographers on the Forum, I just take images for my own enjoyment. Samsung S6 mobile. I love AP its the best editing program I have ever used.

Very few photographs on SYW. Lots of design. Is photography not work. Designing, painting and drawing in AP? Very little sign of the Photography part - even from me. Share your photographs produced in AP! Perhaps a change of Title IS all that is needed to bring the photographers out into the community, sharing their work. Just a repeated thought. Regards. Sharkey.

Hopefully someone from Affinity can answer this one: It seems that the Geekbench scores are confirming that the hardware internals of the new iPads are identical, except for the battery and screen resolutions (the 12.9 having larger batteries due to the larger display). Knowing this, will the 10.5 iPad handle more live filters and adjustment layers to be applied on a project, because of its lower screen resolution? If so, does that make the 10.5 the better choice if the main concern is squeezing performance from these tablets? I'm looking for an objective, evidence based answer: Can the 10.5" handle more adjustment layers and overall processing than the 12.9 due to the lower resolution? Thanks!

Hi, I have the trial version of affinity photo, and am considering buying the full version but was wondering is it just the trial version on affinity photo that is missing the text and mesh warp tool? On windows. Thanks.

Here's another, created using Affinity Photo for iPad... made up of 5 images. Seriously, why is this so addictive! Allan Thompson

Here is one I'm calling 'Taken', created on Affinity photo for iPad. Made up of 4 or so images. I've not spent much time using Photo lately due to working on the books in Designer but the iPad version makes it so much more fun especially when using Apple Pencil. Allan Thompson

​Hi, I have the Affinity Photo Trial Version, I am planning on buying the product but as I was testing it out I noticed that neither the text on the left bar nor the mesh warp tool on the left bar were there. Will these be there in the full verison. I do use Windows. Please let me know. Thanks!

Since I updated the new version today, every time I open a new image, I get this error: Unhandled Exception An Unhandled Exception has occured and the application cannot continue. The Crash Reporter will be displayed after the application exits. Code: 0xE06D7363 And then I get a popup that says the Crash Report couldn't be updated or something. What is going on? Is this the new update? If so, can I just get the older version and use that instead? I can't make anything right now. Thanks in advance.