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Hello. I was simply curious, when is the next build update? Will there be a version 2?

I started this project (photography art based on human behaviour and the mind) in Affinity Photo about 3 years and did nothing with it. Recently dug up my work and felt inspired again and set up shop with Etsy. The majority of my prints are now available from my Etsy store! Only took 3 years to get here... http://allanthompsonart.etsy.com Allan

Affinity Photo Tutorial | Sometimes you have a black and white image that needs color. In this video, I am going to show you, how to turn a boring black and white (B/W) photo into a vibrant colored photo using Affinity Photo (Photoshop Alternative).

Hello, I draw cartoons as a hobby. Over time I've developed a couple of templates that I use to help get me started. I named them "Generic" just to say that I've taken out all of the personal layers that I normally include. I hope you find them helpful. Regards Mark Cartoon 1 Frame - Generic.aftemplate Cartoon 4 Frame - Generic.aftemplate

B&W conversion with Affinity Photo & Silver Efex Pro 2

Good afternoon everyone, I have recently joined the forum in the last 2 months and this is my first post. I'm not new to photography but have taken a liking to Milky Way images and struggling with the editing side of things. I am seeking any help or guidance on a technique or a 'how to' guide when editing in Affinity Photo. I've uploaded an image that I recently took, it is a panoramic consisting of 2 lines of 9 images with each frame a stack of 2 images. I took the original images in RAW/NEF and the above is a converted JPG. For some reason I'm just not that happy with the edit I have done and hoping someone more experienced can offer some words of wisdom. Thanks. Tom Kit used on the night; NIKON D750 Tokina 16-28 f2.8 Taken at 16mm and f2.8 ISO 6400 13 second frames Shutter release cable to avoid any shake Manfrotto tripod with Neewer ball head

Using the Healing Brush Tool used to be easy with Affinity Photo. I'm using a MacBook Pro. What I would do is select the Healing Brush Tool. Then the area which I would like to get it cloned over. Then I would simple clone it that area over using the proper hardness and brush size. But that doesn't work anymore. Or basically, it just got more complex. It's no longer accurate and doesn't do what I want. I know I just record a video and share it. But the mechanics of Affinity Photo has changed. It's becoming more like a Photoshop behemoth rather than something that should be simple. I'd like to know how I can reset the Healing Brush Tool. Because obviously, it's not working the way it's intended to be. https://www.berrycast.com/conversations/8618c1e4-83c4-54da-b1fa-0032cc87b24b Can anyone give me suggestions? I can't believe I'm stuck with such a simple task.

A short two frame burst at 1/4000 shutter speed, ISO 3200 and f/11 and the landing of this little female hummingbird shows more sense of motion.

Earlier this summer I took some photos of snails and modified them a little with Affinity Photo. Here are the results. With the first one I only edited the um.. "home" on the snails back a bit plus darkened the upper or more distant background using a gradient layer. The second snail got a little more dramatic change as you can see. I made the um.. "hut" green and the body a bit luminescent. Affinity products have really helped me advance as a photographer by motivating me. It's soo much more fun to take photographs, when you know you can make something fantastic (in more than one sense of the word fantastic) out of them. L.P.

When I attempt to cut out or make a copy of a selection from a pixel layer, the selection is ignored and the entire layer gets copied/cut. The problem persists with all selection tools and with both keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+x, ctrl+c, ctrl+v) and clicking on the "Cut"/"Copy" and "Paste" options from the File menu. The problem is present in Photo as well as in Designer's pixel persona. The only workaround is to copy the layer, make the selection, invert the selection and erase the parts that are not needed. Very frustrating. Is there any way to fix this?

Another one. The clematis flowers have all started going to seed, and some of the heads are getting quite fluffy. I'd intended to make another merge or two, but the camera battery ran out! Technical stuff: Canon EOS750D camera, Canon EFS 60mm (96mm equivalent) macro lens, f/2.8, ISO 1600 (because I forgot to set it to 100 before i started!); thirty photos. I have the camera set to save CR2 (Canon Raw) and jpeg; for quickness, I made the first merge from the jpegs straight out of camera then adjusted white balance and vibrance, saved the afphoto file, then reduced the size and ever so slightly sharpened the image. (For some reason I get an error trying to upload the first file, but this slightly compressed version works.) Although I set the white balance and vibrance to give what i thought was the same result, as you see the two pics are quite different. I think I prefer the first one, but that's just me. And maybe a more contrasting background next time?

Hi guys, here's a new video about how to change black and white color into any color that you want in Affinity Photo. I hope you enjoy and learn something new from this video, thank you!

Hey Guys, This is a Template a background template which I wanna use as a background image when I want to isolate the subject from the background. But this in its current forum is a little too dark for my taste. what would be the best way to slightly, just slightly lighten this without taking away the colours from this template which then can be used with other subjects ?

Hi guys, here's a new video about how to create a realistic reflection for any of your products in Affinity Photo. I hope you enjoy and learn something new from this video, thank you!

I'm doing some architectural graphics and need just some basic fill patterns. I've watched the tutorials on how to use them but unless I'm missing something, I'm not finding any that come in Affinity Photo. I've searched but not turned up any. Not sure if I am looking for vector or bitmap. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing. Can anyone recommend a fill pattern package? Are PS ones compatible? TIA

I have just checked my Affinity account and my purchase of Affinity photo and Designer do not appear in that account. I am in the process of carrying out a clean install onto a new MacBook but can only find Affinity publisher within the account. How can I access these files for reinstallation. Is this the quickest method of contacting support.

TLDR; Edit : After all the entire thread writing. I suspect that it indeed is an issue that happens in A. Designer, in a Designer file where the issue appears as an unwanted gradient fill in the text boxes (mysteriously inherited from a vector rectangle shape with that exact gradient fill), but that might have turned to solid somehow, to replicate after several iterations as solid fill in Photo's text boxes. I tested now that it brings such gradient fill (or whatever the problematic background fill) issue when sending to Photo. So, "maybe" Photo has nothing to do with it (and surely neither linked or embedded files feature, so I modified the title). It started on my Designer, and keeps being a problem in Photo, that's it. I detailed two fixes (one works the same in both apps), but the safest and fastest has the inconvenience that I don't know which other things are reset with menu option : Edit/Default settings/revert. ------------------------------ Not sure if it's a bug or sth that could get a bit better UX, and I notify it just in case it helps the dev team, as I found a workaround. To replicate it (not sure if it will happen with every file, but I cannot provide the files, sadly) : - Create a file, with a text layer, layer effects (I believe it was color and gradient overlay, external shadow, etc) applied to it. Also with some other pixel layers with live adjustments (hue, levels, etc) - Create another file with only pixel layers with live filters and live adjustments. (although this one might not be the culprit). - In a main design (yet another file), place these two files (using the place (linked) feature). Initially it seems it worked very well (it's amazingly functional), but after some operations, the text field shows a background color, solid (a "cyan-ish" white), instead of being transparent. It is not the actual "text background" (triple checked), and setting the background (or even the font color) to "none" does nothing. Actually, it is not the whole text box background, but the background actually used by the text characters (as can be seen in the screenshot). Once this has happened, you can even delete all layers and leave only the text layers, and yet the glitch will still remain. I had a lot of work done as to trash the main file, so, I dug all I could for a solution : No setting in Character or Paragraph panels (studios) can fix it. It is not any of the live adjustments, as I fully removed all of them. (But perhaps they caused it somehow, internally? Or maybe the layer FX) The one and only solution for me has been to go to (I don't have the UI in English, I guess these are the terms) : - Menu Edit -> Default Settings -> Revert (great feature addition, btw). It fixes the text box layer I had selected in that moment. So, it might be that something went the way of the Dodo (probably it shouldn't) with text settings due to the layer effects over the text element, or due to the document linked placed, or who knows if maybe even the live filters/adjustment on pixel layers. If someone has the issue, this is a way to keep at least working with the file and not having to start from scratch. It might be just that I am using something wrongly... But then slight suggestion to improve a bit there the UX (for a portion of users that won't guess what's going on ), as I am not a complete newbie and yet got a bit lost . Other than that, the whole suite is working amazingly for me (indeed, the above is no show stopper due to the trick), thanks again for such great software. Linked files (together with "duplicated linked" and the Assets panel) are excellent for productivity. Thanks a lot. Also, huge apologies if it is something obvious that I am not seeing, somehow. Attaching below a screenshot of the issue.

Hello : ) I draw cartoons as a hobby. A long time ago I worked as a 3D Motion Graphics Animator in the television commercial industry. I was firmly entrenched in Adobe products along with Maya. After I retired I started drawing using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro as I couldn't afford to buy the Adobe suite. A few years ago... 5 maybe?? I discovered Affinity and immediately bought everything I could get my hands on. I love how well Designer, Photo, and Publisher all work together seamlessly. If I could have bounced back and forth between apps as I can now while I was working, my life would have been SO much easier. I'm in the process now of shifting from creating my illustrations in Photo to Designer... with help from Photo when I need it. The goofy image below is mostly Designer with help from a Photo custom brush for the broken shell pieces.

I have never done this, I have never removed a Subject from the Background, I have always removed the background from a Photo not a subject. So there is this Photo I want to remove the Glasses from this Photo and want to use the background in other images. How can I do that ? I tried the selection and then inverted it but could not remove the glass it just masks the Glass but that does not help me get a background without the glass image of this Picture. How do I do it ? Image attached.

I know this is actually a really silly question, and I know how to do it on photoshop, but for some odd reason I'm having a VERY difficult time with my mask layers and adding shadows.... Currently my Layers look like this: I'd like to bring my Shadow layers above the background, but outside of the masked Dog 1 and 2 layers group.... Having a hard time wrapping my head around this without making additions to the mask to show the shadow layers?

Hi Everyone, Long story short, i'm a big fan of film photography. Mentioned this to my dad and he gave me his Pentax Spotmactic he brought new over 50 years ago. All i've done with the images is load them into Affinity and use the Auto colours, tones, contrast and white balance. The photo of the dog (Naboo) i did load into the Develop persona and lower the highlights, whites and blacks. Have to say, for a 50+ year old camera i'm really happy with the results. I used Kodak Portra 400 35mm film and the scans provided to me by Asda were in JPG format, so don't leave much room for improvement. The 2nd n 3rd image are from Nottingham, the rest are from Bristol.

I seriously need help! I’ve done my editing on the iPad version for years, and I’ve never experienced this before. While editing, it has started destroying whole blocks of pixels down to the last layer, sometimes, even deleting the last layer too. When I try to go back in the history, IT DESTROYS MORE. It gets worse the more I go back, but I can’t stop it in the current point in its history. I sat for 4 hours and had been thrown back at least two-hours in progress. Does this happen to anyone else? I need help to fix this ASAP. Do I have to switch some setting?

As an excercise today I Animated my own Paper Drawing of 40 Years (!!) ago when I was five years old 🙂 Wanted to practise animating, but also using Photo again after a long time only working with vectors. To refresh the workflow and knowledge of Photo a little bit and doing some raster work again. Long live the Affinity Photo Clone Stamp, non-destructive vector masking and the great exporter which directly exports to Spine, which is just wonderful! 😀 The video is also a seemless loop btw! 🚶‍♂️👍 drawing-83-def.mp4

Cropped a little bit the layer, duplicated it, then Levels, Curves, Exposure, Brightness adjustment and Gold Punch, Subtle Yellow/Blue and Enhaced Yellow macros by James Ritson (different levels of opacity).