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Hey there! I'm enjoying Affinity Designer and still trying to get my head around different concepts. I've created a landscape document (A3 size) and expected it to print exactly in A3 landscape. Alas, it turned out that the document is printed on A4 by default. This prompted me to activate "scaling to fit paper" and I picked A3. This time, the landscape document was scaled down to fit on a portrait A3 paper. The only way to get my A3 landscape design to print on an A3 landscape paper was to switch the document back to portrait and turn my design 90°. This isn't very user-friendly though, because I want to have the document in landscape mode (of course). Am I missing something? Thanks, Georg

These 2 women both have bad , fleshy necks. I cannot figure out how to fix them. I have tied to use the tools to lighten the reds on the first one's neck and chin, but it doesn't seem to phase those areas. The second has a couple of rather large tendons diagonally down her neck, green tinge to the right but darker brown. Any experts out there?

Vector-only portrait with extensive use of Layer Effects like Inner/Outer Shadow, Gaussian Blur and 3D. Oliver http://www.o5m6.de

Hope you like it, thanks :D

I recently bought Photo – almost seemed rude not to at the discounted price – and I’m amazed/daunted at the amount of tools that are in there. It will probably take me a very long time just to get under the surface of what’s possible but I thought I’d give myself a little challenge. I wanted to see if I could do some basic editing and decided to try and de-freckle a photo. I’ve attached the original and result side by side. I didn’t want to totally expunge every single ‘blemish’ and leave the young lady looking like a shop dummy so I tried to leave her skin as I think it could be without the freckles while still having some of the other things that skin naturally has. It’s not perfect by any means but I was very pleased with what I could do in around an hour with just the Blemish Removal Tool (and Undo). I haven’t posted this as any kind of “Look at this great thing I’ve done”, rather I’ve posted it in the hope that people thinking about buying Photo might ask themselves: “If this bloke can do this with no training or artistic talent, just think what could be possible if I got my hands on this.” Note: I have absolutely nothing against freckles. I just chose the photo as it looked like a difficult one to experiment on, which, in the end, it wasn’t because of the tools in Photo.

Here is cloudy sky background in A3 portrait format I created in Affinity Photo and PhotoZoom Pro 7. Useful as a textured background in Publisher, and I'm guessing Affinity Designer. It is at 300dpi and in PNG format stored in a 7z archive. I hope you find it useful. Cloudy Sky (resized).7z Smaller sample also included.

A portrait drawing: green eyes and a surprised facial expression. https://www.bodobe.de/facial-expression/

Here I demonstrate 4 principle elements that make up a successful digital portrait. These include: How 3D form is structured, Facial landmarks, Colour Luminosity Comments welcomed . Instagram> @clarkejohnsen

Why is the default for a new publication landscape please? I have noticed that one needs to check a checkbox to get a portrait publication. Yet for text, portrait seems a more likely default. I am not suggesting changing it, I just wonder why that is the case as it seems counterintuitive. William

Liz Taylor, Portrait with Affinity Designer (Vector) https://www.bodobe.de/vektor-grafik-portrait/

A portrait (vector, affinity designer), for me one of the best actresses ever. Love for Liz. https://www.bodobe.de/vektor-grafik-portrait/

I received an apple pen as a Christmas gift from my sister last year and since I already had affinity installed, I decided to see what it could do. I’m familiar with photoshop but affinity is fairly new to me. I love portraits, and this is my first attempt at a digital drawing and just me playing around with brushes in affinity.

Recovering some old cliparts into vector with the help of AD ...

Hello everyone ! Hello Team ! Well, i just want to make this request/suggestion that i believe will be of great interest for many in this community. We love affinity Photo a lot but still there are point we often disagree with and tends to make use of other tools but we end up lose a lot of time and some time lose it all. Among those so much wanted features i notice the precious Skin Tone Fine tuning. Well, there are tons of methods that we can use to fine tune our skin tone but when looking closely they are intended for Pro or peoples who have considerable experience with Photo software, but when it comes to newbie ... they just lose it all. So i propose a New Skin Tone Fine Tune - Live filter to be implemented; that live filter must allow us to work fast on skin tone applying quick and auto mask to the subject skin so we can work on it. A bit more ? Well, I suggest this : - an Auto detection of skin tone to be implemented the second we select that filter then a quick mask applied, allowing us to fine tune the mask because skin also share the same color as background and environment. - After mask is okay then we can play with the sliders few of them can be : Smoothing, Brilliance, Vibrance, clarity, sharpening, blemish correction and maybe Hue (for those playing the Hulk stuff) ... do not forget to add a color/picking tool to allow average color picking (kind of manual method for those wanting to select precise areas or ranges) - All this should happen in live mode so we see in real-time what we do and how is the output - When all necessary tuning are done, just click apply Making this a Live filter is a plus that will enable us to come back to it tuning again and again thus increasing the interest Newbie and learners (and even Pro) may have about Affinity Photo. Believe this: the day you will offers us such quick way of working a lot of people will be at peace. Please do not remove or delete the actual way of doing the same job as many people like to do things manually so they have to be satisfied. May another one in this forum fine tune this suggestion for the good. Blessings until this is implemented for the Good of Photography.

Is there any tutorials for something like this or can someone point me in the right direction? Any help greatly appreciated https://youtu.be/oQbZfm4pK4Q

Here is my latest digital painting , hand painted in AP. Comments welcomed.

In this video, I am going to show you a unique technique for sharpening a portrait in Affinity Photo. I think its the best way to sharpen a Portrait in Affinity Photo. I hope you like it. Please Subscribe this channel and share this video on your social networks.

Hi, One of my latest illustration, a self-portrait. Any feedback will be appreciated :). Regards.

I wanted to give a painterly look, but this is all in Designer. Based on a model I saw. I like abstract and cubism, so I try to do a little bit of both

This is a photo enhancement tutorial that I found on Lynda.com. I learned a lot from it. I am starting to get faster and put things together on how to get certain results.

I was testing my retouching, which i do normally in Photoshop to do in Affinity Photo, how do you like it? Feel free to visit my Instagram: @roman.hammer.portraits to visit more of my stuff.

Here is a photo retouching done on affinity photo: What do you guys think?

Hello! I am using Affinity Photo since August 2018 but only recently I have started to do more illustrations and digital art with it. I've always been using Photoshop before then and I need to say I find Affinity fantastic! I would like to share some drawings and my latest speedpaint video. Please let me know if you have any feedback or advice to improve Thanks! Speedpaint video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKx1FbRYjZg

Version 1.7 beta is real power house. Love the realistic brushes and textures it provides.

Hi everyone, I recently wrote a post on my blog covering my workflow regarding the steps I follow when I'm editing a portrait. I also made available a PDF file with the same checklist I use so you can download it. The post is available both is Portuguese and English. [PT] http://blog.pedrosoares.photo/lista-de-tarefas-edicao-de-retrato/ [EN] http://blog.pedrosoares.photo/portrait-retouching-checklist/?lang=en There are also other articles talking about Affinity and other free resources. Let me know if it was useful. Cheers