DelN Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Hi, I saw this cool kinda colour wheel 'Pixel Stretch Effect' done by a guy called Joe Cavazos on Pinterest and I wondered if I could recreate it in Affinity Photo. His website is http://www.fubiz.net/en/2019/10/23/the-pixel-stretch-by-joe-cavazos-2/ and if you are interested check it out cos its really cool. So I nabbed the image of the female dancer on Pinterest page https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/64317100919832831/ lordbyron44.tumblr.com Lord Byron Ballerina Elena Olshin by Vihao Pham Photograpy Not sure if this effect has already been done as a tutorial for Affinity Photo, but I thought I knew away to create it, so here goes... So I selected the Selection Brush Tool and made the size 10px This area of the image... Like this... Press CTRL D to turn off the selection With the layer selected (as shown below) Click the Cycle Selection Box Click the Enable Transform Origin You'll see the 'Centre' of the image displayed With this layer selected: In the 'Brushes' panel Select New Brush from Selection - to create a brush of this section of the image (which has all the colours in the image) Right-click the brush Select Rename Brush. I called it Dancer Click OK Right-click brush again Click Edit Brush On 'General' tab In 'Spacing': Set to as low as it will go (mine is 1%) Click OK Create a new file Click once with the new 'Dancer' brush With the layer selected (on which you have made a brush dab of the section of the dancer: Click the Cycle Selection Box Click the Enable Transform Origin You'll see the 'Centre' of the image displayed Click and drag the 'Centre of the Image' icon to the tip of the fingers of the dancer You may need to zoom in at this point... With the layer selected: Click Layer Click Duplicate - to duplicate the layer Select the bottom right corner of the layer and position the cursor until you see the double 'Rotation' handle Rotate the duplicate very slightly to the right Click Layer again Click Duplicate - to duplicate the layer Then press CTRL J - to Repeat the last action, then keep pressing CTRL J (or keep your fingers on the keys) to duplicate the layer until it has created a circular blur of the layer. I would suggest you Save. I crashed a couple of times cos there are so many layers. Luckily, Affinity Photo opens up the unsaved file and I was able to continue creating the duplicates until I was done. But we're not finished yet. When you've made as many duplicates as you need, select all of them and Group the layers Duplicate this Group Hide all the other layers by clicking the Eye icon (so none of them are displayed, then Then remove the background of the original Dancer image. Copy the Dancer into the file that has the rotated colour blur Resize the Dancer image until you are happy with the positioning. Note: When I crashed and opened up the image again and resumed the duplicates, I moved the image too much when duplicating it so you can see a 'banding' on the second half of the rotated layers. You won't make this mistake, hopefully. Already you can see that its getting there... With the layer selected: Put a Layer Mask on it by clicking the Mask Layer icon Duplicate this layer. In the 'Brushes' palette: Select the Basic brush category Select Round Soft Brush 128 In Width: Increase brush size to approx 595px (or whatever you prefer) Then paint out the area of the circular blur, leaving the section you need to retain. The section of the Dancer image still has its uses. You can paint with it... Depending on the direction of your brush stroke, you can paint with it reversed too by painting a brush stroke to the left or to the right You can create fabric... Strange seamless textures/patterns and brush strokes that you can create new brushes with... Fringing... Changing the Brush settings determines what the brush stroke paints like. I'm fairly new to Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. I have come from a Corel Painter/Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator background, but I have been impressed by both Affinity programs. Just wanted to pass on this use of the Brush tool to create this effect (albeit rather rushed). I don't know if its of any use to anyone, but just wanted to pass it on to the Affinity Photo users. Please let me know what you think... Callum and stokerg 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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