Can one produce faux cyanotypes using Affinity Designer?

[William Overington]

I have been watching the following video.

https://www.winsornewton.com/uk/masterclass/cyanotypes-with-watercolour/

Can that effect be produced in a pure electronic manner using Affinity Designer?

Such an image could then be printed.

Here is an image gathered from the video.

The colour is not solid colour.

William

 

[William Overington]

I have made a little progress.

I produced this image using the last but three of the vector watercolour brushes at 1024 pixels with rgb = 0, 128, 128.

I had tried for 2000 pixels but Affinity Designer reduced that to 1024 pixels.

I tried enlarging the resulting image to fill the canvas but I cannot get it to scale.

Here is an attempt using the Pen Tool in white with rgb =255, 255, 255 at 10 point so as to try to produce an image somewhat like the one in the video.

William

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

You'd need soft edges to match your original image (and cyanotypes in general, I think), so probably a raster brush from the Pixel Persona.

[William Overington]

I tried the Pixel Persona. I had hardly ever used thePixel Persona previously, so I did not make much progress.

In the vector Persona, I made a canvas 724 pixels by 524 pixels and then I used the Pencil Tool to draw likes, like ploughing a field, going slong, turning and going back along and so on.

I then changed the line to be watercolour and widened it considerably.

I then changed the document set up to be 2172 by 1572, which is what  need if I want to send for a orint as a greertings card.

I then saved that.

I then saved a copy as well.

Here is a one third size png of what I produced.

 

 

 

 

 

I then tried to produce a picture by adding white drawing using the Pencil Tool at a 10 point size.

A one third size png of that image is in the first post of the following thread.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/155738-faux-cyanotype-art/

William