Woodblock print effect or poster effect or comic book effect

[William Overington]

I like woodblock prints where, say, four solid colours of ink are used with four wood blocks to produce a picture.

I am hoping to have a go using the Pen Tool to produce such an effect using an Affinity product, starting from either a blank canvas or a photograph, later making a copy of the document file and then deleting the photograph from the copy.

Can one process a photograph to produce the effect automatically in any of the Affinity products please?

I seem to remember such an effect in possibly DrawPlus. It might have been called poster or it might have been called comic book or maybe something else. One could select how many colours to use and the colours were chosen automatically.

I remember trying it on an image gathered from Google street view of a building in Châlons-en-Champagne, France.

William

 

 

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, William Overington said:

It might have been called poster

Close! Try ‘Posterize’ (or ‘Posterise’, in the Affinity apps using UK English) in the Adjustments panel.

[firstdefence]

31 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Close! Try ‘Posterize’ (or ‘Posterise’, in the Affinity apps using UK English) in the Adjustments panel.

...and then apply a Median blur 👍

[William Overington]

2 hours ago, firstdefence said:

...and then apply a Median blur 👍

@firstdefence

I have done a posterise 4.

How do I do the Median blur please?

I tried to look it up but I found about a blur brush but I have not found anything to apply a Median blur (whatever that is) to a whole picture.

William

 

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, William Overington said:

but I have not found anything to apply a Median blur (whatever that is) to a whole picture

It's in the Filters menu in Photo, or in the Live Filter menu from the bottom of the Layers panel.