afrazo Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Ola! Apologies if I've missed this, but couldn't find an answer with my meagre searching skills. I'd like advise on inking real life pencil sketches in Photo (or Designer?). So far the best result I've had has been creating a new layer, going over the lines with the brush tool, and discarding the initial "background" layer. It works _okay_, but I'm a newbie and am sure there's a better way. I'm not getting the nice comic brush strokes I'd like like, because it's difficult to see my strokes over the background image I'm tracing. Any tips at all are welcome Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Hi @afrazo and welcome to the forums. Set the layer opacity to 25% or higher, so that you can still see fine lines of the background image, but the background image does not become too dominant in the foreground. afrazo 1 Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 Colour the pencil sketch layer so you differentiate between the sketch and the black strokes you are making, you can use the Recolour Adjustment Filter to do this. Komatös and afrazo 2 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrazo Posted May 8, 2023 Author Share Posted May 8, 2023 Both great suggestions, thanks @firstdefence, @Komatös firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 You are welcome! Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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