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How would I go about creating this halftone/over spray look in Affinity Photo?


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I'm new to affinity after using adobe for years, so am still trying to find my way around. I am trying to recreate the look of the attached text. In adobe I'd imagine it would be possible with a mix of blur and dissolve, but I'm struggling to do it on Affinity. I've tried combinations of blurs, shadows, displace etc but nothing works quite right. Does anyone have any tips or tutorials?

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Welcome!

First I would look after some possible available halftone & extruded fonts, so if there maybe is already something similar to reuse here right out of the box. Though there are a lot of such different fonts on the net, where some may work others not and so it would be a matter of finding the right fitting one here. - Aka maybe something similar like ...

Other than that you have to look after some web tutorial for PS to adapt to APh on how to create such text effect and get close to it ...

 

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Hi @People_Word,
Welcome to the Affinity Forums!

One way would just paint the rastered blur with a brush that has such a dotty grid as texture assigned.

Attached a version that tries it fully non-destructive (editable): v1105 blur raster.afpub

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Wow, thank you so much @v_kyr and @thomaso both of your replies have been incredibly helpful!

Those tutorials have helped clarify some of the issues I was having with using the halftone filter, and that file you posted @thomaso feels like the ultimate cheat code! Thank you!!

Really appreciate the help, you've been super kind

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