Half Tone Tutorial for Affinity Photo

[TrentL]

Half Tones are a cool effect you can use to add some vintage flair to your artwork. In this tutorial, we’ll look at how this filter works in Affinity Photo.

 

[loukash]

@TrentL, at 0:30, you're saying that one "can export as graphics to bring the effect to Designer".

Well, yes, one "can".
But why even bother with such a clumsy and adobish workaround when you can simply go and File → Edit in Designer?!  

No matter what you do in Photo, you can always seamlessly switch between either of the three apps and add or edit whatever you want as you see fit. There are almost no limits whatsoever.

And that's the Affinity Killer Feature.
That's what you should be always stressing in your – otherwise well done – tutorials.  

[Oufti]

At 5:00, you show how using Threshold adjustment to have true black and white, to remove the antialiasing shown above.
I would add it's also possible by simply sliding to 100% the contrast control in the Halftone panel. 

[BTW I notice though that in some occasions, like in the screenshot above from @TrentL's video, this contrast control is greyed out but I've not been able to reproduce your precise situation:
Here, the round halftone dot is never antialiased; while the cosine one can be, if contrast is not set to 100%.] 

[TrentL]

20 hours ago, loukash said:

@TrentL, at 0:30, you're saying that one "can export as graphics to bring the effect to Designer".

Well, yes, one "can".
But why even bother with such a clumsy and adobish workaround when you can simply go and File → Edit in Designer?!  

No matter what you do in Photo, you can always seamlessly switch between either of the three apps and add or edit whatever you want as you see fit. There are almost no limits whatsoever.

And that's the Affinity Killer Feature.
That's what you should be always stressing in your – otherwise well done – tutorials.  

You are correct, I should have mentioned that. I still have a strong habit of saving individual assets/elements of my work as PNGs, but one could just work directly between the programs. 
 

My (long) TODO list contains a video topic for "How to Work Seamlessly Between The Affinity Programs." Perhaps I will try to do a video on that subject sooner rather than later. 

[TrentL]

12 hours ago, Oufti said:

At 5:00, you show how using Threshold adjustment to have true black and white, to remove the antialiasing shown above.
I would add it's also possible by simply sliding to 100% the contrast control in the Halftone panel. 

[BTW I notice though that in some occasions, like in the screenshot above from @TrentL's video, this contrast control is greyed out but I've not been able to reproduce your precise situation:
Here, the round halftone dot is never antialiased; while the cosine one can be, if contrast is not set to 100%.] 

True. But as you noticed, the contrast is not always available. It seems to only be enabled when Cosine is selected as the Dot method (not Round). 

[Oufti]

1 hour ago, TrentL said:

It seems to only be enabled when Cosine is selected as the Dot method (not Round). 

Yes, it's the same I see here but when I choose the round dot, it's never blurred. Hence my interrogation about the above capture where round is selected but antialiasing visible… 

Anyway, your method to have a transparent background is valuable. Thank you for your tutos.