affinity photo 2 An Experimental Logo screen display. Retro Recipes

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I created this screen image as a tribute to my favourite YouTube channel, Retro Recipes.

The font used was C64 Pro and consists of two Rs one reversed and joined together Janus-like.

I used Draw Plus X8 to provide a filter effect I cannot reproduce in Affinity Designer as it uses a reflection map which is not replicated in Affinity. Then I exported the SVG to a file for loading into Affinity Designer.

The background was edited from a wallpaper of the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who's time vortex. This I loaded into Affinity photo and applied the Rodilus filter. Then I used the Zoom blur before saving the image as a file.

Then I popped into Affinity Designer and chose the QHD document size. I imported the background followed by the SVG of the RR logo. I added the outer glow, and subtle drop shadow and saved the combined image to disk. Loading the combined image into Photo I applied a dream glow filter to boost the glowing effect, This brightened the image and I adjusted its black point to darken the blacks.

The result you see below as a smaller image. RR SVG is included for you to play with.

Please Affinity Team can we have reflection maps included in the Affinity range?

RRreflectionmap.svg

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Well, After a lot more tweaking using Drawplus, and a lot of editing in Affinity Photo using HDR Merge, Nik Filters, Media Chance Photo Reactor Player, and the develop persona I have created quite a few wallpapers for Windows. Here is a video I put together to display them in a slideshow. All together there are 20 wallpapers.

Music is supplied by a MOD file (tracker module). It is a remix based on The Final Countdown by Europe.

Video put together in Windows Movie Maker (classic edition).

I hope you find them interesting.

Recipes Countdown_2.avi

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Hopefully, this version will play in your browser.

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20 wallpapers designed by me using Drawplus, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, G'MIC plugins, Media Chance Plugin, Nik Filters,

Slideshow created in Windows Movie Maker and Videoproc Converter AI. Music provided using Open MPT and Goldwave.

 

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Some final wallpapers were created in Affinity Photo based on a 4K design. Drawplus provided the reflection maps.

The reset was Affinity, GMIC, Mediachance Reactor, and Nik Filters 4.

Slideshow put together in Powerpoint and audio track added in Moviemaker Classic.

Sadly, I couldn't embed the video directly in the forum. I kept getting error 200.