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After working on the images for my free 'Byzantium' gold brushes for Affinity Photo and uploading the brushes for other Affinity Photo users to download and use, I went back to finish a piece of photobashing/concept art that I had been working on previously using the 'Rocks', 'Mist' and 'Moss' brushes in my free 'Nature' collection of brushes. It's called 'Treacherous Sea'.

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I really enjoy searching for images and cutting out the backgrounds, then compiling them together in a photobashing stylee. 

You can download my free 'Nature' brush sets (of which there are 12) at

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You can download my free 'Byzantium' gold brush sets (of which there are 4) at

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Have fun using Affinity Photo. I do. You can create anything. You just need to familiarise yourself with the Tools and Layers. Anyone can do it. Watch a few videos on YouTube. Ask advice from other users on the Affinity Forum. Practice, Perseverance and Patience...

It's so cool! And a lot of fun!

DelN

 

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I love your Treacherous Sea...so moody, full of motion, mist, etc. Nicely done!

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Thanks, Ldina,

I used some of the 'Nature' brushes to create the clouds, mist and fog, the plants and rocks. Then I searched for and found two images of ocean waves and merged them. The tower on the hill is actually a gate post to a church nearby. I took some photos of them and removed the backgrounds. They're quite handy. I paint some lichen and moss over them using the Lichen and Moss brushes in the 'Nature' pack when I use them close-up and (I think) it looks really authentic considering how I created the Moss and Lichen brushes... 

I really like creating misty, moody scenes from nothing but a gradient background.

I remember buying a book when I was a kid called 'The Lodger' by Marie Bellock Lowndes, set during the 'Jack the Ripper' murders in Whitechapel in London. It's about an old Cockney couple who have a lodging house in the Marylebone Road, where they live with their daughter, and one dark evening a tall, mysterious gentleman calls looking for rooms in a quiet house where he won't be disturbed... The book is a great read if you like fiction set in Victorian London, but I always remember the cover, which I loved and which caused me to buy the book. It was of a sinister figure in a dark coat, carrying a doctor's bag, creeping about in a yellow 'pea-souper' London fog... 

I am sure that that book cover influenced me...

I have been experimenting with creating textures using Gradient Maps and HSL Shift Adjustments. The textures have a strange metallic look about them, which fascinates me considering that I haven't used any metal textures to create them. I use them as backgrounds or to fill objects and text or overlays. The results you get by changing the colours changes the image drastically and layering other textures over the top and adding a HSL Shift Adjustment and experimenting with Blending Modes...

I have used the resulting images as backgrounds for my 'Byzantium' series of images. I only really created these images to promote the 'Byzantium' gold brushes, which I thought Affinity Photo users would like, but I find the textures I am creating using Gradient Maps and HSL Shift Adjustments are taking over. I now want to use them in a series of images of 'Swinging Copper Cats of the 60s', which I haven't started yet, but have been gathering cat images for. Ha-ha!...

 

 

 

 

 

 

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