Complex Styles like in Ulead PhotoImpact

[af-user]

Hi. I just started to explore the beta and already enjoyed it, it seems to have great potential.

 

And it's the first program that has a bit of the intuitive usability I loved so much in Ulead PhotoImpact!

It's still a shame that Corel stopped development.

 

 

I already found the "Styles" in Affinity Designer and it currently seems to have some limited attributes one can define as a style. But only single effects.

From the roadmap I read that they might get improved in future?

 

-Text features including Text Styles, Bullets and Numbering

-Multiple Effects/Fills/Strokes per shape

 

Will this make it possible to have an Style- and Effectslibrary like in PhotoImpact?

 

 

In PI one can even right every style and modify all values and use bumpmaps etc.

I have attached a pdf-file with some examples and screenshots of the possibilites. It's still possible to donwload a trial (~170MB) for Ulead PhotoImpact X3, but there are not all of those styles included.

 

I don't expect it to be possible to directly use / import those Ulead-Styles?

 

 

 

 

 

upi.pdf

[Mark Ingram]

Moving this to the Questions forum as it's unrelated to the Windows Public Beta.

[MEB]

Hi af-user,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

No, it's not possible to use Ulead PhotoImpact Styles directly in Affinity Designer, however you have several FX effects available and you can apply more than one simultaneously to the same object/layer. Just check the respective effects in the Layer Effects dialog and set their parameters as you want.

You can easly build text effects similar to those displayed in your example. Take a look at some of the styles created and shared by other Affinity users i've compiled here (Styles section) for some examples. Below is a sample from the Assortment Styles Vol. 1 shared by @evtonic3:

 

[af-user]

Great, thanks for that hint and the quick answers here.

Really looks promising!