g0liver Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 I am trying to bitmap a photo but I cannot find the option to do so. Is this a feature afinity photo or afinity designer offers? Kal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Bravery Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 I am trying to bitmap a photo but I cannot find the option to do so. Is this a feature afinity photo or afinity designer offers? Hi g0liver, Welcome to the forum. :) This is not a feature yet. You can check here to see if it's included in this link: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/10410-common-feature-requests-index/ You can request it here, if it hasn't already been requested: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/6-feature-requests/ Hope this helps. P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2016 Hi g0liver, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) I believe you are referring to tracing a photo? That is, turn a photo into vector objects? If so this was already requested several times and is being considered for inclusion in Designer later in a future version. As Paul Bravery pointed out it's already in the common feature requests list. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 I believe you are referring to tracing a photo? That is, turn a photo into vector objects? I would call that "unbitmapping"! :P jmac and anon1 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 10, 2016 Share Posted July 10, 2016 If OP asks about 1-bit bitmap art (line art) there is no such mode in AP (yet). I might form a request about it as there are really not many tools for 1-bit work out there (except PS). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted July 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2016 Well spotted Fixx. That's probably what's the OP was referring to. You're right, there's no bitmap mode in Affinity Designer/Photo. Feel free to post a request for this (with a clearer title). Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g0liver Posted July 11, 2016 Author Share Posted July 11, 2016 Thanks guys! I may have stated the question incorrectly. What I am trying to do is individualize the pixels by color so I can prepare the image for screen printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 11, 2016 Share Posted July 11, 2016 If you have to have 1-bit bitmaps AP cannot make them I believe. As far as I know currently PS is only (!) app to handle 1-bit (you even can read comments that no one needs 1-bit anymore! :-D - which is false of course) Of course you can make greyscale appear almost like line art, but when printed it is always halftoned which is especially unwanted. One workaround is to convert to vector art where halftoning is not a problem (when sticking to B&W) but Affinity has no automatic tools for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 On 11/07/2016 at 10:12 AM, g0liver said: Thanks guys! I may have stated the question incorrectly. What I am trying to do is individualize the pixels by color so I can prepare the image for screen printing. It sounds as though you may be asking about producing colour separations. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 If it is silk screen printing it is indeed about colour separations but NOT like ordinary CMYK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobM10 Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 If it is possible to pick this thread up again (now that I have become interested in screen printing!), about the only reason to use PS is its very effective ability to split an image into channels and then to apply a half tone screen to each one separately at different angles. The separations are true bitmap and only consist of black or white (no shades of grey) which is highly desirable/essential in preparing a screen stencil. I guess demand is insufficient for this to be put into AP but there is a significant commercial market still for pure half tone screen separations. There is a very tedious and inferior workaround in AP which is to use the halftone filter on each of the separations and then apply threshold to get pure black and white but far from ideal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toltec Posted November 8, 2017 Share Posted November 8, 2017 Channels is exactly how I used to produce silk screen separations (decades ago) with sometimes up to ten colours . Although they tended to be spot colours, not screened. This was long before any specialised software was available. Moved over to a specialised plug-in (at a price!) when available. like these http://www.quikseps.com http://www.ultraseps.com I think the above are all plug ins for Photoshop, but this is separate. I believe. https://softwareforscreenprinters.com/products/separation-studio/ I am interested in how you use the half tone filter. As a thought, rather than using the half tone filter, could you not just turn each separation to grey, and let the normal halftone screening process work ? 50% grey equals a 50% dot, etc. Easy to adjust that by changing the grey level. I used to be able to override the screen angles on the imagesetter. Can your printer not do that ? On imagesetter film it is all black or white. No matter what the colour was. I am pretty sure you could use layers to do what you want. Post an example if you can. Quote Windows PCs. Photo and Designer, latest non-beta versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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