Supersparks Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 I've been playing around with writing some macros and have decided to share six of them. 1-4. Turn your pic. into a presentation A4 photo with a white canvas border having room to enter text beneath and a thin black border around the pic. to make it stand out. Four options to cover Landscape or Portrait for both 3:2 aspect ratio and 4:3 aspect ratio as determined my your camera. 5. Alpha Channel Sharpening - gives a final delicate sharpening to your photo. 6. Colour Sketch - turn any colour photo into a 'sketch'. Final output will need to have the black level adjusted (Adjustment layer, Levels, Black Level) to suit different photos. Likely it would also work with black and white photos but I haven't tried that. Tested with AF Photo 1.6 and the beta version of 1.7. I hope they prove useful. Dennis-Photo.afmacros Jens Krebs, Jock Thomson, Madame and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madame Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Thank you so much. I will try them later. Quote - Affinity Photo 2.3.0 - Affinity Designer 2.3.0 -Affinity Publisher 2.3.0 MacBook Pro 16 GB MacOS Sonoma 14.1.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max P Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Thank you, nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Posted February 11, 2019 Share Posted February 11, 2019 These are nice, thank you. However I've gotten good results with the Colour Sketch, a number of photos I've tried go to a black and white sketch devoid of colour. Any suggested tweak to the macro to keep the colours intact? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroader124 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 I bought Affinity Photo last year and I did not know there were free macros. They are not easy to find in the folders or in the library. Is there a link to re download them on the Affinity Photo download site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railroader124 Posted February 14, 2019 Share Posted February 14, 2019 On 1/24/2019 at 6:00 AM, Supersparks said: I've been playing around with writing some macros and have decided to share six of them. 1-4. Turn your pic. into a presentation A4 photo with a white canvas border having room to enter text beneath and a thin black border around the pic. to make it stand out. Four options to cover Landscape or Portrait for both 3:2 aspect ratio and 4:3 aspect ratio as determined my your camera. 5. Alpha Channel Sharpening - gives a final delicate sharpening to your photo. 6. Colour Sketch - turn any colour photo into a 'sketch'. Final output will need to have the black level adjusted (Adjustment layer, Levels, Black Level) to suit different photos. Likely it would also work with black and white photos but I haven't tried that. Tested with AF Photo 1.6 and the beta version of 1.7. I hope they prove useful. Dennis-Photo.afmacros I could not open them once I downloaded them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 14, 2019 Staff Share Posted February 14, 2019 Hi railroader124, Welcome to Affinity Forums To get the free Force Macro pack go to menu Help ▸ Welcome.... There's a link in one of the pages of the horizontal scroller to get them. To install the .afmacros files (with an S at the end), go to menu View ▸ Studio ▸ Library, click the small menu icon on the top right of the Library panel and select Import Macros.... Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersparks Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 On 2/11/2019 at 7:21 PM, Timber said: These are nice, thank you. However I've gotten good results with the Colour Sketch, a number of photos I've tried go to a black and white sketch devoid of colour. Any suggested tweak to the macro to keep the colours intact? Hi Timber, apologies for the late reply. I have been unable to replicate the problem, so far, on my own photos and each time I use the macro the colours are retained. Have you tried carrying out an HSL adjustment to see if that brings the colour back? I will try a few more photos in the meantime but, to date, they have all retained the colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersparks Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 On 2/14/2019 at 9:42 AM, MEB said: Hi railroader124, Welcome to Affinity Forums To get the free Force Macro pack go to menu Help ▸ Welcome.... There's a link in one of the pages of the horizontal scroller to get them. To install the .afmacros files (with an S at the end), go to menu View ▸ Studio ▸ Library, click the small menu icon on the top right of the Library panel and select Import Macros.... Hi railroader124 - apologies for my late reply. I see that MEB has given good advice and, hopefully, you should now have the macros up and running? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benten1975 Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Thank you, really good stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersparks Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 Timber - The only way I can get the photos to turn to black and white is by double-clicking the macro with then runs twice. Are you doing that by mistake? I have attached before and after photos to show the results I get each time with just a click. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hootowl Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Thanks for sharing! Can't wait to go try these out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanshab Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Very nicely done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah73 Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLMonaghan Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 On 2/14/2019 at 9:42 AM, MEB said: Hi railroader124, Welcome to Affinity Forums To get the free Force Macro pack go to menu Help ▸ Welcome.... There's a link in one of the pages of the horizontal scroller to get them. To install the .afmacros files (with an S at the end), go to menu View ▸ Studio ▸ Library, click the small menu icon on the top right of the Library panel and select Import Macros.... I did this, got the DLs and followed these instructions but the files still aren't appearing in my macro panel? Once I click 'import macros' and chose the file from the DL, nothing happens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 On 2/14/2019 at 9:21 AM, railroader124 said: I bought Affinity Photo last year and I did not know there were free macros. They are not easy to find in the folders or in the library. Is there a link to re download them on the Affinity Photo download site? Use the search facility to look for free macro. You might also like to look for "free macro". The former looks for both words in the same posting; the latter looks for the phrase free macro John Quote Windows 10, Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Designer 1.10.5 and Publisher 1.10.5 (mainly Photo), now ex-Adobe CC CPU: AMD A6-3670. RAM: 16 GB DDR3 @ 666MHz, Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jock Thomson Posted April 17, 2019 Share Posted April 17, 2019 Thanks for sharing will have a play later.☺☺☺☺☺ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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