New Affinity Photo user!

[rampage]

Hi all, glad i found this forum I have a few questions i hope i can get some help with! I used to be a longtime photoshop user, texturing, making sprites, that sort of thing.

 

-where did pixel persona go? Can't seem to find it in Customize Toolbar.

-i used heavily the "paste into" feature and reposition/mask the photo/texture i pasted in, seems to work differently here.

-how do you draw on a horizontal plane/snapped line?

-I made heavy use of highpass and offset to make seamless/tiling textures.

-not sure how to crop?

-i noticed this "symbol" feature in affinity, how does that work?

Any other 3d artists here? Trying to improve my workflow so its as quick as it used to be on ps but im hitting a wall.

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Affinity forums, @rampage.

To start with, which Affinity application are you using?

 

[rampage]

I'm using Photo right now. I figured it'd be better then designer for what I'm using it for (texturing 3d models, concept art, 2d/pixel art.

[walt.farrell]

Given that you're using Photo, there is no Pixel Persona (that's in Designer). There is a Photo Persona, whose icon looks like or, in Customize Toolbar,

Most of your other questions I can't answer. But I would suggest that starting by watching the relevant tutorials would help. In particular there are several related to cropping and image resizing in the Transforms section of that list.

Also, Symbols are a Designer feature, not a Photo feature.

[John Rostron]

1 hour ago, rampage said:

i used heavily the "paste into" feature and reposition/mask the photo/texture i pasted in, seems to work differently here.

-I made heavy use of highpass and offset to make seamless/tiling textures.

-not sure how to crop?

By the "paste into"  I woud guess that the Affinity Photo equivalent is "Place". Use File > Place and select your image from the Filer/Explorer. Click where you want the image to go, then drag to specify the area to be covered. You can also rotate the placed image.

Not sure how highpass could help with tiling but I use the Affine transformation for what I would guess you call offset. This is under the Filter menu somewhere.

To crop, click on the Crop icon in the toolbox at the left-hand side. Select your area. Double-click to confirm. Probably just like Photoshop!

John

[rampage]

Thx for all the help guys. Damn i didn't know symbols was in designer only.  Are most of photo's features in designer? Which is more typically used for game art, Designer or Photo?

[walt.farrell]

I would say (though I'm still relatively new at using the Affinity applications) that Designer is stronger at vector-based work, and Photo is stronger at pixel-based work. They share some tools, but each has it's own unique tools, too.

They're inexpensive enough that I just bought both.

I suspect that for game art Designer would be used more commonly, but I don't know for sure.