Nuth1n Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 So this one is a bit of a niche filter, but it is one of my favourites (it does an excellent job at breaking up hard edges, and helps bind layers together beautifully if you're going for the grainy look but don't want to introduce standard grain/noise) Especially when photobashing for concept art, "I use it on the daily". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 @Izzy Could you please explain what a reticulation filter is? What does it do? Are you asking Affinity to provide one? 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...
Fixx Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Reticulation is certain kind of graininess, which is result of using wrong temperature liquid in film developing. Difference in temperature causes reticulation. The effect can display differently depending temperature error and other factors, here s one: John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rostron Posted July 10, 2019 Share Posted July 10, 2019 Thanks @Fixx. I knew what reticulation was in terms of films, but I could not relate this to what @Izzy said in the original posting. 11 hours ago, Izzy said: it does an excellent job at breaking up hard edges, and helps bind layers together beautifully 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...
Nuth1n Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 Hey @John Rostron, @Fixx pretty much nailed the technical description. I use it on my concept art to blend edges for certain artwork, here is a sample I used it on. It's mixed in with a few other things I use to create this style of mine, subtly used but still important for me. Wish I had more samples but NDA means waiting for the projects I worked on to actually release (and some projects have schedules that span years of course) So I still swap to Photoshop occasionally to use it. I've been really eager to make a hard swap, and I've gone as far as recreating custom brushes and learning the new workflow (which I love btw, it's way more adaptable) - but I'll still swap back every now and then for 1 or 2 tools. It is a very niche tool, so I understand it might not be a priority, but you never know unless you ask. John Rostron 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 7 hours ago, Izzy said: It is a very niche tool, Could you not blend Noise and/or Perlin Noise filters together? Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuth1n Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 54 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Could you not blend Noise and/or Perlin Noise filters together? I'll run through it a few times and see what kinds of results I can get, thanks for the advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 @Izzy Long time ago, but I'm curious what you found. I love PS's reticulation filter, but I'm all Affinity all the time these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuth1n Posted October 25, 2020 Author Share Posted October 25, 2020 Hi there @spinhead My method isn't accurate at all, but it get's the job done and the overall look I like. Here's my layer stack. I learnt to do a lot of procedural work in blender which carried over to affinity photo quite nicely. Hope it helps reticulation.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinhead Posted October 25, 2020 Share Posted October 25, 2020 (edited) Thank you so much, @Izzy I'll let you know how it goes. EDIT: It goes well. Very well. Thanks again. Edited October 25, 2020 by spinhead New information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuth1n Posted November 3, 2020 Author Share Posted November 3, 2020 Awesome, I am working on improving it. I love how it can be used to redefine the edges! It will take some work until it gets the level of Adobe's, trying to keep the file size and layer stack down and experiment more here and there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 On 10/25/2020 at 2:57 PM, Nuth1n said: My method isn't accurate at all, but it get's the job done and the overall look I like. Here's my layer stack. I learnt to do a lot of procedural work in blender which carried over to affinity photo quite nicely. Hope it helps Hi Nuth1n, that's some real nice work! I just watched a YT clip by Brady from Texturelabs (which are always a pleasure to watch, even if you eventually ditched PS...) on the Photoshop side of grainy gradients and I immediately wondered if (and if yes how) you could possibly do something close to that in Affinity Photo. Your file is a very helpful reference here! One would wish, though, it could be a bit less complex in AP and more straightforward as it is in PS, but as Affinity Photo hasn't got that Reticulation filter I guess that cannot be helped. Actually – mostly when doing more illustrative work – I quite often find myself missing some of those effects in AP which PS's Filter Gallery has been offering for such a long time now. But then, we're just in version 2.3.1 with AP whereas PS is currently v 25.4... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smadell Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Hi, @Lorox. I noticed your post a few days ago. I also watched the Texturelabs video, and enjoyed it. I have posted a macro in the Resources section (see below) which duplicates this effect fairly convincingly. You might want to take a look. Quote Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2 (latest retail versions) - desktop & iPad Culling - FastRawViewer; Raw Developer - Capture One Pro; Asset Management - Photo Supreme Mac Studio with M2 Max (2023}; 64 GB RAM; macOS 13 (Ventura); Mac Studio Display - iPad Air 4th Gen; iPadOS 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorox Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 14 hours ago, smadell said: I have posted a macro in the Resources section... Yeah, nicely done! Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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