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Mud’s Macros - Expand Stroke


Paul Mudditt

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On one of the Facebook groups, David Williams set me an accidental challenge by mentioning Expand Stroke was a function only available in Affinity Designer.
Well now you can use Expand Stroke in Affinity Photo on all platforms by importing my Mud’s Macros library.
To create this I needed to record a macro, which is only available in AP. The command I needed was in AD so how to get it?
I started in Affinity Publisher on desktop with a blank document, changed to AP persona and started record, then changed to AD persona and performed Expand Stroke from the menu, then switched back to Photo persona and ended the recording. Simples, eventually !

Mud’s Macros V3

SelectionFromLayer - convert a layer into a pixel selection
SelectAllLayers - select all layers quickly
DeSelectAllLayers - de select all layers quickly
PencilPortrait - Convert Photo to pencil sketch (Credit: Alpha Sierra, YouTube)
InpaintCrop2 - fix edges after a straighten crop (Credit: Jim Welsh)
Inpaint - the inpaint option from the desktop.
ExpandStroke - Expand Stroke from Designer 
TextOnCurve - Text on a curve path from Designer
And here it is in action on iPad, but the macro also works on desktop versions of Photo as well.

 

Mud's Macros V3.afmacros

 

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Clever use of the Personas.

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3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Clever use of the Personas.

Thanks Walt, I had a fair idea it would likely work because of the common core engine, it also offers a method to enhance all three packages with macro actions too.

 

My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools….

Just waiting for Ronny Pickering…..

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On 7/16/2019 at 12:11 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

On one of the Facebook groups, David Williams set me an accidental challenge by mentioning Expand Stroke was a function only available in Affinity Designer.
Well now you can use Expand Stroke in Affinity Photo on all platforms by importing my Mud’s Macros V2 library.
To create this I needed to record a macro, which is only available in AP. The command I needed was in AD so how to get it?
I started in Affinity Publisher on desktop with a blank document, changed to AP persona and started record, then changed to AD persona and performed Expand Stroke from the menu, then switched back to Photo persona and ended the recording. Simples, eventually !

Mud’s Macros V2

SelectionFromLayer - convert a layer into a pixel selection
SelectAllLayers - select all layers quickly
DeSelectAllLayers - de select all layers quickly
PencilPortrait - Convert Photo to pencil sketch (Credit: Alpha Sierra, YouTube)
InpaintCrop2 - fix edges after a straighten crop (Credit: Jim Welsh)
Inpaint - the inpaint option from the desktop.
ExpandStroke - Expand Stroke from Designer 

And here it is in action on iPad, but the macro also works on desktop versions of Photo as well.

Mud's Macros V2.afmacros

Paul, this is a brilliant idea. It could also be applied to ‘text on a curve’ something sadly lacking in Photo it seems.

Thanks for the heads up. Now to attempt the macro. Which I’ve never done!
 

-Robert

 

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On 10/4/2019 at 8:22 AM, HarryMcGovern said:

Paul, this is a brilliant idea. It could also be applied to ‘text on a curve’ something sadly lacking in Photo it seems.

Thanks for the heads up. Now to attempt the macro. Which I’ve never done!
 

-Robert

TextOnCurve added to V3.

Mud’s Macros V3

SelectionFromLayer - convert a layer into a pixel selection
SelectAllLayers - select all layers quickly
DeSelectAllLayers - de select all layers quickly
PencilPortrait - Convert Photo to pencil sketch (Credit: Alpha Sierra, YouTube)
InpaintCrop2 - fix edges after a straighten crop (Credit: Jim Welsh)
Inpaint - the inpaint option from the desktop.
Sketch Effect by R C-R - Converts to a sketch effect
Dave’s 6-Layer High Pass Sharpening - Uses 6 layers of sharpening
ExpandStroke - Expand Stroke from Designer 
TextOnCurve - Text on Curve from Designer

Mud's Macros V3.afmacros

 

My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools….

Just waiting for Ronny Pickering…..

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On 10/4/2019 at 7:46 PM, Paul Mudditt said:

TextOnCurve added to V3.

Any idea why (in Photo) the text is flipped and mirrored? Just asking, it's not really an issue, because when text is being replaced it looks fine.

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30 minutes ago, HVDB Photography said:

Any idea why (in Photo) the text is flipped and mirrored? Just asking, it's not really an issue, because when text is being replaced it looks fine.

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A curve has a start and a finish, so you must have drawn this right to left or possibly flipped it perhaps?

Images below from iPad but same can be achieved on desktop.

ACE8FC07-637B-4FE6-B37D-3CD84A9DBD6F.jpeg

 

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4 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

A curve has a start and a finish, so you must have drawn this right to left or possibly flipped it perhaps?

Images below from iPad but same can be achieved on desktop.

ACE8FC07-637B-4FE6-B37D-3CD84A9DBD6F.jpeg

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8 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

A curve has a start and a finish

I know

3 hours ago, HarryMcGovern said:

so you must have drawn this right to left or possibly flipped it perhaps?

Didn't touch anything. It appears that way straight after the macro was executed ...

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@HVDB PhotographyMust admit I hadn’t noticed that, whilst testing I concentrated on drawing Circles to add text.

It’s the same on iPad too.

Had a quick play with re-recording the macro but could not alter this behaviour. Please just adjust by moving the red and green sliders around.

 

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Just waiting for Ronny Pickering…..

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