The goal is to make vertical text on a curved path. But since Affinity Designer doesn’t have a straight-forward way of accomplishing this effect we need to jump through a few hoops: Starting in Affinity Designer Making text outlined Switching to Affinity Photo and using the Warp Tool Switching back to Affinity Designer Warnings: Converting…
While the ultimate goal is to blur the background of an image, I also want to save the outline that I’ve drawn around the main object in case I want to alter it later or just have it handy for future use. 1. Selection Brush Tool: draw marching ants around main subject Mode: Add (toggled…
Goal: To knock out a section of pixels so the Affinity Photo document’s transparent background shows through. Very important tip regarding Group Layers: Selecting the area to be deleted via the Group Layer just deletes the whole Group Layer (and all the sub-Layers inside it). MUST highlight all the sub-Layers INSIDE the Group Layer, then…
Now, if you really want to delete the extra content after a crop, you can always go to Layers > Rasterize and trim… fdelaneau, Affinity Forum This is exactly what I was looking for in Affinity Photo. Thank you! Most of the time I crop images and then copy them into a new file. But since Affinity Photo’s Crop Tool crops images non-destructively, copying a…
Testing watermark copyright text overlay settings with Affinity Photo. Repeating copyright information set at a diagonal across the image. Layer blend mode set to: Soft Light Layer opacity set to: 50%
“Apply a blur using a Live Filter layer, invert the live filter layer (which makes its embedded mask completely black), then paint the blur effect back in where it’s wanted. This is completely non-destructive, can be made as strong or as weak as one likes, can be turned on and off at will, can be…
The goal was to distort the perspective of vector art in Affinity Designer. Unfortunately, the Distort Perspective tool is only available in Affinity Photo (which transforms the original vector art into raster art). This is not ideal. I wanted to distort the perspective of vector art like I could in Adobe Illustrator, not end up…
Affinity Photo 1.7.0 on MacBook. Goal: Create initial Selection, save to Mask; then come back and add more selections to the existing Mask. The following notes reflect how I used Spare Channel to pack multiple selections into one Mask. It’s probably not the best way to combine multiple selections into one Mask, but it’s the…
(Version 1.7.0): After following instructions from Affinity Photo: Extract/Cut Out an Image and Selection with the Selection Brush in Affinity Photo, under Refine Selection I chose Output > New Layer with Mask. OK, but now how do I re-select the selection (that I turned into a Mask) to edit the Mask further? Two options: Click…
Reducing a PNG logo from 1211px X 366px @ 150dpi to 300px X 91px @ 72 dpi. I found that Affinity Photo’s default setting of Resample + Bilinear is crap for reduced image sizes. Using Resample + Bicubic is still kinda crappy. But Resample + Lanczos 3 options gave a sharper result: Lanczos 3 (separable) =…