Watermark Overlay

ByReid Walley April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

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%

The Second – Film Director: David Howe; Actor: Nick Abatino; Location: John Ascuaga’s Nugget – 2000

Reid Walley

Graphic designer since before the Internet. Started with newspaper paste-up; then art director for advertising agency in Reno, NV; and now freelancer designing marketing materials, print-on-demand t-shirt art, websites, and social media graphics.

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Affinity Photo – Keep Reduced Images Sharp
ByReid Walley January 31, 2018January 31, 2018
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) =…
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Affinity Photo – Combining Multiple Selections Into One Mask Using Spare Channel
ByReid Walley June 10, 2019June 29, 2019
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…
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How to Edit Text to get a Warp Effect With Affinity Designer – David Allen
ByReid Walley May 4, 2022May 4, 2022
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…
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Blur Image Background in Affinity Photo
ByReid Walley March 26, 2022March 26, 2022
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…
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Halftone In Affinity Photo & Designer
ByReid Walley July 28, 2026July 28, 2026
This tutorial uses Affinity Photo and the Blend Options panel is super-useful. This tutorial is for Affinity Designer and uses Pixel Persona > Brushes > Textures > Halftone Brush 01 to create the halftone.
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Affinity Photo – Crop Image
ByReid Walley April 27, 2021April 27, 2021
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…
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