Learning Affinity and tips

[Jacques]

Hello, here is my latest comparison between PSP Tools and Affinity. This comparison isn't yet complete, and I'd like to request a "call for help" to first tell me if my links are OK and help me with those that aren't yet complete. The PSP sections are listed in order of appearance in the left-hand section. I've added a number (and letters in the case of submenus) to the right of "Affinity."
Just to tell me, for example, that PSP tool 7a (Red Eye Tool) corresponds to 18E in Affinity.
Thanks for your help.

Here is the link to my file:

Info-03.jpg

[Jeni Simpson]

1 hour ago, Jacques said:

Hello, here is my latest comparison between PSP Tools and Affinity. This comparison isn't yet complete, and I'd like to request a "call for help" to first tell me if my links are OK and help me with those that aren't yet complete. The PSP sections are listed in order of appearance in the left-hand section. I've added a number (and letters in the case of submenus) to the right of "Affinity."
Just to tell me, for example, that PSP tool 7a (Red Eye Tool) corresponds to 18E in Affinity.
Thanks for your help.

Here is the link to my file:

Info-03.jpg

I think No 18 is the brush tools, the Erase brush, the Background brush, and the Flood erase tool. I wasn't able to read the tools in jpeg form, the writing was quite small, I'm afraid.

[gwen jewitt]

I would say it corresponds Jacques

[Jeni Simpson]

2 hours ago, gwen jewitt said:

I would say it corresponds Jacques

Gwen, I think you are correct there. Thank you. I saw the blue dot higher, and looking at your image, it looks like the lower blue dot...I missed that one.

[Jacques]

10 hours ago, Jeni Simpson said:

I think No 18 is the brush tools, the Erase brush, the Background brush, and the Flood erase tool. I wasn't able to read the tools in jpeg form, the writing was quite small, I'm afraid.

the jpg can be enlarged (I can do it with the mouse wheel)

[Jacques]

Some additions and English labels for Affinity

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[gwen jewitt]

54 minutes ago, Jacques said:

Some additions and English labels for Affinity

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Thanks Jacques thats a nice clear jpg  to read and very useful, thank you for all your hard work.

[Jeni Simpson]

4 hours ago, Jacques said:

Some additions and English labels for Affinity

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Thank you, Jacques. i appreciate all your hard work.

[Jacques]

When I was looking for equivalence between PSP-Affinity tools, I believe that Affinity has 2 cloning tools:

• Clone Brush Tool        

 

• Healing Brush Tool  

[Cristina]

On 5/9/2025 at 2:43 PM, Jacques said:

I'll check but it seems to me that this option corresponds more to the PSP option:

What I was wondering is if Affinity had the equivalent of:

See:

https://help.corel.com/paintshop-pro/v21/en/official-help/index.html#page/Corel_PaintShop_Pro%2FSetting_Auto_Preserve_preferences.html%23

 

About the PSP Auto-Preserve, I must say I don't use it. It's one of the features I uncheck after installing or reinstalling the program. The Autosave option meets my needs.

But wow, Jacques, you are doing an excellent job researching all the differences between the programs. Great work!

[Susan Ewart]

21 hours ago, Jacques said:

Some additions and English labels for Affinity

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Wow Jacques, you've done a masterful job.  

[Jacques]

Some additions:

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In PSP, there are two tools I don't use regularly: Magic Wand Tool and Auto Selection.
I'm pretty sure Affinity has the same (or similar) tools, but I don't know which one goes with which.
Can anyone help?

[gwen jewitt]

@Jacques https://www.google.com/search?q=MAGIC+WAND+AND+AUTO+SELCTION+EQIVALENTIN+AFFINITY&oq=MAGIC+WAND+AND+AUTO+SELCTION++EQIVALENTIN+AFFINITY&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigATIJCAQQIRgKGKAB0gEKNDMyOTZqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFQv48hDkdpALxBUL-PIQ5HaQC&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Hi Jaques I did a google search to find the magic wand and auto selection equivalent in affinity the link above should give you your answer there is also a video too. If you click on show more the video is there.

Edited May 15 by gwen jewitt

[gwen jewitt]

 https://www.google.com/search?q=PAINT+SHOP+PRO+autoselection+equivalent+in+affinity+photo+2&sca_esv=d2e7cdd0b004c888&ei=k6MlaO62DbLRhbIPzs7pwQ4&ved=0ahUKEwiuzNSZhaWNAxWyaEEAHU5nOugQ4dUDCBA&oq=PAINT+SHOP+PRO+autoselection+equivalent+in+affinity+photo+2&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiO1BBSU5UIFNIT1AgUFJPIGF1dG9zZWxlY3Rpb24gZXF1aXZhbGVudCBpbiBhZmZpbml0eSBwaG90byAyMggQABiABBiiBDIIEAAYgAQYogQyBRAAGO8FMggQABiABBiiBDIFEAAY7wVIrIkCUABY-s8BcAF4AZABAJgBrgGgAcEbqgEENC4yNrgBDMgBAPgBAZgCH6AC3xzCAggQABiiBBiJBcICBBAhGAqYAwCSBwQzLjI4oAfUXLIHBDIuMji4B9gc&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

Jaqcues this link for Auto selection tool.

[Corrie Kinkel]

Because I was taking a peek at the vector workshop for Affinity the coming week, Carole mentioned that Affinity didn't have many gradients inside the program. You have to make them or import them. I have a lot of photoshop gradients, that come in grd format and installed them in PSP but I kept the zipfiles. Affinity can use those too but they must be converted into an Afpalette format. Luckily there is a website that does that for you and this where you can convert photoshop gradients:

https://mikestimpson.com/GrdToAfpalette/

Download the new Afpalette to where you store your supplies and import it into the Affinity color swatches by clicking on the hamburger menu and import them as application palette

[Jeni Simpson]

4 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Because I was taking a peek at the vector workshop for Affinity the coming week, Carole mentioned that Affinity didn't have many gradients inside the program. You have to make them or import them. I have a lot of photoshop gradients, that come in grd format and installed them in PSP but I kept the zipfiles. Affinity can use those too but they must be converted into an Afpalette format. Luckily there is a website that does that for you and this where you can convert photoshop gradients:

https://mikestimpson.com/GrdToAfpalette/

Download the new Afpalette to where you store your supplies and import it into the Affinity color swatches by clicking on the hamburger menu and import them as application palette

Thank you, Corrie. NCreative on deviantART has a set of 3520 gradients that are suitable for converting. They include all the gradients you would need, and more. They are .grd files, and I have converted them already. 
Edit - I have just checked and the gradients are too many to import into Affinity, they close my programme down when I try importing. 

Edited May 24 by Jeni Simpson

[Corrie Kinkel]

18 hours ago, Jeni Simpson said:

Thank you, Corrie. NCreative on deviantART has a set of 3520 gradients that are suitable for converting. They include all the gradients you would need, and more. They are .grd files, and I have converted them already. 
Edit - I have just checked and the gradients are too many to import into Affinity, they close my programme down when I try importing. 

Can you divide that very big file into smaller ones, maybe it will work then. I too have many gradients but they are from different sources including deviantArt, so I imported a couple of 100th at the same time and that worked fine.

[Jeni Simpson]

1 hour ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

Can you divide that very big file into smaller ones, maybe it will work then. I too have many gradients but they are from different sources including deviantArt, so I imported a couple of 100th at the same time and that worked fine.

Corrie, I'm not sure whether I can, when it is one .grd file. I decided to download some from Resource Boy, he has a good selection. I have heaps of PSP gradients, not so many Photoshop.

[Corrie Kinkel]

29 minutes ago, Jeni Simpson said:

Corrie, I'm not sure whether I can, when it is one .grd file. I decided to download some from Resource Boy, he has a good selection. I have heaps of PSP gradients, not so many Photoshop.

I downloaded some from Resource Boy too and those installed without a problem once I had converted them.

[Jeni Simpson]

6 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I downloaded some from Resource Boy too and those installed without a problem once I had converted them.

Thank you, Corrie, they did for me, too. NCreations says the gradients in that large file were from all over the net, so, possibly, many we already have for PSP may have been in there.