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  1. Day 2. Looking forward to Day 3.
    10 points
  2. I just started playing with several of the preset shapes and this just happened. The hat and nose are rectangles, the flowers are the stars, the top things are the spirals, mouth is a crescent and the rest circles.
    9 points
  3. Lesson 2 using Affinity Photo 2. I do love how Affinity does preset shapes. There was a lot to learn here but it has been a great learning experience. It is good to have another option, especially the gradients. I did find it hard to save Presets and Assets. For some reason I was getting the New Category and the Sub Category mixed up and also Creating Presets and Managing Presets. I found it very confusing. I am sure there is an easy way to find where I should be saving. These are my examples of lesson 2 below.
    8 points
  4. Affinity Day 1 - I love the "fluidity" of dragging and playing with the nodes! My heart and arrow need to be refined but here they are for now. Everyone is off to a great start, I love all the different creations!
    8 points
  5. Day 2 - Preset shapes and assets. I kept on playing with the shapes but in the end I saved a couple of the ones that I think I can use. However I can see myself making tags or labels just for the project I'm working on at that time, because it is fun to do and fairly easy too. Some of them I used in this little project. This time I a made a background from a paper with greenery and used maximum motion blur horizontal and a duplicate with motion blur vertical at 50% opacity and merged them (the same technique used in making a plaid in PSP), just for the fun of it. Made some frames with a bevel and embossed the pink flower shape; a mask from Jessica Dunn and the font is Ever. The photo shows a flower that I had never seen before and it is immediately clear why the common name is pincushion (Leucospermum tottum in Latin). For me it is essential to rehearse the techniques in Affinity that I learned. If I have been using PSP or been away and come back to Affinity, I find that I still have to think or check my notes on how to do things even the simplest ones!
    8 points
  6. Day 2 This was fun. I wanted to use the star shape in different ways. I snagged a starry night sky image free from wallpaperaccessonline for a background.. I also created other shapes.
    7 points
  7. First of all i want to say Thank You to Carole for this workshop. Even though this is just Lesson 2 i am learning a bit about vector tools. For this lesson chose the Spiral Tool and the Rounded Rectangle tool. Created presets for them and saved them as shape presets and not assets. I also turned preset 1 into a pattern and filled the Rounded Rectangle preset with it.
    6 points
  8. Day 3 A simple layout, where I traced around the flowers, using them as tags. Again I used all that I have already learnt. The background paper is an overlay using one of my photos. You will notice the white egret almost in the centre. I'm getting the hang of the Affinity vector tools. They are a joy to use.
    5 points
  9. @Linda RexfordThose are fun shapes. You really played around with the colors too! @Susan Ewart Do you want the 90-day trial version (or did you already use it?)? I don't know if they will have another sale in the summer like last year. I wish I knew! @Carolyn RyeDid lesson 2 answer your question? There is also a blog post about saving assets. @Cristina Great shapes (and colors)! That is odd that the shape displays a different corner than the reality. Very weird! @JacquesDid you make all those little dragons? That is a lot of work! @Sue ThomasI knew you would have fun with those shapes. Some tasks are easier in Affinity than in PSP, when it comes to those corners, for example. @gwen jewittGreat shapes. Having fun adding nodes now that you can master them! @MoniqueN.You are correct. The corner tools are only on rectangular shapes and only if they are not converted. @Corrie KinkelGreat tags! Yes, I think you will be making more and more! @Sharon MurrayI also find it interesting that one can "pull" the edge without having the adjust the nodes individually. That is definitely a plus. @RaymondGreat start! The more you play, the more fun it will be! @Gerry Landreth Nice shapes. Do you think you will reuse them? Keep them coming!
    5 points
  10. I've just been playing around with different shapes. I noticed you can't use the corner feature on every preset shape.
    5 points
  11. Day 2 Preset shapes. My first one I used a rectangle and kept on adding nodes until I got the shape I wanted, it took me a while to do. I selected the image and placed a picture inside the shape so that you can see what the Angel of the North is, it is 66ft tall with a wingspan of 177ft. My second preset shape is an ellipse with a fill and a stroke I used three circles for the iris and the pupil and played with some of the effects to give me the finished result, I saved both shapes to assets.
    5 points
  12. Day 2. Vectors in Affinity has opened a whole new range of tag and label shapes for me to create, with ease.
    5 points
  13. Day 2 - Here are the shapes I created, turned into assets.
    4 points
  14. Lesson 3 I used 3 different leaf shapes the first I followed the steps that Carole did in the video, the other to leaves I used the brush tool to draw veins on them and added an inner shadow { I think, sometimes I forget the steps I use if I haven't written it down} I also added a yellow border around the holly leaf.
    4 points
  15. 2nd day. I did make some labels, but I know how to export them to shapes, however, I didn't export these - I simply made them in png format (saved the pspimage) and will display them in jpg. The second one using 2 different shapes, I tried looking at outlining them and also trying label styles - bevel. It was interesting on the 2nd one - I wanted the 2 flower shapes to be under the rectangle, although the rectangle was not the top one in my group - so I had to move that layer to the top. Working with Group with vectors is interesting - I don't know if I have really played around with multiple shapes in a group before - well, maybe when I created the Interstate Sign.
    4 points
  16. I find it much easier with Affinity than PSP
    4 points
  17. My, what a superb job you did on tracing those butterflies. What is more, they are symmetrical.
    4 points
  18. Oh wow! That's an idea! 🙂
    4 points
  19. When I saw your shape Linda it really made me smile It's great I love it.
    4 points
  20. Day 2 I saved the shapes as presets and as an asset only for this exercise. I cancelled it afterwards. The rectangular shape seems cut in the assets, but it shows correctly when brought to the workspace.
    4 points
  21. Although I have been working with Vectors in Affinity (Photo & Designer) for a while, I always appreciate Carole's perspective; there's always something new to learn that others may not address.
    4 points
  22. 3 points
  23. Lovely photos and like you I like the vector tools in Affinity, I find them very easy to use. In PSP I always have a lot of trouble with the nodes!
    3 points
  24. Love your layout, but I am so glad the bugs are not that big now!!
    3 points
  25. Freebies are great resources that you can find in many places to build a library of elements, graphics, and tools. Since they are free, they are available to all. For May, how about using a netting background? You can resize it, cut it in pieces, warp it, color it, thread elements through the holes, etc. There are so many creative ways to use this netting. It is available on this blog post.
    2 points
  26. Day 3, I outlined the maple leaf, saved as an asset and here it is. Also, I added a picture of a beautiful maple tree from fall a few years back.
    2 points
  27. Okay, starting the affinity version today. Really looking forward to learning how to do these things in Affinity since I need the suite for other reasons.
    2 points
  28. Well I love your playing around with this result, it sure is very funny too
    2 points
  29. @Carolyn RyeSeparating the nodes when you cut is a real annoyance. I agree with you 100%. But you did it very well. @Jeni SimpsonThose are fun and with practice, you will get even more comfortable. @Jannette NieuwboerIt is great to have fun. Why not? As the artist, you can do whatever you want! and I am glad you managed all the lessons! Way to go! @Harmony BirchGreat work. You caught up nicely. Keep them coming! And if we do have some lurkers (because there were many more registrants than posters), come and show us ONE lesson!
    2 points
  30. Lesson 7-2 ............At Last, i'm finished 😶
    2 points
  31. Lesson 1 using Affinity. I tried the basics, and I did manage to achieve this, then added a bit of gradients, which was fun. Also is Affinity like PSP where we can add additional resources and save that in selected files. Where would the resources be in Affinity Photo 2? Not sure if I should be asking this at this point but I am curious.
    2 points
  32. I've never owned my own home, so I've been unable to have a garden. But if I did, I would fill it with native wildflowers. Not only are they beautiful, imho, but they are very beneficial to local wildlife. They're also low maintenance. This is what I would love to have.
    1 point
  33. @Cassel Clarification: I did not "draw" the dragons. They come from the "these little dinosaurs" page of your lesson 4 for PSP. I only cut each one out, saved them as PNGs, created an ".afphoto" document containing the PNGs and included them as "Assets"
    1 point
  34. The angel of the north we drove by when we were in Scotland in April! It was in the detective series Vera too 🙂
    1 point
  35. Thank you Cristina, It was so now and that really a headbreaker. so now and than over and over again. But I got where I wanted to be.
    1 point
  36. 1 point
  37. Your questions will be addressed in this workshop, it's only day 2. I won't elaborate, other than to say be patient. Lol
    1 point
  38. Day 1 I downloaded a heap of gradients from Resource Boy and converted them for Affinity Photo, as per a conversation in the Affinity Tips page in the forum on the Campus. For the heart, I used the red gradients and for the arrow, I used gold.
    1 point
  39. This is only just part 1 of lesson 7. PSP is overworked. And stopped the vector tube. It did do today but now not anymore. the upper circle is the 72 beeds picture tube, underneath is the single beed irregular placed. I hope to finish this lesson to tomorrow. On top of this the knife was greyed out.
    1 point
  40. And here is my 6, the tube is one I made myself many years ago
    1 point
  41. Here's my lesson 4 just a basic coffee cup but I did a little post processing with the light and dark brush to give it a little shape
    1 point
  42. Lesson 6 A+B B is more a joke, one of my practise attempt but I think its hilarisch.
    1 point
  43. Day 7 I do not know why I had so much trouble. I finally deleted everything I had tried and started again, only to find, this time, it was easier. I wish I had created them the same size.
    1 point
  44. Lesson 7 using PSP. This was a good one to do. I did have trouble dissecting the 2 sides for a while because I could not separate the stars. I still find this hard to do even if I enlarge the image a lot. I think I must have bad eyesight 🙂
    1 point
  45. I already had made this one before I went on my trip and had to laugh when I saw the items mentioned above. This is my red kettle that goes well with my red coffee maker that I used for the letter C.
    1 point
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